The time regulatory agencies take to make decisions is widely criticized. Rate cases—that is, cases in which an agency must consider whether to approve a proposed schedule of charges for particular services—aptly illustrate the need to explore ways of making sound decisions more quickly. Because rate cases differ in kind and complexity, as well as in their immediate and...
Rulemaking (Recommendations)
Tag cloud
Hide tags
50th Anniversary
Adjudication
Administrative Dispute Resolution Act
Administrative Law Judges (ALJs)
Administrative Procedure Act (APA)
Administrative Review
Adverse Publicity
Advisory Committees
Agency Organization
Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR)
Appeals
Arbitration
Assistance Programs
Asylum
Attorneys
Bank Regulation
Benefits
Case Management
Cease and Desist Orders
CERCLA
Choice of Forum
Civil Money Penalties
Clean Air Act (CAA)
Code of Federal Regulations (CFR)
Collaboration
Compensation
Compliance Standards
Confidentiality
Conflict of Interest
Congress
Consumers
Contract Disputes
Contracting Officers
Cost Benefit Analysis
Customs Service
Debt Collection
Delegation
Direct Final Rulemaking
Disability
Disclosure
Discount Rate
Discovery
Discretion
Dispute Resolution
Disputes
Disqualification
Divestiture
E-Rulemaking
Electronic Records Management
Energy
Enforcement
Entitlements
Environment
Environmental Law
Equal Access to Justice Act (EAJA)
Equal Employment Opportunity
Ethics
Ex Parte Communications
Executive Branch Appointees
Executive Oversight
Executive Review
Export Administration Act
Export Controls
Fair Housing Act
Farm Credit Program
Federal Acquisition Regulation
Federal Advisory Committee Act (FACA)
Federal Digital System (FDsys)
Federal Employees
Federal Facilities
Federal Rules of Civil Procedure
Federal Rules of Evidence
Federal Water Pollution Control Act (Clean Water Act)
Federalism
Financial Disclosure
Foreign Affairs
Formal Adjudication
Formal Rulemaking
Formula Grant Programs
Forum
Freedom of Information Act (FOIA)
Generic Proceedings
Government Contractor Employees
Government Contracts
Government in the Sunshine Act
Government Sponsored Enterprises
Grant Disputes
Grant Programs
Hazardous Waste
Health and Safety Regulation
Health Care
Hearing Officers
Hearings
Hybrid Rulemaking
Immigration
Incorporation by Reference
Indemnification
Indexing
Information Collections
Interagency Coordination
Interagency Working Group
Interim Final Rulemaking
Interlocutory Appeals
Intermediate Appellate Boards
Internal Revenue Code
International Regulatory Cooperation
International Trade
Interpretive Rules
Judicial Forum
Judicial Review
Jurisdiction
Labor
Legal Education
Legislative Rulemaking
Legislative Veto
Liability
Licensing
Magnuson-Moss
Mediation
Medicaid
Medicare
Midnight Rules
Military
Monetary Claims
National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA)
Negotiated Rulemaking
Neutrals
News
Ombudsman
Paperwork Reduction Act
Performance Management
Pesticides
Petitions for Rulemaking
Policy Statements
Preemption
Presidential Appointees
Presidential Oversight of Rulemaking
Presidential Review
Presidential Transition Act
Prisoners
Privilege
Procedural and Practice Rule Exemption
Procurement
Product Recalls
Prompt Corrective Action
Protective Orders
Public Information
Public Lands
Public Participation
Publication
Publicity
Quality Assurance
Ratemaking
Recalls
Receivership
Recommendations
Records Management
Recusal
Regulation
Regulatory Analysis
Regulatory Negotiation
Renegotiation Act
Representation
Representative Payees
Retirement
Review of Discretionary Decisions
Risk Assessment
Risk Communication
Rulemaking
Savings and Loan
Science
Separation of Functions
Settlements
Social Security
Sovereign Immunity
Statement
Statistics
Statutory Interpretation
Statutory Time Limits
Subpoena (Subpena)
Sunshine Act
Superfund
Supplemental Security Income (SSI)
Suspension
Taxation
Technical Standards
Technology
Trial-type Procedures
TTIP
Venue
Veterans
Video Hearings
Visas
Voluntary Consensus Standards
Worker Health and Safety
- Recommendation number: 78-1
- Adopted on: June 9, 1978
- Tags: Ratemaking, Rulemaking
- Recommendation number: 92-2
- Adopted on: June 18, 1992
- Tags: Administrative Procedure Act (APA), Rulemaking
This recommendation addresses use of agency policy statements. Policy statements fall within the category of agency actions that are “rules” within the Administrative Procedure Act’s definition because they constitute “the whole or a part of an agency statement of general or particular applicability and future effect designed to implement, interpret...
- Committees: Rulemaking
- Tags: E-Rulemaking, Legislative Rulemaking, Rulemaking
- Recommendation number: 93-4
- Adopted on: December 9, 1993
- Tags: Administrative Procedure Act (APA), Congress, Judicial Review, Rulemaking
Informed observers generally agree that the rulemaking process has become both increasingly less effective and more time-consuming. The Administrative Procedure Act does not reflect many of the current realities of rulemaking. The APA’s cumbersome “formal rulemaking” procedures are rarely used except in some adjudicative-type rate proceedings....
- Committees: Rulemaking
- Tags: E-Rulemaking, Legislative Rulemaking, 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 has come to be called “notice-and-comment rulemaking,” and comments...
- Committees: Rulemaking
- Tags: E-Rulemaking, Legislative Rulemaking, Rulemaking
This redline shows the changes to the Draft Social Media Recommendation that were made by the Committee on Rulemaking at its November 6, 2013 public meeting.
- Recommendation number: 85-5
- Adopted on: December 13, 1985
- Tags: Dispute Resolution, Mediation, Negotiated Rulemaking, Public Participation, Regulatory Negotiation, Rulemaking
Negotiations among persons representing diverse interests have proven to be effective in some cases in developing proposals for agency rules. In 1982, the Administrative Conference of the United States adopted Recommendation 82-4, 1 CFR § 305.82-4, encouraging the use of negotiated rulemaking by federal agencies in appropriate situations....
- Committees: Rulemaking
- Tags: Direct Final Rulemaking, E-Rulemaking, Legislative Rulemaking, Rulemaking
This is the Proposed Social Media Recommendation produced by the Committee on Rulemaking for consideration at the 59th Plenary Session.
- Recommendation number: 83-2
- Adopted on: June 10, 1983
- Tags: Administrative Procedure Act (APA), Congress, Rulemaking
The Administrative Procedure Act (APA) provides for public participation in agency rulemaking. The Act’s minimum requirements for informal rulemaking are notice and an opportunity to comment on proposed rules. The advantages of public participation in agency rulemaking are widely recognized: the agency benefits because interested persons are...