---
kind: "section"
citation: "7 C.F.R. § 780.10"
title: "7"
number: "780.10"
heading: "State committee appeals."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/7/780.10"
---

# §780.10. State committee appeals.

- (a) A request for appeal to the State committee from a decision of a county committee must be submitted by a participant or by a participant's authorized representative in writing and addressed to the State Executive Director.
- (b) A participant's right to appeal a decision to a State committee is waived if a participant has appealed the adverse decision to NAD before requesting an appeal to the State Committee.
- (c) If a participant requests mediation or requests an appeal to NAD before a request for an appeal to the State Committee has been acted upon, the appeal to the State Committee will be deemed withdrawn. The deemed withdrawal of a participant's appeal to the State Committee will not preclude a subsequent request for a State Committee hearing on appealable matters not resolved in mediation.
- (d) **The Federal Rules of Evidence do not apply in appeals to a State committee.** Notwithstanding, a State committee may confine presentations of evidence to material facts and exclude evidence or questions as irrelevant, unduly repetitious, or otherwise inappropriate.
- (e) The official record of a State committee decision on an appeal will be the decision letter that is issued following disposition of the appeal.
- (f) Deliberations shall be in confidence except to the extent that a State committee may request the assistance of FSA employees during deliberations.

## Notes

### Amendments

[70 FR 43266, July 27, 2005, as amended at 71 FR 30573, May 30, 2006]

### Authority

Authority: 5 U.S.C. 301 and 574; 7 U.S.C. 6995; 15 U.S.C. 714b and 714c; 16 U.S.C. 590h.

### Source

Source: 70 FR 43266, July 27, 2005, unless otherwise noted.

### Amendments

[70 FR 43266, July 27, 2005, as amended at 71 FR 30573, May 30, 2006]