---
kind: "section"
citation: "20 C.F.R. § 725.402"
title: "20"
number: "725.402"
heading: "Approved State workers' compensation law."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/20/725.402"
---

# §725.402. Approved State workers' compensation law.


If a district director determines that any claim filed under this part is one subject to adjudication under a workers' compensation law approved under [part 722](/cfr/20/part722.md) of this subchapter, he or she shall advise the claimant of this determination and of the Act's requirement that the claim must be filed under the applicable State workers' compensation law. The district director shall then prepare a proposed decision and order dismissing the claim for lack of jurisdiction pursuant to [§ 725.418](/cfr/20/725.418.md) and proceed as appropriate.


## Notes

### Authority

Authority: 5 U.S.C. 301; 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; 30 U.S.C. 901 et seq., 902(f), 921, 932, 936; 33 U.S.C. 901 et seq.; 42 U.S.C. 405; Secretary's Order 10-2009, 74 FR 58834.

### Source

Source: 65 FR 80054, Dec. 20, 2000, unless otherwise noted.