Comprehensive Plan for Reforming the Federal Government and Reducing the Federal Civilian Workforce
Apr 12th
From: Office of Management and Budget
Mick Mulvaney, Director
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II. Overview & Process
This memorandum focuses primarily on providing guidance that agencies need to develop their Agency Reform Plans. OMB, in coordination with other offices within the Executive Office of the President, will separately manage the development of key crosscutting proposals and solicit input from the public. For planning purposes, this memorandum also provides agencies guidance on aligning actions to develop the Government-wide Reform Plan with the development of the President’s FY 2019 Budget and the performance planning requirements of the Government Performance and Results Act (GPRA) Modernization Act of2010. In developing the Government-wide Reform Plan, the Administration will also work with key stakeholders, including Congress, to develop proposals and ultimately implementation.
Neomi Rao to be the Administrator of the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs
Apr 10th
From: The White House
Ms. Rao is a professor at the Antonin Scalia Law School at George Mason University, where she founded and directs the Center for the Study of the Administrative State. Her research and teaching focuses on constitutional and administrative law. Currently a public member of the Administrative Conference of the United States, Ms. Rao has previously served in all three branches of the federal government. She served as Associate Counsel to President George W. Bush; counsel for nominations and constitutional law to the U.S. Senate Committee on the Judiciary; and law clerk to Justice Clarence Thomas of the U.S. Supreme Court. She practiced public international law and arbitration at Clifford Chance LLP in London. Ms. Rao received her JD with high honors from the University of Chicago and her BA from Yale University.
Memorandum: Implementing Executive Order 13771, Titled “Reducing Regulation and Controlling Regulatory Costs”
Apr 6th
From: Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs
MEMORANDUM FOR: REGULATORY POLICY OFFICERS AT EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENTS AND AGENCIES AND MANAGING AND EXECUTIVE DIRECTORS OF CERTAIN AGENCIES AND COMMISSIONS
FROM: Dominic J. Mancini, Acting Administrator, Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs
SUBJECT: Guidance Implementing Executive Order 13771, Titled “Reducing Regulation and Controlling Regulatory Costs”
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Q23. How does Executive Order 13771 apply to routine hunting and fishing regulatory actions?
Mick Mulvaney: “Big League” DC Influence
Mar 17th
From: FITSnews
NEW EXECUTIVE ORDER FURTHER EXPANDS BUDGET DIRECTOR’S POWER …
Mick Mulvaney may not be the most influential man in Washington, D.C., but it’s starting to feel that way …
Already empowered by president Donald Trump with authority over a sweeping regulatory review of the federal government, this week Trump signed another executive order giving his new Office of Management and Budget (OMB) director additional powers.
What you need to know about Trump’s web of energy orders and repeals
Mar 14th
From: The Washington Examiner
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3. Killing regulations means adding staff
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“President Trump has most certainly provided regulatory wonks with a target-rich environment,” Tozzi said in an email. “I have been in this business a half century and never have seen so much action so fast. That said, the resulting question is whether his actions survive the test of time.”
Tozzi wants to see Trump add more hands to give the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs the muscle it needs after being under-resourced for years, according to comments he filed from his group, the Center for Regulatory Effectiveness. He wants the office to implement Trump’s proposed regulatory budget that was outlined in yet another executive order.
Agencies to highlight rules for repeal in Trump’s first reg agenda
Mar 7th
From: The Hill | Overnight Regulation
By Tim Devaney and Lydia Wheeler
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Dominic Mancini, acting administrator of the White House Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs (OIRA), sent guidance Monday directing the agencies to pay close attention to the executive order President Trump signed in January directing agencies to cut two existing rules for every new rule put in place.
The White House said agency plans, due March 31, should follow the order’s requirement that the net incremental cost for fiscal 2017 “be no greater than zero” and that for every significant rule an agency plans to issue on or before Sept. 30, two existing rules should be proposed for elimination.
Memorandum: Spring 2017 Data Call for the Unified Agenda of Federal Regulatory and Deregulatory Actions
Mar 6th
From: Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs
MEMORANDUM FOR: REGULATORY POLICY OFFICERS AT EXECUTIVE
DEPARTMENTS AND AGENCIES AND MANAGING
AND EXECUTIVE DIRECTORS OF CERTAIN AGENCIES AND COMMISSIONS
FROM: Dominic J. Mancini, Acting Administrator
Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs
SUBJECT: Spring 2017 Data Call for the Unified Agenda of Federal Regulatory and Deregulatory Actions
This memorandum and its attachment contain guidelines and procedures for publishing the Spring 2017 Unified Agenda of Federal Regulatory and Deregulatory Actions (“Unified Agenda”) (see “Attachment,” infra). Publication of the Unified Agenda represents a key component of the regulatory planning mechanism prescribed in Executive Order (“EO”) 12866, “Regulatory Planning and Review,” 58 FR 51735 (Sept. 30, 1993), and reaffirmed in EO 13563, “Improving Regulation and Regulatory Review,” 76 FR 3821 (Jan. 18, 2011).
In sweeping move, Trump puts regulation monitors in U.S. agencies
Feb 27th
Editor’s Note: The Trump Administration can fully enforce its regulatory reform agenda—and seal its legacy—by announcing that the Data Quality Act is judicially reviewable. The DQA is the crucial enforcing mechanism in the President’s Executive Order on Enforcing the Regulatory Reform Agenda. See, Sec. 3(d)(v).
From: Reuters
By David Shepardson and Steve Holland
President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Friday to place “regulatory reform” task forces and officers within federal agencies in what may be the most far reaching effort to pare back U.S. red tape in recent decades.
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White House Guide Tees Up Battles Between EPA, Agencies On Rule Costs
Feb 7th
From: Inside EPA
David Lim & Donna Haseley
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“Agencies that are not able to generate sufficient savings to account for new regulatory actions they must issue may submit a written request to the Director of OMB to transfer savings from another agency before they submit a regulatory action for review that does not contain the needed offset. However, if the Director does not concur with this request, the Agency must identify adequate offsets absent a waiver,” the guidance states.
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Trump’s ‘interesting’ order could be ‘showpiece’ — analysts
Feb 1st
From: E&E News
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Jim Tozzi, a longtime government employee who helped develop the regulatory budget idea during the Carter administration, said people are so focused on the “one in, two out” aspect of the order that they’re missing the point.
“A regulatory budget sets a limit on the total cost of regulation that the EPA can impose,” he said. “That’s a huge change in the way the government operates.”
“The bottom line is we’ve been proposing this for 37 years,” he said.
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