5 CFR 1201.118 : Administrative Personnel (§ 1.1 To Parts 10003-10049) — (§ 1200.1 To Parts 10003-10049) — Merit Systems Protection Board (§ 1200.1 To Parts 1217-1299) — Organization And Procedures (§ 1200.1 To Parts 1217-1299) — Practices And Procedures (§ 1201.1 To Appendix Iv To Part 1201) — Petitions For Review Of Initial Decisions (§ 1201.114 To § 1201.120) — Board reopening of final decisions.

Regardless of any other provision of this part, the Board may at any time reopen any appeal in which it has issued a final order or in which an initial decision has become the Board's final decision by operation of law. The Board will exercise its discretion to reopen an appeal only in unusual or extraordinary circumstances and generally within a short period of time after the decision becomes final.