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title: "33 U.S.C. § 1366"
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title_number: 33
title_name: "NAVIGATION AND NAVIGABLE WATERS"
chapter_number: "26"
chapter_name: "WATER POLLUTION PREVENTION AND CONTROL"
section: "1366"
citation: "33 U.S.C. § 1366"
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release_point: "119-100"
release_date: "2026-06-26"
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# 33 U.S.C. § 1366 - Appearance

## Text

The Administrator shall request the Attorney General to appear and represent the United States in any civil or criminal action instituted under this chapter to which the Administrator is a party. Unless the Attorney General notifies the Administrator within a reasonable time, that he will appear in a civil action, attorneys who are officers or employees of the Environmental Protection Agency shall appear and represent the United States in such action.

(June 30, 1948, ch. 758, title V, § 506, as added Pub. L. 92–500, § 2, Oct. 18, 1972, 86 Stat. 889.)