---
kind: "section"
citation: "40 C.F.R. § 22.2"
title: "40"
number: "22.2"
heading: "Use of number and gender."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/40/22.2"
---

# §22.2. Use of number and gender.


As used in these Consolidated Rules of Practice, words in the singular also include the plural and words in the masculine gender also include the feminine, and vice versa, as the case may require.


## Notes

### Authority

Authority: 7 U.S.C. 1361; 15 U.S.C. 2615; 33 U.S.C. 1319, 1342, 1361, 1415 and 1418; 42 U.S.C. 300g-3(g), 6912, 6925, 6928, 6991e and 6992d; 42 U.S.C. 7413(d), 7524(c), 7545(d), 7547, 7601 and 7607(a), 9609, and 11045.

### Source

Source: 64 FR 40176, July 23, 1999, unless otherwise noted.