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Improving Regulation and Regulatory Review - Executive Order
Strategic_Plan
Start: 2011-01-18, Publication: 2011-02-01 Source: http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2011/01/18/improving-regulation-and-regulatory-review-executive-order
This order is supplemental to and reaffirms the principles, structures, and definitions governing contemporary regulatory
review that were established in Executive Order 12866 of September 30, 1993. As stated in that Executive Order and to the
extent permitted by law, each agency must, among other things: (1) propose or adopt a regulation only upon a reasoned determination
that its benefits justify its costs (recognizing that some benefits and costs are difficult to quantify); (2) tailor its regulations
to impose the least burden on society, consistent with obtaining regulatory objectives, taking into account, among other things,
and to the extent practicable, the costs of cumulative regulations; (3) select, in choosing among alternative regulatory approaches,
those approaches that maximize net benefits (including potential economic, environmental, public health and safety, and other
advantages; distributive impacts; and equity); (4) to the extent feasible, specify performance objectives, rather than specifying
the behavior or manner of compliance that regulated entities must adopt; and (5) identify and assess available alternatives
to direct regulation, including providing economic incentives to encourage the desired behavior, such as user fees or marketable
permits, or providing information upon which choices can be made by the public.
In applying these principles, each agency is directed to use the best available techniques to quantify anticipated present
and future benefits and costs as accurately as possible. Where appropriate and permitted by law, each agency may consider
(and discuss qualitatively) values that are difficult or impossible to quantify, including equity, human dignity, fairness,
and distributive impacts.
Submitter:
Name:Owen Ambur
Email:Owen.Ambur@verizon.net
Organization:
Name:President of the United States
Acronym:POTUS
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