---
kind: "section"
citation: "43 C.F.R. § 4.807"
title: "43"
number: "4.807"
heading: "Authority and responsibilities."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/43/4.807"
---

# §4.807. Authority and responsibilities.


The administrative law judge shall have all powers necessary to preside over the parties and the proceedings, conduct the hearing, and make decisions in accordance with [5 U.S.C. 554 through 557](/usc/5/554..557.md). The administrative law judge's powers shall include, but not be limited to, the power to:

- (a) Hold conferences to settle, simplify, or fix the issues in a proceeding, or to consider other matters that may aid in the expeditious disposition of the proceeding.
- (b) **Require parties to state their position with respect to the various issues in the proceedings.**
- (c) **Establish rules for media coverage of the proceedings.**
- (d) **Rule on motions and other procedural items in matters before them.**
- (e) Regulate the course of the hearing, the conduct of counsel, parties, witnesses, and other participants.
- (f) Administer oaths, call witnesses on the administrative law judge's own motion, examine witnesses, and direct witnesses to testify.
- (g) **Receive, rule on, exclude, or limit evidence.**
- (h) **Fix time limits for submission of written documents in matters before the administrative law judge.**
- (i) Take any action authorized by these regulations, by [5 U.S.C. 556](/usc/5/556.md), or by other pertinent law.

## Notes

### Amendments

[38 FR 21162, Aug. 6, 1973, as amended at 90 FR 2426, Jan. 10, 2025]

### Authority

Authority: 43 CFR 17.8 and 5 U.S.C. 301.

### Source

Source: 38 FR 21162, Aug. 6, 1973, unless otherwise noted.

### Authority

Authority: 5 U.S.C. 301, 503-504; 25 U.S.C. 9, 372-74, 410, 2201 et seq.; 43 U.S.C. 1201, 1457; Pub. L. 99-264, 100 Stat. 61, as amended.

### Source

Source: 36 FR 7186, Apr. 15, 1971, unless otherwise noted.

### Amendments

[38 FR 21162, Aug. 6, 1973, as amended at 90 FR 2426, Jan. 10, 2025]