§ 500.705 - Time and opportunity to request a hearing.

(a) Deadline for hearing request. Within 30 calendar days of the date of mailing or other service of the prepenalty notice pursuant to § 500.702(c), the respondent may file a written request for an agency hearing conducted pursuant to this section, to present the respondent's defenses to the imposition of a penalty and/or forfeiture and to offer any other information for inclusion, if found admissible pursuant to § 500.715(a), into the agency record prior to a final determination concerning the imposition of a penalty and/or forfeiture.

(b) Content of written response. If an agency hearing is requested by the respondent or by the respondent's counsel, the written hearing request must be accompanied by a written response to the prepenalty notice containing the information required by § 500.703(b)(1)(i) through (iii). An untimely hearing request or written response to the prepenalty notice constitutes a waiver of a hearing.

(c) Signature of filings. All hearing requests, motions, responses, interrogatories, requests for deposition transcripts, requests for protective orders, and all other filings relating to requests for and responses to discovery or pertaining to the hearing process, must be signed by each requesting party or, if represented, by each party's counsel.

(d) Computation of time—(1) Final date on weekend or holiday. Whenever the final date for any requirement of this part falls on a Saturday, Sunday, Federal holiday, or other day on which the Office of Foreign Assets Control is not open for the transaction of business during normal working hours, the time for filing will be extended to the close of business on the next working day.

(2) Closing time. The time for filing any document expires at 5:00 p.m. local Washington, DC time on the last day when such filing may be made.