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‘‘(B) establish policies concerning the sub-
mission of extensive new comments, data, or re-
ports towards the end of the comment period; 
‘‘(C) establish policies regarding treatment 
of comments, ex parte communications, and 
data or reports (including statistical reports 
and reports to Congress) submitted after the 
comment period to ensure that the public has 
adequate notice of and opportunity to respond 
to such submissions before the Commission re-
lies on such submissions in any order, decision, 
report, or action; 
‘‘(D) establish procedures for, not later 
than 14 days after the end of each quarter of 
a calendar year (or more frequently, as the 
Commission considers appropriate), publishing 
on the Internet website of the Commission and 
submitting to Congress a report that contains— 
‘‘(i) the status of open rulemaking 
proceedings and proposed orders, decisions, 
reports, or actions on circulation for review 
by the Commissioners, including which 
Commissioners have not cast a vote on an 
order, decision, report, or action that has 
been on circulation for more than 60 days; 
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‘‘(ii) for the petitions, applications, 
complaints, and other requests for action 
by the Commission that were pending at 
the Commission on the last day of such 
quarter (or more frequent period, as the 
case may be)— 
‘‘(I) the number of such requests, 
broken down by the bureau primarily 
responsible for action and, for each 
bureau, the type of request (such as a 
petition, application, or complaint); 
and 
‘‘(II) information regarding the 
amount of time for which such re-
quests have been pending, broken 
down as described in subclause (I); 
and 
‘‘(iii) a list of the congressional inves-
tigations of the Commission that were 
pending on the last day of such quarter (or 
more frequent period, as the case may be) 
and the cost of such investigations, individ-
ually and in the aggregate; 
‘‘(E) establish deadlines (relative to the 
date of filing) for— 
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‘‘(i) in the case of a petition for a de-
claratory ruling under section 1.2 of title 
47, Code of Federal Regulations, issuing a 
public notice of such petition; 
‘‘(ii) in the case of a petition for rule-
making under section 1.401 of such title, 
issuing a public notice of such petition; 
and 
‘‘(iii) in the case of a petition for re-
consideration under section 1.106 or 1.429 
of such title or an application for review 
under section 1.115 of such title, issuing a 
public notice of a decision on the petition 
or application by the Commission or under 
delegated authority (as the case may be); 
‘‘(F) establish guidelines (relative to the 
date of filing) for the disposition of petitions 
filed under section 1.2 of such title; 
‘‘(G) establish procedures for the inclusion 
of the specific language of the proposed rule or 
the proposed amendment of an existing rule in 
a notice of proposed rulemaking; and 
‘‘(H) require notices of proposed rule-
making and orders adopting a rule or amending 
an existing rule that— 
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‘‘(i) create (or propose to create) a 
program activity to contain performance 
measures for evaluating the effectiveness of 
the program activity; and 
‘‘(ii) substantially change (or propose 
to substantially change) a program activity 
to contain— 
‘‘(I) performance measures for 
evaluating the effectiveness of the pro-
gram activity as changed (or proposed 
to be changed); or 
‘‘(II) a finding that existing per-
formance measures will effectively 
evaluate the program activity as 
changed (or proposed to be changed). 
‘‘(3) INQUIRY.—Not later than 1 year after the 
date of the enactment of this section, the Commis-
sion shall complete an inquiry to seek public com-
ment on whether and how the Commission should— 
‘‘(A) establish procedures for allowing a bi-
partisan majority of Commissioners to place an 
order, decision, report, or action on the agenda 
of an open meeting; 
‘‘(B) establish procedures for informing all 
Commissioners of a reasonable number of op-
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tions available to the Commission for resolving 
a petition, complaint, application, rulemaking, 
or other proceeding; 
‘‘(C) establish procedures for ensuring that 
all Commissioners have adequate time, prior to 
being required to decide a petition, complaint, 
application, rulemaking, or other proceeding 
(including at a meeting held pursuant to section 
5(d)), to review the proposed Commission deci-
sion document, including the specific language 
of any proposed rule or any proposed amend-
ment of an existing rule; 
‘‘(D) establish procedures for publishing 
the text of agenda items to be voted on at an 
open meeting in advance of such meeting so 
that the public has the opportunity to read the 
text before a vote is taken; 
‘‘(E) establish deadlines (relative to the 
date of filing) for disposition of applications for 
a license under section 1.913 of title 47, Code 
of Federal Regulations; 
‘‘(F) assign resources needed in order to 
meet the deadlines described in subparagraph 
(E), including whether the Commission’s ability 
to meet such deadlines would be enhanced by 
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assessing a fee from applicants for such a li-
cense; and 
‘‘(G) except as otherwise provided in sec-
tion 4(p), publish each order, decision, report, 
or action not later than 30 days after the date 
of the adoption of such order, decision, report, 
or action. 
‘‘(4) DATA
FOR
PERFORMANCE
MEASURES.— 
The Commission shall develop a performance meas-
ure or proposed performance measure required by 
this subsection to rely, where possible, on data al-
ready collected by the Commission. 
‘‘(5) GAO AUDIT.—Not less frequently than 
every 6 months, the Comptroller General of the 
United States shall audit the cost estimates provided 
by the Commission under paragraph (2)(D)(iii) dur-
ing the preceding 6-month period. 
‘‘(b) PERIODIC REVIEW.—On the date that is 5 years 
after the completion of the rulemaking proceeding under 
subsection (a)(1), and every 5 years thereafter, the Com-
mission shall initiate a new rulemaking proceeding to con-
tinue to consider such procedural changes to its rules as 
may be in the public interest to maximize opportunities 
for public participation and efficient decisionmaking. 
‘‘(c) NONPUBLIC COLLABORATIVE DISCUSSIONS.— 
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