The Department of Health and Human Services is breaking with 50 years of agency practice and will no longer use notice-and-comment rulemaking procedures for “matters relating to agency management or personnel or to public property, loans, grants, benefits, or contracts,” Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced Friday.
The policy statement scheduled to publish in the Federal Register Monday gives the HHS secretary more discretion and authority, and fewer administrative hurdles, in setting department policy.
Typically, agencies publish proposed rules or notices in the Federal Register, open a time-limited comment period, review and assess those comments, and then publish a final ...
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