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The Regulatory Group, Inc., provides services to Federal agencies in regulation writing, 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 has become expert 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 who need to train their staff on the regulatory process. On the consulting side of its business TRG helps agencies produce proposed rules, final rules, agency guidance documents, internal agency orders, agency rulemaking manuals, rulemaking project reports, and all other documents related to agency policy. On the training side of its business TRG teaches agency employees the process requirements for issuing regulations and agency guidance. TRG's classes address writing regulations, preambles, proposed rules, final rules, interim final rules, direct final rules, supplemental proposed rules, agency guidance, and amendatory language. The classes also address compliance with the Federal Register format requirements, Administrative Procedure Act, Regulatory Flexibility Act, Paperwork Reduction Act, Unfunded Mandates Reform Act, and all other statutes, executive orders, and mandates that impact agency rulemaking.