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handle is hein.amenin/aeiaetp0001 and id is 1 raw text is: Key Points For decades, negotiated ruiemaking has been used b administrations of both parties to enact major changes ta Department of Education rules. \Nh le negoiaced rur g was initial ly !iteded to make rulemaking less adversarial, it takes about ,000 days and offer adds addition: urdties without fundamentaly changing the nucentives or outcomes. * Congress should at least reconsider whether negotiated ruiemaking is a net enefit when t next reauthorizes the Higher Education Aot and, rnore broad, set a higher bar for the enactment of new regulations than for the reoeal of failed ones. The Adrmnistrative Proc du.r s Ac fAPA) irst passed in 1946, recires that all fedcral agincies obtain pu hic inpurt befre f' rmulamain amending, or repealing a reg-m ulation. Spa eci aly, they rnust gve interested persons an opportunity to participite in the rule niaking through submisslum of wr tten data, views, r argunents wit' or without opportunity fr oral presentation ' Due to this requirement, the process of developing a rule, submflit- ting it for public cornmnt, and then incorp{ rating that feedback into a fnal regulation with the force of law often rakes years ( ig're ) The process for repea ing a regulation is essentiall- identical to the process for enacting a regulariar. Aside from concerns with the length of the notice- and-comment process, which often correlates with the page length. of fnal rules, regulated parties complained for many years that this process of obtaining public input had become a mere formality that barely affected the n ai polley. They wished they could simply work with t ir regulators directly to develop fair rules that protect the public and other stakehoiders withnut being onerous, eg-Reg in Theory In 1982, an obscure federal agency called the Admmnrs- tratve Confere nce of the United States (ACUS) took note of this and agreed that the relationship between federal rguI ators and regulated parttes was to adver- sariai, vt parties cften pvrc.ving t ir role in th e process as p sN.uiiong thenselves for the subsequent jic:al ie a raer t thaa ontributing to a construe- tive policy solution. It predicted inprovenent if both sides could sit a a table and work out their competing interests. Since it was alraly th ease that lawsuits challeng- ing rles are regularvy settled by agreement on a nego- tiated rule, AC US zh oght it nriht make more sense to gle age ncie' he optio:n to negotiate son.e regula:- tons from the start, before the AI A process of public notice and conmme nt T'hus, negotiated rulemaking (also known as nag-re ) was born. the idea was simple: Atnyone likely to have a sig- nrncant stake in a rule beitg considered should come to Washington, DC, and sit in a conference room for

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