“Our regulatory system must protect public health, welfare, safety, and our environment while promoting economic growth, innovation, competitiveness, and job creation. . . . It must take into account benefits and costs, both quantitative and qualitative. . . . It must measure, and seek to improve, the actual results of regulatory requirements.” -Executive Order 13563
Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs
The Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs (OIRA) is located within the Office of Management and Budget and was created by Congress with the enactment of the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1980 (PRA). OIRA carries out several important functions, including reviewing Federal regulations, reducing paperwork burdens, and overseeing policies relating to privacy, information quality, and statistical programs.
Regulatory Review Dashboard
The Regulatory Review Dashboard at www.reginfo.gov, is a public website disclosing information about OIRA's review of draft regulations under Executive Order 12866 and Executive Order 13563. This dashboard graphically presents information about rules under OIRA review through an easy-to-use interactive display, and it allows the public to sort rules by agency, length of review, state of rulemaking, economic significance, and international impacts.
In addition, the ICR Dashboard displays agency information collection requests to OIRA for review under the Paperwork Reduction Act.
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What's New
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5/30/2014 - Draft 2014 Report to Congress on the Benefits and Costs of Federal Regulations and Unfunded Mandates on State, Local, and Tribal Entities (109 pages, 1.58 mb)
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2/14/2014 - [OMBlog]: Updating Guidance on Use of Voluntary Consensus Standards to Promote Smarter Regulation, Collaboration, and Technological Innovation
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2/11/2014 - Federal Register Notice on Requests for Comments on a Proposed Revision to OMB Circulate No. A-119 "Federal Participation in the Development and Use of Voluntary Consensus Standards and In Conformity Assessment Activities" (published on 2/11/2014).
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11/1/2013 - Technical Update of the Social Cost of Carbon for Regulatory Impact Analysis (November 2013) (22 pages, 343 kb)
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8/7/2013 - Fall 2013 Regulatory Plan and Unified Agenda of Federal Regulatory and Deregulatory Actions (11 pages, 131 kb)
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5/31/2013 - Technical Update of the Social Cost of Carbon for Regulatory Impact Analysis (May 2013) (21 pages, 745 kb)
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4/2013 - Draft 2013 Report to Congress on the Benefits and Costs of Federal Regulations and Unfunded Mandates on State, Local, and Tribal Entities (121 pages, 3.03 mb)
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8/9/2012 - Testing and Simplifying Federal Forms (2 pages, 85 kb)
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Key Publications & Speeches
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Key Documents
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