Still, the designation by the Energy Department is a major milestone in a process laid out by the Nuclear Waste Policy Act of 1982.
But there is a clear process laid out in the Constitution, lawyers said, and it involves two steps.
"In the coming days we will begin the process laid out in the law" to implement the repeal, Obama said.
Finally, the appeals process laid out in the military tribunal rules falls far short of what fairness requires.
This constituted Step 4 in the 12-step Transition Process laid out in Rob Hopkins's Transition Handbook, the jargon-filled manual at the center of the movement.
It was, rather, that the court deliberately chose to intervene in a process laid out in the Constitution for dealing with electoral disputes - a process according to which Congress, not the court, was given the power to choose the president.
Already, during the recount, representatives from the Franken campaign argued that some absentee ballots had been improperly rejected; ultimately, more than 900 of such absentee ballots were opened and counted, under a process laid out by the State Supreme Court.
Holly Bakke, the former state commissioner of banking and insurance who oversaw the aborted negotiations, said that the careful process laid out by the Legislature for converting the company had little bearing on actual negotiations.
One view, advanced by Democrats and government watchdog groups, is that a provision of state law allows the governor to fill an elected office on his own, if there is not otherwise a process laid out in law for filling the vacancy.
The connection handshake process follows the process laid out in IEEE 802.16j.
