RE: Process Information-Rulemaking
- Archived: Wed, 18 Jul 2001 17:35:00 -0400 (EDT)
- Date: Wed, 18 Jul 2001 17:33:14 -0400 (EDT)
- From: patricia bonner <bonner.patricia@epa.gov>
- Subject: RE: Process Information-Rulemaking
- X-topic: Permits and Rules
>From EPA's website http://www.epa.gov/epahome/lawintro.htm
I think this people want to understand a lot more than this.
pat
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3. Creating a Regulation
First, an authorized agency--such as EPA--decides that a regulation may be needed. The agency researches it and, if necessary, proposes a regulation. The proposal is listed in the Federal Register so that members of the public can consider it and send their comments to the agency. The agency considers all the comments, revises the regulation accordingly, and issues a final rule. At each stage in the process, the agency publishes a notice in the Federal Register. These notices include the original proposal, requests for public comment, notices about meetings where the proposal will be discussed (open to the public), and the text of the final regulation.
Twice a year, each agency publishes a comprehensive report that describes all the regulations it is working on or has recently finished. These are published in the Federal Register, usually in April and October, as the Unified Agenda of Federal and Regulatory and Deregulatory Actions (see briefinf book for link). Once a regulation is completed and has been printed in the Federal Register as a final rule, it is "codified" by being published in the Code of Federal Regulations (CFR). The CFR is the official record of all regulations created by the federal government. It is divided into 50 volumes, called titles, each of which focuses on a particular area. Almost all environmental regulations appear in Title 40. The CFR is revised yearly, with one fourth of the volumes updated every three months. Title 40 is revised every July 1.
The full text of CFR Title 40: Protection of Environment is retrievable by chapters, subchapters, and parts in portable document format (pdf).
A searchable database containing the complete Code of Federal Regulations is available from the Government Printing Office.
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