Maine Revised Statutes Title 5. Administrative Procedures and Services § 8051-B. Consensus-based rule development process

A. Establish a representative group of participants with an interest in the subject of the rulemaking;

B. Develop ground rules for the operation of the consensus-based rule development process that are mutually acceptable to the agency and the participants;

C. Disclose the funding and time constraints on the agency;

D. Give prior notice of all meetings to the representative group of participants and establish a mechanism for other interested parties to receive notice and information regarding all meetings;

E. Select an agency employee or another individual contracted by the agency to chair or facilitate the meetings; and

F. Distribute a summary and submitted materials from all meetings to the representative group of participants and other interested parties.

A. A list of all meetings held, the participants at each meeting and the interests or organizations they represented;

B. A summary of each of the meetings; and

C. A description by the agency of the consensus-based rule development process and an analysis of the decisions that came out of that process, including the extent to which consensus was reached on the decisions.