The election is tomorrow and regulatory activity seems to be in the calm before the storm. Congress further pressured the Administration on the lack of a Unified Agenda, but the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) did complete review on some very time-sensitive regulations, while the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced at least some compliance… Continue Reading
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Monday Morning Regulatory Review – 7/2/12
Posted in Judicial Review & Remedies, Regulatory ProcessRegulations: EPA. As previously reported, The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) published its National Ambient Air Quality Standards for Particulate Matter on June 29, 2012. In other EPA matters, several colleagues have inquired about EPA’s National Emission Standards for Hazardous Air Pollutants for Major Sources: Industrial, Commercial, and Institutional Boilers and Process Heaters, reconsiderations and proposed… Continue Reading
Monday Morning Regulatory Review – 5/14/12
Posted in Executive - OMB Review, Judicial Review & RemediesRegulations: Petroleum Refineries: The Office of Management and Budget (OMB) completed review of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)’s economically significant final rule to complete the Petroleum Refineries – New Source Performance Standards (NSPS)–Subparts J and Ja interim final rule. EPA has previously promulgated new source standards for refineries, then granted reconsideration of, and stayed, specific… Continue Reading
Guns, Ammo, Conflicting Agency Views & the Importance of OMB Review
Posted in Executive - OMB ReviewThis morning’s Wall Street Journal highlights an often overlooked, critical, confusing, and somewhat misnomered regulatory function: Office of Management and Budget (OMB) review. Adam Entous and Evan Perez write that “U.S. homeland-security and law-enforcement agencies have objected to Obama administration proposals to relax export restrictions on high-powered firearms, threatening a centerpiece of the president’s trade… Continue Reading
OIRA Suggests Small, Welcome Improvement in Regulation Preambles
Posted in Executive - OMB ReviewOIRA Director Cass Sunstein recently directed agencies to make a small improvement in regulatory preambles: include an executive summary for complex regulations. This is a simple suggestion, but for anyone who regularly reads Federal regulations, it is a welcome improvement. Using executive summaries may seem to state the obvious, but it has not been obvious… Continue Reading