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            <title>Proposed Changes to Public Participation Guidelines - July 23, 2008</title>
            <description>&lt;img src="http://townhall.virginia.gov/graphics/pics6.gif" alt="state capitol" align="left" hspace="5" /&gt;See Exempt and Fast-Track PPG instructions.&#xD; 
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            <link>http://www.townhall.virginia.gov/L/PPG.cfm</link>
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            <title>Current actions underway</title>
            <description>&lt;img src="http://townhall.virginia.gov/graphics/pics1.gif" alt="dogwood" align="left" hspace="5" /&gt;Showing actions/stages currently being created, amended, or repealed.&#xD; 
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            <link>http://www.townhall.virginia.gov/L/NowInProgress.cfm</link>
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            <title>General Notices</title>
            <description>&lt;img src="http://townhall.virginia.gov/graphics/pics2.gif" alt="cardinal" align="left" hspace="5" /&gt;Showing active general notices for all agencies and boards.&#xD;  
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            <link>http://www.townhall.virginia.gov/L/generalnotice.cfm</link>
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            <title>Guidance Documents</title>
            <description>&lt;img src="http://townhall.virginia.gov/graphics/pics36.gif" alt="bell tower window" align="left" hspace="5" /&gt; A "guidance document" is any document developed by a state agency that provides information or guidance of a general nature to agency staff or the public to interpret or implement statutes or the agency's regulations.&#xD;  
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            <link>http://www.townhall.virginia.gov/L/GDocs.cfm</link>
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            <title>Legislative Mandates</title>
            <description>&lt;img src="http://townhall.virginia.gov/graphics/pics9.gif" alt="state capitol building" align="left" hspace="5" /&gt;Showing recently enacted state laws mandating a regulatory change.&#xD; 
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            <link>http://www.townhall.virginia.gov/L/Mandates.cfm</link>
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            <title>Meetings and Public Hearings</title>
            <description>&lt;img src="http://townhall.virginia.gov/graphics/pics3.gif" alt="state capitol building" align="left" hspace="5" /&gt;Showing meetings scheduled for the next 7 days.&#xD;  
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            <link>http://www.townhall.virginia.gov/L/meetings.cfm?time=nextweek</link>
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            <title>Periodic Reviews</title>
            <description>&lt;img src="http://townhall.virginia.gov/graphics/pics23.gif" alt="state capitol building" align="left" hspace="5" /&gt;Executive Order 36 (2006) requires that all regulations be reviewed at least once every four years.&#xD;  
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            <link>http://www.townhall.virginia.gov/L/PReviews.cfm</link>
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            <title>Public Comment Forums</title>
            <description>&lt;img src="http://townhall.virginia.gov/graphics/pics15.gif" alt="Richmond sky line" align="left" hspace="5" /&gt;Public comment forums allow all Virginia's citizens to participate in making and changing our state regulations.&#xD; 
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            <link>http://www.townhall.virginia.gov/L/Forums.cfm</link>
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            <title>Public Comment Forums with some comment activity</title>
            <description>&lt;img src="http://townhall.virginia.gov/graphics/pics41.gif" alt="Virginia is for Lovers" align="left" hspace="5" /&gt;Public comment forums allow all Virginia's citizens to participate in making and changing our state regulations.&#xD; 
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            <link>http://www.townhall.virginia.gov/L/forums.cfm?ccount=1</link>
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            <title>Public Participation Guidelines</title>
            <description>&lt;img src="http://townhall.virginia.gov/graphics/pics4.gif" alt="Commonwealth of Virginia state seal" align="left" hspace="5" /&gt;Public Participation Guidelines set out how state rulemaking bodies that promulgate regulations (e.g., boards and commissions) seek public input in developing, amending, or repealing their regulations.&#xD;</description>
            <link>http://townhall.virginia.gov/l/ppg.cfm</link>
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            <title>Public petitions</title>
            <description>&lt;img src="http://townhall.virginia.gov/graphics/pics5.gif" alt="capitol fountain" align="left" hspace="5" /&gt;Showing requests from the public to change, eliminate or create state regulations which are awaiting an agency decision or which have been approved and are awaiting implementation.&#xD; 
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            <link>http://www.townhall.virginia.gov/L/Petitions.cfm</link>
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