[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 29, Volume 9]
[Revised as of July 1, 2001]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 29CFR2700.1]

[Page 630]
 
                             TITLE 29--LABOR
 
     CHAPTER XXVII--FEDERAL MINE SAFETY AND HEALTH REVIEW COMMISSION
 
PART 2700--PROCEDURAL RULES--Table of Contents
 
                      Subpart A--General Provisions
 
Sec. 2700.1  Scope; applicability of other rules; construction.


    (a) Scope. This part sets forth rules applicable to proceedings 
before the Federal Mine Safety and Health Review Commission and its 
Administrative Law Judges.
    (b) Applicability of other rules. On any procedural question not 
regulated by the Federal Mine Safety and Health Act of 1977, 30 U.S.C. 
801 et seq. (``the Act''), these Procedural Rules, or the Administrative 
Procedure Act (particularly 5 U.S.C. 554 and 556), the Commission and 
its Judges shall be guided so far as practicable by the Federal Rules of 
Civil Procedure and the Federal Rules of Appellate Procedure.
    (c) Construction. These rules shall be construed to secure the just, 
speedy and inexpensive determination of all proceedings, and to 
encourage the participation of miners and their representatives. 
Wherever the masculine gender is used in these rules, the feminine 
gender is also implied.