[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: 14CFR302.9]

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                     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 A--Rules of General Applicability
 
Sec. 302.9  Continuances and extensions of time.

    (a) Whenever a party has the right or obligation to take action 
within a period prescribed by this part, by a notice given thereunder, 
or by an order or regulation, the DOT decisionmaker or the 
administrative law judge assigned to the proceeding, as appropriate, 
may:
    (1) Before the expiration of the prescribed period, with or without 
notice, extend such period, or
    (2) Upon motion, permit the act to be done after the expiration of 
the specified period, where good cause for the failure to act on time is 
clearly shown.
    (b) Except where an administrative law judge has been assigned to a 
proceeding, requests for continuance or extensions of time, as described 
in paragraph (a) of this section, shall be directed to the DOT 
decisionmaker. Requests for continuances and extensions of time may be 
directed to the Chief Administrative Law Judge in the absence of the 
administrative law judge assigned to the proceeding.