[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 14, Volume 1]
[Revised as of January 1, 2007]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 14CFR14.20]

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                     TITLE 14--AERONAUTICS AND SPACE
 
CHAPTER I--FEDERAL AVIATION ADMINISTRATION, DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
 
PART 14_RULES IMPLEMENTING THE EQUAL ACCESS TO JUSTICE ACT OF 1980--
Table of Contents
 
            Subpart C_Procedures for Considering Applications
 
Sec.  14.20  When an application may be filed.


    (a) An application may be filed whenever the applicant has prevailed 
in the proceeding, but in no case later than 30 days after the FAA 
Decisionmaker's final disposition of the proceeding, or service of the 
order of the Administrator in a proceeding under the AMS.
    (b) If review or reconsideration is sought or taken of a decision to 
which an applicant believes it has prevailed,

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proceedings for the award of fees shall be stayed pending final 
disposition of the underlying controversy.
    (c) For purposes of this part, final disposition means the later of:
    (1) Under part 17 of this chapter and the AMS, the date on which the 
order of the Administrator is served;
    (2) The date on which an unappealed initial decision becomes 
administratively final;
    (3) Issuance of an order disposing of any petitions for 
reconsideration of the FAA Decisionmaker's final order in the 
proceeding;
    (4) If no petition for reconsideration is filed, the last date on 
which such a petition could have been filed; or
    (5) Issuance of a final order or any other final resolution of a 
proceeding, such as a settlement or voluntary dismissal, which is not 
subject to a petition for reconsideration.

[54 FR 46199, Nov. 1, 1989, as amended by Amdt. 14-03, 64 FR 32936, June 
18, 1999]