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Under current law, there is little doubt, however, that a general grant of authority to implement statutory provisions by regulation includes authority to make substantive rules, unless the peculiar circumstances of a given provision suggest otherwise. interpreting even a more particularized delegation of rtulemakin authority broadly as to uphold the agency rulemaking authority Implied authority- Morton v Ruiz: recognizing the practical need to make rules to fill any gap left, implicitly or explicitly, by congress. (see chevron) Rulemaking- APA constraints- retroactivity APA limits rulemaking authority by 2 means. First, the rule must fit into the APA’s definition of a rule. The definition is exceedingly broad, however, a common difficulty raised is the retroactive effect of a rule as conflicting with the APA’s definition of a rule as have a future effect. Thus, a rule may only be retroactive if the organic statute grants express retroactive rulemaking authority. Bowen v Georgetown Univ Hospital A general grant of rulemaking authority does not include the authority to promulgate rules with retroactive application. Rulemaking-APA- constraints-retroactivity v adjudication Second, the APA allows the decision to proceed by rules to be challenged as arbitrary & capricious under § 706(2)(A). Given that the decision to proceed by rule is a discretionary matter and there are obvious policy reasons to pursue a rule, such as efficiency and clarity, it is a difficult challenge to prove successfully that the choice was arbitrary & capricious. American Hospital v LRB: rejecting the challenge to NLRB rulemaking because adjudication better suited to individualized consideration. See also Bowen: Scalia said that perhaps a circumstance where a regulation has secondary retroactive effects as to upset reliance