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§ 1403. Mediation
(a) Availability of mediation
(1) Notification regarding mediation
(A) Covered employee
(B) Employing office
(2) Initiation
(A) In general
(B) Timing
(3) Failure to request or accept mediation to have no effect on treatment of claim
(b) Process
Mediation under this section—
(1) may include the Office, the covered employee, the employing office, and one or more individuals appointed by the Executive Director from the master list developed and maintained under subsection (e), and
(2) shall involve meetings with the parties during which, at the request of any of the parties, the parties shall be separated, for the purpose of resolving the dispute between the covered employee and the employing office.
(c) Mediation period
(d) Independence of mediation process
(e) Master list of mediators
(1) Development and maintenance of master list
(2) Consideration of candidates
(Pub. L. 104–1, title IV, § 404, formerly § 403, Jan. 23, 1995, 109 Stat. 32; Pub. L. 114–6, § 2(a), Mar. 20, 2015, 129 Stat. 81; renumbered § 404 and amended Pub. L. 115–397, title I, §§ 101(c)(2), 104, Dec. 21, 2018, 132 Stat. 5301, 5305.)