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<p class="MsoNormal">I was reading through two documents setting out in detail the proposed guidance on legal/natural.
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<p class="MsoNormal">There seems to be more than one Google doc on this and I am not sure which one is the latest or most official, though I suspect it is the one with various people’s comments crawling all over it.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I was pretty supportive of the Guidance overall. I had one problem with it, though.
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<p class="MsoNormal">I liked the description of HOW the differentiation needed to take place. But in describing WHEN differentiation takes place and WHO would do it, it sets out 3 “high level scenarios”.
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<p class="MsoNormal">The first two are ok. The third scenario (listed as #5 in the document) is that the Registrar does it for the RNH, based on “inferences.”
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<p class="MsoNormal">That option just doesn’t fly for those of us representing RNH’s in this process. We cannot have a registrant’s disclosure status or person type determined FOR them by someone else. If we can strike that part of the guidance, I think we
can be on our way to a much broader consensus. <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Dr. Milton L Mueller<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Georgia Institute of Technology<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">School of Public Policy<o:p></o:p></p>
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