[Code of Federal Regulations]

[Title 14, Volume 4]

[Revised as of January 1, 2006]

From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access

[CITE: 14CFR300.10]



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                     TITLE 14--AERONAUTICS AND SPACE

 

   CHAPTER II--OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY, DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION 

                         (AVIATION PROCEEDINGS)

 

PART 300_RULES OF CONDUCT IN DOT PROCEEDINGS UNDER THIS CHAPTER--Table 

of Contents

 

Sec. 300.10  Temporary disqualification of employees from matters in 

which they had official responsibility before joining DOT.



    Any DOT employee shall temporarily disqualify himself or herself 

from participation in any matter before DOT if he or she represented, 

was associated with or was employed by an interested person or entity 

including other agencies of the United States Government before joining 

DOT, and, although he or she did not personally and substantially 

participate in the matter, the matter was within his or her ``official 

responsibility,'' as that term is defined in Sec. 300.14 of this 

chapter except that the action referred to therein shall be private 

action as well as ``Government'' action. Such disqualification shall be 

applicable also if a person closely related to the DOT employee as 

partner, associate, employer, or the like, who, while not personally and 

substantially participating in the matter, had it within his or her 

``official responsibility'' as that term is defined in Sec. 300.14 of 

this chapter, and modified above, and the circumstances are such that 

the DOT employee's subsequent participation in the matter as a DOT 

employee could fairly be said to create the appearance that his or her 

participation would be affected by his or her prior relationship. 

Notwithstanding the foregoing, the disqualification of any DOT employee 

whose prior ``official responsibility'' or relationship to one with such 

responsibility occurred on behalf of another agency of the United States 

Government shall only be applicable with respect to issues on which the 

prior governmental employer took a position in the proceeding. The 

temporary disqualification shall run for a period of one year



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from the date of the termination of the representation, association, or 

employment with the interested person or entity.



[Docket No. 82, 50 FR 2380, Jan. 16, 1985, as amended at 60 FR 43528, 

Aug. 22, 1995]