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54 Admin. L. Rev. 1421 (2002)
Online Rulemaking and Other Tools for Strengthening Our Civil Infrastructure

handle is hein.journals/admin54 and id is 1431 raw text is: ONLINE RULEMAKING AND OTHER TOOLS FOR STRENGTHENING OUR CIVIL INFRASTRUCTURE BARBARA H. BRANDON* ROBERT D. CARLITZ** TABLE OF CONTENTS Introduction ............................................................................................. 1422 I. Rulemaking and the Internet ......................................................... 1423 A . A n O verview ......................................................................... 1426 B. Present Efforts at Electronic Docketing ............................... 1433 II. Suggested Im provem ents .............................................................. 1436 A . B est Practices ......................................................................... 1436 B. Additional Advantages of Online Rulemaking ...................... 1442 C. OM B Im provem ents .............................................................. 1448 D. The Senate's E-Government Act of 2002 .............................. 1450 E. Potential Criticisms of Online Rulemaking ........................... 1451 III. Other Measures to Increase Transparency .................................... 1455 A. Listservs and Other Tools ...................................................... 1455 B . O nline Perm itting .................................................................. 1459 IV . O nline D ialogues .......................................................................... 1462 A. The National Dialogue on Public Involvement in EPA D ecisions ............................................................................... 1462 B. Advanced Notices of Proposed Rulemaking and RuleNet .... 1465 C. Federal Advisory Committees and Public Meetings ............. 1468 D. Deliberative Governance and Online Dialogues ................... 1470 V. Legal and Implementation Issues .................................................. 1471 A . C opyright ............................................................................... 1472 B. The First Amendm ent ............................................................ 1474 C . Technology ............................................................................ 1476 D . Im plem entation Issues ........................................................... 1477 * Barbara H. Brandon is a law librarian at the University of Miami Law School and a former policy analyst with Information Renaissance. She has a J.D. from the University of Pittsburgh School of Law and a L.L.M from the Harvard Law School. She would like to thank both Professor Craig N. Oren of the Rutgers School of Law-Camden and Thomas C. Beierle of Resources for the Future for their insightful and thought-provoking comments on earlier drafts of this Article. ** Robert D. Carlitz is the Executive Director of Information Renaissance. 1421

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