§  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, 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)