Michelle Murray, FAA AST on how rulemaking is done

04/29/05 00:00:00    

By Michael Mealling

We're back with Michelle Murray, FAA AST on how you get from a law to a regulation. The slides that are up now are a series on the general way regs are written. I think the main point is going to be how we affect those regs and that doesn't happen until there is an NPRM. Nothing really knew here since its the standard NPRM processes. I think the Q&A is going to be the interesting part.

Michelle is spending a good deal of time describing public meetings for an NPRM so it sounds as though there will either be one or that they are requesting that the public ask for one though standard channels. I asked if that was the case but Michelle said its just to early to tell.

The next question concerned ex parte comments and how that might happen. Apparently they have to document any comments they receive prior to the NPRM, which is cool since it gives the community a way of giving input before, not after the regulation is written.