[Code of Federal Regulations]

[Title 49, Volume 4]

[Revised as of October 1, 2006]

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

[CITE: 49CFR211.15]



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                        TITLE 49--TRANSPORTATION

 

       CHAPTER II--FEDERAL RAILROAD ADMINISTRATION, DEPARTMENT OF 

                             TRANSPORTATION

 

PART 211_RULES OF PRACTICE--Table of Contents

 

                     Subpart B_Rulemaking Procedures

 

Sec.  211.15  Notice and participation.



    (a) Except as provided in paragraph (c) of this section, or when the 

Administrator finds for good cause that notice is impractical, 

unnecessary, or contrary to the public interest (and incorporates the 

findings and a brief statement of the reasons therefore in the rules 

issued), an advance notice or notice of proposed rulemaking is published 

in the Federal Register and interested persons are invited to 

participate in the rulemaking proceedings with respect to each 

substantive rule.

    (b) Unless the Administrator determines that notice and public 

rulemaking proceedings are necessary or desirable, interpretive rules, 

general statements of policy, and rules relating to organization, 

procedure, or practice, including those relating to agency management or 

personnel, are prescribed as final without notice or other public 

rulemaking proceedings.

    (c) An advance notice or notice of proposed rulemaking is issued and 

interested persons are invited to participate in rulemaking proceedings 

with respect only to those procedural and substantive rules of general 

applicability relating to public property, loans, grants, benefits, or 

contracts which the Administrator has determined to be of substantial 

public interest.