A guide to federal agency rulemaking

Overview of federal agency rulemaking -- The Administrative Procedure Act's rulemaking provisions -- Use of rulemaking or adjudication for the setting of policy : a comparison -- Other procedural statutes affecting rulemaking -- Beginning the process -- Electronic rulemaking -- Regulatory analysis and review -- The notice of proposed rulemaking -- Public participation -- The rulemaking record -- "Off-the-record" or "ex parte" communications in rulemaking -- The final rule -- Agency responsibilities after the rule is issued -- Availability of judicial review -- The scope of judicial review -- Judicial review of agency failure to act