Download or read book Federal Agency Compliance with Section 610 of the Regulatory Flexibility Act written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Small Business and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book FEDERAL AGENCY COMPLIANCE WITH SECTION 610 OF THE REGULATORY FLEXIBILITY ACT HRG SERIAL NO 105 35 COMMITTEE ON SMALL BUSINESS U written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Small Business and published by . This book was released on 1998* with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Regulatory Flexibility Act written by United States. General Accounting Office and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Regulatory Flexibility Improvements Act written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Commercial and Administrative Law and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Regulatory Flexibility Act written by U S Government Accountability Office (G and published by BiblioGov. This book was released on 2013-06 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO updated its previous reports on agencies' use of the Unified Agenda of Federal Regulatory and Deregulatory Actions to publish final rule notices, focusing on: (1) how many agencies had no Agenda entries that were characterized as Regulatory Flexibility Act (RFA) of 1980, section 610 reviews, whether agencies are interpreting the review requirements consistently, and why certain agencies that appeared subject to the requirements had no entries; (2) how many of the section 610 review entries in these Agendas appeared to meet the notification requirements in subsection 610(c); (3) if the section 610 review entries did not appear to meet the statutory requirements, why certain agencies' entries were characterized as section 610 reviews; and (4) whether any federal agencies had revised their section 610 review plans.
Download or read book Full Committee Hearing on Legislation to Improve the Regulatory Flexibility Act written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Small Business and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Independent Federal Agency Compliance with the Regulatory Flexibility Act written by Lane Jarvis and published by Nova Science Publishers. This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Independent federal agencies are subject to the Regulatory Flexibility Act (RFA). Because they fall outside of presidential authority, however, independent agencies are not subject either to executive orders concerning regulatory impact analysis or to Office of Management and Budget (OMB) review of analysis. The absence of such guidance and oversight, characteristics of populations of entities regulated by independent agencies, and potentially differing adaptations or interpretations of regulatory flexibility raise questions about the degree and nature of their compliance with the RFA. This book characterises and assesses RFA compliance of independent federal agencies. As a group, independent federal agencies do less rigorous regulatory flexibility analysis than executive-branch agencies. The independent agencies rarely ever perform quantitative analysis of costs and impacts. Differences among the practices of most independent agencies that regulate small businesses, by comparison, were only differences of degree.
Download or read book Regulatory reform prior reviews of federal regulatory process initiatives reveal opportunities for improvements testimony before the Subcommittee on Regulatory Affairs Committee on Government Reform House of Representatives written by and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Reexamining Rules written by and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As part of a broader regulatory reform agenda, some interest groups have suggested that Congress require agencies to reexamine their existing regulations to determine whether they are still needed or can be made less burdensome. One model that has been suggested for such regulatory "lookbacks" is an expansion of a requirement in Section 610 of the Regulatory Flexibility Act (RFA) of 1980. That provision requires each agency to develop a plan for the review of its existing rules that have or will have a "significant economic impact on a substantial number of small entities." Agencies are required to review any new rules within 10 years of their publication as a final rule, and to provide an annual Federal Register notice of rules they have designated for review within the next 12 months. The Unified Agenda of Federal Regulatory and Deregulatory Actions is intended to be a compendium of agency rulemaking actions within the next 12 months. Therefore, the number of Section 610 notices in the Unified Agenda should provide some indication of the extent to which agencies are conducting the required "lookbacks" under the RFA. Although this statutory "lookback" requirement has been in place since 1981, it difficult to determine with any degree of certainty whether agencies are consistently implementing it. However, it appears that agencies are carrying out relatively few Section 610 reviews. Several agencies have consistently indicated that they plan to issue dozens of rules each year with a significant impact on small entities, but have published few if any notices of Section 610 reviews in the Unified Agenda. The RFA gives agencies a significant amount of discretion to decide which rules are covered by the review requirement. There also appears to be substantial confusion or disagreement among the agencies regarding what Section 610 requires, thereby limiting its effectiveness. For example, some agencies said the statutes underlying their rules had a significant impact on small entities, not the rules themselves, so they did not have to review them under Section 610. The poor implementation history of Section 610 of the RFA offers a number of valuable lessons for current advocates of even broader "lookback" reviews. For any such process to work, Congress faces the challenge of clearly specifying what rules should be reviewed and how the reviews should be conducted. Also, some means of tracking the reviews, congressional or executive branch oversight, and a meaningful enforcement mechanism appear important to improving the implementation of the lookback requirement. Otherwise, agencies are unlikely to conduct many more reviews than have occurred pursuant to Section 610. Legislation has been introduced in the 109th Congress (H.R. 682) that addresses some of the issues regarding the implementation of the RFA and Section 610 reviews. This report will be updated when additional information about Section 610 or broader lookback reviews become available.
Download or read book Federal Agency Compliance with Section 610 of the Regulatory Flexibility Act written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Small Business and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Regulatory Flexibility Act written by and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Regulatory Flexibility Act written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Small Business. Subcommittee on Government Programs and Oversight and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book An Evaluation of Compliance with the Regulatory Flexibility Act by Federal Agencies written by and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 2 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Regulatory Flexibility Act written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book An Evaluation of Compliance with the Regulatory Flexibility Act by Federal Agencies written by Walton J. Francis and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 65 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Regulatory Flexibility Improvements Act of 2011 written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Courts, Commercial and Administrative Law and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Regulatory Flexibility Act Implementation Issues and Proposed Reforms written by and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Regulatory Flexibility Act (RFA) of 1980 (5 U.S.C. 601-612) requires federal agencies to assess the impact of their forthcoming regulations on small entities (i.e., small businesses, small governments, and small not-for-profit organizations). For example, the act requires the analysis to describe why a regulatory action is being considered; the small entities to which the rule will apply and, where feasible, an estimate of their number; the projected reporting, recordkeeping, and other compliance requirements of the rule; and any significant alternatives to the rule that would accomplish the statutory objectives while minimizing the impact on small entities. This analysis is not required, however, if the head of the agency certifies that the rule will not have a significant economic impact on a substantial number of small entities. The RFA does not define significant economic impact or substantial number of small entities, thereby giving federal agencies substantial discretion regarding when the act's requirements are triggered. Other requirements in the RFA and elsewhere (e.g., that agencies reexamine their existing rules, develop compliance guides, and convene advocacy review panels) also depend on the whether the agencies determine that their rules have a significant impact on a substantial number of small entities.
