---
kind: "section"
citation: "54 U.S.C. § 307102"
title: "54"
title_heading: "National Park Service and Related Programs"
number: "307102"
heading: "Effective date of regulations"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/54/307102"
units:
  - "Subtitle III — National Preservation Programs"
  - "Division A — Historic Preservation"
  - "Subdivision 6 — Miscellaneous"
  - "Chapter 3071 — Miscellaneous"
---

# §307102. Effective date of regulations

- (a) **Publication in Federal Register.—** No final regulation of the [Secretary](/usc/54/308101.md?p=1) shall become effective prior to the expiration of 30 calendar days after it is published in the Federal Register during which either or both Houses of Congress are in session.
- (b) **Disapproval of Regulation by Resolution of Congress.—** The regulation shall not become effective if, within 90 calendar days of continuous session of Congress after the date of promulgation, both Houses of Congress adopt a concurrent resolution, the matter after the resolving clause of which is as follows: “That Congress disapproves the regulation promulgated by the [Secretary](/usc/54/308101.md?p=1) dealing with the matter of , which regulation was transmitted to Congress on ,” the blank spaces in the resolution being appropriately filled.
- (c) **Failure of Congress To Adopt Resolution of Disapproval of Regulation.—** If at the end of 60 calendar days of continuous session of Congress after the date of promulgation of a regulation, no [committee](/usc/54/305501.md?p=2) of either House of Congress has reported or been discharged from further consideration of a concurrent resolution disapproving the regulation, and neither House has adopted such a resolution, the regulation may go into effect immediately. If, within the 60 calendar days, a [committee](/usc/54/305501.md?p=2) has reported or been discharged from further consideration of such a resolution, the regulation may go into effect not sooner than 90 calendar days of continuous session of Congress after its promulgation unless disapproved as provided for.
- (d) **Sessions of Congress.—** For purposes of this section—
  - (1) continuity of session is broken only by an adjournment sine die; and
  - (2) the days on which either House is not in session because of an adjournment of more than 3 days to a day certain are excluded in the computation of 60 and 90 calendar days of continuous session of Congress.
- (e) **Congressional Inaction or Rejection of Resolution of Disapproval Not Deemed Approval of Regulation.—** Congressional inaction on or rejection of a resolution of disapproval shall not be deemed an expression of approval of the regulation.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 113–287, § 3, Dec. 19, 2014, 128 Stat. 3231.)

## Notes

| Historical and Revision Notes |  |  |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Revised<br>Section | Source (U.S. Code) | Source (Statutes at Large) |
| 307102 | 16 U.S.C. 470w–6. | Pub. L. 89–665, title III, § 307, as added Pub. L. 96–515, title V, § 501, Dec. 12, 1980, 94 Stat. 3004; Pub. L. 103–437, § 6(d)(29), Nov. 2, 1994, 108 Stat. 4584; Pub. L. 104–333, div. I, title VIII, § 814(d)(1)(O), (2)(E), Nov. 12, 1996, 110 Stat. 4196; Pub. L. 106–176, title I, § 120(a)(2), Mar. 10, 2000, 114 Stat. 28; Pub. L. 106–208, § 5(a)(11)–(13), May 26, 2000, 114 Stat. 319. |