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<regulation prefix="Regulation" num=".38" citation="COMAR 26.01.02.38" title_num="26" subtitle_num="01" chapter_num="02" heading="Reconsideration.">
  <paragraph num="A.">
    <text>Requests for Reconsideration.</text>
    <paragraph num="(1)">
      <text>Within 14 days from the date the final decision maker serves a decision on a party, a party, including the Department, may request reconsideration of the decision.</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(2)">
      <text>The application shall state the grounds for reconsideration.</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(3)">
      <text>The final decision maker shall grant or deny the request within 10 calendar days of its submission or the request shall be deemed denied.</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(4)">
      <text>In the discretion of the final decision maker, enforcement of an order may be stayed until disposition of a request for reconsideration.</text>
    </paragraph>
  </paragraph>
  <paragraph num="B.">
    <text>The scope of any proceeding involving a request for reconsideration is within the discretion of the final decision maker, who may consider facts not presented in the original proceeding and facts arising after the time of the original proceeding, if the final decision maker is satisfied by a showing in advance of the proceeding that:</text>
    <paragraph num="(1)">
      <text>The evidence is material; and</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(2)">
      <text>There were good reasons for the failure to offer the evidence at the evidentiary hearing.</text>
    </paragraph>
  </paragraph>
  <paragraph num="C.">
    <text>By a new order the final decision maker may change the original order.</text>
  </paragraph>
  <paragraph num="D.">
    <text>A request for reconsideration is not a prerequisite to judicial review.</text>
  </paragraph>
</regulation>