---
kind: "section"
citation: "15 C.F.R. § 990.61"
title: "15"
number: "990.61"
heading: "Administrative record."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/15/990.61"
---

# §990.61. Administrative record.

- (a) **Closing the administrative record for restoration planning.** Within a reasonable time after the trustees have completed restoration planning, as provided in §§ [990.55](/cfr/15/990.55.md) and [990.56](/cfr/15/990.56.md) of this part, they must close the administrative record. Trustees may not add documents to the administrative record once it is closed, except where such documents:
  - (1) Are offered by interested parties that did not receive actual or constructive notice of the Draft Restoration Plan and the opportunity to comment on the plan;
  - (2) Do not duplicate information already contained in the administrative record; and
  - (3) **Raise significant issues regarding the Final Restoration Plan.**
- (b) **Opening an administrative record for restoration implementation.** Trustees may open an administrative record for implementation of restoration, as provided in [§ 990.45](/cfr/15/990.45.md) of this part. The costs associated with the administrative record are part of the costs of restoration. Ordinarily, the administrative record for implementation of restoration should document, at a minimum, all Restoration Implementation Phase decisions, actions, and expenditures, including any modifications made to the Final Restoration Plan.

## Notes

### Authority

Authority: 33 U.S.C. 2701 et seq.

### Source

Source: 61 FR 500, Jan. 5, 1996, unless otherwise noted.