- (a) Information referred to or relied on in support of a petition should be included in full and should not be incorporated by reference. A copy of any article or other source cited in a petition should be submitted with the petition.
(b) Sources of information that are appropriate to use in support of a petition include, but are not limited to:
- (1) professional journal articles,
- (2) research reports,
- (3) official government statistics,
- (4) official government reports,
- (5) industry data, and
- (6) scientific textbooks.
- (c) If an original research report is used to support a petition, the information should be presented in a form that would be acceptable for publication in a peer reviewed scientific or technical journal.
- (d) If quantitative data are used to support a petition, the presentation of the data should include a complete statistical analysis using conventional statistical methods.