Sec. 1.254  Nature of the hearing; burden of proof.

    Any hearing upon an application shall be a full hearing in which the 
applicant and all other parties in interest shall be permitted to 
participate but in which both the burden of proceeding with the 
introduction of evidence upon any issue specified by the Commission,

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as well as the burden of proof upon all such issues, shall be upon the 
applicant except as otherwise provided in the order of designation.

(Sec. 309, 48 Stat. 1085, as amended; 47 U.S.C. 309)