{"data":{"id":"us/43-cfr-4.1042","jurisdiction":"us","citation":"43 CFR 4.1042","heading":"Who may testify?","body":"(a) Except as provided in paragraph (b) of this section, each party may present as witnesses the following persons only:\n(1) Persons who qualify as expert witnesses; and\n(2) OFA staff who participated in the preparation of the negative proposed finding, except that if the OFA employee is a senior Department employee, any party other than OFA must first obtain a subpoena for that employee under § 4.1035.\n(b) The ALJ may authorize testimony from witnesses in addition to those identified in paragraph (a) of this section only under extraordinary circumstances.","path":["Title 43—Public Lands: Interior","Subtitle A—Office of the Secretary of the Interior","PART 4—DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR HEARINGS AND APPEALS PROCEDURES","Subpart K—Specific Rules Applicable to Hearings Concerning the Acknowledgment of American Indian Tribes"],"source_url":"https://www.ecfr.gov/api/versioner/v1/full/2026-08-25/title-43.xml","current_through":"2026-08-25","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-08-27T02:26:15Z","sha256":"0700588b5f4ee17c03f5ce3fd3c98727050933a61773293b33d2aa52a0d1e412","source_id":"us-cfr","stale":true,"prev":"us/43-cfr-4.1041","next":"us/43-cfr-4.1043"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}