[Code of Federal Regulations]

[Title 15, Volume 3]

[Revised as of January 1, 2006]

From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access

[CITE: 15CFR971.212]



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                  TITLE 15--COMMERCE AND FOREIGN TRADE

 

CHAPTER IX--NATIONAL OCEANIC AND ATMOSPHERIC ADMINISTRATION, DEPARTMENT 

                               OF COMMERCE

 

PART 971_DEEP SEABED MINING REGULATIONS FOR COMMERCIAL RECOVERY PERMITS

--Table of Contents

 

                         Subpart B_Applications

 

Sec. 971.212  Public notice, hearing and comment.



    (a) Notice and comments. The Administrator will publish in the 

Federal Register, for each complete application for issuance or transfer 

of a commercial recovery permit, notice that the application has been 

received. Subject to Sec. 971.802, interested persons will be allowed 

to examine the materials relevant to the application, and will have at 

least 60 days after publication of notice to submit written comments to 

the Administrator.

    (b) Hearings. After preparation of the draft environmental impact 

statement (EIS) on an application, the Administrator will hold a public 

hearing on the application and the draft EIS in an appropriate location 

and may employ additional methods he/she deems appropriate to inform 

interested persons about each application and to invite comments 

thereon. A hearing will be conducted in any State in which a processing 

plant or any of its ancillary facilities (such as a marine terminal or a 

waste disposal facility) are proposed to be located.

    (c) If the Administrator determines there exist one or more specific 

and material factual issues which require resolution by formal 

processes, at least one formal hearing will be held in the District of 

Columbia metropolitan area in accordance with the provisions of Subpart 

I of this part. The record developed in any such formal hearing will



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be part of the basis of the Administrator's decisions on an application.

    (d) Hearings held pursuant to this section and other procedures will 

be consolidated, if practicable, with hearings held and procedures 

employed by other Federal and State agencies.