Honestly, I think the recommendation to give the commissioner order-making powers is simplistic in that it would resolve very few of the chief problems. The fact is that 93% of the outstanding requests involve institutions that do not have order-making powers. They have no powers and do not have the necessary resources either. Their resources can certainly not be compared to those available to the commissioner.
Should you decide to grant the commissioner order-making powers and provide additional resources, this would address only a very small percentage of the 1,600 requests. Should you choose that course of action, I would ask that you devote sufficient energy and funding to address the other 70,000 outstanding requests.