...Week 2 Homework Help – GM520. Here is an example to get you started on the Week 2 Homework: 1. State the administrative agency which controls the regulation. Explain why this agency and your proposed regulation interests you (briefly). Will this proposed regulation affect you or the business in which you are working? If so, how? Submit a copy of the proposed regulation along with your responses to these five questions. The proposed regulation can be submitted as either a separate Word document (.doc) or Adobe file (.pdf). This means you will submit two attachments to the Week 2 Dropbox: (1) a Word doc with the questions and your answers and (2) a copy of the proposed regulation you used for this assignment. (10 points) The Department of Health and Human Services; the Food and Drug Administration is the agency which controls this regulation. The topic that will be discussed is the information required in prior notice of imported food. This interests me greatly because I majored in Hospitality manangement for my Undergraduate degree with the aspirations of someday opening a restaurant. This topic deals with what is needed to import food from abroad, and this will greatly impact my restaurant when I open my business. 2. Describe the proposal/change. (10 points) The proposal requires additional fundamentals of information submitting prior notice to imported food, including food for animals, to report the name of any country in which the article has been denied entry. This information...
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...Week 2 Homework Help – GM520. 1. State the administrative agency which controls the regulation. Explain why this agency and your proposed regulation interests you (briefly). Will this proposed regulation affect you or the business in which you are working? If so, how? Submit a copy of the proposed regulation along with your responses to these five questions. The proposed regulation can be submitted as either a separate Word document (.doc) or Adobe file (.pdf). This means you will submit two attachments to the Week 2 Dropbox: (1) a Word doc with the questions and your answers and (2) a copy of the proposed regulation you used for this assignment. (10 points) Interstate Commerce Commission (ICC) regulated interstate surface transportation between 1887 and 1995. This interests me because of the changes of transportation. Yes, it does affect me because they are doing price controls and entry controls on the collective vendor’s price setting in the United States transportation. 2. Describe the proposal/change. (10 points) It is regulated through varies transportation modes starting with the railroad industry and later the trucking and airline industry. 3. Write the public comment which you would submit to this proposal. If the proposed regulation deadline has already passed, write the comment you would have submitted. Explain briefly what you wish to accomplish with your comment. (10 points) Deregulation—freeing up the trucking market to permit much more flexible pricing and...
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...Week 2 Homework – GM520 Brad Booth 1. State the administrative agency which controls the regulation. Explain why this agency and your proposed regulation interests you (briefly). Will this proposed regulation affect you or the business in which you are working? If so, how? Submit a copy of the proposed regulation along with your responses to these five questions. The proposed regulation can be submitted as either a separate Word document (.doc) or Adobe file (.pdf). This means you will submit two attachments to the Week 2 Dropbox: (1) a Word doc with the questions and your answers and (2) a copy of the proposed regulation you used for this assignment. (10 points) The Department of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives – I am a firearms dealer and wonder how the Firearm regulation will affect my sale of guns. This will affect me who I can sell guns to and the cost of background checks. 2. Describe the proposal/change. (10 points) The change will require people to do a more extensive background check and depending on the background it will disqualify them on getting a weapon and affect how many guns I can sell. 3. Write the public comment which you would submit to this proposal. If the proposed regulation deadline has already passed, write the comment you would have submitted. Explain briefly what you wish to accomplish with your comment. (10 points) I wish to have them reconsider this new rule by at least putting some additional provisions in place to protect the privacy...
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...Week 2 Homework GM520 Joefred B Devicais 1. United States Citizenship and Immigration Services – The USCIS is the government agency that oversees lawful immigration to the United States. The agency provides accurate and useful information to customers granting immigration and citizenship benefits. Proposed changes: USCIS Proposes Process Change for Certain Waivers of Inadmissibility. I am a business owner in Daly City, California and this interests me and will impact my potential immigrant employees with the new USCIS regulation. This will affect my employees emotional and financial stability due to family separation. 2. The change will reduce the time US citizens separated from their immediate relatives to include spouse, children and parents. If the relative can prove that being separated from their US citizen relative would cause extreme hardship, applying for a provisional waiver of the unlawful presence ground of inadmissibility while in the United States reducing the time separated from their relative. 3. My comment is that this provisional waiver would be very beneficial to the US citizen relative emotionally and financially. Most families live with dual income status and spouse support with childcare and other day to day functions and work at the same time. Therefore, shorter family separation lessens the burden of the US citizen’s hardship. 4. Comment period from April 2,2012 to June 1,2012. 5. a. Once you have submitted your...
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...GM520 - Week 2 Homework 1. State the administrative agency which controls the regulation. Explain why this agency and your proposed regulation interests you (briefly). Will this proposed regulation affect you or the business in which you are working? If so, how? Submit a copy of the proposed regulation along with your responses to these five questions. The proposed regulation can be submitted as either a separate Word document (.doc) or Adobe file (.pdf). This means you will submit two attachments to the Week 2 Dropbox: (1) a Word doc with the questions and your answers and (2) a copy of the proposed regulation you used for this assignment. (10 points) Nebraska Department of Revenue – I own an operating farm in the state of Nebraska and this new bill hold potential tax saving. This will affect me by potentially reducing or refunding the sales and use tax liability on farm equipment. 2. Describe the proposal/change. (10 points) This bill will eliminate the application and imposition of sales and use tax on the “sale, lease, or rental of and the storage, use, or other consumption” of repair or replacement parts for agricultural machinery and equipment used in commercial farms. 3. Write the public comment which you would submit to this proposal. If the proposed regulation deadline has already passed, write the comment you would have submitted. Explain briefly what you wish to accomplish with your comment. (10 points) My comment is that the elimination of sales and use...
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...Week 2 Homework Help – GM520. 1. State the administrative agency which controls the regulation. Explain why this agency and your proposed regulation interests you (briefly). Will this proposed regulation affect you or the business in which you are working? If so, how? Submit a copy of the proposed regulation along with your responses to these five questions. The proposed regulation can be submitted as either a separate Word document (.doc) or Adobe file (.pdf). This means you will submit two attachments to the Week 2 Dropbox: (1) a Word doc with the questions and your answers and (2) a copy of the proposed regulation you used for this assignment. (10 points) Internal Revenue Service – This regulation interests me because members of my family are both employees and employers and IRS will benefit one and harm the other with it. It will take an affect in 2014. 2. Describe the proposal/change. (10 points) This proposed regulation will require employers with more than 50 full-time employees to provide affordable health care coverage with a minimum level required. Otherwise, employers will be punished with penalties. Regardless, it would increase expenses for any company having more than 50 employees especially since health care costs are increasing on yearly basis. 3. Write the public comment which you would submit to this proposal. If the proposed regulation deadline has already passed, write the comment you would have submitted. Explain briefly what you wish to accomplish with...
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...Roopen Patel 7/18/11 Week 2 Homework Help – GM520. Here is an example to get you started on the Week 2 Homework: 1. State the administrative agency which controls the regulation. Explain why this agency and your proposed regulation interests you (briefly). Will this proposed regulation affect you or the business in which you are working? If so, how? Submit a copy of the proposed regulation along with your responses to these five questions. The proposed regulation can be submitted as either a separate Word document (.doc) or Adobe file (.pdf). This means you will submit two attachments to the Week 2 Dropbox: (1) a Word doc with the questions and your answers and (2) a copy of the proposed regulation you used for this assignment. (10 points) Department of Health and Human Services- Since I work in the healthcare field and use Electronic Health Records documenting patients medical history, diagnoses, and treatment. http://www.regulations.gov/#!documentDetail;D=HHS-OCR-2011-0011-0001 2. Describe the proposal/change. (10 points) A Notice of Proposed Rulemaking concerning the accounting of disclosures requirement under the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) Privacy Rule. The proposed rule would give people the right to get a report on who has electronically accessed their protected health information. The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ (HHS) Office for Civil Rights (OCR) is proposing changes to the Privacy Rule, pursuant to the Health...
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...Week 2 Homework – GM520. 1. State the administrative agency which controls the regulation. Explain why this agency and your proposed regulation interests you (briefly). Will this proposed regulation affect you or the business in which you are working? If so, how? Submit a copy of the proposed regulation along with your responses to these five questions. The proposed regulation can be submitted as either a separate Word document (.doc) or Adobe file (.pdf). This means you will submit two attachments to the Week 2 Dropbox: (1) a Word doc with the questions and your answers and (2) a copy of the proposed regulation you used for this assignment. (10 points) Tennessee Wild Resource Agency (TWRA) – I am a big game hunter so my interests are merely for self-reasons, it will impact me with the removal of Wild Hogs from the big game status to a nuisance category. http://www.tn.gov/twra/feralhog.html This will affect me because I’m an out of state hunter who hunts on private land who purchased a Tennessee hunting license for big game which now does not include Wild Hogs and because I’m not a land owner, family member or tenant it prevents me from hunting Wild Hogs. The property owner is allowed to have up to (10) individuals listed on an exemption form but it is limited when group hunting trips are being planned. 2. The proposal is to have no limit on numbers of individuals that can be on the exemption form for property owners for a fee. This will aid TWRA mission to reduce the...
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...Week 2 Homework GM520. 1. State the administrative agency which controls the regulation. Explain why this agency and your proposed regulation interests you (briefly). Will this proposed regulation affect you or the business in which you are working? If so, how? Submit a copy of the proposed regulation along with your responses to these five questions. The proposed regulation can be submitted as either a separate Word document (.doc) or Adobe file (.pdf). This means you will submit two attachments to the Week 2 Dropbox: (1) a Word doc with the questions and your answers and (2) a copy of the proposed regulation you used for this assignment. (10 points) Federal Register Volume 77, Number 205 (Tuesday, October 23, 2012). International Mailing Services: Proposed Product and Price Changes. My business utilizes The United States Postal Service for small shipments and packages.. The price increase in product and service for international mailing could heavily affect our business. Thirty percent of our products are ordered by foreign customers. For the whole online selling industry, we will lose a large revenue if the new regulation is passed and applied to both individual and business. 2. Describe the proposal/change. (10 points) The proposal will increase the cost of USPS mailing services including First-Class Mail International and extra services. The Postal Service proposes to adjust the price of various sections of Mailing Standards of United Stated Post Service. The proposal...
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...Week 2 Homework – GM520 1. State the administrative agency that controls the regulation. Explain why this agency and your proposed regulation interests you (briefly). Will this proposed regulation affect you, or the business in which you are working? If so, how? Submit a copy of the proposed regulation along with your responses to these five questions. The proposed regulation can be submitted as either a separate Word document (.doc) or Adobe file (.pdf). This means you will submit two attachments to the Week 2 Dropbox: (a) a Word document with the questions and your answers, and (b) a copy of the proposed regulation you used for this assignment. (10 points) Department of Justice (DOJ) – Being from Texas where there is no secret about one’s personal firearms, I found interest in this topic because of the many people I know that own firearms. This proposal will have an affect on many Americans depending on what state you are in. 2. Describe the proposal/change. (10 points) The purpose of the proposal is to identify the definition of a “pistol”. Determining the definition will establish carrying permits and regulations for each state. 3. Write the public comment that you would submit to this proposal. If the proposed regulation deadline has already passed, write the comment you would have submitted. Explain briefly what you wish to accomplish with your comment. (10 points) As a Texas native, I have many friends and family who own...
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...Week 2 Homework Help – GM520. Professor Dan Speckenzy Student Name: ECPECO Date: 1 November 2009 1. Administrative Agency: Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC), of the Department of Energy (DOE) I chose FERC because it is the federal administration agency that ultimately my employer being a utility and a member of the non-government North American Reliability Commission (NERC) through which FERC imposes energy or electrical power jurisdictional and regulatory control. I chose the 60-day regulation on the books “Reliability Standards for Geomagnetic Disturbances” or RSGD regulation as it will eventually translate into physical, electronic, and IT infrastructure changes that I may be called upon to implement or collaborate implementation as an IT system integrator and/or systems engineer/administrator. This proposed RSGD regulation deals with developing and establishing reliability standards for mitigating the potential power interruption of our nation’s power-grid resulting from our planet earth’s geomagnetic field configuration disturbances (GMDs) caused by solar winds/flares generated by sunspots coronal mass ejection hurled at earth’s on a more frequent basis than experienced in the past, and the continued operation of the BULK-Power System. 2. The proposal is two-fold. First part or stage of the proposal is to require its FERC-certified Electric Reliability Organization (ERO) NERC to file reliability standard(s) within 90 days of the final rule effective...
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...Andrea Bing Week 2 Homework – GM520 1. State the administrative agency which controls the regulation. Explain why this agency and your proposed regulation interests you (briefly). Will this proposed regulation affect you or the business in which you are working? If so, how? Department of Education – This proposed regulation interests me in particular because I personally know how hard it can be to pay back student loans after graduation. Students were once able to receive 2 Pell grants in the same year and now the Department of Education has changed to it to students can at maximum receive 1 Pell grant per award year. This results in students having to make up for that grant with more loans which ultimately means more debt. The changes were effective in the 2010-2011 award year and I was affected during my Bachelor Degree studies. 2. Describe the proposal/change. The proposal limits students from receiving 2 Pell Grants within the same award year. “The Secretary amends four sections of the Federal Pell Grant Program regulations to make them consistent” with these changes. 3. Write the public comment which you would submit to this proposal. If the proposed regulation deadline has already passed, write the comment you would have submitted. Explain briefly what you wish to accomplish with your comment. While it is necessary to have the documentation represent the correct facts of the Federal Pell Grant Program, in an economy where students and recent graduates...
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...GM520: Legal, Political, and Ethical Dimensions May 11, 2008 Week 2 TCO B Homework 1. State the administrative agency which controls the regulation. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA or USFDA) is an agency of the United States Department of Health and Human Service which main responsibility is to control the regulation of Food and Drug administration and is under the control of the United States federal executive departments. i. Explain why this agency and your proposed regulation interests you (briefly). This agency interest me because I have a deep concern about the types of food and drugs that enter into our Caribbean market and other third world countries. After extensive research by many health professionals, it has been that many Caribbean islands and other third world countries are supplied with or import “rejected” foods and sometimes drugs from first world countries such as Europe and North America. If it is not good for one then why should it be good for the other? Are one of the many questions being asked by citizens. ii. Will this proposed regulation affect you or the business in which you are working? If so, how? Submit a copy of the proposed regulation along with your responses to these five questions. This proposed regulation wont affect the business in which i am working in but it will for certain allow citizens to become more aware as to the types of food that we import and will allow many to have an interest in medicine, thus, develop an...
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...TAK MENG CHOY GM520: Legal, Political, and Ethical Dimensions Week 2 TCO B Homework 1. State the administrative agency, which controls the regulation. Explain why this agency and your proposed regulation interest you (briefly). How will this proposed regulation affect you or the business in which you are working? Provide the URL to the website where the regulation change proposal is located. (Check your URL to be sure it takes the reader to the actual regulation). (10 points) The FDA or also known as the Food and Drug Administration are agencies that control the rules and regulations. I decided to used this agency as my reference because the FDA is one the most popular and important agency. This proposed regulation change who filed this petition with the FDA to amend their rule is Cargill. Scientist and researchers in Cargill research and development laboratories and engineering departments have worked on this project for a number of years. If Cargill plant expansion to produce their product on that specific location, this would bring a positive economic impact to that location, only if the rules by the FDA become permanent. 2. Describe the proposal/change. (10 points) According to the FDA Summary, “amending the health claim regulation entitled ‘Soluble fiber from certain foods and risk of coronary heart disease (CHD)’ to add barley beta fiber as an additional eligible source of beta-glucan soluble fiber.” The FDA has come to the agreement that there is an important...
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...Melinda Roberson GM520 Week 2 Homework I am choosing to write my paper on the Hours of Service of Drivers, Proposed Rule, 75 FR 82170, December 29, 2010. The administrative agency which controls the regulation is the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA). This proposal interests me because when I was in middle school my cousin was hit by a driver which ended her life. After extensive investigation they found that the driver fell asleep behind the wheel due to him working two days straight. This proposal will not affect me or the business in which I am working in but it will give me peace of mind if passed because no one should have to lose their loved one in such a tragic way. The proposal is to help promote safety and to protect driver health, FMCSA proposes to revise the regulations for hours of service for drivers of property-carrying commercial motor vehicles (CMVs). To achieve these goals, the proposed rule would provide flexibility for drivers to take breaks when needed and would reduce safety and health risks associated with long hours. The proposed rule would make seven changes from current requirements. The proposed rule would make seven changes from current requirements. First, the proposed rule would limit drivers to either 10 or 11 hours of driving time following a period of at least 10 consecutive hours off duty; on the basis of all relevant considerations, FMCSA currently favors a 10-hour limit, but its ultimate decision will include a careful...
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