Sec. 12. Scope of review
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Section 706 of title 5, United States Code, is amended— in the first sentence of the matter preceding paragraph (1)— by striking agency action. and inserting agency action. If a statute that an agency administers is silent or ambiguous as to the proper construction of a particular term or provision or set of terms or provisions, and an agency has followed the applicable procedures in subchapter II of chapter 5, has otherwise lawfully adjudicated a matter, or has followed the corresponding procedural provisions of the relevant statute, as applicable, a reviewing court shall defer to the agency’s reasonable or permissible interpretation of that statute, regardless of the significance of the related agency action or a possible future agency action. ; and by striking To the extent necessary and inserting:
To the extent necessary ; and by adding at the end the following: For purposes of subsection (a)(1), unreasonable delay shall include— when an agency has not issued a notice of proposed rulemaking before the date that is 1 year of the date of enactment of the legislation mandating the rulemaking, where no deadline for the rulemaking was specified in the enacted law; when an agency has not issued a final version of a proposed rule before the date that is 1 year of the date on which the proposed rule was published in the Federal Register; when an agency has not implemented a final rule before the date that is 1 year of the implementation date published in the Federal Register or, if no implementation date was provided, before the date that is 1 year of the date on which the final rule was published in the Federal Register; and when an agency has not issued or implemented a final rule, upon a showing of good cause therefor. .