[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 50, Volume 7]
[Revised as of January 1, 2007]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 50CFR228.13]

[Page 590]
 
                    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. 228.13  Determination to cancel the hearing.

    (a) If the presiding officer concludes that no issues of fact are 
presented by the direct testimony submitted, the presiding officer shall 
publish such conclusion and notice in the Federal Register that a 
hearing shall not be held and shall also publish a date for filing 
written comments on the proposed regulations. Written comments may 
include proposed findings and conclusions, arguments or briefs.
    (b) A person need not be a party to submit any written comments.
    (c) Promptly after expiration of the period for receiving written 
comments, the presiding officer shall make a recommended decision based 
on the record, which in this case shall consist of the direct testimony 
and written comments submitted. He shall transfer to the Assistant 
Administrator his recommended decision, the record and a certificate 
stating that the record contains all the written direct testimony and 
comments submitted. The Assistant Administrator shall then make a final 
decision in accordance with these regulations (Sec. 228.21).