[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 14, Volume 4]
[Revised as of January 1, 2003]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 14CFR302.207]

[Page 302]
 
                     TITLE 14--AERONAUTICS AND SPACE
 
   CHAPTER II--OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY, DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION 
                         (AVIATION PROCEEDINGS)
 
PART 302--RULES OF PRACTICE IN PROCEEDINGS--Table of Contents
 
Subpart B--Rules Applicable to U.S. Air Carrier Certificate and Foreign 
                Air Carrier Permit Licensing Proceedings
 
Sec. 302.207  Cases to be decided on written submissions.

    (a) Applications under this subpart will be decided on the basis of 
written submissions unless the DOT decisionmaker, on petition as 
provided in Sec. 302.208 or on his or her own initiative, determines 
that an oral presentation or an administrative law judge's decision is 
required because:
    (1) Use of written procedures will prejudice a party;
    (2) Material issues of decisional fact cannot adequately be resolved 
without oral evidentiary hearing procedures; or
    (3) Assignment of an application for oral evidentiary hearing 
procedures or an initial or recommended decision by an administrative 
law judge is otherwise required by the public interest.
    (b) The standards employed in deciding cases under 
Sec. 302.210(a)(1) or (5) shall be the same as the standards applied in 
cases decided under Sec. 302.210(a)(4). These are the standards set 
forth in the Statute as interpreted and expanded upon under that 
Statute.