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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:black">Legislators and Interested Persons:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:black">On March 27, 2019, the Commissioner’s Office filed with the Oregon Secretary of State, on behalf of the Administrative Prosecution Unit and the Judicial Forum, a Notice of Proposed Rule
Making for OAR chapter 839 Division 50, Contested Cases.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black;letter-spacing:-.4pt">Attached to this email is a memo and a copy of the Notice, which includes the text of the rules, showing the proposed amendments.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black;letter-spacing:-.4pt">Any member of the public may submit comments to the rules by 5 pm on April 29, 2019 to:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black;letter-spacing:-.4pt">Cristin Casey, c/o BOLI<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black;letter-spacing:-.4pt">800 NE Oregon St. #1045
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black;letter-spacing:-.4pt"><a href="mailto:Cristin.casey@state.or.us">Cristin.casey@state.or.us</a>.
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black;letter-spacing:-.4pt">The Notice of Proposed Rulemaking may also be viewed and downloaded after April 1</span><sup><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:black;letter-spacing:-.4pt">st</span></sup><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black;letter-spacing:-.4pt">,
2019 from the BOLI “New and Proposed Rules” web page at</span><u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:blue;letter-spacing:-.4pt">
</span></u><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><a href="http://www.oregon.gov/BOLI"><span style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:blue;letter-spacing:-.4pt">http://www.oregon.gov/BOLI</span></a></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black;letter-spacing:-.4pt">
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black;letter-spacing:-.4pt">Thank you for your attention to this matter.</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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