[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 43, Volume 1]
[Revised as of October 1, 2002]
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[CITE: 43CFR4.2]

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                    TITLE 43--PUBLIC LANDS: INTERIOR
 
PART 4--DEPARTMENT HEARINGS AND APPEALS PROCEDURES--Table of Contents
 
           Subpart A--General; Office of Hearings and Appeals
 
Sec. 4.2  Membership of appeals boards; decisions, functions of Chief Judges.

    (a) The Appeals Boards consist of regular members, who are hereby 
designated Administrative Judges, one of whom is designated as Chief 
Administrative Judge, the Director as an ex officio member, and 
alternate members who may serve, when necessary, in place of or in 
addition to regular members. The Chief Administrative Judge of an 
Appeals Board may direct that an appeal may be decided by a panel of any 
two Administrative Judges of the Board, but if they are unable to agree 
upon a decision, the Chief Administrative Judge may assign one or more 
additional Administrative Judges of the Board to consider the appeal. 
The concurrence of a majority of the Board Administrative Judges who 
consider an appeal shall be sufficient for a decision.
    (b) Decisions of the Board must be in writing and signed by not less 
than a majority of the Administrative Judges who considered the appeal. 
The Director, being an ex officio member, may participate in the 
consideration of any appeal and sign the resulting decision.
    (c) The Chief Administrative Judge of an Appeals Board shall be 
responsible for the internal management and administration of the Board, 
and the Chief Administrative Judge is authorized to act on behalf of the 
Board in conducting correspondence and in carrying out such other duties 
as may be necessary in the conduct of routine business of the Board.

[39 FR 7931, Mar. 1, 1974]