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Activity that inasmuch as there were outstanding issues regarding the agreement pending before the Federal Services Impasses Panel ( FSIP ) , a final agreement had not been completed and the 30-day period for review would not commence running until the complete agreement was before it . Second , states would be measured on their success in meeting the statutory seven-day deadline for issuing expedited food stamps to families in particularly extreme need and the 30-day deadline for issuing food stamps to all other applicants . To summarize the chain of events that has occurred in this and other recent HCFA regulations : HCFA gets Congress to cede increased authority to the agency in the name of Medicare savings and elimination of fraud and abuse ; HCFA expands or maximizes its new authority in a direct final or interim final rule ; HCFA waives the proposed rule and the 30-day implementation period ; in so doing , HCFA removes itself from the requirements of the RFA ( which were designed to help agencies identify and reduce unnecessary burden on small entities ) .