Under its statutory responsibility to encourage federal agencies to carry out ACUS recommendations , the Office of the Chair monitors administrative procedure developments across the federal government and submits public comments in response to proposed rules and other requests for information. These comments inform agency officials and the public of relevant recommendations and other helpful ACUS resources.
All public comments the Office of the Chair has submitted to federal agencies since January 2019 are available below.
AGENCY
AGENCY NOTICE
ACUS COMMENT
OMB Methods and Leading Practices for Advancing Public Participation and Community Engagement With the Federal Government (March 20, 2024)May 15, 2024
SSA
Setting the Manner of Appearance of Parties and Witnesses at Hearings (May 19, 2023)
July 17, 2023
OSTP
National Priorities for Artificial Intelligence (May 26, 2023)
July 7, 2023
OIRA
Opening the Federal Regulatory Process to More Voices (November 7, 2022)
November 17, 2022
USPTO
Changes to the Representation of Others Before the United States Patent and Trademark Office (September 8, 2022)
November 3, 2022
Copyright Office
Copyright Alternative in Small-Claims Enforcement ("CASE") Act Regulations (Mar. 26, 2021)
April 22, 2021
CFPB
Advisory Opinions Proposal (June 22, 2020)
July 1, 2020
EPA
Strengthening Transparency in Regulatory Science (Mar. 18, 2020)
Mar. 31, 2020
GSA
Modernizing Services for Regulation Management (Dec. 31, 2019)
Mar. 24, 2020
OMB
Improving and Reforming Regulatory Enforcement and Adjudication (Jan. 30, 2020)
Mar. 16, 2020
FDIC
Request for Information on a Framework for Analyzing the Effects of FDIC Regulatory Actions (Nov. 29, 2019)
Jan. 21, 2020
FCC
In the Matter of Procedural Streamlining of Administrative Hearings (Oct. 7, 2019)
Nov. 6, 2019
CFTC
Public Rulemaking Procedures (Sep. 20, 2019)
Oct. 9, 2019
DOE
Regulations Prohibiting Issuance, Reliance, or Defense of Improper Agency Guidance (Sep. 26, 2019)
Sep. 30, 2019
EOIR
Professional Conduct for Practitioners, Scope of Representation and Appearances (Mar. 27, 2019)
Apr. 19, 2019
FAA
Update to Investigative and Enforcement Procedures (Feb. 12, 2019)
Mar. 14, 2019