[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 29, Volume 9]
[Revised as of July 1, 2004]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 29CFR1981.107]

[Page 224]
 
                             TITLE 29--LABOR
 
CHAPTER XVII--OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY AND HEALTH ADMINISTRATION, DEPARTMENT 
                          OF LABOR (CONTINUED)
 
PART 1981_PROCEDURES FOR THE HANDLING OF DISCRIMINATION COMPLAINTS UNDER 
SECTION 6 OF THE PIPELINE SAFETY IMPROVEMENT ACT OF 2002--Table of Contents
 
                          Subpart B_Litigation
 
Sec. 1981.107  Hearings.

    (a) Except as provided in this part, proceedings will be conducted 
in accordance with the rules of practice and procedure for 
administrative hearings before the Office of Administrative Law Judges, 
codified at subpart A, part 18 of title 29 of the Code of Federal 
Regulations.
    (b) Upon receipt of an objection and request for hearing, the Chief 
Administrative Law Judge will promptly assign the case to a judge who 
will notify the parties, by certified mail, of the day, time, and place 
of hearing. The hearing is to commence expeditiously, except upon a 
showing of good cause or unless otherwise agreed to by the parties. 
Hearings will be conducted de novo, on the record. Administrative law 
judges have broad discretion to limit discovery in order to expedite the 
hearing.
    (c) If both the complainant and the named person object to the 
findings and/or order, the objections will be consolidated and a single 
hearing will be conducted.
    (d) Formal rules of evidence will not apply, but rules or principles 
designed to assure production of the most probative evidence will be 
applied. The administrative law judge may exclude evidence that is 
immaterial, irrelevant, or unduly repetitious.