[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 15, Volume 3]
[Revised as of January 1, 2004]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 15CFR970.510]

[Page 329]
 
                  TITLE 15--COMMERCE AND FOREIGN TRADE
 
CHAPTER IX--NATIONAL OCEANIC AND ATMOSPHERIC ADMINISTRATION, DEPARTMENT 
                               OF COMMERCE
 
PART 970_DEEP SEABED MINING REGULATIONS FOR EXPLORATION LICENSES--Table of 
Contents
 
     Subpart E_Issuance/Transfer/Terms, Conditions and Restrictions
 
Sec. 970.510  Objections to terms, conditions and restrictions.

    (a) The licensee may file a notice of objection to any term, 
condition or restriction in the license. The licensee may object on the 
grounds that any term, condition or restriction is inconsistent with the 
Act or this part, or on any other grounds which may be raised under 
applicable provisions of law. If the licensee does not file notice of an 
objection within the 60-day period immediately following the licensee's 
receipt of the notice of issuance or transfer under Sec. 970.509, he 
will be deemed conclusively to have accepted the terms, conditions and 
restrictions in the license.
    (b) Any notice of objection filed under paragraph (a) of this 
section must be in writing, must contain the precise legal basis for the 
objection, and must provide information relevant to any underlying 
factual issues deemed by the licensee as necessary to the 
Administrator's decision upon the objection.
    (c) Within 90 days after receipt of the notice of objection, the 
Administrator will act on the objection and publish in the Federal 
Register, as well as provide to the licensee, written notice of his 
decision.
    (d) If, after the Administrator takes final action on an objection, 
the licensee demonstrates that a dispute remains on a material issue of 
fact, the Administrator will provide for a formal hearing which will 
proceed in accordance with subpart I of 15 CFR part 971.
    (e) Any final determination by the Administrator on an objection to 
terms, conditions or restrictions in a license after the formal hearing 
provided in paragraph (d) of this section is subject to judicial review 
as provided in chapter 7 of title 5, United States Code.

[46 FR 45903, Sept. 15, 1981, as amended at 54 FR 548, Jan. 6, 1989]