---
kind: "section"
citation: "28 C.F.R. § 51.40"
title: "28"
number: "51.40"
heading: "Failure to complete submissions."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/28/51.40"
---

# §51.40. Failure to complete submissions.


If after 60 days the submitting authority has not provided further information in response to a request made pursuant to [§ 51.37(b)](/cfr/28/51.37.md?p=b), the Attorney General, absent extenuating circumstances and consistent with the burden of proof under [section 5](/cfr/28/5.md) described in § [51.52(a)](/cfr/28/51.52.md?p=a) and [(c)](/cfr/28/51.52.md?p=c), may object to the change, giving notice as specified in [§ 51.44](/cfr/28/51.44.md).


## Notes

### Amendments

[Order No. 3262-2011, 76 FR 21247, Apr. 15, 2011]

### Authority

Authority: 5 U.S.C. 301; 28 U.S.C. 509, 510, and 42 U.S.C. 1973b, 1973c.

### Source

Source: 52 FR 490, Jan. 6, 1987, unless otherwise noted.

### Amendments

[Order No. 3262-2011, 76 FR 21247, Apr. 15, 2011]