---
kind: "section"
citation: "48 C.F.R. § 6101.20"
title: "48"
number: "6101.20"
heading: "Scheduling hearings [Rule 20]."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/48/6101.20"
---

# §6101.20. Scheduling hearings [Rule 20].

- (a) **Generally.** The Board will set the time, place, duration, and subject matter of a hearing in a written order after consulting with the parties.
- (b) **Subject matter.** The Board may schedule for hearing all or some of the claims or issues in a case, or all or some of the claims, issues, or questions of fact or law common to more than one case.
- (c) **Unexcused absence.** If a party fails without good excuse to appear at a hearing of which it received notice under this rule, the Board will deem that party to have elected to submit its case on the record under [Rule 19](/cfr/48/19.md).

## Notes

### Authority

Authority: 41 U.S.C. 7101-7109; 5 U.S.C. 504.

### Source

Source: 83 FR 41010, Aug. 17, 2018, unless otherwise noted.