The Department may investigate the validity of any claim to the degree it deems such investigation necessary. The Department shall notify any claimant whose claim it disapproves in whole or in part. Such notice of disapproval shall be deemed "final agency action" for purposes of the Maine Administrative Procedure Act, 5 M.R.S.A. §8001et seq.
01-001 C.M.R. ch. 123, § 4