Opinion ID: 399111
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Heading Rank: 2

Heading: new certificates

Text: 38 Our prior opinion also considered the New Certificates Statement, a policy statement entitled Acceptable Forms of Requests for Operating Authority, Ex Parte No. 55 (Sub-No. 43A), 45 Fed.Reg. 86,798 (effective Dec. 31, 1980). The following mandate applies to every proceeding pending on the effective date of this opinion and to every proceeding commenced hereafter. 39 1. In order that persons affected by the ICC's rules and the general public may be properly informed, the Commission is required to announce that those parts of the policy statement not declared invalid are rules and to publish them as such. Our prior opinion held that the New Certificates Statement is more appropriately to be considered a rule and ... the validity of its prescriptions must be evaluated on this basis. 659 F.2d at 472 (footnote omitted). 40 Those parts of the policy statement mentioned below have been declared invalid as exceeding the authority granted to the Commission by the Motor Carrier Act. The provisions replacing them in compliance with this mandate shall be incorporated into the rules by procedures complying with the APA. 41 2. The ICC shall permit applicants to apply for any reasonably broad commodity authority and it shall require a showing that the applicant is fit, willing, and able to carry the commodities for which authority is sought. As we have stated: 42 The Commission may not ... require all applicants regardless of circumstances to fit Procrustean (commodity) descriptions, and it may not assume that an applicant fit, willing, and able to carry one commodity in an STCC classification, is fit, willing, and able to carry all commodities in that classification. 43 659 F.2d at 472. 44 3. Bulk service authority shall not be extended to carriers who cannot demonstrate that they are 'fit, willing, and able to provide the transportation to be authorized by the certificate.'  659 F.2d at 473. 45 4. (A)uthority to transport household goods must be excepted from general commodities authority unless the applicant demonstrates fitness, willingness and ability to render that service. 659 F.2d at 473. 46 5. Authority for service to Alaska and Hawaii shall not be granted based only on a need for service in the other forty-eight states, see 45 Fed.Reg. at 86,803. 659 F.2d at 474. As we stated in our original opinion, the Commission may, upon remand, however, consider authorizing those forty-eight state carriers who are found to be fit, willing, and able to provide services to Alaska and Hawaii, to render that service upon a representative showing of need. Id. 8 47 We reserve judgment on whether the claim made by the household goods intervenors that the ICC has improperly held that they are not proper parties to protest the grant of contract carrier household goods authority is properly before us. We note, however, that intervention in agency proceedings and standing to challenge agency actions in judicial review proceedings are not governed by the same standards. 1 K. Davis, Administrative Law Treatise § 8.11, at 564 (1958). 9 48 The Clerk shall issue a writ of mandamus in accordance with this opinion. The Clerk is directed to read this opinion by telephone to each of the parties upon receipt, and then immediately to mail each party a copy of it by express or other expedited mail. Except for those parts of the order requiring publication of notice of new rules or rescission of a portion of a guideline or policy statement, e.g., paragraph II.A.1 and the last sentence of paragraph II.B.1, the mandamus order shall become effective at the start of business on the tenth calendar day following the day the order is read to the parties or, if that day is a legal holiday, at the start of the first business day thereafter. The ICC shall, in full compliance with the APA, publish the notices of new rules and notices of rescission of the guidelines and portions of the policy statement excepted from this time limit as soon as practicable thereafter.