Completed projects

Recommendation 2021-1, Managing Mass, Computer-Generated, and Falsely Attributed Comments – offers agencies best practices for managing mass, computer-generated, and falsely attributed comments in agency rulemakings.

Recommendation 2017-4 – Marketable Permits provides best practices for structuring, administering, and overseeing marketable permitting programs for any agency that has decided to implement such a program. 

Recommendation 2012-2 – Midnight Rules addresses several issues raised by the publication of rules in the final months of a presidential administration and offers proposals for limiting the practice by incumbent administrations and enhancing the powers of incoming administrations to review midnight rules.  

The Model Adjudication Rules are designed for use by federal agencies to amend or develop their procedural rules for all stages of administrative adjudication. Numerous agencies have relied on the Model Rules to improve existing adjudicative schemes, and new agencies, like the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, have relied on them to design their procedures.

Recommendation 2017-2 – Negotiated Rulemaking and Other Options for Public Engagement offers best practices to agencies for choosing among several possible methods—among them negotiated rulemaking—for engaging the public in agency rulemakings. It also offers best practices to agencies that choose negotiated rulemaking on how to structure their processes to enhance the probability of success.

Recommendation 2023-4, Online Processes in Agency Adjudication – identifies best practices for developing online processes by which private parties, representatives, and other participants in agency adjudications can file forms, evidence, and briefs; view case materials and status information; receive notices and orders; and perform other common adjudicative tasks.

Recommendation 2012-4 – Paperwork Reduction Act addresses a variety of issues that have arisen since the Act was last revised in 1995, including those arising from the emergence of new technologies. The recommendation offers suggestions for improving public engagement in the review of information collection requests and for making the process more efficient for federal agencies and OMB. 

Recommendation 2018-1 – Paperwork Reduction Act Efficiencies encourages collaboration between the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs and federal agencies to maximize opportunities for making the information collection clearance process under the Paperwork Reduction Act more efficient, while still maintaining its integrity. The recommendation encourages using generic clearances and common forms more

Recommendation 2021-2, Periodic Retrospective Review – offers practical suggestions to agencies about how to establish periodic retrospective review plans.

Recommendation 2014-6 – Petitions for Rulemaking identifies agency procedures and best practices for accepting, processing, and responding to petitions for rulemaking. It seeks to ensure that the public's right to petition is a meaningful one, while still respecting the need for agencies to retain decisional autonomy.