Rules of Procedure Governing Cases Before the Office of Hearings and Appeals

Résumé

In response to President Clinton's government-wide regulatory reform initiative, the Small Business Administration (SBA) has completed a page-by-page, line-by-line review of all of its existing regulations to determine which might be revised or eliminated. The regulations proposed here would reorganize all but one of the regulations pertaining to procedures before the Office of Hearings and Appeals (``OHA'') and consolidate them in one part. In addition, the proposed regulations would clarify, simplify, and significantly shorten the existing regulations governing OHA. Finally, a number of substantive changes are proposed.