Presentations from the June 2-4, 2004 eRulemaking Workshop 2.0

Stuart Shulman, University of Pittsburgh
Workshop Welcome

Jamie Callan, Carnegie Mellon University
Text Analysis for eRulemaking

Oscar Morales, eRulemaking Initiative Program Manager, USEPA Division Director
eRulemaking Initiative

Dr. Christine Reed, University of Nebraska at Omaha
eRulemaking and Local Governments in Nebraska: Initial Results of May 2004 On-Site Discussions

Jay Lagarde, Virginia Department of Planning and Budget
eRulemaking in Virginia

Andrew Langer, National Federation of Independent Business
Small Businesses and E-Rulemaking

Robert Carlitz and Rosemary Gunn, Information Renaissance
e-rulemaking

Devin M. Ceartas, Nacredata and National Campaign for Sustainable Agriculture
Thoughts on E-Rulemaking

Neil Eisner, Associate General Counsel, USDOT
E-Rulemaking: Legal Issues with Internet-Accessible Dockets

This research project was initiated during the fall 1999 semester and was made possible with the following grants from the National Science Foundation: IIS-0429293 “Collaborative Research: Language Processing Technology for Electronic Rulemaking,“ EIA-00328914 “SGER COLLABORATIVE: A Testbed for eRulemaking Data,” SES-0322662 “Democracy and E-Rulemaking: Comparing Traditional vs. Electronic Comment from a Discursive Democratic Framework,“ and EIA-0089892 “SGER: Citizen Agenda-Setting in the Regulatory Process: Electronic Collection and Synthesis of Public Commentary.”