Agencies are increasingly turning to e-Rulemaking to conduct and improve regulatory proceedings. “E-Rulemaking” has been defined as “the use of digital technologies in the development and implementation of regulations”1 before or during the informal...
E-Rulemaking (Recommendations)
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- Recommendation number: 2011-1
- Adopted on: June 16, 2011
- Committees: Rulemaking
- Tags: E-Rulemaking
- Recommendation number: 2011-2
- Adopted on: June 16, 2011
- Committees: Rulemaking
- Tags: E-Rulemaking, Rulemaking
One of the primary innovations associated with the Administrative Procedure Act (“APA”) was its implementation of a comment period in which agencies solicit the views of interested members of the public on proposed rules.1 The procedure created by the APA...
- Recommendation number: 95-3
- Adopted on: January 15, 1995
- Committees: Regulation
- Tags: E-Rulemaking
Federal agencies generally have systems in place to develop new regulations. Once those regulations have been promulgated, the agency’s attention usually shifts to its next unaddressed issue. There is increasing recognition, however, of the need to review regulations already adopted to ensure that they remain current, effective and appropriate....
- Recommendation number: 95-4
- Adopted on: January 15, 1995
- Committees: Regulation
- Tags: Congress, E-Rulemaking, Rulemaking
Direct Final Rulemaking
Direct final rulemaking is a technique for expediting the issuance of noncontroversial rules. It involves agency publication of a rule in the Federal Register with a statement that, unless an adverse comment is received on the rule within a specified time period, the...
- Recommendation number: 2011-8
- Adopted on: December 9, 2011
- Tags: E-Rulemaking
The rulemaking function of federal regulatory agencies is typically accomplished today through “e-rulemaking”: that is, through “‘the use of digital technologies in the development and implementation of regulations,’ before or during the...
- Recommendation number: 76-5
- Adopted on: December 10, 1976
- Tags: E-Rulemaking, Interpretive Rules, Rulemaking
Agencies often explain their view of the meaning of statutes or rules by issuing interpretive rules of general applicability, and agencies indicate how they will exercise discretion by announcing statements of general policy. The Administrative Procedure Act requires that these interpretive rules and policy statements be published in the Federal Register. But the Act does...
- Recommendation number: 2011-2
- Committees: Regulation
- Tags: Administrative Procedure Act (APA), E-Rulemaking, Electronic Records Management, Judicial Review, Public Participation, Records Management, Rulemaking
- Recommendation number: 2011-2
- Committees: Regulation
- Tags: Administrative Procedure Act (APA), E-Rulemaking, Electronic Records Management, Judicial Review, Public Participation, Records Management, Rulemaking
- Recommendation number: 2011-1
- Committees: Rulemaking
- Tags: Administrative Procedure Act (APA), E-Rulemaking, Electronic Records Management, Judicial Review, Records Management, Rulemaking