[Code of Federal Regulations]

[Title 14, Volume 4]

[Revised as of January 1, 2006]

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[CITE: 14CFR302.9]



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                     TITLE 14--AERONAUTICS AND SPACE

 

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

                         (AVIATION PROCEEDINGS)

 

PART 302_RULES OF PRACTICE IN PROCEEDINGS--Table of Contents

 

                Subpart A_Rules of General Applicability

 

Sec. 302.9  Continuances and extensions of time.



    (a) Whenever a party has the right or obligation to take action 

within a period prescribed by this part, by a notice given thereunder, 

or by an order or regulation, the DOT decisionmaker or the 

administrative law judge assigned to the proceeding, as appropriate, 

may:

    (1) Before the expiration of the prescribed period, with or without 

notice, extend such period, or

    (2) Upon motion, permit the act to be done after the expiration of 

the specified period, where good cause for the failure to act on time is 

clearly shown.

    (b) Except where an administrative law judge has been assigned to a 

proceeding, requests for continuance or extensions of time, as described 

in paragraph (a) of this section, shall be directed to the DOT 

decisionmaker. Requests for continuances and extensions of time may be 

directed to the Chief Administrative Law Judge in the absence of the 

administrative law judge assigned to the proceeding.