[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 50, Volume 7]
[Revised as of January 1, 2007]
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[CITE: 50CFR228.10]

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                    TITLE 50--WILDLIFE AND FISHERIES
 
  CHAPTER II--NATIONAL MARINE FISHERIES SERVICE, NATIONAL OCEANIC AND 
           ATMOSPHERIC ADMINISTRATION, DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
 
PART 228_NOTICE AND HEARING ON SECTION 103(d) REGULATIONS--Table 
 
Sec. 228.10  Ex parte communications.

    (a) After notice of a hearing is published in the Federal Register, 
all communications, whether oral or written, involving any substantive 
or procedural issue and directed either to the presiding officer or to 
the Assistant Administrator, Deputy Assistant Administrator, or Chief of 
the Marine Mammal Division, National Marine Fisheries Service, without 
reference to these rules of procedure, shall be deemed ex parte 
communications and are not to be considered part of the record for 
decision.
    (b) A record of oral conversations shall be made by the persons who 
are contacted. All communications shall be available for public viewing 
at the place(s) specified in the notice of hearing.
    (c) The presiding office shall not consult any person or party on 
any fact in issue or on the merits of the matter unless notice and 
opportunity is given for all parties to participate.