Opinion ID: 2602150
Heading Depth: 4
Heading Rank: 3

Heading: All reasonably possible efforts to participate

Text: The hearing officer found that Cleaver did not make all reasonably possible efforts to participate because he did not seek a loan for the estimated $4,000 of modifications, equipment, and repairs he needed to enable him to safely longline for sablefish. Although Cleaver now presents evidence that he did ask one bank for a loan, he testified to the contrary at the hearing: Hearing Officer: I take it then, you didn't try to get the $4,000 loan from anybody in order to getget the gear in shape to make the [indisc.]. Mr. Cleaver: I was right up to my neck in loans. I couldn'tcouldn't even think about it. Even if Cleaver did make an attempt to get a loan, that single effort is not inconsistent with the hearing officer's finding. Substantial evidence supports the hearing officer's finding that Cleaver did not make all reasonably possible efforts to participate in 1983. We uphold the commission's decision because the factual findings were supported by substantial evidence, the commission's interpretation of the term extraordinary circumstances was reasonable, and its application of that interpretation was not arbitrary.