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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">RULEMAKING NOTICE</span></u></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Dear Colleagues,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Please find attached a
<b>Notice of Proposed Rulemaking</b> and Statement of Need and Fiscal Impact.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Rule Caption</span></u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">: Clarifies the requirements to reactivate a license.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Rule Summary</span></u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">: The proposed rule change clarifies the amount of continuing education (CE) sufficient to maintain
professional competence which is required to reactivate a license from inactive status to active or semi-active status. It also delineates the prorated CE and license fee calculation upon reactivation.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">The agency requests public comment on whether the options should be considered for achieving the rule’s substantive goals while reducing negative economic impact of the rule on business.
Please email your comments to <a href="mailto:laree.felton@state.or.us"><span style="color:blue">laree.felton@state.or.us</span></a> or mail them to the Board’s office at 3218 Pringle Road SE, Ste. 130, Salem, OR 97302. All comments must be received by 10/26/12
at close of business (5pm).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Website:</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""> The above documents, along with rule text (for the proposed rules, new language
underlined, deleted language with strike-through), are available at <a href="http://www.oregon.gov/OBPE">
<span style="color:purple">www.oregon.gov/OBPE</span></a> under “Headlines.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">You are receiving this email because you are either a licensee, resident, applicant, or an interested person who has requested to be on the Board's mailing list. This
list-serve does not allow replies.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Thank you,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">OBPE Staff</span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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