11.   A public comment period ends tomorrow, and the five-member commission must now decide whether to proceed.

12.   A U.S. comment period on the proposed sanctions expires on Friday.

13.   After a comment period, it will become a Justice Department regulation.

14.   After a public comment period on the proposal, SEC staff will decide what changes to recommend in the plan before the commissioners make their final vote.

15.   After the comment period ends in mid-January, the agency will make its final decision on where American smokers can light up.

16.   After the Clinton administration approved the cleanup plan in December, it entered a public comment period that extended through the early months of the Bush administration.

17.   After the comment period ends, the agency will render a final decision.

18.   After receiving more than one million letters, postcards, and other responses since October, the service will end its public comment period Thursday on the directive.

19.   Brooke, the parent of cigarette maker Liggett Group Inc., waited until today -- the last day of the public comment period -- to file its comment.

20.   But the Interior Department decided to extend the public comment period to get more information.