Source: https://www.law.cornell.edu/cfr/text/45/262.4
Timestamp: 2019-04-19 09:10:44+00:00

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Section 262.4. What happens if we determine that a State is subject to a penalty?
45 CFR § 262.4 - What happens if we determine that a State is subject to a penalty?
§ 262.4 What happens if we determine that a State is subject to a penalty?
(4) Explain how and when the State may submit a reasonable cause justification under § 262.5 and/or corrective compliance plan under § 262.6.
(3) Provides a corrective compliance plan, pursuant to § 262.6.
(c) If we find that we determined the penalty erroneously, or that the State has adequately demonstrated that it had reasonable cause for failing to meet one or more requirements, we will not impose the penalty.
(d) Reasonable cause and corrective compliance plans are not available for failing to repay a Federal loan; meet the basic MOE requirement; meet the Contingency Fund MOE requirement; expend additional State funds to replace adjusted SFAG reductions due to the imposition of one or more penalties listed in § 262.1; or maintain 80 percent, or 75 percent, as appropriate, basic MOE during a year in which the State receives a Welfare-to-Work grant.
(1) If we request additional information from a State that we need to determine reasonable cause, the State must ordinarily provide such information within 30 days.
(2) Under unusual circumstances, we may give the State an extension of the time to respond to our request.
(i) We will notify the State in writing of our findings with respect to reasonable cause generally within 60 days of the date when we receive its response to our penalty notice (in accordance with paragraph (b) of this section).
(ii) If the finding is negative and the State has not yet submitted a corrective compliance plan, it may do so in response to this notice in accordance with § 262.6.
(2) We will notify the State of our decision regarding its corrective compliance plan in accordance with the provisions of § 262.6(g).
(g) We will impose a penalty in accord with the provisions in § 262.1(c) after we make our final decision and the appellate process is completed, if applicable. If there is an appellate decision upholding the penalty, we will take the penalty and charge interest back to the date that we formally notified the Governor of the adverse action pursuant to § 262.7(a)(1).

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