CO-CHAIR :
SEN
. MAGGIE CROTTY
CO-CHAIR :
REP. BRENT HASSERT
EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
:
VICKI THOMAS
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JOINT COMMITTEE
ILLINOIS
ON
GENERAL
ADMINISTRATIVE
ASSEMBLY
RULES
700 STRATTON BUILDING
SPRINGFIELD, ILLINOIS 62706
217/785-2254
MEMORANDUM
TO :
Agency Rules Coordinators
FROM
:
JCAR
DATE :
12/1/05
RE :
Mark-up of Agency 1
st Notice Submissions
RECEIVED
CLERK'S OFFICE
APR 2 4 2006
Pollution
STATE OF
Control
ILLINOISBoard
SEN . J. BRADLEY BURZYNSKI
SEN . JAMES CLAYBORNE
SEN
. STEVE RAUSCHENBERGER
SEN. DAN RUTHERFORD
SEN. IRA SILVERSTEIN
REP TOM HOLBROOK
REP DAVID R . LEITCH
REP
. LARRY McKEON
REP DAVID MILLER
REP. ROSEMARY MULLIGAN
For some time, JCAR has been sending you a hand marked-up copy of 01 (1" Notice) rule text
indicating any changes made prior to Register publication, in addition to the clean copy of the 01
.
Instead of that hand-marked copy, we will now be enclosing a colored copy produced by the text
comparison program that we use
. This document will be created by comparing the final copy published
in the Register to the text you submitted to the SOS on disk .
The comparison document may be a little difficult to follow at first
. Generally, when the submitted text
and the final text are the same, the text will be black
. Differences will be indicated in color . However,
colored text does not always mean JCAR published text that differed from your draft
. For example,
spacing differences may result in highlighting
. The method you use to indicate changes on your disk
(i .e.,
track changes, manual striking and underlining, striking before underlining as opposed to
underlining before striking) may be considered by the program to be differences
. When JCAR applies
track changes, it is careful to do so in a manner that results in tight punctuation and good word space
after track changes have been run
. If your agency disk was not as particular, the program will detect
these as differences
. It will not pick up on differences in bolding or the use of italics
. It is completely
befuddled by table format, but usually detects text differences in tables
. There are also some quirks as to
how some disks are read by the program ; i .e.,
quote marks will sometimes read as "A" and "@" and
apostrophes as equal signs
. You will soon be able to quickly discern which highlighted portions are
relevant .
The area in which we have found this program to be very reliable is that, if the text is black, you can be
assured the 2 texts are identical
. The program points out too many irrelevant differences, but does not
seem to overlook differences
.
If you have any trouble following the attached comparison document, your JCAR Staff contact can
probably advise
. These documents have been used in our office for the past 3 years
. We believe that use
of the comparison document will provide a cleaner version for your use and will obviously save some
JCAR Staff time.
