The committee has authority to make and promulgate rules under which act?

• A. Labor Act
• B. Environmental Protection Act
• C. Consumer Protection Act
• D. Administrative Procedures Act

Answer: (D)

Rulemaking by a committee is governed by a law that sets the process agencies must follow to adopt regulations. The Administrative Procedures Act provides that framework, establishing how proposed rules are noticed, opened for public comment, sometimes heard in hearings, and finally adopted. This is the procedural backbone for creating regulations, not the subject matter of the rules themselves.

The other acts focus on specific policy areas—labor standards, environmental protections, or consumer protections—not on how agencies go about making and promulgating rules. So while those laws shape what can be regulated in their domains, they don’t provide the rulemaking process. That framework comes from the Administrative Procedures Act.