# Longshore and Harbor Workers' Compensation Act: Electronic Filing, Settlement, and Civil Money Penalty Procedures
> **Office of Workers' Compensation Programs** · Direct final rule; request for comments. · Published 2020-12-14 · Effective 2021-03-15 · 85 FR 80601
## Document
- **Document number:** 2020-23223
- **Category:** workers-comp
- **Sub-agency:** Office of Workers' Compensation Programs
- **Federal Register citation:** 85 FR 80601
- **CFR reference:** 20 CFR 702
- **Publication date:** 2020-12-14
- **Effective date:** 2021-03-15
## Abstract

The Office of Workers' Compensation Programs (OWCP) administers the Longshore and Harbor Workers' Compensation Act and its extensions. To improve program administration, OWCP is amending its existing regulations to require parties to file documents electronically, unless otherwise provided by statute or allowed by OWCP, and to streamline the settlement process. Additionally, to promote accountability and ensure fairness, OWCP is promulgating new rules for imposing and reviewing civil money penalties prescribed by the Longshore Act. The new rules set forth the procedures to contest OWCP's penalty determinations.

## Source
- [Federal Register document](https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2020/12/14/2020-23223/longshore-and-harbor-workers-compensation-act-electronic-filing-settlement-and-civil-money-penalty)
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