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On January 18 President Barack Obama issued an Executive Order (E.O.) [13563] outlining his Regulatory Strategy, "Improving Regulation and Regulatory Review." The Administration has taken great efforts to draw attention to the E.O. The President wrote an op-ed article in the Wall Street Journal announcing the new E.O. and issued two Presidential Memoranda addressing the topics of the E.O. This RegulationWriter Alert provides links to all of the White House documents

RegulationWriter Alert - December 13, 2010 On December 9, 2010, Cass Sunstein, Administrator of the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs (OIRA), Office of Management and Budget (OMB), issued Memorandum M-11-07 on Facilitating Scientific Research by Streamlining the Paperwork Reduction A...

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RegulationWriter Alert - November 9, 2009 On October 27, 2009, the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs (OIRA), Office of Management and Budget (OMB), published a Request for Comments (74 FR 55269) on "Improving Implementation of the Paperwork Reduction Act." The notice s...

RegulationWriter Alert - February 4, 2009  On January 30, 2009, President Obama issued Executive Order (EO) 13497 revoking EOs 13258 and 13422.  Executive Orders 13258 and 13422 were issued by President Bush amending EO 12866 "Regulatory Planning and Review." The effect of r...

RegulationWriter Alert - May 7, 2007 On April 25, 2007, OMB's Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs (OIRA) issued a memorandum on "Implementation of Executive Order 13422 (amending Executive Order 12866) and the OMB Bulletin on Good Guidance Practices."The memorandum is wri...

RegulationWriter Alert - February 1, 2007 On January 18, 2007, President Bush amended Executive Order 12866, Regulatory Planning and Review, and the Office of Management and Budget issued a Final Bulletin for Agency Good Guidance Practices. Both documents are expected to have significant impacts on ...