---
kind: "section"
citation: "10 C.F.R. § 420.35"
title: "10"
number: "420.35"
heading: "Application evaluation."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/10/420.35"
---

# §420.35. Application evaluation.

- (a) DOE staff at the cognizant Regional Office shall perform an initial review of all applications to ensure that the State has provided the information required by this subpart, [10 CFR part 600](/cfr/10/part600.md), and the program guidance/solicitation.
- (b) DOE shall group, and technically evaluate according to program activity, all applications determined to be complete and satisfactory.
- (c) DOE shall select evaluators on the basis of their professional qualifications and expertise relating to the particular program activity being evaluated.
  - (1) DOE anticipates that evaluators will primarily be DOE employees; but
  - (2) If DOE uses non-DOE evaluators, DOE shall require them to comply with all applicable DOE rules or directives concerning the use of outside evaluators.

## Notes

### Amendments

[61 FR 35895, July 8, 1996, as amended at 64 FR 46114, Aug. 24, 1999]

### Authority

Authority: Title III, part B, as amended, of the Energy Policy and Conservation Act (42 U.S.C. 6321 et seq. ); Department of Energy Organization Act (42 U.S.C. 7101 et seq. )

### Source

Source: 61 FR 35895, July 8, 1996, unless otherwise noted.

### Amendments

[61 FR 35895, July 8, 1996, as amended at 64 FR 46114, Aug. 24, 1999]