Summary of Final Regulatory Flexibility Analysis
These rules are applicable to individual sportspersons and impose no compliance or reporting requirements for small businesses, and no design or operational standards are contained in the rule.
Summary of Comments by Legislative Review Committees
No comments were reported.
Natural Resources
Fish, Game, etc., Chs.
NR 1—
Rule revises section
NR 10.104 (4) (b), relating to deer management unit population goals. Effective 6-1-10.
Summary of Final Regulatory Flexibility Analysis
These rules, and the legislation which grants the department rule making authority, do not have a significant fiscal effect on the private sector or small businesses. These rules are applicable to individual sportspersons and impose no compliance or reporting requirements for small businesses, nor are any design or operational standards contained in the rule.
Summary of Comments by Legislative Review Committees
These rules were reviewed by the Senate Committee on Transportation, Tourism, Forestry and Natural Resources and the Assembly Committee on Fish and Wildlife. On December 17, 2009 both committees held a joint hearing on these rules. On January 5, 2010 the Assembly Committee on Fish and Wildlife requested non-specific modifications to Clearinghouse Rule No. 09-053. The Natural Resources Board adopted modifications at its March 16, 2010 meeting. The department did not receive additional comments or requests for modification.
Natural Resources
Fish, Game, etc., Chs.
NR 1—
Rule repeals section
NR 45.04 (1) (g) and creates section
NR 45.045, relating to regulation of firewood entering department lands. Effective 6-1-10.
Summary of Final Regulatory Flexibility Analysis
Small businesses affected by the rule include firewood vendors that get their wood more than 25 miles from state lands where they wish to sell wood. Currently, firewood dealers that contract with state properties have been able to continue with their contracts by providing wood from within the allowable distance if they segregate that wood from non-allowable wood. Other vendors such as convenience stores would need to switch to a supplier that got its wood from within the allowable distance from the park or from a wood vendor who was certified by the WI DATCP as treating their wood to prevent transmission of wood borne pests or diseases.
Summary of Comments by Legislative Review Committees
The rules were reviewed by the Assembly Committee on Natural Resources and the Senate Committee on Transportation, Tourism, Forestry and Natural Resources. The department did not receive comments or requests for modification as a result of the review.
Natural Resources
Environmental Protection — Air Pollution Control,
Chs.
NR 400—
Rule revises Chapters
NR 404,
438, and
484, relating to ambient air quality standards for ozone and lead, including new reporting requirements for lead compounds. Effective 6-1-10.
Summary of Final Regulatory Flexibility Analysis
The promulgation of the ozone and lead ambient air quality standards would not have any direct effect on business, including those defined as small business. Following the promulgation of the ozone and lead air quality standards, the EPA will determine if any areas in the state should be designated as nonattainment for either of the new air quality standards. The Department is required to develop an air quality management state implementation plan (SIP) to ensure that all ambient air quality standards are attained and maintained in all areas of the state. The future development of that SIP to address ozone and lead may result in emission limitations being developed for specific source categories or in the implementation of emission control technologies which may affect business, including small business. Any prospective SIP revisions would occur through the development of additional rules, which would include analyses of the rules' potential effects on the private sector, including small business.
Summary of Comments by Legislative Review Committees
The rules were reviewed by the Assembly Committee on Natural Resources and the Senate Committee on Environment. Neither committee held a public hearing and the Department did not receive any comments or requests for modification from the committees.
Pharmacy Examining Board
Rule revises sections
Phar 6.08,
7.12, and
8.12, relating to security systems, utilization reviews, and prescription orders transmitted by facsimile machines. Effective 6-1-10.
Summary of Final Regulatory Flexibility Analysis
These rules were reviewed and discussed by the department's Small Business Review Advisory Committee which determined that the rules will have no significant economic impact on a substantial number of small businesses, as defined in s.
227.114 (1), Stats. The Department's Regulatory Review Coordinator may be contacted by email at
hector.colon@wisconsin.gov, or by calling 608-266-8608.
Summary of Comments by Legislative Review Committees
No comments were reported.
Public Defender Board
Rule revises Chapters
PD 2,
3, and
6, relating to representation by the state public defender of persons detained under Chapters
51 or
55, Stats., or subject to involuntary administration of psychotropic medication without a predetermination of financial eligibility. Effective 6-1-10.
Summary of Final Regulatory Flexibility Analysis
There will be no effect on small business.
Summary of Comments by Legislative Review Committees
No comments were reported.
Public Instruction
Rule revises sections
PI 35.03 and
35.05, relating to establishing a fee under the Milwaukee Parental Choice Program. Effective 6-1-10.
Summary of Final Regulatory Flexibility Analysis
The rules will have no significant economic impact on small businesses, as defined in s.
227.114 (1) (a), Stats.
Summary of Comments by Legislative Review Committees
No comments were reported.
Public Instruction
Rule creates Chapter
PI 39, relating to grants for tribal language revitalization. Effective 6-1-10.
Summary of Final Regulatory Flexibility Analysis
The rules will have no significant economic impact on small businesses, as defined in s.
227.114 (1) (a), Stats.
Summary of Comments by Legislative Review Committees
No comments were reported.
Public Instruction
Rule creates section
PI 8.01 (4), relating to waiver of school hours. Effective 6-1-10.
Summary of Final Regulatory Flexibility Analysis
The rules will have no significant economic impact on small businesses, as defined in s.
227.114 (1) (a), Stats.
Summary of Comments by Legislative Review Committees
No comments were reported.
Revenue
Rule revises Chapter
Tax 11, relating to sales and use tax. Effective 6-1-10.
Summary of Final Regulatory Flexibility Analysis
This rule does not have a significant economic impact on a substantial number of small businesses.
Summary of Comments by Legislative Review Committees
No comments were reported.
Tourism
Rule creates Chapter
Tour 3, relating to grants to municipalities and organizations for regional tourist information centers created under
2009 Wisconsin Act 28. Effective 6-1-10.
Summary of Final Regulatory Flexibility Analysis
These rules will have no effect on small businesses as defined in s.
227.114 (1), Stats.
Summary of Comments by Legislative Review Committees
No comments were reported.
Transportation
Rule creates Chapter
Trans 148, relating to electronic recording and release of liens by non-individual creditors. Effective 6-1-10.
Summary of Final Regulatory Flexibility Analysis
Most non-individual secured parties are financial institutions, located in and outside Wisconsin. Virtually all financial institutions maintain their records in electronic format and possess computers and access to the Internet. On the other hand, the Department recognizes that some small businesses do not possess this capability.
While there is not a direct connection between the size of the business and the amount of business done with the Department, the Department believes that this is an adequate measure of a small business for which it may be difficult to purchase necessary hardware and software, or to hire sufficient staff to manage electronic security interest statement filing. Therefore, the rule exempts secured parties that have filed 48 or fewer security interest statements in motor vehicles during the previous calendar year.
Summary of Comments by Legislative Review Committees
No comments were reported.
