Week 2 Homework Assignment

ADMINISTRATIVE AGENCIES

Pick an administrative agency of either the United States Federal or a state government.

Find where the current and proposed regulation changes for that agency are located on the

Internet (i.e., the Federal Register or the State Administrative Agency website.) The site

regulations.gov is a good place to begin your research. Pick one proposed regulation change

currently under consideration (if you find one that has already closed out but interests you, you

can use that instead) and, then answer these questions.

1. State the administrative agency that controls the regulation. Briefly explain why this

agency and your proposed regulation change interests you. Will this proposed regulation affect

you or the business in which you are working? If so, how? ( 20 POINTS )

Submit a copy of the proposed regulation along with your responses to these five

questions. The proposed regulation can be submitted as either a separate Word document (.doc)

or Adobe file (.pdf). DO NOT SUBMIT A HARD COPY OF THE PROPOSED REGULATION.

2. Describe the proposal or change. ( 10 POINTS )

3. Write the public comment that you would submit for this proposal. If the proposed

regulation deadline has already passed, write the comment you would have submitted. Explain

briefly what you wish to accomplish with your comment. ( 20 POINTS )

4. Provide the "deadline" by which the public comment must be made. (If the date has

already passed, please provide when the deadline was). ( 5 POINTS )

5. Answer the following questions about your chosen proposal, regardless of whether you

are in favor of this proposed regulation.

If the proposal passes, identify and explain the legal theories you could use in an

attempt to have (any) administrative regulation declared invalid and overturned in court. ( 45 POINTS )