---
kind: "section"
citation: "7 U.S.C. § 3409"
title: "7"
title_heading: "Agriculture"
number: "3409"
heading: "Petition and review"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/7/3409"
units:
  - "Chapter 65 — Wheat and Wheat Foods Research and Nutrition Education"
---

# §3409. Petition and review

- (a) **Petition; hearing; ruling—** Any [person](/usc/7/3402.md?p=l) subject to any order may file a written petition with the [Secretary](/usc/7/3402.md?p=k), stating that any such order or any provision of such order or any obligation imposed in connection therewith is not in accordance with law and praying for a modification thereof or for an exemption therefrom. The petitioner shall thereupon be given an opportunity for a hearing upon such petition, in accordance with regulations issued by the [Secretary](/usc/7/3402.md?p=k). After such hearing, the [Secretary](/usc/7/3402.md?p=k) shall make a ruling upon the prayer of such petition which shall be final, if in accordance with law.
- (b) **Judicial review; jurisdiction; process; remand—** The district courts of the [United States](/usc/7/3402.md?p=m) in any district in which such [person](/usc/7/3402.md?p=l) is an inhabitant, or has his principal place of business, are hereby vested with jurisdiction to review such ruling, provided a complaint for that purpose is filed within twenty days from the date of the entry of such ruling. Service of process in such proceedings may be had upon the [Secretary](/usc/7/3402.md?p=k) by delivering a copy of the complaint to the [Secretary](/usc/7/3402.md?p=k). If the court determines that such ruling is not in accordance with law, it shall remand such proceedings to the [Secretary](/usc/7/3402.md?p=k) with directions either (1) to make such ruling as the court shall determine to be in accordance with law, or (2) to take such further proceedings as, in its opinion, the law requires.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 95–113, title XVII, § 1710, Sept. 29, 1977, 91 Stat. 1037.)

## Notes

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Effective Date

Section effective Oct. 1, 1977, see section 1901 of Pub. L. 95–113, set out as an Effective Date of 1977 Amendment note under section 1307 of this title.