Regulatory Research and Reporting

TRG develops and presents training courses for Federal agency staff who must review or write agency regulations or guidance documents.  TRG's courses teach both the procedural requirements for issuance of regulations and guidance documents, as well as techniques and tools for writing documents that will serve their intended purpose. TRG offers regulation writing courses open to all government employees as well as courses tailored for the employees of specific agencies. In recent years TRG has presented agency specific regulation writing training courses to the following:

• Department of Agriculture
• Department of Transportation
• Drug Enforcement Administration
• Environmental Protection Agency
• Federal Aviation Administration
• Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
• Food and Drug Administration
• National Park Service
• Nuclear Regulatory Commission
• Social Security Administration

Federal agency rulemaking courses generally vary in length from 1 to 5 days and may include segments on administrative law, principles of legal drafting, writing technical material in Plain Language, principles of organization, and use of algorithms. The courses help agencies enhance the public's confidence in the regulatory agencies by enhancing customer service, customer satisfaction, and by improving the quality, timeliness and efficiency of the rulemaking process.

Regulatory Research

TRG provides research on rulemaking projects at various stages of the regulatory process. Research may begin at the early stages of a project to help a client agency that has identified a problem to determine what its options are, what past agency actions are relevant, and what other information is needed before drafting a regulation can begin. Research may be needed at almost any stage of a rulemaking project to address questions that have been raised by technical staff or by the agency's review and coordination process.

TRG has conducted research at various stages of regulatory projects, such as broad research on the subjects of aircraft registration and recordation, alcohol and drug regulation, and the regulation of risk sports. For the Federal Aviation Administration TRG has conducted research on exemptions issued over a 30 year period, and exemptions currently in force, as a basis for recommendations for an expedited exemption process.
 

Report Writing

TRG works with agencies to rewrite and edit reports on technical or policy issues. On a short turn-around basis, TRG has reorganized, rewritten, and copy edited agency reports that had been technically sound but difficult to understand for anyone outside the technical division of the agency. The extensive regulatory and writing experience at TRG enables it to help agencies communicate technically complex requirements in plain language without undercutting the substance of the report.