Office of Administrative Law Judges

In The Matter Of Concord Trading Corporation, Docket No. TSCA-94-H-19 (EPA Office of Administrative Law Judges July 24, 1997). 

Decisions and orders from the EPA Office of Administrative Law Judges are available at http //www.epa.gov/aljhomep/orders.htm Decisions from the EPA Environmental Appeals Board are available at http //WWW.epa.gov/boarddec/... 

Companies that request a hearing on the EPA s penalty assessments will have the hearing in the EPA Office of Administrative Law. Administrative Law Judges (ALJs) in the Office of Administrative Law are EPA employees. 

The Chief Safety Officer may decide a motor carrier s request for administrative review on the written submissions, hold a hearing personally or refer the request to an administrative law judge for a hearing and recommended decision. The Chief Safety Officer or administrative law judge is authorized to specify, and must notify the parties of, specific procedural rules to be followed in the proceeding (which may include the procedural rules in part 386 of this chapter that are considered appropriate). 

The FDA is directed by the Commissioner of Food and Drugs whose appointment by the DHHS Secretary is subject to confirmation by the United States Senate. The Office of the Commissioner includes eight subsidiary offices. These are Chief Counsel Equal Oppor-timity Administrative Law Judge Senior Associate Commissioner International and Constituent Relations Policy, Planning, and Legislation Management and Systems and Science Coordination and Communication. In addition, the Office of the Commissioner directs the activities of five Centers that... 

If a request for administrative review is referred to an administrative law judge, the recommended decision of the administrative law judge becomes the final decision of the Chief Safety Officer 45 days after service of the recommended decision is served, unless either the motor carrier or the Office of the Chief Counsel submits a petition for review to the Chief Safety Officer (and serves a copy of its petition on the other party) within 15 days after service of the recommended decision. In response to a petition for review of a recommended decision of an administrative law judge ... 

The decision of the Chief Safety Officer (including a recommended decision of an administrative law judge that becomes the decision of the Chief Safety Officer vmder paragraph (c)(5) of this section) constitutes final agency action, and there is no right to further administrative reconsideration or review. 

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