---
kind: "section"
citation: "25 C.F.R. § 2.600"
title: "25"
number: "2.600"
heading: "May I compel an agency official to take action?"
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/25/2.600"
---

# §2.600. May I compel an agency official to take action?

- (a) **Yes.** If a decision-maker fails to take action on a written request for action that you believe the decision-maker is required to take, you may make the decision-maker's inaction the subject of appeal.
- (b) **Before filing an appeal with the next official in the decision-maker's chain of command, you must—**
  - (1) Send a written request to the decision-maker, asking that he or she take the action originally asked of him or her;
  - (2) Identify the statute, regulation, or other source of law that you believe requires the decision-maker to take the action being requested;
  - (3) Describe the interest adversely affected by the decision-maker's inaction, including a description of the loss, impairment or impediment of such interest caused by the inaction; and
  - (4) State that, unless the decision-maker either takes action on the written request within 15 days of receipt of your request, or establishes a date by which a decision will be made, you will appeal the decision-maker's inaction in accordance with this subpart.
- (c) You must include a copy of your original request to the decision-maker, or other documentation establishing the date and nature of the original request.

## Notes

### Authority

Authority: 43 U.S.C. 1457; 25 U.S.C. 9; 5 U.S.C. 301.

### Source

Source: 88 FR 53779, Aug. 9, 2023, unless otherwise noted.