I wholeheartedly agree with Cheryl's assessment. It is the responsibility of the SC to make sure CCs are abiding by the rules. It also should be the prerogative of the SC to grant deadline extensions as individual situations warrant. Vivian Price Saffold State Coordinator The GAGenWeb Project At 05:08 PM 10/10/2009, you wrote: >A workable option might be to give the SCs almost unlimited >discretion in this. They know their CCs and generally know if they are >getting a run around or there are valid reasons.