K-Romulus
Member
Long road ahead . . .
First the NPS will have to figure out what the change will be, then it will have to assign some poor NPS lawyer to draft a regulation implementing these changes and get it approved through the NPS bureaucracy (incl. the Park Police), in consultation with various "interested parties" within the .gov (Interior, BLM, USDA, etc.)
Then the proposed reg gets published in the Federal Register for 30 days to solicit public comments before final approval. Expect numerous comments from the same parties that filed pro-DC briefs in Heller.
Then the comments will have to be addressed internally, to see if the proposed regulation should be altered or edited. Formal rebuttals/responses to the comments would have to be drafted.
Then the final regulation would have to be approved by whatever body in NPS has the authority to approve it.
The final regulation would then be published in the Register, along with the formal responses to the public comments.
We're looking at maybe six to nine months from today. Working in DC, I will be surprised if it gets done at all before 1-20-09.
First the NPS will have to figure out what the change will be, then it will have to assign some poor NPS lawyer to draft a regulation implementing these changes and get it approved through the NPS bureaucracy (incl. the Park Police), in consultation with various "interested parties" within the .gov (Interior, BLM, USDA, etc.)
Then the proposed reg gets published in the Federal Register for 30 days to solicit public comments before final approval. Expect numerous comments from the same parties that filed pro-DC briefs in Heller.
Then the comments will have to be addressed internally, to see if the proposed regulation should be altered or edited. Formal rebuttals/responses to the comments would have to be drafted.
Then the final regulation would have to be approved by whatever body in NPS has the authority to approve it.
The final regulation would then be published in the Register, along with the formal responses to the public comments.
We're looking at maybe six to nine months from today. Working in DC, I will be surprised if it gets done at all before 1-20-09.