e-Law — Meeting No. 11

I. Legal processes (part 2): Administrative rule-making

• The participants in the process —
• Agency (APHIS: 71 Fed. Reg. 45439)
• Organized interests
• R-CALF
• South Dakota Stockgrowers
• National Renderers Assoc.
• National Milk Producers Federation
• North American Spray Dried Blood & Plasma Producers (Alas, no Web site, but)
• Christians Against NAIS and NoNAIS.org (What is NAIS?)
• Large businesses
• Masterfoods (MARS)
• Darling International
• Small businesses - Susie Stretton
• Individual citizens - Barb Sachau
  
  
• The goals of the process?
  
  
• The several impacts of digital technology (without the e-government initiative) —
• Notice
• Organizing
• Commenting
  
  
• www.regulations.gov —
• The agenda?
• Agency to agency differences?
• The apparent effects?
• Straightforward ways improving its public interface?
• Going beyond replicating the paper process ("the potential for distributed, reflexive, transparent, information-rich, asynchronous, widespread, low-cost, meaningful, and transformative participation" in agency decision-making)?
• Analysis tools for the agency
• Expanding the forms of learning from the public, including the expert public (i.e., getting beyond "notice" and "comment")
• Archiving? (SSA)
  

II. Moving to the state or local level

• The Virginia Regulatory Town Hall
• Nebraska Regulation Tracking System
• Alaska Dept. of Education and Early Development
• California Dept. of Health Services
  

III. Next week and our final meeting:

• Next week:
• Assigned readings: All 5 items listed for Unit No. 7
• Submission: Paper draft
  
• Final meeting:
• Assigned readings: ODR - Katsh, Moeves & Moeves
• Submission: Abstract of your paper plus one question or issue to which you would appreciate response