---
kind: "section"
citation: "25 C.F.R. § 700.293"
title: "25"
number: "700.293"
heading: "Petitions for amendment: Appeals."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/25/700.293"
---

# §700.293. Petitions for amendment: Appeals.

- (a) **Right of appeal.** Where a petitioned-for amendment has been rejected, in whole or part, the individual submitting the petition may appeal the denial to the Executive Director.
- (b) **Time for appeal.**
  - (1) An appeal must be received no later than twenty (20) days (Saturdays, Sundays and public legal holidays excepted) after the date of the decision on a petition.
  - (2) The Executive Director may, for good cause shown, extend the time for submission of an appeal if a written request for additional time is received within twenty (20) days (Saturdays, Sundays and public legal holidays excepted) of the date of the decision on a petition.
- (c) **Form of appeal.**
  - (1) An appeal shall be in writing and shall attach copies of the initial petition and the decision on that petition.
  - (2) The appeal shall contain a brief statement of the reasons why the appellant believes the decision on the petition to have been in error.
  - (3) The appeal shall be addressed to Privacy Act Officer, Navajo and Hopi Indian Relocation Commission, Box KK, Flagstaff, Arizona 86002.

## Notes

### Authority

Authority: Pub. L. 99-590; Pub. L. 93-531, 88 Stat. 1712 as amended by Pub. L. 96-305, 94 Stat. 929, Pub. L. 100-666, 102 Stat. 3929 (25 U.S.C. 640d).

### Source

Source: 47 FR 2092, Jan. 14, 1982, unless otherwise noted.