Sec.  1.419   Form of comments and replies; number of copies.

   (a) Comments, replies, and other documents filed in a rulemaking proceeding
   shall conform to the requirements of  Sec. 1.49.

   (b) An original and 4 copies of all comments, briefs and other documents
   filed in a rulemaking proceeding shall be furnished the Commission. The
   distribution of such copies shall be as follows:




Secretary          2
 (original and 1)
  Bureau           2
Reference          1
 Information
   Center
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      Total......  5


   Participants filing the required 5 copies who also wish each Commissioner to
   have a personal copy of the comments may file an additional 5 copies. The
   distribution of such copies shall be as follows:




Commissioners      5
Secretary          2
  Bureau           2
Reference          1
 Information
   Center
                  ---------------------------------------------------
      Total......  10


   However, members of the general public who wish to express their interest by
   participating informally in a rulemaking proceeding may do so by submitting
   an original and one copy of their comments, without regard to form, provided
   only that the Docket Number is specified in the heading. Informal comments
   filed after close of the reply comment period, or, if on reconsideration,
   the reconsideration reply comment period, should be labeled “ex parte”
   pursuant to section 1.1206(a) of this chapter. Letters submitted to
   Commissioners or Commission staff will be treated in the same way as
   informal comments, as set forth above. Also such informal participants who
   wish the responsible members of the staff and the Commissioners to have
   personal copies may file an additional 7 copies. The distribution of such
   copies shall be as follows:




Commissioners      5
Secretary          2
  Bureau           2
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      Total......  9


   (c) Any person desiring to file identical documents in more than one
   docketed rulemaking proceeding shall furnish the Commission two additional
   copies of any such document for each additional docket. This requirement
   does not apply if the proceedings have been consolidated.

   (d) Participants that file comments and replies in electronic form need only
   submit one copy of those comments, so long as the submission conforms to any
   procedural or filing requirements established for formal electronic
   comments.

   (e) Comments and replies and other documents filed in electronic form by a
   party represented by an attorney shall include the name and mailing address
   of at least one attorney of record. Parties not represented by an attorney
   that file comments and replies and other documents in electronic form shall
   provide their name and mailing address.

   [ 28 FR 12432 , Nov. 22, 1963, as amended at  41 FR 50399 , Nov. 16, 1976;  50 FR 26567 , June 27, 1985;  54 FR 29037 , July 11, 1989;  63 FR 24125 , May 1, 1998;
    63 FR 56091 , Oct. 21, 1998;  67 FR 13223 , Mar. 21, 2002]