---
kind: "section"
citation: "6 U.S.C. § 488h"
title: "6"
title_heading: "Domestic Security"
number: "488h"
heading: "Deadlines for regulations"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/6/488h"
units:
  - "Chapter 1 — Homeland Security Organization"
  - "Subchapter VIII — Coordination with Non-Federal Entities; Inspector General; United States Secret Service; Coast Guard; General Provisions"
  - "Part J — Secure Handling of Ammonium Nitrate"
---

# §488h. Deadlines for regulations


The [Secretary](/usc/6/101.md?p=16)—

- (1) shall issue a proposed rule implementing this part not later than 6 months after December 26, 2007; and
- (2) issue a final rule implementing this part not later than 1 year after December 26, 2007.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 107–296, title VIII, § 899I, as added Pub. L. 110–161, div. E, title V, § 563(a), Dec. 26, 2007, 121 Stat. 2089.)