---
kind: "section"
citation: "29 C.F.R. § 458.73"
title: "29"
number: "458.73"
heading: "Prehearing conferences."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/29/458.73"
---

# §458.73. Prehearing conferences.

- (a) Upon his own motion or the motion of the parties, the Administrative Law Judge may direct the parties or their counsel to meet with him for a conference to consider:
  - (1) Simplification of the issues;
  - (2) Necessity or desirability of amendments to pleadings for purposes of clarification, simplification, or limitations;
  - (3) Stipulations, admissions of fact, and contents and authenticity of documents;
  - (4) Limitation of the number of expert witnesses; and
  - (5) Such other matters as may tend to expedite the disposition of the proceeding.
- (b) The record shall show the matters disposed of by order and by agreement in such prehearing conferences. The subsequent course of the proceeding shall be controlled by such action.

## Notes

### Amendments

[45 FR 15158, Mar. 7, 1980. Redesignated and amended at 50 FR 31311, 31313, Aug. 1, 1985]

### Authority

Authority: 5 U.S.C. 7105, 7111, 7120, 7134; 22 U.S.C. 4107, 4111, 4117; 2 U.S.C. 1351(a)(1); Secretary's Order No. 03-2012, 77 FR 69376, November 16, 2012; Secretary's Order No. 01-2020, 85 FR 13186 (March 6, 2020).

### Source

Source: 45 FR 15158, Mar. 7, 1980, unless otherwise noted. Redesignated at 50 FR 31311, Aug. 1, 1985.

### Amendments

[45 FR 15158, Mar. 7, 1980. Redesignated and amended at 50 FR 31311, 31313, Aug. 1, 1985]