2 - Ch 6

Question 1

administrative agency

Answer 1

a government bogy charged with administering and implementing legislation

Question 2

administrative law

Answer 2

the law governing administrative agencies

Question 3

administrative procedure act

Answer 3

a federal law that establishes the operating rules for administrative agencies

Question 4

freedom of information act

Answer 4

federal law permitting citizens to request documents and records from administrative agencies

Question 5

open meeting law

Answer 5

law that requires advance notice of agency meeting and public access

Question 6

federal register act

Answer 6

a federal law requiring agencies to make public disclosure of proposed rules, passed rules, and activities

Question 7

federal register

Answer 7

a government publication issued five days a week that lists all administrative regulations, all presidential proclamations and executive orders, and other documents and classes of documents that the president or Congress direct to be published

Question 8

informal settlements

Answer 8

negotiated disposition of a matter before an administrative agency, generally without public sanctions

Question 9

consent decrees

Answer 9

informal settlements of enforcement actions brought by agencies

Question 10

cease and desist order

Answer 10

an order issued by a court or administrative agency to stop a practice that it decides is improper

Question 11

exhaustion of administrative remedies

Answer 11

the requirement that an agency make its final decision before the parties can go to court