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The Nevada Administrative Procedure Act establishes procedural requirements for the adoption of administrative regulations by agencies, officers and employees of the Executive Department of the State Government, with certain exceptions. (NRS 233B.010-233B.120) Under the Act, such state agencies, officers and employees are required to take certain actions to determine the impact of a proposed regulation on for-profit businesses that employ less than 150 employees before adopting a regulation that is likely to impose a direct and significant economic burden upon such a small business or that directly restricts the formation, operation or expansion of such a small business. (NRS 233B.0382, 233B.0608) The Act further requires that after such actions are taken, the state agency, officer or employee is required to prepare a small business impact statement and prescribes the information required to be included in the statement. (NRS 233B.0608, 233B.0609) The Act also requires that an agency, before holding an initial public hearing on a proposed regulation, conduct at least one workshop to solicit comments from interested persons on one or more general topics to be addressed in the regulation. (NRS 233B.061) Existing law also establishes procedural requirements for the adoption by a local government of a rule, which is defined in existing law to mean an ordinance and, with certain exceptions, an action taken that imposes, increases or changes the basis for the calculation of a fee t