---
kind: "section"
citation: "40 C.F.R. § 222.9"
title: "40"
number: "222.9"
heading: "Issuance of permits."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/40/222.9"
---

# §222.9. Issuance of permits.

- (a) Within 30 days following receipt of the Presiding Officer's recommendations or, where no hearing has been held, following the close of the 30-day period for requesting a hearing as provided in [§ 222.4](/cfr/40/222.4.md), the Administrator or the Regional Administrator, as the case may be, shall make a determination with respect to the issuance, denial, or imposition of conditions on, any permit applied for under this Subchapter H and shall give notice to the applicant and to all persons who registered their attendance at the hearing by providing their name and mailing address, if any, by mailing a letter stating the determination and stating the basis therefor in terms of the Criteria.
- (b) Any determination to issue or deny any permit after a hearing held pursuant to [§ 222.7](/cfr/40/222.7.md) shall take effect no sooner than:
  - (1) 10 days after notice of such determination is given if no request for an adjudicatory hearing is filed in accordance with [§ 222.10(a)](/cfr/40/222.10.md?p=a); or
  - (2) 20 days after notice of such determination is given if a request for an adjudicatory hearing is filed in accordance with [paragraph (a)](/cfr/40/222.10.md?p=a) of § 222.10 and the Administrator or the Regional Administrator, as the case may be, denies such request in accordance with [paragraph (c)](/cfr/40/222.10.md?p=c) of § 222.10; or
  - (3) The date on which a final determination has been made following an adjudicatory hearing held pursuant to [§ 222.11](/cfr/40/222.11.md).
- (c) The Administrator or Regional Administrator, as the case may be, may extend the term of a previously issued permit pending the conclusion of the proceedings held pursuant to [§§ 222.7 through 222.9](/cfr/40/222.7..222.9.md).
- (d) A copy of each permit issued shall be sent to the appropriate District Office of the U.S. Coast Guard.

## Notes

### Authority

Authority: 33 U.S.C. 1412 and 1418.

### Source

Source: 42 FR 2471, Jan. 11, 1977, unless otherwise noted.