[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 15, Volume 2]
[Revised as of January 1, 2003]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 15CFR705.8]

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                  TITLE 15--COMMERCE AND FOREIGN TRADE
 
  CHAPTER VII--BUREAU OF INDUSTRY AND SECURITY, DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
 
PART 705--EFFECT OF IMPORTED ARTICLES ON THE NATIONAL SECURITY--Table of Contents
 
Sec. 705.8  Public hearings.

    (a) If it is deemed appropriate by the Department, public hearings 
may be held to elicit further information.
    (1) A notice of hearing shall be published in the Federal Register 
describing the date, time, place, the subject matter of each hearing and 
any

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other information relevant to the conduct of the hearing. The name of a 
person to contact for additional information or to request time to speak 
at the hearing shall also be included. Public hearings may be held in 
more than one location.
    (2) Hearings shall be open to the public unless national security 
classified information will be presented. In that event the presiding 
officer at the hearing shall close the hearing, as necessary, to all 
persons not having appropriate security clearances or not otherwise 
authorized to have access to such information. If it is known in 
sufficient time prior to the hearing that national security classified 
information will be presented the notice of hearing published in the 
Federal Register shall state that national security classified 
information will be presented and that the hearing will be open only to 
those persons having appropriate security clearances or otherwise 
specifically authorized to have access to such information.
    (b) Hearings shall be conducted as follows:
    (1) The Department shall appoint the presiding officer;
    (2) The presiding officer shall determine all procedural matters 
during the hearing;
    (3) Interested parties may appear, either in person or by 
representation, and produce oral or written information relevant and 
material to the subject matter of the investigation;
    (4) Hearings will be fact-finding proceedings without formal 
pleadings or adverse parties. Formal rules of evidence will not apply;
    (5) After a witness has testified, the presiding officer may 
question the witness. Questions submitted to the presiding officer in 
writing by any interested party may, at the discretion of the presiding 
officer, be posed to the witness. No cross examination of any witness by 
a party shall be allowed.
    (6) Each hearing will be stenographically reported. Transcripts of 
the hearing, excluding any national security classified information, may 
be purchased from the Department at actual cost of duplication, and will 
be available for public inspection in the Bureau of Industry and 
Security Freedom of Information Records Inspection Facility, Room H-
4525, U.S. Department of Commerce, Washington, DC 20230.

[47 FR 14693, Apr. 6, 1982. Redesignated at 54 FR 601, Jan. 9, 1989 and 
amended at 54 FR 19355, May 5, 1989; 63 FR 31623, June 10, 1998]