[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 29, Volume 5]
[Revised as of July 1, 2005]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 29CFR1905.23]

[Page 72]
 
                             TITLE 29--LABOR
 
CHAPTER XVII--OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY AND HEALTH ADMINISTRATION, DEPARTMENT 
                                OF LABOR
 
PART 1905_RULES OF PRACTICE FOR VARIANCES, LIMITATIONS, VARIATIONS, 
 
                           Subpart C_Hearings
 
Sec. 1905.23  Prehearing conferences.

    (a) Convening a conference. Upon his own motion or the motion of a 
party, the hearing examiner may direct the parties or their counsel to 
meet with him for a conference to consider:
    (1) Simplification of the issues;
    (2) Necessity or desirability of amendments to documents for 
purposes of clarification, simplification, or limitation;
    (3) Stipulations, admissions of fact, and of contents and 
authenticity of documents;
    (4) Limitation of the number of parties and of expert witnesses; and
    (5) Such other matters as may tend to expedite the disposition of 
the proceeding, and to assure a just conclusion thereof.
    (b) Record of conference. The hearing examiner shall make an order 
which recites the action taken at the conference, the amendments allowed 
to any documents which have been filed, and the agreements made between 
the parties as to any of the matters considered, and which limits the 
issues for hearing to those not disposed of by admissions or agreements; 
and such order when entered controls the subsequent course of the 
hearing, unless modified at the hearing, to prevent manifest injustice.