The Regulatory Group, Inc., is a small consulting firm specializing in the Federal regulatory process. Since 1980 The Regulatory Group has helped Federal agency clients write rulemaking documents, guidance documents, rulemaking manuals and handbooks, and analyze public comments. The Regulatory Group also conducts training courses for Federal agency personnel, teaching rule writers and reviewers the rulemaking process and how to write effective rules and guidance.

NOTE:  On days that the Federal Government is closed classes will be cancelled.  See http://www.opm.gov/status/.

We provide Federal agency regulation training. We specialize in federal rulemaking, government rulemaking, federal register, regulation agency training, federal agency government rulemaking, register rulemaking federal training. The Regulatory Group, Inc., provides services to Federal agencies in regulatory drafting, policy development, training, indexing, management of regulatory systems, and report writing. Fred Emery, a former Director of the Office of the Federal Register, founded TRG in 1980. TRG's staff includes writers, editors, teachers, lawyers, and a former Managing Editor of The Federal Register. Over the years, TRG's staff have become experts in all aspects of the Federal regulatory process. TRG's clients have included Federal agencies needing assistance in carrying out their regulatory functions as well as private sector organizations and individuals who need to work with and understand the regulatory process. We specialize in federal regulation drafting, goverment regulation drafting, federal agency regulation writing and goverment regulation writing. Between 1970 and 1979, Mr. Emery was Director of the Office of the Federal Register, where he was responsible for publication of the Federal Register, the Code of Federal Regulations, the U.S. Statutes at Large, the United States Government Manual, and several Presidential publications. During this time Mr. Emery was a member of President Carter's task force that drafted Executive Order 12044 and taught Administrative Law at Antioch Law School. From 1977 to 1980 Mr. Emery chaired the ABA's Standing Committee on Legal Drafting. Mr. Emery's career in Washington, D.C. began in 1963 with the Federal Aviation Administration working on the FAA's recodification of the aviation safety regulations into the uniform Federal Aviation Regulations. Subsequent to the recodification project, Mr. Emery was named chief of the branch responsible for the legal drafting and interpretation of regulations applicable to air carrier and commercial operator operations. In 1968, Mr. Emery became Deputy Assistant General Counsel for Regulation of the Department of Transportation where he was involved in all of the Department's transportation safety regulations.