Full Volume 19 - Federal Maritime Commission

TITLE 46 SHIPPING
Chapter IV Federal Maritime Commission
SUBCHAPTER A GENERAL PROVISIONS
GENERAL ORDER NO 33 DOCKET NO 72 62
July 3 1975
Part 506Regulations to Adjust or Meet Conditions Unfavorable to
Shipping in the Foreign Trade of the United States
General Order No 33 was published by the Commission on November
1 1974 and was to become effective on November 31 1974 However
since General Order No 33 prompted numerous requests to delay the
effective date and extend the time for filing petitions for reconsideration
the effective date of the
the Commission on November 21 1974 stayed
rule and invited interested parties to file their views and arguments
the reconsideration thereof
regarding
Comments on reconsideration have been submitted by or on behalf of
a number and variety of interested parties including Hearing Counsel
The Commission has carefully considered the position of all the parties
and the final rules promulgated herein have been drafted with the parties
comments and arguments in mind The bulk of the comments submitted
concern themselves with matters which have been argued
before the
Commission in this proceeding before and which have already been fully
considered and properly disposed of by the Commission We will not
address ourselves to those matters further We are limiting our discussion
here to those comments and arguments which have prompted changes in
the fmal rules promulgated herein A section by section discussion of
these changes is therefore appropriate
Section 506 1 Purpose
The word may has been substituted for will in the last sentence of
this section to make it clear that Commission action under these section
19 regulations is discretionary
506 2 Scope
This section was likewise revised to indicate the discretion of the
Commission in invoking these regulations A change was also made in the
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