Sec. 1.973  Designation for hearing.

    (a) If the Commission is unable to make the findings prescribed in 
Sec. 1.971(a) and does not utilize the system of random selection 
prescribed in Sec. 1.972 of this part, it will formally designate the 
application for hearing on the grounds or reasons then obtaining and 
will notify the applicant and all other known parties in interest of 
such action.
    (b) Orders designating applications for hearing will specify with 
particularity the matters in issue.
    (c) Parties in interest, if any, who are not notified by the 
Commission of its action in designating a particular application for 
hearing may acquire the status of a party to the proceeding by filing a 
petition for intervention showing the basis of their interest not more 
than 30 days after publication in the Federal Register of the hearing 
issues or any substantial amendment thereto.
    (d) The applicant and all other parties in interest shall be 
permitted to participate in any hearing subsequently held upon such 
applications. Hearings may be conducted by the Commission or by the 
Chief of the Private Radio Bureau, or, in the case of a question which 
requires oral testimony for its resolution, an Administrative Law Judge. 
The burden of proceeding with the introduction of evidence and burden of 
proof shall be upon the applicant, except that with respect to any issue 
presented by a Petition to Deny or a petition to enlarge the issues, 
such burdens shall be as determined by the Commission or the Chief of 
the Private Radio Bureau.
[ 48 FR 27202 , June 13, 1983]

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