[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: 15CFR971.411]



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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 D_Issuance/Transfer: Terms, Conditions and Restrictions

 

Sec. 971.411  Objections to terms, conditions and restrictions.



    (a) The permittee may file a notice of objection to any TCR in the 

permit. The permittee may object on the grounds that any TCR is 

inconsistent with the Act or this part, or on any other grounds which 

may be raised under applicable provisions of law. If the permittee does 

not file notice of an objection within the 60-day period immediately 

following the permittee's



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reciept of the notice of issuance or transfer under Sec. 971.410, the 

permittee will be deemed conclusively to have accepted the TCRs in the 

permit.

    (b) Any notice of objection filed under paragraph (a) of this 

section must be in writing, must indicate the legal or factual basis for 

the objection, and must provide information relevant to any underlying 

factual issues deemed by the permittee 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 permittee, written notice of the 

decision.

    (d) If, after the Administrator takes final action on an objection, 

the permittee 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 this part.

    (e) Any final determination by the Administrator on an objection to 

TCRs in a permit, after the formal hearing provided in paragraph (d), is 

subject to judicial review as provided in chapter 7 of title 5, United 

States Code.