---
kind: "section"
citation: "46 C.F.R. § 535.607"
title: "46"
number: "535.607"
heading: "Failure to comply with requests for additional information."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/46/535.607"
---

# §535.607. Failure to comply with requests for additional information.

- (a) A failure to comply with a request for additional information results when a person filing an agreement, or an officer, director, partner, agent, or employee thereof fails to substantially respond to the request or does not file a satisfactory statement of reasons for noncompliance. An adequate response is one which directly addresses the Commission's request. When a response is not received by the Commission within a specified time, failure to comply will have occurred.
- (b) The Commission may, pursuant to section 6(i) of the Act ([46 U.S.C. 41307(c)](/usc/46/41307.md?p=c)), request relief from the United States District Court for the District of Columbia when it considers that there has been a failure to substantially comply with a request for additional information. The Commission may request that the court:
  - (1) Order compliance with the request;
  - (2) Extend the review period until there has been substantial compliance; or
  - (3) **Grant other equitable relief that under the circumstances seems necessary or appropriate.**
- (c) Where there has been a failure to substantially comply, section 6(i)(2) of the Act ([46 U.S.C. 41307(c)(2)](/usc/46/41307.md?p=c-2)) provides that the court shall extend the review period until there has been substantial compliance.

## Notes

### Amendments

[69 FR 64414, Nov. 4, 2004, as amended at 74 FR 50729, Oct. 1, 2009]

### Authority

Authority: 5 U.S.C. 553; 46 U.S.C., 40101-40104, 40301-40307, 40501-40503, 40901-40904, 41101-41109, 41301-41302, and 41305-41307, 46105.

### Source

Source: 69 FR 64414, Nov. 4, 2004, unless otherwise noted.

### Amendments

[69 FR 64414, Nov. 4, 2004, as amended at 74 FR 50729, Oct. 1, 2009]