---
kind: "section"
citation: "14 C.F.R. § 302.310"
title: "14"
number: "302.310"
heading: "Exemptions on the Department's initiative."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/14/302.310"
---

# §302.310. Exemptions on the Department's initiative.


The Department may grant exemptions on its own initiative when it finds that such exemptions are required by the circumstances and consistent with the public interest.


## Notes

### Authority

Authority: 39 U.S.C. 5402; 42 U.S.C. 4321, 49 U.S.C. Subtitle I and Chapters 401, 411, 413, 415, 417, 419, 461, 463, and 471.

### Source

Source: Docket No. OST-97-2090, 65 FR 6457, Feb. 9, 2000, unless otherwise noted.