[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 49, Volume 6]
[Revised as of October 1, 2003]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 49CFR821.56]

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                        TITLE 49--TRANSPORTATION
 
                              SAFETY BOARD
 
PART 821--RULES OF PRACTICE IN AIR SAFETY PROCEEDINGS--Table of Contents
 
 Subpart I--Special Rules Applicable to Proceedings Involving Emergency 
                 and Other Immediately Effective Orders
 
Sec. 821.56  Hearing and initial decision or appealable order of law judge.

    (a) Notice of hearing. Within 3 days after the date on which the 
Board receives the Administrator's complaint, or immediately upon the 
issuance of a law judge's order disposing of a petition for review of 
the Administrator's emergency determination, if later, the parties shall 
be served with a written notice of hearing, setting forth the date, time 
and place of the hearing. The hearing shall be set for a date no later 
than 30 days after the date on which the respondent's appeal was 
received and docketed. To the extent that they are not inconsistent with 
this section, the provisions of Sec. 821.37(a) shall also apply.
    (b) Conduct of hearing. The provisions of Sec.Sec. 821.38, 821.39 
and 821.40, concerning the taking of evidence, argument and submissions 
by the parties, and the composition of the hearing record, shall apply 
to proceedings governed by this subpart.
    (c) Initial decision and effect of initial decision or appealable 
order. The law judge's initial decision shall be made orally on the 
record at the termination of the hearing. The provisions of Sec. 821.42, 
concerning the content of the initial decision, the furnishing of copies 
of the initial decision to the parties and the issuance date of the 
initial decision, and the provisions of Sec. 821.43,

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concerning the effect of the law judge's initial decision or appealable 
order and any appeal therefrom, shall apply to proceedings governed by 
this subpart.