Government regulatory agencies Final exam review

The mission of this Department is with the Nation's housing needs, fair housing opportunities, and improvement and development of the Nation's communities.

The mission of this Department is to protect and provide access to our Nation's natural and cultural heritage and honor our trust responsibilities to tribes and our commitments to island communities.

The purpose of the this Department is to foster, promote, and develop the welfare of the wage earners of the United States, to improve their working conditions, and to advance their opportunities for profitable employment.

This Department administers three veterans programs including health, benefits and the National Cemetery.

This Department advises the President in the formulation and execution of foreign policy and promotes the long-range security and well-being of the United States.

This Department encourages, serves, and promotes the Nation's international trade, economic growth, and technological advancement.

This Department establishes policy for, administers, and coordinates most Federal assistance to education. Its mission is to ensure equal access to education and to promote educational excellence throughout the Nation.

This Department establishes the Nation's overall transportation policy.

This Department is responsible for providing the military forces needed to deter war and protect the security of our country.

This Department leads the unified national effort to secure America. It will prevent and deter terrorist attacks and protect against and respond to threats and hazards to the Nation.

This Department of is involved with the Nation's human concerns serving people, from newborn infants to persons requiring health services to our most elderly citizens.

This Department performs four basic functions: formulating and recommending economic, financial, tax, and fiscal policies; serving as financial agent for the U.S. Government; enforcing the law; and manufacturing coins and currency.

This Department works to improve and maintain farm income and to develop and expand markets abroad for agricultural products.

This mission of this Department is to serve as counsel for its citizens by enforcing the law in the public interest. The Department plays the key role in protection against criminals and subversion, ensuring healthy business competition, safeguarding the consumer, and enforcing drug, immigration, and naturalization laws.

Any new rule published in the Federal Register as a final rule must provide a minimum of how many days before the rule becomes effective?

The proposed rule section of the Federal Register contains Notice of Proposed Rulemaking actions which are also known as Proposed Rules. Preliminary rule making documents include all but the following?

A proposed rule is also know as what?

The Federal Register is a

this action lets you know there is going to be a public hearing and where it will be held.

This action is published at an early stage in rulemaking process and describes issues and anticipated regulatory approach the agency will take and also solicits comment on the necessity and adequacy of action.

This action gives you more time to participate in the regulatory process.

A proposed rule is also known as

This action is published with an effective date and has gone through the rule making process.

Which action would likely appear first in the Federal Register in the rule making process?

This action organized rulemaking committee to discuss solutions and give interested groups opportunity to reach consensus before agency develops proposed rules.

When an agency grants more time for comment and sets up a second round of meetings to discuss proposed rule changes?

Which item would be second in order of the track a rule from the grant of authority in law to the proposed rule, the final rule and codification in CFR.

Where are proposed and recently adopted regulations found?

This type of rule is published to expedite rulemaking for non-controversial actions note expected to generate adverse comments.

Agencies of the Federal government must

The daily Federal Register (FR) contains four categories of documents

This type of rule published in the Federal Register is usually issued to react to an emergency situation, to relieve unnecessary restrictions on the public and to take public comments on interim action.

This action is published when a member of the public requests rulemaking action to give the public a forum to propose rule changes.

Rulemaking usually begins Congressional action by creating, amending or repealing what?

The first step in the rule making process involves?

This action is published twice a year and explains what the regulatory agency will be doing in the next six months.

The primary purpose of the Federal register is to

This action becomes effective upon the date it is published and stays in effect until they have time to go through the regulatory process.