---
kind: "section"
citation: "20 C.F.R. § 702.345"
title: "20"
number: "702.345"
heading: "Formal hearings; consolidated issues; consolidated cases."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/20/702.345"
---

# §702.345. Formal hearings; consolidated issues; consolidated cases.

- (a) When one or more additional issues are raised by the administrative law judge pursuant to [§ 702.336](/cfr/20/702.336.md), such issues may, in the discretion of the administrative law judge, be consolidated for hearing and decision with other issues pending before him.
- (b) When two or more cases are transferred for formal hearings and have common questions of law or which arose out of a common accident, the Chief Administrative Law Judge may consolidate such cases for hearing.

## Notes

### Authority

Authority: 5 U.S.C. 301, and 8171 et seq.; 33 U.S.C. 901 et seq.; 42 U.S.C. 1651 et seq.; 43 U.S.C. 1333; 28 U.S.C. 2461 note (Federal Civil Penalties Inflation Adjustment Act of 1990); Pub. L. 114-74 at sec. 701; Reorganization Plan No. 6 of 1950, 15 FR 3174, 64 Stat. 1263; Secretary's Order 10-2009, 74 FR 58834.

### Source

Source: 38 FR 26861, Sept. 26, 1973, unless otherwise noted.