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Administrative Procedure Act
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helped to improve and strengthen the administrative regulatory process in the federal system and served as a model for states as well
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Enabling Act
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creates the agency, determines its structure, defines its functions and powers and established basic operational standards and guidelines
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Administrative Agencies
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regulate individual and business decision making by exercising legislatively delegated rule making, investigative and adjudicative powers
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Rule Making Power
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the authorization to make, alter or repeal rules and regulations to the extent specified in their enabling statutes
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Substantive Rules
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used to establish and implement policies that assist an agency in accompanying its statutorily established objectives (applies prospectively not retroactively)
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Interpretive Rules
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used to explain an agency's interpretation of an ambiguous statute or its understanding of the meaning of an important term that congress has neglected to define
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Procedural Rules
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developed to establish standard operating procedures within an agency
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Investigative Power
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agencies cannot operate without access to facts for intelligent regulation and adjudication (can shut a business down without warning)
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Adjudicative Power
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requires administrative agencies to make determinations of a targeted person's legal rights, duties, and obligations (hearings that resemble a court's decision making process)
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Administrative Law Judges
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conduct adjudicatory hearings. decide questions of fact and issues of law, limited to the evidence that is established on the record (not in the federal judiciary)
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Consumer Credit and Protection Act
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designed to promote the disclosure of credit terms and to establish rights and responsibilities of both creditors and consumers