FERET: News 

August 2001
FERET Published in Improving Regulation: Cases in Environment, Health, and Safety

FERET was recently published and included in a book, Improving Regulation, Paul S. Fischbeck and R. Scott Farrow, editors. This book is available from the Resources for the Future Press (http://www.rff.org/) or go directly to the description of the book (http://www.rff.org/books/descriptions/improving_regulation.htm)

Of special note, see Chapter 19, “Facilitating Regulatory Design and Stakeholder Participation: The FERET Template with an Application to the Clean Air Act.”

 FERET: Updates 

September 2001
On the error message in Crystal Ball version 5.1

If you are running the program and you get an error message: Crystal Ball now checks for duplicate assumptions entries. It may prompt you that the entries in (Direct Impacts) cells F5 through F10 have duplicate assumptions and that it has cleared the oldest version. This is acceptable and has no impact on the program (the cell entries correctly contain a triangular distribution based on the entries in the three cells to the left of F#; C#, D# and E#.