---
kind: "section"
citation: "49 C.F.R. § 451.3"
title: "49"
number: "451.3"
heading: "Action by Approval Authority."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/49/451.3"
---

# §451.3. Action by Approval Authority.

- (a) The Approval Authority (or the Chief, Office of Operating and Environmental Standards (CG-OES), U.S. Coast Guard, if the application was submitted to the Coast Guard) issues to the owner a notice of approval or notifies the owner in writing that approval is denied, setting forth the deficiencies causing denial. Notification of approval entitles the owner to affix a safety approval plate to each container after an examination of each container concerned has been carried out in accordance with [part 452](/cfr/49/part452.md) of this subchapter. In the case of an application submitted to the Coast Guard, the Chief, Office of Operating and Environmental Standards (CG-OES), U.S. Coast Guard acts on the application within 30 days of receipt of the application.

## Notes

### Amendments

[45 FR 37214, June 2, 1980, as amended at 47 FR 50496, Nov. 8, 1982; 69 FR 58352, Sept. 30, 2004]

### Authority

Authority: 46 U.S.C. 80503; Department of Homeland Security Delegation No. 0170.1.

### Source

Source: 45 FR 37214, June 2, 1980, unless otherwise noted.

### Amendments

[45 FR 37214, June 2, 1980, as amended at 47 FR 50496, Nov. 8, 1982; 69 FR 58352, Sept. 30, 2004]