---
kind: "section"
citation: "5 U.S.C. § 602"
title: "5"
title_heading: "Government Organization and Employees"
number: "602"
heading: "Regulatory agenda"
release: "119-102"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/5/602"
units:
  - "Part I — The Agencies Generally"
  - "Chapter 6 — The Analysis of Regulatory Functions"
---

# §602. Regulatory agenda

- (a) During the months of October and April of each year, each [agency](/usc/5/500.md?p=a-1) shall publish in the Federal Register a regulatory flexibility agenda which shall contain—
  - (1) a brief description of the subject area of any rule which the [agency](/usc/5/500.md?p=a-1) expects to propose or promulgate which is likely to have a significant economic impact on a substantial number of small entities;
  - (2) a summary of the nature of any such rule under consideration for each subject area listed in the agenda pursuant to [paragraph (1)](#a-1), the objectives and legal basis for the issuance of the rule, and an approximate schedule for completing action on any rule for which the [agency](/usc/5/500.md?p=a-1) has issued a general notice of proposed [rulemaking](/usc/5/562.md?p=11),[^1] and
  - (3) the name and telephone number of an [agency](/usc/5/500.md?p=a-1) official knowledgeable concerning the items listed in [paragraph (1)](#a-1).
- (b) Each regulatory flexibility agenda shall be transmitted to the Chief Counsel for Advocacy of the [Small Business](/usc/5/601.md?p=3) Administration for comment, if any.
- (c) Each [agency](/usc/5/500.md?p=a-1) shall endeavor to provide notice of each regulatory flexibility agenda to small entities or their representatives through direct notification or publication of the agenda in publications likely to be obtained by such small entities and shall invite comments upon each subject area on the agenda.
- (d) Nothing in this section precludes an [agency](/usc/5/500.md?p=a-1) from considering or acting on any matter not included in a regulatory flexibility agenda, or requires an [agency](/usc/5/500.md?p=a-1) to consider or act on any matter listed in such agenda.

## Footnotes

[^1]: So in original. The comma probably should be a semicolon.

## Source credit

(Added Pub. L. 96–354, § 3(a), Sept. 19, 1980, 94 Stat. 1166.)

## Notes

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Effective Date

Section effective Jan. 1, 1981, see section 4 of Pub. L. 96–354, set out as a note under section 601 of this title.