---
kind: "section"
citation: "14 C.F.R. § 302.207"
title: "14"
number: "302.207"
heading: "Cases to be decided on written submissions."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/14/302.207"
---

# §302.207. Cases to be decided on written submissions.

- (a) Applications under this subpart will be decided on the basis of written submissions unless the DOT decisionmaker, on petition as provided in [§ 302.208](/cfr/14/302.208.md) or on his or her own initiative, determines that an oral presentation or an administrative law judge's decision is required because:
  - (1) Use of written procedures will prejudice a party;
  - (2) Material issues of decisional fact cannot adequately be resolved without oral evidentiary hearing procedures; or
  - (3) Assignment of an application for oral evidentiary hearing procedures or an initial or recommended decision by an administrative law judge is otherwise required by the public interest.
- (b) The standards employed in deciding cases under § [302.210(a)(1)](/cfr/14/302.210.md?p=a-1) or [(5)](/cfr/14/302.210.md?p=a-5) shall be the same as the standards applied in cases decided under [§ 302.210(a)(4)](/cfr/14/302.210.md?p=a-4). These are the standards set forth in the Statute as interpreted and expanded upon under that Statute.

## Notes

### Authority

Authority: 39 U.S.C. 5402; 42 U.S.C. 4321, 49 U.S.C. Subtitle I and Chapters 401, 411, 413, 415, 417, 419, 461, 463, and 471.

### Source

Source: Docket No. OST-97-2090, 65 FR 6457, Feb. 9, 2000, unless otherwise noted.