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Answers to the APA Trivia Quiz

Here are the answers to the APA Trivia Quiz.

  1. June 11, 1946.

  2. 1966 (September 6; when Pub L. 89-554 was enacted, which enacted Title 5 of the US Code into positive law and scattered the original APA into various sections of Title 5).

  3. 5 USC 1001-1011.

  4. Tom C. Clark.

  5. Dean Acheson, then Chairman of the DC Bar and former Under Secretary of the Treasury.

  6. Homer Cummings.

  7. The other members were: Francis Biddle, Ralph Fuchs, Lloyd Garrison, D. Lawrence Groner, Henry M. Hart, Jr., Carl McFarland, James W. Morris, Henry Shulman, E. Blythe Stason, and Arthur T. Vanderbilt.

  8. Walter Gellhorn.

  9. The other staff members were: Ralph S. Boyd, Kenneth Culp Davis, Robert W. Ginnane, William W. Golub, Martin Norr, and Richard S. Salant.

  10. 27.

  11. 12.

  12. "Examiners" (The term "hearing examiners" was substituted "for clarity" in the 1966 recodification; in 1978, the term "administrative law judges" was substituted by Pub L. 96-251.).

  13. Senator Pat McCarran (Nevada) and Rep. Hatton Sumners (Texas).

  14. Zero.

  15. The Walter-Logan bill.

  16. The Federal Register Act (Federal Tort Claims Act, originally August 1946, significantly revamped in 1966; Agency Practice Act--1965; FACA--1972).

  17. The Administrative Dispute Resolution Act, Pub L. 101-552, November 15, 1990, amended 5 USC 556(c) (A change to 5 USC 5372--ALJ pay schedule was enacted November 5, 1990; Negotiated Rulemaking Act did not amend the APA).

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