TITLE 14 - AERONAUTICS AND SPACE

CHAPTER II - OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY, DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION (AVIATION PROCEEDINGS)

SUBCHAPTER B - PROCEDURAL REGULATIONS

PART 302 - RULES OF PRACTICE IN PROCEEDINGS

subpart g - RULES APPLICABLE TO MAIL RATE PROCEEDINGS AND MAIL CONTRACTS

302.707 - Procedure for fixing temporary mail rates.

At any time during the pendency of a proceeding for the determination of final mail rates, the DOT decisionmaker, upon his or her own initiative, or on petition by the air carrier whose rates are in issue or by the U.S. Postal Service, may fix temporary rates of compensation for the transportation of mail subject to downward or upward adjustment upon the determination of final mail rates.