[Code of Federal Regulations]

[Title 43, Volume 2]

[Revised as of October 1, 2006]

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

[CITE: 43CFR1822.17]



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                    TITLE 43--PUBLIC LANDS: INTERIOR

 

    CHAPTER II--BUREAU OF LAND MANAGEMENT, DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

 

PART 1820_APPLICATION PROCEDURES--Table of Contents

 

                 Subpart 1822_Filing a Document with BLM

 

Sec.  1822.17  When are documents considered filed simultaneously?



    (a) BLM considers two or more documents simultaneously filed when:

    (1) They are received at the appropriate BLM office on the same day 

and time; or

    (2) They are filed in conjunction with an order that specifies that 

documents received by the appropriate office during a specified period 

of time will be considered as simultaneously filed.

    (b) An application or document that arrives at the BLM office where 

it is to be filed when the office is closed for the entire day will be 

considered as filed on the day and hour the office next officially 

opens.

    (c) Nothing in this provision will deny any preference right granted 

by applicable law or regulation or validate a document which is invalid 

under applicable law or regulation.