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Custom On-Site Training

Understanding the Regulatory Process
1/2-day program
(Our public course)

This program is designed for staff who must understand the intricacies of the regulatory process.

  • Learn strategies and tactics to influence or check the exercise of regulatory power.

  • Get a usable framework for the regulatory process and a better understanding of the rulemaking process from beginning to end.

  • Understand what rulemaking powers administrative agencies have

  • Find out what happens inside the agency at each stage of the process

  • Review elements of proposed and final rulemaking notices and public hearings

 

  Custom Training Information

Sample Agenda

Introduction 

  • Agencies of the Executive Branch may take a variety of administrative actions.

  • What is rulemaking?

Basic Background

  • Administrative Procedure Act - Reasons for adoption and basic structure.

  • Expansion of Federal regulatory power in the 1960s and 1970s.

  • Checking reactions to Federal agency exercise of new regulatory powers.

  • Basic scheme of notice and comment rulemaking procedures

  • How agencies develop notices of proposed and final rulemaking.

Notices of Proposed Rulemaking

  • Elements 

  • Supplementary Information Portion of the Preamble

  • Public Input on Notices of Proposed Rulemaking

Public Hearings

  • Legislative-type hearing is the norm.

  • Facilitated and Interactive Workshops are optional.

Mid-Course Corrections for Rulemakings Gone Awry

  • Schedule additional public hearings outside of Washington.

  • Re-propose or publish notice reopening or extending the comment period.

  • Initiate or acquiesce in one-time informal meetings with vocal constituency. 

Notice of Final Rulemaking

  • Final regulation must be a "logical outgrowth" of the proposal.

  • Preamble must respond to the relevant, "major issues" synthesized from the public comments. 

  • Preamble must reflect final NEPA, Paperwork Reduction Act, and Regulatory Flexibility Act.

  • Action Memorandum and Concurrence Process (same as for proposed rule).

  • OMB Clearance Under Executive Order 12866.

Judicial Review

  • 45 percent of reversals of final rules attributable to failure to explain basis for agency action or rejection of major comments in the preamble to the final rule.

  • 20 percent of reversals of final rules attributable to erroneous statutory interpretations.

  • 20 percent of reversals of final rules attributable to purely procedural error.

Conclusion

  • Rulemaking is a system of procedures to channel and check the exercise of the power to make enforceable policy.

  • The agency is obliged to involve the public and to respond to public input. Usually the agency has to balance different viewpoints and arrive at a policy that can command public support.

  • Ultimately, the agency is subject to supervision by OMB and is accountable to the courts and to Congress.


Breaks scheduled as appropriate 


All custom training is tailored for each organization and audience. Topics from this program can be combined with topics from our other programs and with topics from your existing training programs.
 

Sample Agendas

Sample agendas of different versions of this program tailored for previous custom clients are available in Adobe PDF.

See our Sample Agendas page for more.
 

Audience Level All staff who need an overview of administrative and regulatory process.

 
Audience Size This program is most effective for between 20 and 35 attendees.

Not enough staff for a custom, on-site program? You can still train your staff at our public course.
 

Previous Clients

Our selected client list includes clients who have purchased custom training, sent staff to our public programs and who have purchased our publications.
 

Faculty Expert with more than 10 years' experience working in or with regulatory agencies.
 
Rave Reviews

 

"I just picked up regulatory monitoring and it’s so different from legislative activity that anyone would be foolish not to gather as much information as possible and on a continuous basis."  Manager, Environmental Issues, International Council of Shopping Centers

"The seminar has given me a number of ideas of actions I can take to improve my organization’s interaction with federal agencies during the rulemaking process."  Regulatory & Policy Analyst, N.J. Transit

See what some of the attendees at our custom programs say about our custom training.
 

Course Materials Included.
 
Length and Location

Usually requires 1/2 day.  

This program is usually held in Washington, DC.  It can be presented anywhere in the world.
 

Internal Marketing To help you publicize and market a custom program to your organization's audience, we can provide printed materials and language for your own internal promotion and publicity.
 
Fee The fee for this program depends on the location, number of attendees, length, and training materials.  Call us for details, or complete our custom program information request for more information.  

If you don't have enough people for a custom, on-site program, you can still train your staff at our public course.
 

What is included in the fee?

TheCapitol.Net tailors each program to meet your training and educational objectives. Before we issue a cost proposal, we will work with you to tailor a program to meet your training objectives

The program fee includes pre-program development and design, materials for your internal marketing and promotion, all course materials, and faculty chosen for your topic and your audience at the time and location you choose.

Our custom program clients provide the classroom/meeting space, all audio visual equipment, any food and beverages, all registration functions, and travel arrangements for attendees. When the program is held outside the Washington, DC metro area, travel arrangements for faculty can be made by the client or by us. 

We can also provide meeting space, audio visual equipment, food and beverage, registration, and travel arrangements, though this affects program cost.
 

FAQs See FAQs About Our Custom On-Site Training.
 
Payment Payment methods we accept for custom training include checks and EFT/ACH.
 
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