(a) All documents shall be filed with the administrative hearings clerk at the following address: Administrative Hearings Clerk, General Land Office, 1700 North Congress Avenue, 9th Floor, Austin, Texas 78701-1496.     
      (b) The administrative hearings clerk shall deliver a copy of all documents submitted under this section to the assigned agency hearings attorney at the following address: Legal Services Division: Environment Law Section, General Land Office, 1700 North Congress Avenue, 9th Floor, Austin, Texas 78701-1496.     
      (c) Except as provided in subsection (d) of this section, all documents relating to an administrative hearing before the agency shall be deemed filed only when actually received and accepted by the administrative hearings clerk.     
      (d) A document required to be filed under this chapter which is properly addressed to the administrative hearings clerk, which is properly stamped, and which is postmarked at least one day prior to the last day for filing the document, shall be deemed to have been filed timely if it is received not more than 10 days after the filing deadline.     
      (e) Where the time period for filing any responsive documents (replies to exceptions, replies to motions, etc.) is initiated by the filing of another document, the initiating document shall be deemed filed when it is actually received and accepted for filing by the administrative hearings clerk, if filed on or after the filing deadline. Documents filed before the filing deadline shall be deemed filed on the day of the filing deadline.     
     Source Note:        The provisions of this §17.3 adopted to be effective April 22, 1992, 17 TexReg 2472; amended to be effective August 4, 2005, 30 TexReg 4334