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pursuant to the provisions of this chapter or of any other Act, or of 

 any regulation. With respect to documents promulgHted under such 

 alternate systems, each agency shall preserve the original and two 

 duplicate originals or two certified copiers thereof for filing with tlie 

 Division when the President determines that it is practicable to do so. 

 (July 26, 1985, ch. 417, § 5, 49 Stat. 501; June 25, 1956, oh. 444, 70 

 Stat. 337.) 



Filing document as constructive notice; publication in Register 

 as presumption of validity; judicial notice; citation 



44 U.S.C. 307 



No document required under section 305(a) of this title to be 

 published in the Federal Register shall be valid as against any person 

 who has not had actual knowledge thereof imtil the dilplicate originals 

 or certified copies of the document shall have been filed with the Divi- 

 sion and a copy made available for public inspection as provided in 

 section 302 of this title; and, unless otherwise specifically provided 

 by statute, such filing of any document, required or authorized to be 

 published under section 305 of this title, shall, except in cases where 

 notice by publication is insufficient in law, be sufficient to give notice 

 of the contents of such document to any person subject thereto or 

 affected thereby. The publication in the Federal Register of any 

 document shall create a rebuttable presumption (a) that it was duly 

 issued, prescribed, or promulgated; (b) that it was duly filed with 

 the Division and made available for public inspection at the day and 

 hour stated in the printed notation; (c) that the coj^y contained in the 

 Federal Register is a true copy of the original; and (d) that all re- 

 quirements of this chapter and the regulations prescribed hereunder 

 relative to such document have been complied with. The contents of 

 the Federal Register shall be judicially noticed and, without prejudice 

 to any other mode of citation, may be cited by volume and page number. 

 (July 26, 1935, ch. 417, § 7, 49 Stat. 502.) 



Publication in Register as notice of hearing 



44 U.S.C. 308 



Whenever notice of hearing or of opportunity to be heard is required 

 or authorized to be given by or under an Act of the CongrCvSS, or may 

 otherwise properly be given, the notice shall be deemed to have been 

 duly given to all persons residing within the continental I"^nited States 

 (not including Alaska), except in cases where notice by publication 

 is insufficient in law, if said notice shall be published in the Federal 

 Registeir at such time that the period bet^^een the publication and the 

 date fixed in such notice for the hearing or for the termination of the 

 opportunity to be heard shall be (a) not less than the time specifically 

 prescribed for the publication of the notice by the appropriate Act of 

 the Congress; or (b) not less than fifteen days when no lime for publi- 

 cation is specifically prescribed by the Act, without prejudice, however, 

 to the efi'ectiveness of any notice of less than fifteen days where such 

 shorter period is reasonable. ( July 26, 1935, ch. 417, § 8, 49 Stat. 502.) 



