CFR > Title 43 - Public Lands: Interior > SUBTITLE A—Office of the Secretary of the Interior > PART 4—DEPARTMENT HEARINGS AND APPEALS PROCEDURES > SUBPART C—Special Rules of Practice Before the Interior Board of Contract Appeals (§4.100 to §4.128) > 4.111—Prehearing or presubmission conference.

4.111—Prehearing or presubmission conference.

Whether the case is to be submitted without a hearing, or heard pursuant to §§ 4.118 through 4.123, the Board may upon its own initiative or upon the application of either party, call upon the parties to appear before a member or hearing officer of the Board for a conference to consider:
(a) The simplification or clarification of the issues;
(b) The possibility of obtaining stipulations, admissions, agreements on documents, understandings on matters already of record, or similar agreements which will avoid unnecessary proof;
(c) The limitation of the number of expert witnesses, or avoidance of similar cumulative evidence, if the case is to be heard;
(d) The possibility of agreement disposing of all or any of the issues in dispute; and
(e) Such other matters as may aid in the disposition of the appeal.
Any conference results that are not reflected in a transcript shall be reduced to writing by the Board member or the hearing officer. This writing shall thereafter constitute part of the record.