[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 15, Volume 3]
[Revised as of January 1, 2003]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 15CFR904.200]

[Page 43]
 
                  TITLE 15--COMMERCE AND FOREIGN TRADE
 
CHAPTER IX--NATIONAL OCEANIC AND ATMOSPHERIC ADMINISTRATION, DEPARTMENT 
                               OF COMMERCE
 
PART 904--CIVIL PROCEDURES--Table of Contents
 
                Subpart C--Hearing and Appeal Procedures
 
Sec. 904.200  Scope and applicability.

                                 General


    (a) This subpart sets forth the procedures governing the conduct of 
hearings and the issuance of initial and final decisions of NOAA in 
administrative proceedings involving alleged violations of the laws 
cited in Sec. 904.1(c) and regulations implementing these laws, 
including civil penalty assessments and permit sanctions and denials. By 
separate regulation, these rules may be applied to other proceedings.
    (b) Subject to the administrative direction of the Chief 
Administrative Law Judge, each Administrative Law Judge (Judge) assigned 
by the Chief Administrative Law Judge is delegated authority to make the 
initial or final decision of the Agency (whichever is made appropriate 
by regulation outside this subpart) in proceedings subject to the 
provisions of this subpart, and to take actions to promote the efficient 
and fair conduct of hearings as set out in this subpart. The Judge has 
no authority to rule on challenges to the validity of regulations 
promulgated by the Agency.
    (c) This subpart is not an independent basis for claiming the right 
to a hearing, but instead prescribes procedures for the conduct of 
hearings, the right to which is provided by other authority.