[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 7, Volume 1]
[Revised as of January 1, 2005]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 7CFR1.17]

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                          TITLE 7--AGRICULTURE
 
PART 1_ADMINISTRATIVE REGULATIONS--Table of Contents
 
                       Subpart A_Official Records
 
Sec. 1.17  Failure to meet administrative deadlines.

    In the event an agency fails to meet the administrative deadlines 
set forth in Sec. Sec. 1.7 or 1.14, plus any extension authorized by 
Sec. 1.16, it shall notify the requester, state the reasons for the 
delay, and the date by which it expects to dispatch a determination. 
Although the requester may be deemed to have

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exhausted his or her administrative remedies under 5 U.S.C. 
552(a)(6)(C), the agency shall continue processing the request as 
expeditiously as possible and dispatch the determination when it is 
reached in the same manner and form as if it had been reached within the 
applicable deadline.

[65 FR 46341, July 28, 2000]