Exam 17: The Regulatory Process

Organic statue is another term for:

When an agency proposes a legislative (substantive) rule it must publish it for public inspection in the:

Administrative law consists of enabling statutes, the Administrative Procedures Act, and court decisions about agency actions.

Congress created the first regulatory agency in 1887. It was called the:

Which of the following documents are exempt from being released upon request to the public under the Freedom of Information Act:

The details of an agency's structure and how it operates internally are covered in:

Congress can control agency activities through the budget process.

Informal agency procedure may include testing and inspections as well as the processing of permits.

The Department of Labor issued an interpretive rule (opinion letter) in 2001 about how mortgage-loan officers were to be treated with respect to overtime pay. The rule was reversed in 2006 then reversed again in 2010. The Mortgage Bankers Association objected to the change, contending the 2010 ruling was invalid because there was no notice-and-comment period for the change. On appeal, the Supreme Court held that notice-and-comment: