[Code of Federal Regulations]

[Title 39, Volume 1]

[Revised as of July 1, 2006]

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[CITE: 39CFR9.1]



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                        TITLE 39--POSTAL SERVICE

 

                 CHAPTER I--UNITED STATES POSTAL SERVICE

 

PART 9_POLICY ON COMMUNICATIONS WITH GOVERNORS OF THE POSTAL SERVICE 

DURING PENDENCY OF RATE AND CLASSIFICATION PROCEEDINGS [APPENDIX]

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Sec.  9.1  General policy.









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9.1 General policy.

9.2 Communications with the Governors during the restricted period.

9.3 Public availability of communications.



    Authority: 39 U.S.C. 202, 203, 205, 401 (2), (10), 3621, 3625.



    Source: 49 FR 2888, Jan. 24, 1984, unless otherwise noted.





    (a) To represent the public interest generally and to insure that 

the Postal Service meets the needs of the mailing public, the Governors 

must be free to hold uninhibited discussions on broad postal issues with 

mailers and the general public. Nevertheless, the Governors believe that 

certain restrictions on communications with the public are appropriate 

when the Governors act in their capacity as final administrative 

decisionmakers on recommended decisions of the Postal Rate Commission 

concerning postal rates and classifications. These restrictions should 

reflect a balance between, on the one hand, the need to safeguard the 

integrity of the administrative process for setting rates and 

classifications and insure meaningful judicial review of decisions of 

the Governors on these subjects, and on the other hand, the need for 

open access to the Board to permit the members to meet their statutory 

responsibilities. To strike an appropriate balance, the Board has 

adopted the following general guidelines: From the time the Postal Rate 

Commission issues a recommended decision until the Governors have acted 

on the recommended decision, any communication from an interested person 

to the Governors that is relevant to the merits of the proceeding should 

be on the public record and available for public inspection.

    (b) In reviewing recommended decisions of the Commission, the 

Governors act on the record before them. They are under no obligation to 

take communications from the public into account in reaching their 

decision.