Alaska Administrative Code
Title 2 - Administration
Chapter 64 - Administrative Hearings
Article 2 - Hearing Procedures
2 AAC 64.210 - Fast-track hearings

(a) If an administrative hearing is subject to a statutory or regulatory deadline for the issuance of a decision, and that deadline is shorter than the deadline set in AS 44.64.060, the hearing will be given scheduling priority as a fast-track hearing.

(b) An administrative law judge assigned to hear a fast-track hearing may use reasonable means consistent with due process of law to meet the statutory or regulatory deadline, including combined prehearing and hearing procedures, negotiated stipulations, accelerated briefing and discovery schedules, oral motions, and expedited alternative dispute resolution efforts.

(c) If at the time set for hearing or prehearing conference, the parties agree and the administrative law judge determines that the case is appropriate for alternative dispute resolution efforts, the assigned administrative law judge may oversee or conduct those efforts. If alternative dispute resolution efforts fail, and the administrative law judge determines that circumstances require a different person to hear the case, the administrative law judge will inform the chief administrative law judge and the chief will reassign the case.