[Code of Federal Regulations]

[Title 40, Volume 24]

[Revised as of July 1, 2006]

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

[CITE: 40CFR222.6]



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                   TITLE 40--PROTECTION OF ENVIRONMENT

 

         CHAPTER I--ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY (CONTINUED)

 

PART 222_ACTION ON OCEAN DUMPING PERMIT APPLICATIONS UNDER SECTION 102 

OF THE ACT--Table of Contents

 

Sec.  222.6  Presiding Officer.



    A hearing convened pursuant to this subchapter H shall be conducted 

by a Presiding Officer. The Administrator or Regional Administrator, as 

the case may be, may designate a Presiding Officer. For adjudicatory 

hearings held pursuant to Sec.  222.11, the Presiding Officer shall be 

an EPA employee who has had no prior connection with the permit 

application in question, including without limitation, the performance 

of investigative or prosecuting functions or any other functions, and 

who is not employed in the Enforcement Division or any Regional 

enforcement office.



[42 FR 2471, Jan. 11, 1977; 42 FR 6583, Feb. 3, 1977]