Office of the Chair Comments to Agencies

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

OMBMethods 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