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kind: "section"
citation: "41 C.F.R. § 60-30.12"
title: "41"
number: "60-30.12"
heading: "Prehearing conferences."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/41/60-30.12"
---

# §60-30.12. 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 limitation;
  - (3) Stipulations, admissions of fact and of contents and authenticity of documents;
  - (4) Limitation of number of witnesses;
  - (5) Scheduling dates for the exchange of witness lists and of proposed exhibits;
  - (6) Such other matters as may tend to expedite the disposition of the proceedings.
- (b) The record shall show the matters disposed of by order and by agreement in such pretrial conferences. The subsequent course of the proceeding shall be controlled by such action.

## Notes

### Authority

Authority: Executive Order 11246, as amended, 30 FR 12319, 32 FR 14303, as amended by E.O. 12086; 29 U.S.C. 793, as amended, and 38 U.S.C. 4212, as amended.

### Source

Source: 43 FR 49259, Oct. 20, 1978, unless otherwise noted.