[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 7, Volume 7, Parts 700 to 899]
[Revised as of January 1, 2001]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 7CFR780.8]

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                          TITLE 7--AGRICULTURE
 
                            CHAPTER VII--FARM
                SERVICE AGENCY, DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
 
PART 780--APPEAL REGULATIONS--Table of Contents
 
Sec. 780.8  Time limitations for filing requests for reconsideration or appeal.

    (a) A request for reconsideration or an appeal of a decision shall 
be filed within 30 days after written notice of the decision which is 
the subject of the request is mailed or otherwise made available to the 
participant. A request for reconsideration or appeal shall be considered 
to have been ``filed'' when personally delivered in writing to the 
appropriate reviewing authority or when the properly addressed request, 
postage paid, is postmarked. A decision shall become final and non-
reviewable unless reconsideration is timely sought or the decision is 
timely appealed.
    (b) A request for reconsideration or appeal may be accepted and 
acted upon even though it is not filed within the time prescribed in 
paragraph (a) of this section if, in the judgment of the reviewing 
authority with whom such request is filed, the circumstances warrant 
such action.