---
kind: "section"
citation: "28 C.F.R. § 48.6"
title: "28"
number: "48.6"
heading: "Public notice."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/28/48.6"
---

# §48.6. Public notice.

- (a) Upon the filing of the documents required by [§ 48.4](/cfr/28/48.4.md), the applicants shall file, and publish on the front pages of each of the newspapers for which application is made, daily and Sunday (if a Sunday edition is published) for a period of one week:
  - (1) Notice that a request for approval of a joint newspaper operating arrangement has been filed with the Attorney General;
  - (2) Notice that copies of the proposed arrangement, as well as all other documents submitted pursuant to [§ 48.4](/cfr/28/48.4.md), are available for public inspection at the Department of Justice and at the main offices of the newspapers involved; and
  - (3) Notice that any person may file written comments or a request for a hearing with the Department of Justice, in accordance with the requirements of [§ 48.3](/cfr/28/48.3.md).
- (b) Upon the filing of the notice required in [paragraph (a)](#a) of this section, the Assistant Attorney General for Administration shall cause notice to be published in the Federal Register, and shall cause to be issued a press release setting forth the information contained therein.
- (c) If a hearing is scheduled pursuant to [§ 48.10](/cfr/28/48.10.md), the applicants shall publish the time, date, place and purpose of such hearing on their respective front pages at least three times within the 2-week period after the hearing has been scheduled (two times if the applicants are weekly newspapers), and for the 3 days preceding such hearing (one day during the week preceding the hearing if the applicants are weekly newspapers).
- (d) The applicants shall file copies of each day's newspaper in which the notice required in paragraph [(a)](#a) or [(c)](#c) of this section has appeared.

## Notes

### Authority

Authority: 28 U.S.C. 509, 510; (5 U.S.C. 301); Newspaper Preservation Act, 84 Stat. 466 (15 U.S.C. 1801 et seq. ).

### Source

Source: Order No. 558-73, 39 FR 7, Jan. 2, 1974, unless otherwise noted.