The guidelines do not preclude legislators from participating as a member of a reg neg committee. Negotiation committees formed by DEP should be published in the Pennsylvania Bulletin. The Department will publish a notice in the Pennsylvania Bulletin that a negotiation committee has been formed. This notice will include the committee members. Regulations developed using the reg neg process would go through the normal public review process.
Legislators can request that certain groups or individuals be included.
DEP will not exclude groups or individuals that have fundamental value differences because the objective is to get people with differing views together. Participants, however, must agree to work toward a solution. This guidance can be adopted to fit individual situations. A facilitator can be a trained DEP employee or an independent contractor. If a DEP employee is the facilitator, that person must be acceptable to the group and not related to the issue being discussed.