[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 20, Volume 2]
[Revised as of April 1, 2004]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 20CFR498.206]

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                      TITLE 20--EMPLOYEES' BENEFITS
 
               CHAPTER III--SOCIAL SECURITY ADMINISTRATION
 
PART 498_CIVIL MONETARY PENALTIES, ASSESSMENTS AND RECOMMENDED EXCLUSIONS
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Sec. 498.206  Prehearing conferences.

    (a) The ALJ will schedule at least one prehearing conference, and 
may schedule additional prehearing conferences as appropriate, upon 
reasonable notice to the parties.
    (b) The ALJ may use prehearing conferences to address the following:
    (1) Simplification of the issues;
    (2) The necessity or desirability of amendments to the pleadings, 
including the need for a more definite statement;
    (3) Stipulations and admissions of fact as to the contents and 
authenticity of documents and deadlines for challenges, if any, to the 
authenticity of documents;
    (4) Whether the parties can agree to submission of the case on a 
stipulated record;
    (5) Whether a party chooses to waive appearance at a hearing and to 
submit only documentary evidence (subject to the objection of other 
parties) and written argument;
    (6) Limitation of the number of witnesses;
    (7) The time and place for the hearing and dates for the exchange of 
witness lists and of proposed exhibits;
    (8) Discovery of documents as permitted by this part;
    (9) Such other matters as may tend to encourage the fair, just, and 
expeditious disposition of the proceedings; and
    (10) Potential settlement of the case.
    (c) The ALJ shall issue an order containing the matters agreed upon 
by the parties or ordered by the ALJ at a prehearing conference.

[61 FR 65469, Dec. 13, 1996]