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PA Bulletin, Doc. No. 17-2046

NOTICES

Notice of Comments Issued

[47 Pa.B. 7537]
[Saturday, December 9, 2017]

 Section 5(g) of the Regulatory Review Act (71 P.S. § 745.5(g)) provides that the Independent Regulatory Review Commission (Commission) may issue comments within 30 days of the close of the public comment period. The Commission comments are based upon the criteria contained in section 5.2 of the Regulatory Review Act (71 P.S. § 745.5b).

 The Commission has issued comments on the following proposed regulation. The agency must consider these comments in preparing the final-form regulation. The final-form regulation must be submitted within 2 years of the close of the public comment period or it will be deemed withdrawn.

Reg. No. Agency/TitleClose of the Public
Comment Period		IRRC
Comments
Issued
# 2-187 Department of Agriculture
Weighmasters
47 Pa.B. 5952 (September 23, 2017) 		10/23/17 11/21/17

Department of Agriculture Regulation # 2-187 (IRRC # 3179)

Weighmasters

November 21, 2017

 We submit for your consideration the following comments on the proposed rulemaking published in the September 23, 2017 Pennsylvania Bulletin. Our comments are based on criteria in Section 5.2 of the Regulatory Review Act (71 P.S. § 745.5b). Section 5.1(a) of the Regulatory Review Act (71 P.S. § 745.5a(a)) directs the Department of Agriculture (Department) to respond to all comments received from us or any other source.

1. Section 9.24. Limitations of certificate for anthracite.—Clarity.

 Under this section, the Department proposes the following amendment:

 A certificate of quality [shall] must be sufficiently mucilaged at the left end to permit it to be securely attached to the corresponding copies of the certificate of the weighmaster as provided in subsection (b).

 In response to RAF # 10, the Department states the regulation is needed in order to rescind outdated provisions requiring weighmaster's certificates and certificates of quality for anthracite coal to be prepared in triplicate. The Department should either explain the need for this language and how it is consistent with the stated purpose of the proposed regulation or delete it from the final-form regulation.

2. Miscellaneous clarity.

 The Department should amend its response to RAF # 29 (C, D and E) to reflect an updated estimate of the timeline for the final-form regulation.

GEORGE D. BEDWICK, 
Chairperson

[Pa.B. Doc. No. 17-2046. Filed for public inspection December 8, 2017, 9:00 a.m.]


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