ACUS offers resources that federal agency officials may find helpful designed to develop and issue rules, conduct adjudications, and administer programs. ACUS can also work with agencies to analyze current practices, suggest reforms, and brief staff on administrative law topics.
For assistance, agencies should contact Research Director Reeve Bull (rbull@acus.gov).
Publications
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Assembly Recommendations and Reports. ACUS issues about a dozen recommendations each year to agencies, Congress, the President, and the Judicial Conference to enhance efficiency and fairness in the administrative state. A report by an administrative law expert or ACUS staff supports each recommendation.
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Information Interchange Bulletins. These one-page documents offer agency attorneys a starting point to begin research on specific administrative procedure topics. They identify the black letter law and provide additional resources for further research, including relevant ACUS recommendations and reports.
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Sourcebooks. ACUS produces sourcebooks and reports on administrative law topics not tied to formal Assembly Recommendations, such as Federal Administrative Adjudication Outside the Administrative Procedure Act and the online Federal Administrative Procedure Sourcebook.
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Model Rules. ACUS has developed Model Adjudication Rules and Model Rules for Implementation of the Equal Access to Justice Act.
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Statutory Review Program. ACUS transmits to Congress judicial and agency adjudicative decisions that identify technical problems of consequence in statutes dealing with administrative procedure.
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Additional Materials. ACUS maintains other materials of interest to agency officials, including a Table of Executive Agency Requirements that apply to most notice-and-comment rulemakings and a Summary of Recent Administrative Law Reform Bills introduced in Congress.
Meetings and Events
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Interagency Roundtable. Interagency Roundtable meetings provide an opportunity for all federal agencies to discuss legal and policy issues with government-wide effect, such as strategies for implementing new legislation.
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Council of Independent Regulatory Agencies. CIRA provides a forum for leaders in independent regulatory agencies to discuss shared concerns, including non-OIRA cost-benefit analysis requirements and practices for issuing dissents in rulemakings.
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Working Groups. ACUS convenes working groups to discuss common challenges and develop materials that agencies can easily adapt for their own needs, such as developing Model Adjudication Rules or policies on compiling administrative records.
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Forums. ACUS sponsors public forums to discuss important issues of administrative procedure. Past forums have focused on Nationwide Injunctions and Federal Regulatory Programs, Mass and Fraudulent Comments, Federal Administrative Adjudication, and Regulatory Capture.
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Trainings. ACUS can conduct or facilitate training sessions for agency staff on a variety of administrative law and procedure topics, including the best practices recommended by the ACUS Assembly.