ourt of competent jurisdiction, or by
operation of law.
(2) For purposes of paragraph (1), the term ``completed
administrative action'' includes orders, determinations, rules,
regulations, personnel actions, permits, agreements, grants,
contracts, certificates, licenses, registrations, and
privileges.
(b) Pending Proceedings.--Subject to the authority of the
Secretary under this Act--
(1) pending proceedings in an agency, including
notices of proposed rulemaking, and applications for
licenses, permits, certificates, grants, and financial
assistance, shall continue notwithstanding the
enactment of this Act or the transfer of the agency to
the Department, unless discontinued or modified under
the same terms and conditions and to the same extent
that such discontinuance could have occurred if such
enactment or transfer had not occurred; and
(2) orders issued in such proceedings, and appeals
therefrom, and payments made pursuant to such orders,
shall issue in the same manner and on the same terms as
if this Act had not been enacted or the agency had not
been transferred, and any such orders shall continue in
effect until amended, modified, superseded, terminated,
set aside, or revoked by an officer of the United
States or a court of competent jurisdiction, or by
operation of law.
(c) Pending Civil Actions.--Subject to the authority of the
Secretary under this Act, pending civil actions shall continue
notwithstanding the enactment of this Act or the transfer of an
agency to the Department, and in such civil actions,
proceedings shall be had, appeals taken, and judgments rendered
and enforced in the same manner and with the same effect as if
such enactment or transfer had not occurred.
(d) References.--References relating to an agency that is
transferred to the Department in statutes, Executive orders,
rules, regulations, directives, or delegations of authority
that precede such transfer or the effective date of this Act
shall be deemed to refer, as appropriate, to the Department, to
its officers, employees, or agents, or to its corresponding
organizational units or functions. Statutory reporting
requirements that applied in relation to such an agency
immediately before the effective date of this Act shall
continue to apply following such transfer if they