---
kind: "section"
citation: "10 C.F.R. § 1708.103"
title: "10"
number: "1708.103"
heading: "Request to conduct safety investigations."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/10/1708.103"
---

# §1708.103. Request to conduct safety investigations.

- (a) Any person may request that the Board perform a preliminary safety inquiry or conduct a formal safety investigation concerning a matter within the Board's jurisdiction.
- (b) Actions the Board may take regarding safety investigation requests are discretionary.
- (c) The Board will offer to protect the identity of a person requesting a safety investigation to the maximum extent permitted by law.
- (d) Board safety investigations are wholly administrative and investigatory in nature and do not involve a determination of criminal culpability, adjudication of rights and duties, or other quasi-judicial determinations.

## Notes

### Authority

Authority: 42 U.S.C. 2286b(c); 42 U.S.C. 2286a(b)(2); 44 U.S.C. 3101-3107, 3301-3303a, 3308-3314.

### Source

Source: 79 FR 71010, Dec. 1, 2014, unless otherwise noted.