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57 FLRA No. 152
U. S. Dept. of Commerce, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Office of Marine and Aviation Operations, Marine Operations Center, Norfolk, Virginia and International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, Local 80, 0-AR-3041 (Decided April 2, 2002)
The Authority denied the Agency's and the Union's motions for reconsideration. The Authority noted that Section 2429.17 of its regulations permits a party who can establish extraordinary circumstances to request reconsideration of an Authority decision. However, attempts to relitigate conclusions reached by the Authority are insufficient to satisfy the extraordinary circumstances requirement.
Here, the Authority found that the parties' argument that the Authority incorrectly interpreted statute, law and regulation were an attempt to relitigate the conclusions reached by the Authority in 57 FLRA 559. The same conclusion applied to the Union's argument that the grievants' request for backpay was timely. The Authority noted that this argument was a request for the Authority to reconsider part of its original 1999 decision in 55 FLRA 816, thereby making the reconsideration request untimely.