Notice2022-03445
Retrospective Review of Regulations
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Published
February 17, 2022
Issuing agencies
Legal Services Corporation
Abstract
The Legal Services Corporation (LSC) is requesting public input on its regulatory priorities in 2022 and future years. Although LSC makes its regulatory priorities available for public comment annually in April, LSC has not formally sought the public's views on its regulatory activities since 2007.
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[Federal Register Volume 87, Number 33 (Thursday, February 17, 2022)]
[Notices]
[Pages 9088-9089]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2022-03445]
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LEGAL SERVICES CORPORATION
Retrospective Review of Regulations
AGENCY: Legal Services Corporation.
ACTION: Request for information.
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SUMMARY: The Legal Services Corporation (LSC) is requesting public
input on its regulatory priorities in 2022 and future years. Although
LSC makes its regulatory priorities available for public comment
annually in April, LSC has not formally sought the public's views on
its regulatory activities since 2007.
DATES: Comments due May 18, 2022.
Listening sessions, all conducted via Zoom, all times Eastern:
1. Thursday, March 3, 2022, 11:00 a.m.-1:00 p.m.
2. Monday, March 14, 2022 2:00 p.m.-4:00 p.m.
3. Tuesday, March 29, 2022, 3:00 p.m.-5:00 p.m.
4. Wednesday, April 13, 10:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m.
ADDRESSES: You may send comments by any of the following methods:
<bullet> Email: <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#355946564740595058545e5c5b52755946561b525a43"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="6d011e0e1f180108000c0604030a2d011e0e430a021b">[email protected]</span></a>. Include ``2022 Regulatory
Review Comments'' in the subject line of the message.
<bullet> Fax: 202-337-6519. Please send to the attention of
Stefanie Davis, Senior Associate General Counsel, and include ``2022
Regulatory Review Comments'' on the cover page.
<bullet> Mail: Legal Services Corporation, ATTN: Stefanie Davis,
Senior Associate General Counsel, 3333 K Street NW, Washington, DC
20007.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Stefanie Davis, Senior Associate
General Counsel, Legal Services Corporation, 3333 K Street NW,
Washington, DC 20007; (202) 295-1563 (phone); 202-337-6831 (fax); or
<a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#cbb8afaabda2b88ba7b8a8e5aca4bd"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="d8abbcb9aeb1ab98b4abbbf6bfb7ae">[email protected]</span></a>.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Listening Session Access Information: To participate in the
listening sessions via Zoom, please follow the link or use the dial-in
instructions below:
Link: <a href="https://lsc-gov.zoom.us/j/2464362303">https://lsc-gov.zoom.us/j/2464362303</a>.
Meeting ID: 246 436 2303.
Find your local number: <a href="https://lsc-gov.zoom.us/u/a293EJE37">https://lsc-gov.zoom.us/u/a293EJE37</a>.
Background: LSC last solicited input broadly on its Rulemaking
Agenda in 2007 via an email to Executive Directors. In the intervening
years, LSC has identified rulemaking priorities through a combination
of:
<bullet> LSC Task Force reports;
<bullet> Comments from stakeholders, including grantees, the client
board member community, LSC's Board of Directors, and the National
Legal Aid and Defender Association;
<bullet> Audit and investigation reports issued by LSC's Office of
the Inspector General;
<bullet> Statutory changes; and
<bullet> Discrete situations that indicated a need for rulemaking.
Since 2010, LSC has completed 17 separate rulemakings. These
rulemakings have ranged from ones needed to reflect Congressional
action, such as revisions to the Freedom of Information Act or the
expansion of grantees' authority to represent defendants in Tribal
criminal courts under the Tribal Law and Order Act of 2010, to complete
overhauls of LSC's subgrant rule. LSC repealed one
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obsolete rule governing the creation and operation of state advisory
councils. LSC also created two new rules, one modeled after the Federal
government's Touhy rule establishing the process by which outside
parties may request documents and testimony from LSC for litigation
purposes, and one governing grantees' processes for awarding contracts
and acquiring, using, and disposing of property with LSC funds.
Because more than ten years have elapsed since LSC last engaged its
stakeholders in a comprehensive review of its rules, LSC Management
believed that consulting with grantees, the Board, and other
stakeholders in a more focused process will result in a new agenda that
prioritizes changes aimed at reducing administrative burdens on grantee
and LSC staff alike and improving the efficiency and effectiveness of
grantees' operations and LSC's oversight activities.
Through this Notice, LSC is announcing opportunities for grantees,
clients, other stakeholders, and the public to provide LSC with their
views on three issues:
<bullet> Regulations that require clarification, modification, or
revision;
<bullet> Regulations that are no longer needed and may be repealed;
and
<bullet> Areas or topics for which new regulations may be needed or
desirable.
Interested parties may submit their comments in writing to LSC via
email, fax, or postal mail. Additionally, LSC will hold four listening
sessions during which interested parties may join a Zoom call with LSC
staff to provide their comments orally.
Authority: 42 U.S.C. 2996g(e).
Dated: February 14, 2022.
Stefanie Davis,
Senior Associate General Counsel.
[FR Doc. 2022-03445 Filed 2-16-22; 8:45 am]
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