---
kind: "section"
citation: "5 U.S.C. § 704"
title: "5"
title_heading: "Government Organization and Employees"
number: "704"
heading: "Actions reviewable"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/5/704"
units:
  - "Part I — The Agencies Generally"
  - "Chapter 7 — Judicial Review"
---

# §704. Actions reviewable


[Agency](/usc/5/601.md?p=1) action made reviewable by statute and final [agency](/usc/5/601.md?p=1) action for which there is no other adequate remedy in a court are subject to judicial review. A preliminary, procedural, or intermediate [agency](/usc/5/601.md?p=1) action or ruling not directly reviewable is subject to review on the review of the final [agency](/usc/5/601.md?p=1) action. Except as otherwise expressly required by statute, [agency](/usc/5/601.md?p=1) action otherwise final is final for the purposes of this section whether or not there has been presented or determined an application for a declaratory order, for any form of reconsideration, or, unless the [agency](/usc/5/601.md?p=1) otherwise requires by rule and provides that the action meanwhile is inoperative, for an appeal to superior [agency](/usc/5/601.md?p=1) authority.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 89–554, Sept. 6, 1966, 80 Stat. 392.)

## Notes

| Historical and Revision Notes |  |  |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Derivation | U.S. Code | Revised Statutes and<br>Statutes at Large |
|  | 5 U.S.C. 1009(c). | June 11, 1946, ch. 324, § 10(c), 60 Stat. 243. |

Standard changes are made to conform with the definitions applicable and the style of this title as outlined in the preface of this report.