[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 9, Volume 2]
[Revised as of January 1, 2008]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 9CFR202.108]

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                  TITLE 9--ANIMALS AND ANIMAL PRODUCTS
 
  CHAPTER II--GRAIN INSPECTION, PACKERS AND STOCKYARDS ADMINISTRATION 
      (PACKERS AND STOCKYARDS PROGRAMS), DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
 
PART 202_RULES OF PRACTICE GOVERNING PROCEEDINGS UNDER THE 
PACKERS AND STOCKYARDS ACT--Table of Contents
 
Sec. 202.108  Rule 8: Docketing of proceeding.

    Promptly following receipt of the answer, or the reply (if the 
answer asserts a counterclaim or a setoff), or following the expiration 
of the period of time prescribed above for the filing of the answer or 
of the reply, the agency head shall transmit all of the papers which 
have been filed in the proceeding (including the investigation report if 
any has been served on the parties) to the hearing clerk, who shall 
assign a docket number to the proceeding. Thereafter the proceeding 
shall be referred to by such number. The hearing clerk shall promptly 
transmit all such papers to the Office of the General Counsel for 
assignment of a presiding officer.