{"id":1912,"date":"2019-03-14T09:48:27","date_gmt":"2019-03-14T13:48:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/groundbasedspacematters.com\/?p=1912"},"modified":"2019-03-14T09:48:27","modified_gmt":"2019-03-14T13:48:27","slug":"scope-and-logical-outgrowth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/groundbasedspacematters.com\/index.php\/2019\/03\/14\/scope-and-logical-outgrowth\/","title":{"rendered":"Scope and Logical Outgrowth"},"content":{"rendered":"

No, this is not a discussion of yucky medical issues dealing with scopes and growths.\u00a0 Why would you even think that?\u00a0 This is just more ground based excitement brought on by the FAA’s imminent release of its new commercial space transportation regulations.\u00a0 As discussed here<\/strong><\/a> and here<\/strong><\/a>, there are ways for you to optimize outcomes.<\/p>\n

One way to avoid wasting your own time in commenting is to understand what an agency means by scope, and that it behooves us all to keep our comments within the scope of the FAA’s proposal .\u00a0 When an agency such as the FAA releases a notice of proposed rulemaking, it must share the proposed requirements with the public (that’s you).\u00a0 The proposed regulations establish the parameters– that is, the scope –of the rulemaking, and that’s what you should direct your comments toward. For example, you can recommend that the FAA not codify one of its proposed requirements.\u00a0 Provide good reasons.\u00a0 Show your work.\u00a0 You can even ask the FAA to modify what it’s proposing. Explain why the FAA should put an exception in its rule for operators such as you. Again, show your work.<\/p>\n

What you don’t want to do– except for cathartic release –is bring up your wish list of all the changes you would like to see.\u00a0 If you do, the FAA will review that portion of your comments, wipe its regulatory brow in relief, and declare the comments addressing things the FAA didn’t address as “out of scope.”\u00a0\u00a0 In other words, if the FAA proposes new regulations governing launch, it won’t pay much heed to your comments requesting changes in its reentry requirements.\u00a0 It’s not supposed to because it needs to give everyone else an opportunity to comment.\u00a0 Likewise, if the proposed changes would address risk, bringing up concerns regarding a system safety requirement may be out of scope.\u00a0\u00a0 You may, of course, point out to the FAA that its proposed changes affect others requirements that it hadn’t thought about.\u00a0 That’s been known to happen.\u00a0 Indeed, it would be worthwhile to make that comment, because it would fall within the scope of the rulemaking, and then later you won’t have to live with inconsistent or even conflicting requirements.<\/p>\n

Don’t feel bad about this out-of-scope protocol.\u00a0 It protects you.\u00a0 An agency must provide its regulated entities and the rest of the public an opportunity to comment on its proposed requirements.\u00a0 If it were to codify a new requirement or major change suggested by a commenter, it would deny the public, which includes other commenters, a chance to address it.<\/p>\n

With all these concerns about an opportunity to comment, you might ask whether it is ok for the FAA to tweak and modify its requirements between its original notice of proposed rulemaking and its final rule, where it codifies what it proposed?\u00a0 It is mostly ok.\u00a0 The courts let agencies make changes that are logical outgrowths of the proposal.\u00a0 This is especially so if the agency’s preamble explores alternatives it considered, thus alerting the public (that’s you) to the possibility that those alternatives might yet be part of the agency’s requirements.<\/p>\n

If the comment is within the scope of the original proposal, if an agency makes a reasonable attempt to accommodate commenters by responding to their suggestions for changes, those changes may be logical outgrowths<\/span> of the original proposal.\u00a0 A final rule may differ from a proposed rule when the in-scope comments warrant the change by bringing up relevant facts or arguments.\u00a0 It almost has to, or what would be the point of commenting?<\/p>\n

Just stay on topic.<\/p>\n

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