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PUBLIC LAW 100-236—JAN. 8, 1988 tion shall, after providing notice to the public and an opportunity for the submission of comments, prescribe rules with respect to the consolidation of proceedings under this paragraph. The agency, board, commission, or officer concerned shall file the record in the court of appeals designated pursuant to this paragraph. "(4) Any court of appeals in which proceedings with respect to an order of an agency, board, commission, or officer have been instituted may, to the extent authorized by law, stay the effective date of the order. Any such stay may thereafter be modified, revoked, or extended by a court of appeals designated pursuant to paragraph (3) with respect to that order or by any other court of appeals to which the proceedings ase-transferred. "(5) All courts in which proceedings are instituted with respect to the same order, other than the court in which the record is filed pursuant to this subsection, shall transfer those proceedings to the court in which the record is so filed. For the convenience of the parties in the interest of justice, the court in which the record is filed may thereafter transfer all the proceedings with respect to that order to any other court of appeals.".
SEC. 2. CONFORMING AMENDMENT.
Section 509(b) of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act (33 U.S.C. 1369(b)) is amended by striking out paragraph (3) and redesignating paragraph (4) as paragraph (3). 28 USC 2112
SEC. 3. EFFECTIVE DATE.
The amendments made by this Act take effect 180 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, except that the judicial panel on multidistrict litigation may issue rules pursuant to subsection (a)(3) of section 2112 of title 28, United States Code (as added by section 1), on or after such date of enactment. Approved January 8, 1988.
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LEGISLATIVE HISTORY—H.R. 1162 (S. 1134): HOUSE REPORTS: No. 100-72 (Comm. on the Judiciary). SENATE REPORTS: No. 100-263 accompanying S. 1134 (Comm. on the Judiciary). CONGRESSIONAL RECORD, Vol. 133 (1987): May 27, considered and passed House. Dec. 19, S. 1134 and H.R. 1162 considered and passed Senate.
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