(a) An applicant may withdraw his application for an exemption at
any time by informing the Department, either orally or in writing, of
his intent to withdraw.
(b) Upon receiving an applicant's notice of intent to withdraw an
application for an individual exemption, the Department will confirm by
letter the applicant's withdrawal of the application and will terminate
all proceedings relating to the application. If a notice of proposed
exemption has been published in the Federal Register, the Department
will publish a notice withdrawing the proposed exemption.
(c) Upon receiving an applicant's notice of intent to withdraw an
application for a class exemption or for an individual exemption that is
being considered with other applications as a request for a class
exemption, the Department will inform any other applicants for the
exemption of the withdrawal. The Department will continue to process
other applications for the same exemption. If all applicants for a
particular class exemption withdraw their applications, the Department
may either terminate all proceedings relating to the exemption or
propose the exemption on its own motion.
(d) If, following the withdrawal of an exemption application, an
applicant decides to reapply for the same exemption, he may submit a
letter to the Department requesting that the application be reinstated
and referring to the application number assigned to the original
application. If, at the time the original application was withdrawn, any
additional information to be submitted to the Department under
Sec. 2570.39 of these procedures was outstanding, that information must
accompany the letter requesting reinstatement of the application.
However, the applicant need not resubmit information previously
furnished to the Department in connection with a withdrawn application
unless reinstatement of the application is requested more than two years
after the date of its withdrawal.
(e) Any request for reinstatement of a withdrawn application
submitted in accordance with paragraph (d) of this section, will be
granted by the Department, and the Department will take whatever steps
remained at the time the application was withdrawn to process the
application.
