Sec. 1.766  Consolidation of domestic telegraph carriers.

    (a) Applications under section 22 of the Communications Act by two 
or more domestic telegraph carriers for authorization to effect a 
consolidation or merger or by any domestic telegraph carrier to acquire 
all or any part of the domestic telegraph properties, domestic telegraph 
facilities, or domestic telegraph operations of any carrier shall 
contain such information as is necessary for the Commission to act upon 
such application under the provisions of section 222 of the Act.
    (b) These applications are acted upon by the Commission after public 
hearing. Reasonable notice in writing of the public hearing and an 
opportunity to be heard is given by the Commission to the Governor of 
each of the States in which any of the physical property involved in 
such proposed consolidation or merger is situated, to the Secretary of 
State, the Secretary of the Army, the Attorney General of the United

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States, the Secretary of the Navy, representatives of employees where 
represented by bargaining representatives known to the Commission, and 
to such other persons as the Commission may deem advisable.
[ 28 FR 12450 , Nov. 22, 1963, as amended at  52 FR 5289 , Feb. 20, 1987]