Court Denies NRDC Atrazine Motion
2003 - 1999
CRE Files Human Test Data Petition at EPA
EPA's Pesticides Office has refused to consider clinical human test data in establishing No Observed Adverse Effects Levels during pesticide review and registration. On August 30, 2001, CRE petitioned EPA to return to its prior practice of considering clinical human test data when establishing pesticide NOAELs. CRE's petition explains that the Pesticides Office cannot refuse to consider clinical human test data without a rulemaking in accordance with all applicable laws and executive orders.
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Don Fulsom, Former White House Correspondent for UPI, Joins CRE Web Reporting Team
Don Fulsom, veteran Washington reporter, has joined the cadre of CRE website reporters. Don has been a reporter at the White House for UPI, and has written articles for major publications such as Esquire. Don will begin reporting on the OSHA ergonomics rule. In this capacity, he will write periodic articles on the views of the affected parties as well as emerging issues on the ergonomics rule.
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The AAHRPP Is A New Voluntary Accreditation And Consensus Standards Setting Body or Human Subjects Research
The Association for the Accreditation of Human
Research Protection Programs was incorporated as a nonprofit in 2001 to serve as
a voluntary accreditation and standards setting body for human research
protection programs. The AAHRPP’s press release explains that it "offers
accreditation to institutions engaged in research involving human participants
using a voluntary, peer-driven, educational model."
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Federal Government and Others Move Ahead With Reviews of Human Volunteer Research
A variety of entities are currently reviewing this subject and
considering recommendations. These entities include Federal agencies, Federal advisory committees, international bodies, and Congress. The resulting recommendations are bound to raise numerous issues in areas such as regulatory impacts, practicality, ethics, and legality. CRE will follow developments in this area through periodic updates and links to other key sites. Commentaries may be submitted to CRE for posting on the "Commentaries" page, at CRE's discretion regarding pertinence and quality of content.
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Paperwork is Drowning the Medical Profession
An insightful article recently appeared in the Washington Post describing the increasingly onerous paperwork and regulatory burdens imposed upon the medical profession. While measures to prevent fraud and abuse are necessary, CRE agrees that current administrative requirements are exerting negative pressures on the practice of medicine. Thus, CRE has been asking for reforms under the Paperwork Reduction Act as a high priority for the new Administration
Click to read more, including a summary of points from The Washington Post article.
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CRE Telecommunications Standards Program
CRE has published a landmark white paper, Market-Driven Consortia: Implications for the FCC's Cable Access Proceedings, weighing the use of consensus standards versus privately developed non-consensus standards in regulatory applications. To follow-up on the conclusions in the white paper, CRE organized an Exploratory Committee which includes representatives of a variety of industry stakeholders.
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Legal Opinion Concludes
Tech Transfer Act is Reviewable in Court
Multinational Legal Services, counsel to CRE, has issued a
legal memorandum concluding that the SEC and other agencies
are subject to court challenge for violating provisions of
the National Technology Transfer and Advancement Act. That
statute requires that federal agencies adopt available
voluntary consensus standards, in lieu of government-unique
standards, unless the voluntary standards are impractical or
contrary to law, in which case the agency must explain its
decision to OMB. The legal memorandum was filed with the SEC
in connection with the SEC's proposed rule on auditor
independence.
Analysis of the Regulatory Requirements of the Health Security Act
The Center for Regulatory Effectiveness has completed a comprehensive analysis of the Clinton Administration's proposed Health Security Act (HSA). Issues addressed by the analysis include: 1) the number of federal employees that would be need to manage the new federal programs that would be created by the legislation; 2) the number of state employees that would be required by the HSA; and 3) the number of new pages that would be added to the Code of Federal Regulations by the HSA. The CRE analysis also includes a complete roster of the regulatory mandates contained in the proposed legislation.
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Click to view The Regulatory Requirements of the Health Security Act: Volume 1.
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Click to view The Regulatory Requirements of the Health Security Act: Volume 2, Part 1.
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Click to view The Regulatory Requirements of the Health Security Act: Volume 2, Part 2.
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Click to view The Regulatory Requirements of the Health Security Act: Volume 2, Part 3.
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