12 Pa. Code § 145.111 - Informal appeals
(a) A
person aggrieved by a decision of the Department or of a third-party agency or
of a local enforcement agency taken in connection with the administration of
the act or this chapter may initiate an informal appeal to the Department by
sending a letter or other writing to the Department which will serve as an
informal complaint. The Department will give a serial number to the informal
complaint for identification purposes. No specified form of informal complaint
is required, but the letter or other writing should identify the persons
involved, summarize the decision subject to the informal appeal, state the
grounds of disagreement with the decision, and be signed by the appealing
person or, if a corporation, by an officer of the appealing person. Only one
copy of the informal complaint need be filed. It may include supporting papers
that the appealing person may consider useful.
(b) If the informal complaint appears to the
Department to be susceptible of informal adjustment, a copy of the informal
complaint will be sent by the Department within 7 days after receipt to each
person identified in the informal complaint as being involved. The Department
will attempt to have the question resolved by correspondence, telephone or
other informal communication. If the informal complaint appears to the
Department not to be susceptible of informal adjustment, the Department will
within 7 days following receipt of the informal complaint ask the appealing
person whether it desires to have its informal complaint treated as a formal
complaint, initiating formal appeal proceedings under §
145.112 (relating to procedures
for formal appeal proceedings).
(c)
A proceeding instituted as an informal appeal is without prejudice to the right
of the aggrieved person to file and prosecute a formal appeal, in which event
the proceeding on the informal appeal will be discontinued.
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