concerned, taking into consideration any request therefor of the contractor.

(d) For the purpose of this section, the amount involved in an appeal shall be the difference between the amount of the contractor's claim as stated in his complaint and the amount, if any, determined by the decision from which the appeal is taken.

(e) If the Board member assigned to the case under this section determines that the amount involved exceeds or may exceed $5,000, the parties shall be so informed, and the appeal shall be disposed of in accordance with §§ 7-60.6 through 7-60.25, inclusive. The determination so made shall be final and conclusive.

(a) When depositions may be taken. After an appeal has been docketed by the Board either party may take the testimony of any person by deposition upon oral examination or written interrogatories for use as evidence in the appeal proceedings.

(b) Before whom taken. Depositions to be offered in evidence before the Board may be taken before and authenticated by any person authorized by the laws of the United States, or by the laws of the place where the deposition is taken, to administer oaths.

(c) Written interrogatories. (1) A party desiring to take the deposition of any person upon written interrogatories shall serve them upon the opposite party with a notice stating the name and address of the person who is to answer them and the name or descriptive title and address of the person before whom the deposition is to be taken. Within 20 days thereafter the party so served may serve cross interrogatories upon the party proposing to take the deposition.

(2) A copy of the notice and copies of all interrogatories served shall be delivered by the party taking the deposition to the person designated in the notice who should proceed promptly to take the testimony of the witness in response to the interrogatories.

(d) Oral interrogatories. When either party desires to take the testimony of any person by deposition upon oral examination, unless the parties stipulate as to the time and place where the deposition is to be taken and the name of the person before whom it is to be taken and the name and address of the witness, such party shall give the opposite party at least 30 days' written notice of the time and place where such deposition will be taken and the name and address and official title of the person before whom it is proposed to take the deposition, and the name and address of the witness.

(e) Form and return of deposition. Each deposition shall show the docket number and the caption of the proceedings, the place and date of taking, the name of the witness, and the names of all persons present. The person taking the deposition shall certify on the deposition that the witness was duly sworn by him and that the deposition is a true record of the testimony given by the witness, and shall enclose the original deposition and exhibits in a sealed packet with postage and other transportation prepaid and forward same to the Executive Secretary, International Cooperation Administration Board of Contract Appeals.

(f) Introduction in evidence. Either party to the appeal may offer depositions in evidence. The entire deposition must be offered unless otherwise stipulated by the parties or directed by the Board.

§ 9-1.101 Scope of subpart.

This subpart describes the Atomic Energy Commission Procurement Regulations in terms of establishment, authority, applicability, issuance, arrangement, implementation and supplementation of FPR, exclusions, deviations, and other AEC Procurement Instructions. § 9-1.102 Establishment of AEC Procurement Regulations.

(a) The AEC Procurement Regulations (AECPR) are hereby established.

(b) These regulations implement and supplement the Federal Procurement Regulations (FPR) and are a part of the Federal Procurement Regulations System.

(c) The effective date of FPR issuances throughout AEC will be the date indicated in the respective issuances, unless otherwise provided in the AEC Procurement Regulations.

(d) The effective date of AECPR issuances throughout AEC will be the date indicated in the respective issuances. § 9-1.103

Authority.

The AEC Procurement Regulations are prescribed by the General Manager of the AEC, pursuant to the authority of the Atomic Energy Act of 1954, and the Federal Property and Administrative Services Act of 1949.

§ 9-1.104 Applicability.

(a) The AEC Procurement Regulations and the Federal Procurement Regulations, which together form that part of the Federal Procurement Regulations System which governs AEC procurement, apply to all procurement of personal property and nonpersonal services (including construction).

(b) The FPR and AECPR shall be made available to the cost-type contractors that construct and operate AEC plants and laboratories as illustrative of the policies, practices and procedures used by the AEC, for their consideration in the development or revision of their own written procurement practices and procedures. Cost-type contractors are governed by (1) applicable contract provisions and (2) procurement policies, practices and procedures established by the contractor and approved by AEC. The FPR and AECPR will be employed by AEC in its review and approval of cost-type contractor procurement policies, practices and procedures.

The AEC Procurement Regulations appear in the Code of Federal Regulations as Chapter 9 of Title 41, Public Contracts, and are published in the daily issues of the FEDERAL REGISTER, in cumulated form in the Code of Federal Regulations, and in separate loose-leaf volume form.

§ 9-1.105-2 Copies.

Copies of the AEC Procurement Regulations in the FEDERAL REGISTER and the Code of Federal Regulations form may be purchased by Federal Agencies and the public, at nominal cost from the Superintendent of Documents, Government Printing Office, Washington 25, D.C.

§ 9-1.106 Arrangement.

The AEC Procurement Regulations employ the same numbering system and nomenclature used in the Federal Procurement Regulations and conform with FEDERAL REGISTER Standards approved for the FPR.

§ 9-1.106-2 Numbering.

(a) The numbering system permits identification of every unit. The first digit, followed by a dash, represents the chapter number (AEC has been assigned Chapter 9). The dash is followed by the part number which may be one or more digits followed by a decimal point. The numbers after the decimal point represent, respectively, the subpart, section (in two digits) and, after a second dash, subsection, paragraph, subsparagraph, and additional subdivisions. For example, this division is called "§ 9-1.106-2," in which the first digit denotes the chapter, the second the part, the third the subpart, the fourth and fifth the section, and the sixth the subsection.

(b) Where the AECPR implements a part, subpart, section, or subsection of the FPR, the implementing part, subpart, section, or subsection of the AECPR will be numbered (and captioned) to correspond to the FPR part, subpart, section, or subsection.

(c) Where the AECPR supplements the FPR, the numbers 50 and up will be assigned to the parts, subparts, or sections involved.

(d) Where the subject matter contained in a part, subpart, section, or

AEC Procurement Regulations will be cited in accordance with Federal Register standards approved for the FPR. Thus, this section, when referred to in divisions of the AEC Procurement Regulations, should be cited as "§ 9-1.106-3 of this chapter." When this section is referred to formally in official documents, such as legal briefs, it should be cited as "41 CFR 9-1.106-3." Any section of the AEC Procurement Regulations may be informally identified, for purposes of brevity, as AECPR followed by the section number, i.e., "AECPR 9-1.106-3."

§ 9-1.107 Implementation and supplementation of FPR.

The AEC Procurement Regulations "implement" and "supplement" the FPR. The meaning of these terms includes the following:

(a) Implementation may have either of the following meanings:

(1) A part, subpart, section, etc., which treats a similarly numbered portion of the FPR in greater detail or indicates the manner of compliance, including any deviations.

(2) The absence of a corresponding part, subpart, section, etc., in the AECPR indicates that the FPR is applicable as written. Policies and procedures in the FPR are not repeated in the AECPR.

(b) Supplementation means AECPR coverage of matters which have no counterpart in the FPR.