---
kind: "section"
citation: "32 C.F.R. § 200.2006"
title: "32"
number: "200.2006"
heading: "Prehearing conferences."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/32/200.2006"
---

# §200.2006. Prehearing conferences.

- (a) The ALJ will schedule at least one prehearing conference, and may schedule additional prehearing conferences as appropriate, upon reasonable notice to the parties.
- (b) The ALJ may use prehearing conferences to discuss the following—
  - (1) Simplification of the issues;
  - (2) The necessity or desirability of amendments to the pleadings, including the need for a more definite statement;
  - (3) Stipulations and admissions of fact or as to the contents and authenticity of documents;
  - (4) Whether the parties can agree to submission of the case on a stipulated record;
  - (5) Whether a party chooses to waive appearance at an oral hearing and to submit only documentary evidence (subject to the objection of other parties) and written argument;
  - (6) Limitation of the number of witnesses;
  - (7) Scheduling dates for the exchange of witness lists and of proposed exhibits;
  - (8) Discovery of documents as permitted by this part;
  - (9) The time and place for the hearing;
  - (10) Such other matters as may tend to encourage the fair, just and expeditious disposition of the proceedings; and
  - (11) **Potential settlement of the case.**
- (c) The ALJ will issue an order containing the matters agreed upon by the parties or ordered by the ALJ at a prehearing conference.

## Notes

### Authority

Authority: 5 U.S.C. 301; 10 U.S.C. chapter 55; 42 U.S.C. 1320a-7a.

### Source

Source: 85 FR 60705, Sept. 28, 2020, unless otherwise noted.