---
kind: "section"
citation: "43 C.F.R. § 30.223"
title: "43"
number: "30.223"
heading: "What is a prehearing conference?"
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/43/30.223"
---

# §30.223. What is a prehearing conference?


Before a hearing, the judge may order the parties to appear for a conference to:

- (a) Simplify or clarify the issues;
- (b) Obtain stipulations, admissions, agreements on documents, understandings on matters already of record, or similar agreements that will avoid unnecessary proof;
- (c) Limit the number of expert or other witnesses to avoid excessively cumulative evidence;
- (d) Facilitate agreements disposing of all or any of the issues in dispute; or
- (e) Resolve such other matters as may simplify and shorten the hearing.

## Notes

### Authority

Authority: 5 U.S.C. 301, 503; 25 U.S.C. 9, 372-74, 410, 2201 et seq.; 43 U.S.C. 1201, 1457.

### Source

Source: 73 FR 67289, Nov. 13, 2008, unless otherwise noted.