Background Information: One of the Conference’s most important prior achievements was its role in encouraging federal agencies to make use of alternative dispute resolution (“ADR...
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The Committee on Collaborative Governance is concerned with collaborative techniques that agencies use to implement their programs. This area includes activities that build on the Conference’s extensive history of developing consensual processes such as negotiated rulemaking and alternative means of dispute resolution, as well as appropriate use of new communications media in federal programs.
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The Federal Advisory Committee Act ("FACA"), 5 U.S.C. App. 2, §§ 1-16, restricts the creation and use of advisory committees by federal agencies. An advisory committee is any...
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The recent joint rulemaking between EPA and NHTSA on greenhouse gas emissions/auto fuel economy has shown the potential for joint rulemaking among agencies with overlapping regulatory...
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Agencies in diverse areas of regulation are using or contemplating the use of private third parties to carry out inspections and verify that regulated entities are in conformity with standards and...
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| Name | Role | Organization |
|---|---|---|
| Miriam M. Nisbet | Committee Chair, Government Member | Office of Government Information Services |
| Allison Beck | Liaison Representative | Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service |
| Daniel Cohen | Government Member | Department of Energy |
| Mariano-Florentino Cuéllar | Council | Stanford Law School |
| Daniel R. Elliott | Government Member | Surface Transportation Board |
| Jody Freeman | Public Member | Harvard Law School |
| Remington A. Gregg | Government Member | Office of Science and Technology Policy |
| Brian C. Griffin | Senior Fellow | Clean Energy Systems, Inc. |
| Will A. Gunn | Government Member | Department of Veterans Affairs |
| Philip J. Harter | Public Member | Vermont Law School |
| Michael E. Herz | Public Member | Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law |
| John M. Kamensky | Public Member | IBM Center for the Business of Government |
| Simon Lazarus | Public Member | Constitutional Accountability Center |
| Sean Lev | Government Member | Federal Communications Commission |
| Katie L. Nash | Liaison Representative | Office of the Director of National Intelligence |
| Beth Noveck | Public Member | New York Law School |
| Nina Olson | Liaison Representative | Internal Revenue Service |
| Suzanne Orenstein | Liaison Representative | Udall Foundation/ US Institute for Environmental Dispute Resolution |
| Patrick Patterson | Government Member | Equal Employment Opportunity Commission |
| Sallyanne Payton | Senior Fellow | University of Michigan Law School |
| Alasdair S. Roberts | Public Member | Suffolk University Law School |
| Kenneth W. Starr | Senior Fellow | Baylor University |
| Edward L. Weidenfeld | Senior Fellow | The Weidenfeld Law Firm, P.C |
