Update

Since 2011 the Office of Regulatory Reinvention (ORR) has been conducting reviews of the rules and regulations used by various state departments. In late 2012 a committee was appointed by ORR to review the basic law that governs the rulemaking process; the Administrative Procedures Act (APA). This act had not been reviewed since it was enacted back in 1969. The review committee has been meeting weekly since September of 2012 and should make recommendations to the Governor in early summer of 2013. Andy Such, MMA’s director of environmental and regulatory affairs policy is one the 12 experts appointed to this review of the APA. 1/17/2013