[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 40, Volume 28]
[Revised as of July 1, 2003]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 40CFR750.4]

[Page 566]
 
                   TITLE 40--PROTECTION OF ENVIRONMENT
 
         CHAPTER I--ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY (CONTINUED)
 
PART 750--PROCEDURES FOR RULEMAKING UNDER SECTION 6 OF THE TOXIC SUBSTANCES 
CONTROL ACT--Table of Contents
 
   Subpart A--Procedures for Rulemaking Under Section 6 of the Toxic 
                         Substances Control Act
 
Sec. 750.4  Public comments.

    (a) Main comments shall be postmarked or received no later than the 
time specified in the Notice of Proposed Rulemaking and shall contain 
all comments on and criticisms of that Notice by the commenting person, 
based on information which is or reasonably could have been available to 
that person at the time.
    (b) Reply comments shall be postmarked or received no later than two 
weeks after the close of all informal hearings on the proposed rule and 
shall be restricted to comments on:
    (1) Other comments;
    (2) Material in the hearing record; and
    (3) Material which was not and could not reasonably have been 
available to the commenting party a sufficient time before main comments 
were due.
    (c) Extensions of the time for filing comments may be granted in 
writing by the Record and Hearing Clerk. Application for an extension 
shall be made in writing. Comments submitted after the comment period 
and all extensions of it have expired need not be added to the 
rulemaking record and need not be considered in decisions concerning the 
rule. Unless the Notice of Proposed Rulemaking states otherwise, four 
copies of all comments shall be submitted.