FRINK Linked Data Fragments server

Matches in SemOpenAlex for { <https://semopenalex.org/work/W933509243> ?p ?o ?g. }

• W933509243 abstract "State and federal administrative agencies · regulate some of the most crucial aspects of our lives-from the types of foods and drugs that we consume, to the rates we pay for utilities, to the uses to which our land and our neighbor's land may be put. Yet, in recent years, regulatory agencies have been called on increasingly to make significant decisions -such as where or whether nuclear power plants should be built-which cannot be resolved fairly unless the parties before ·such agencies engage extremely expensive experts and attorneys. · Few persons today question the need . for public participation in the administrative process. Indeed, within the past two decades, legislative and judicial decisions have broken many of the archaic barriers to such participation. Now the public must be given notice of meetings, business must be conducted in public and, generally speaking, any interested citizen or group of citizens may take part in the proceedings. · However, as regulatory agencies have become involved in more complicated cases, :which are often those of greatest concern to the p4blic, merely letting individual citizens into the hearing room to speak hardly guarantees the public its right to effective participation. · . The time has come to give the public a full arui fair opportumty. to challenge the positions of regulated industries. For years those jridilstries have enjoyed a complete and impOrtant role in the regulatorY process. CalifOtilia's public utilities, for example, expend significant sums in seeking rate increases or permits for new power plants, knowing that they will be permitted to include such costs in the rates charged to each customer. · If members of the public are to enjoy an effeCtive voice in the administrative process, thi(state must take action to compensate tbem for the cost of participating. ·The state, in allowing utilities to pass. their regulation · costs on to ratepayers, forces each consumer to subsidize a utility's case. Fairness suggests ·that competent Citizen groups that disagree with a utility on the public's need for, say, a new power plant be permitted to make a case of equal stature and be· compensated by the public whom they expect to benefit. . But more than fairness argues for compensation of public participants in the regulatory process. The strongest argument is that such .. involvement dramatically improves the quality of the final deeision, and really does bene. fit .each consumer affected by it. . .The potency of effective public . participation became evident in one of the most signi. ficant recent decisions of the Public Utilities : (:pmm.ission: its Sept. 16 order implementing · · ~~line rates for the ·Pacific Gas & Electric · ()).In its landmark decision, the PUC com.~ the dedication and sincerity . of a · ~-of public participants, whose efforts prompted the commission and its staff to adopt these special rates for minimal service to residences of the poor and elderly. That valuable public participation did not come cheaply. One consumer group was present at more than 80 full days of hearings over a two-year period. As might be expected, the effort left the group in severe danger of not being able to join in future cases, unless it receives compensation for its effort. A handful of federal regulatory agencies have recognized this dilemma, and in the last few years have instituted modest programs to involve the public more significantly in their proceedings. Two years ago the Interstate Commerce Commission engaged a public counsel to assist the public in rail-service hearings. This year the Federal Trade Commission has set aside $1 million to compensate its public participants. Now the Nuclear Regulatory Commission is considering a similar program. To date the state has not responded as it should to the needs of public participants. In· . the PG&E case, while commending the public participants for their efforts, the PUC insensitively rejected their claims that they be compensated out of a tiny fraction of. the rate in-" @default.
• W933509243 created "2016-06-24" @default.
• W933509243 creator A5032801873 @default.
• W933509243 date "1975-11-21" @default.
• W933509243 modified "2023-09-27" @default.
• W933509243 title "The Public's Role in Regulatory Affairs" @default.
• W933509243 hasPublicationYear "1975" @default.
• W933509243 type Work @default.
• W933509243 sameAs 933509243 @default.
• W933509243 citedByCount "0" @default.
• W933509243 crossrefType "journal-article" @default.
• W933509243 hasAuthorship W933509243A5032801873 @default.
• W933509243 hasConcept C111919701 @default.
• W933509243 hasConcept C11413529 @default.
• W933509243 hasConcept C121332964 @default.
• W933509243 hasConcept C144133560 @default.
• W933509243 hasConcept C162324750 @default.
• W933509243 hasConcept C163258240 @default.
• W933509243 hasConcept C17744445 @default.
• W933509243 hasConcept C190253527 @default.
• W933509243 hasConcept C199539241 @default.
• W933509243 hasConcept C2779913896 @default.
• W933509243 hasConcept C2781019588 @default.
• W933509243 hasConcept C3116431 @default.
• W933509243 hasConcept C39549134 @default.
• W933509243 hasConcept C41008148 @default.
• W933509243 hasConcept C48103436 @default.
• W933509243 hasConcept C62520636 @default.
• W933509243 hasConcept C83009810 @default.
• W933509243 hasConcept C98045186 @default.
• W933509243 hasConceptScore W933509243C111919701 @default.
• W933509243 hasConceptScore W933509243C11413529 @default.
• W933509243 hasConceptScore W933509243C121332964 @default.
• W933509243 hasConceptScore W933509243C144133560 @default.
• W933509243 hasConceptScore W933509243C162324750 @default.
• W933509243 hasConceptScore W933509243C163258240 @default.
• W933509243 hasConceptScore W933509243C17744445 @default.
• W933509243 hasConceptScore W933509243C190253527 @default.
• W933509243 hasConceptScore W933509243C199539241 @default.
• W933509243 hasConceptScore W933509243C2779913896 @default.
• W933509243 hasConceptScore W933509243C2781019588 @default.
• W933509243 hasConceptScore W933509243C3116431 @default.
• W933509243 hasConceptScore W933509243C39549134 @default.
• W933509243 hasConceptScore W933509243C41008148 @default.
• W933509243 hasConceptScore W933509243C48103436 @default.
• W933509243 hasConceptScore W933509243C62520636 @default.
• W933509243 hasConceptScore W933509243C83009810 @default.
• W933509243 hasConceptScore W933509243C98045186 @default.
• W933509243 hasLocation W9335092431 @default.
• W933509243 hasOpenAccess W933509243 @default.
• W933509243 hasPrimaryLocation W9335092431 @default.
• W933509243 hasRelatedWork W1523275069 @default.
• W933509243 hasRelatedWork W1524542425 @default.
• W933509243 hasRelatedWork W157340755 @default.
• W933509243 hasRelatedWork W1577048208 @default.
• W933509243 hasRelatedWork W1857542572 @default.
• W933509243 hasRelatedWork W1965029794 @default.
• W933509243 hasRelatedWork W219837229 @default.
• W933509243 hasRelatedWork W2322347670 @default.
• W933509243 hasRelatedWork W2327327793 @default.
• W933509243 hasRelatedWork W2332567572 @default.
• W933509243 hasRelatedWork W2357794261 @default.
• W933509243 hasRelatedWork W2366853975 @default.
• W933509243 hasRelatedWork W2488776229 @default.
• W933509243 hasRelatedWork W269199394 @default.
• W933509243 hasRelatedWork W2793249379 @default.
• W933509243 hasRelatedWork W2883222274 @default.
• W933509243 hasRelatedWork W33830653 @default.
• W933509243 hasRelatedWork W591877013 @default.
• W933509243 hasRelatedWork W594904504 @default.
• W933509243 hasRelatedWork W2198520894 @default.
• W933509243 isParatext "false" @default.
• W933509243 isRetracted "false" @default.
• W933509243 magId "933509243" @default.
• W933509243 workType "article" @default.