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(2) The second section shall declare A.I.D.'s intention to keep the contents of the List current by additions and deletions, and that no prejudice whatsoever attaches to a supplier whose name has been removed from this list.

(3) The third section shall list de

barred persons.

(4) The fourth section shall list suspended persons.

(b) Information concerning ineligible suppliers. (1) The supplier shall be described on the List of Ineligible Suppliers by name, address and type of commodity or service supplied. (Names shall be

set forth in alphabetical order with appropriate cross-reference where more than one name is involved in a single action.)

(2) If a supplier engages in several activities or supplies several commodities and the suspension or debarment does not apply to the full range of the supplier's operations, the list shall clearly indicate the limited application of the sanction.

(3) With respect to any debarred supplier, the expiration date of such debarment shall be clearly indicated.

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CHAPTER IV-INTERNATIONAL JOINT COMMISSION

UNITED STATES AND CANADA

Part

401 Rules of procedure.

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In the construction of the rules in this part and the forms herein referred to (unless the context otherwise requires) words importing the singular number shall include the plural, and words importing the plural number shall include the singular; the term "party" or "parties" shall include Governments and also persons permitted by the rules in this part to take part in any proceedings before the Commission; the word "person" shall include individual, partnership, or corporation, and "oath" shall include affirmation.

§ 401.2 Meetings.

Regular sessions of the Commission shall be held annually at Washington beginning on the first Tuesday of April and at Ottawa beginning on the first Tuesday of October.

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The commissioners of the United States section of the Commission shall appoint a chairman, to be known as the chairman of the United States section of the International Joint Commission, and he shall act as chairman at all meetings of the Commission held in the United States, and in respect to all matters required to be done in the United States by the chairman of the Commission.

The commissioners of the Canadian section of the Commission shall appoint a chairman, to be known as the chairman of the Canadian section of the International Joint Commission, and he shall act as chairman at all meetings of the Commission held in Canada, and in respect to all matters required to be done in Canada by the chairman of the Commission.

In case it shall be impracticable for the chairman of either section to act in any matter, then the commissioner of such section next in order of appointment shall act in his stead.

§ 401.4 Permanent offices.

The permanent offices of the Commission shall be at Washington, in the District of Columbia, and at Ottawa, in the Dominion of Canada, and the secretaries of the United States and Canadian sections of the Commission shall, subject to the order of said respective sections, have full charge and control of said offices, respectively.

§ 401.5 Duties of secretaries.

The secretaries shall act as joint secretaries at all sessions or meetings of the Commission, and each shall keep an accurate permanent record of the proceedings and preserve the same in the permanent offices of the Commission. It shall also be the duty of each of them to receive and file all applications and other papers properly presented to the Commission in any proceeding instituted before it, and to number in numerical order all such applications; and the number given an application shall be the file number for all papers and documents connected with such application. Each secretary shall also keep in the permanent office under his control a docket, in which he shall record the title of the application

or other proceeding, separately in each case, the date of filing the same, the name and post-office address of the attorneys of record, and a brief statement of the contents, together with proper reference to the files of the original papers referred to in said docket. Each shall forward to the other for filling in the office of the other copies of all letters, documents or other papers received by him or filed in his office, pertaining to any matter before the Commission, to the end that there shall be on file in each office either the original or a copy of all official papers, documents, records and correspondence relating to matters at any time pending before the Commission.

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In all cases to be submitted to the Commission under Articles III, IV, and VII of the Treaty the method of bringing such cases to the attention of the Commission and invoking its action shall be as follows:

(a) Where one or the other of the Governments on its own initiative seeks the approval of the Commission for the use, obstruction or diversion of waters with respect to which under Articles III and IV of the Treaty the approval of the Commission is required, it shall file with the Commission an application setting forth as fully as may be necessary for the information of the Commission the facts upon which the application is based, and the nature of the order of approval desired.

(b) Where any private person seeks the approval of the Commission for the use. obstruction or diversion of such waters, he shall first make written application to the Government within whose jurisdiction the privilege desired is to be exercised, to grant such privilege, and upon such Government, or the proper department thereof, transmitting such application to the Commission, with the request that it take appropriate action thereon, the same shall be filed and be proceeded with by the Commission in the same manner as an application on behalf of one or the other of the Governments. All applications by private persons should conform, as to their contents, to the requirements of paragraph (a) of this section.

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§ 401.9

Notice and publication.

As soon as practicable after an application is made as provided for in § 401.6, the secretary of the section of the Commission appointed by the other Government shall forthwith send to such Government a notice in writing that the application has been made and a copy thereof.

The secretaries shall also, as soon as practicable after the application is made, cause to be published for 3 successive weeks in the Canada Gazette, and in two weekly newspapers, published one on each side of the international boundary line nearest the locality in which the use, obstruction, or diversion of waters is proposed to be made, a notice that the application has been made, and of the nature and locality of the proposed use, obstruction or diversion, and that all persons interested therein are entitled to be heard with respect thereto before the Commission.

§ 401.10 Statement in response to application.

Within 30 days after the filing of any such application, or within such further time as the Commission or the chairmen may determine, the other Government, and, with the consent of either Government, any private person interested, may

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