[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 49, Volume 5]
[Revised as of October 1, 2002]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 49CFR553.11]

[Page 133]
 
                        TITLE 49--TRANSPORTATION
 
                            OF TRANSPORTATION
 
PART 553--RULEMAKING PROCEDURES--Table of Contents
 
               Subpart B--Procedures for Adoption of Rules
 
Sec. 553.11  Initiation of rulemaking.


    The Administrator may initiate rulemaking either on his own motion 
or on petition by any interested person after a determination in 
accordance with Part 552 of this title that grant of the petition is 
advisable. The Administrator may, in his discretion, also consider the 
recommendations of other agencies of the United States.