{"data":{"id":"us/10-cfr-2.333","jurisdiction":"us","citation":"10 CFR 2.333","heading":"Authority of the presiding officer to regulate procedure in a hearing.","body":"To prevent unnecessary delays or an unnecessarily large record, the presiding officer:\n(a) May limit the number of witnesses whose testimony may be cumulative;\n(b) May strike argumentative, repetitious, cumulative, unreliable, immaterial, or irrelevant evidence;\n(c) Shall require each party or participant who requests permission to conduct cross-examination to file a cross-examination plan for each witness or panel of witnesses the party or participant proposes to cross-examine;\n(d) Must ensure that each party or participant permitted to conduct cross-examination conducts its cross-examination in conformance with the party's or participant's cross-examination plan filed with the presiding officer;\n(e) May take necessary and proper measures to prevent argumentative, repetitious, or cumulative cross-examination; and\n(f) May impose such time limitations on arguments as the presiding officer determines appropriate, having regard for the volume of the evidence and the importance and complexity of the issues involved.","path":["Title 10—Energy","CHAPTER I—NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION","PART 2—AGENCY RULES OF PRACTICE AND PROCEDURE","Subpart C—Rules of General Applicability: Hearing Requests, Petitions To Intervene, Availability of Documents, Selection of Specific Hearing Procedures, Presiding Officer Powers, and General Hearing Management for NRC Adjudicatory Hearings"],"source_url":"https://www.ecfr.gov/api/versioner/v1/full/2026-08-25/title-10.xml","current_through":"2026-08-25","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-08-27T02:24:09Z","sha256":"0b9b17384237e349eb35b5b920d1fdf21f3215c2985dc2312d54ba398958da1c","source_id":"us-cfr","stale":true,"prev":"us/10-cfr-2.332","next":"us/10-cfr-2.334"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}