Public Presentations and Participation for Proposed Rule-Making

Public Presentations and Participation for Proposed Rule-Making. A. At an oral proceeding on a proposed rule, persons may make oral statements and may make documentary and physical submissions, which may include views, comments, or arguments concerning the proposed rule. B. The presiding officer may place time limitations on individual oral presentations when necessary to assure the orderly and expeditious conduct of the oral proceeding. To encourage joint oral presentations and to avoid repetition, additional time may be provided for persons whose presentations represent the views of other individuals as well as their own. C. Persons making oral presentations are discouraged from restating matters that already have been submitted in writing. D. There shall be no interruption of a participant who has been given the floor by the presiding officer, except that the presiding officer may, in his or her discretion, interrupt or end the participant’s time for presentation where the orderly conduct of the proceeding so requires.