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1 with the United States Court of Appeals for the District of 
2 Columbia Circuit or for any other circuit in which such 
3 person resides or transacts business. Such a petition may 
4 only be filed within the thirty-day period beginning on the 
5 date the order making such assessment was issued. 
6 “ (4) If any person fails to pay an assessment of a civil 
7 penalty — 
8 “(A.) after the order making the assessment has 
9 become a final order and it such person does not file 
10 a petition for judicial review of the order in accord- 
11 ance with paragraph (3) , or 
12 “ (B) after a court in an action brought under para- 
13 graph (3) has entered a final judgment in favor of the 
14 Secretary, 
13 the Attorney General shall recover the amount assessed 
16 (plus interest at currently prevailing rates from the date of 
17 the expiration of the thirty-day period referred to in para- 
18 graph (3) or the date of such final judgment, as the case 
19 may be) in an action brought in any appropriate district 
20 court of the United States. In such an action, the validity, 
2 1 amount, and appropriateness of such penalty shall not be 
22 subject to review. 
23 “ (c) Any person who knowingly or willfully violates 
24 subsection (a) shall be subject, upon conviction, to a fine 
25 of not more than $50,000, to imprisonment for not more 
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