---
kind: "section"
citation: "5 C.F.R. § 2471.1"
title: "5"
number: "2471.1"
heading: "Request for Panel consideration; request for Panel approval of binding arbitration."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/5/2471.1"
---

# §2471.1. Request for Panel consideration; request for Panel approval of binding arbitration.


If voluntary arrangements, including the services of the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service or any other third-party mediation, fail to resolve a negotiation impasse:

- (a) Either party, or the parties jointly, may request the Panel to consider the matter by filing a request as hereinafter provided; or the Panel may, pursuant to [5 U.S.C. 7119(c)(1)](/usc/5/7119.md?p=c-1), undertake consideration of the matter upon request of (i) the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service, or (ii) the Executive Director; or
- (b) The parties may jointly request the Panel to approve any procedure, which they have agreed to adopt, for binding arbitration of the negotiation impasse by filing a request as hereinafter provided.

## Notes

### Authority

Authority: 5 U.S.C. 7119, 7134.

### Source

Source: 45 FR 3520, Jan. 17, 1980, unless otherwise noted.