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In federal authoritative police force, regulatory review refers to processes used by Congress, the president, and the courts to oversee the rules, regulations, and other policies issued by federal agencies. Regulatory review may involve an examination of the content or upshot of a dominion, its estimated economic costs and benefits, or the adherence of the rule and the rulemaking agency to procedural requirements. Retrospective regulatory review, a type of regulatory review, is used to determine if existing regulations should exist retained, modified, or repealed.

The sections below provide information and links to other articles about laws, executive orders, agencies, legal principles, and concepts related to federal regulatory review.

Congressional review

Legislation

  • Administrative Process Act (APA)
    • A federal law passed in 1946 establishing uniform procedures for federal agencies to propose and issue regulations, a process known as rulemaking. The APA also addresses policy statements and licenses issued by agencies and provides for judicial review of bureau adjudications and other final decisions.[1] [2] [3] Prior to the APA, there were no federal laws governing the general conduct of administrative agencies.[4]
  • Congressional Review Act (CRA)
    • A federal law passed in 1996 creating a review period during which Congress, past passing a joint resolution of disapproval that is then signed past the president, tin overturn new federal agency rules and cake those agencies from creating similar rules in the future. Prior to 2017 the constabulary was successfully used simply once, to overturn a rule on ergonomics in the workplace in 2001. In the first four months of his administration, President Donald Trump (R) signed fourteen CRA resolutions from Congress undoing a variety of rules issued near the end of Barack Obama'south (D) presidency.[v] [6] [7]
    • For a list of joint resolutions of disapproval passed by Congress and signed by the president, encounter our article on: "Federal bureau rules repealed under the Congressional Review Deed."

Agencies

  • U.South. Regime Accountability Office (GAO)
    • An independent, nonpartisan agency that is contracted and under the supervision of the U.Southward. Congress.[8] Regulations divers every bit major rules under the Congressional Review Human activity are subject to a procedural review past the GAO and may have their proposed effective dates delayed.[9]

Terms and definitions

  • Joint resolution of disapproval
    • A measure, introduced and considered by Congress under the terms of the Congressional Review Act, that overturns a new federal agency rule and blocks the issuing agency from creating like rules in the future without specific authorization. As with all bills and joint resolutions, a joint resolution of disapproval must be passed by both houses of Congress in identical class and sent to the president for approval or passed over a presidential veto past 2-thirds of the members of each house.[ten] [11] [9] [5] [6] [7]
  • Major rule
    • A legal term, defined past the Congressional Review Act, for a rule issued by an agency that has had or may take a large impact on some attribute of the economy, such as prices, costs, contest, employment, or investment. Under the CRA, at that place is a catamenia of 60 legislative days, starting from the publication or submission of a final agency rule, during which Congress and the president can pass a joint resolution disapproving the rule. Regulations divers as major rules under the CRA are bailiwick to a procedural review past the U.South. Government Accountability Part and may have their proposed effective dates delayed.[5] [6] [9]

Executive review

Executive orders

See likewise: Retrospective regulatory review#Presidential administrations

Executive Social club 12866, "Regulatory Planning and Review," is a presidential executive lodge issued by President Bill Clinton in 1993 establishing principles and processes to govern federal bureau rulemaking, regulatory planning, and regulatory review. It was designed to guide presidential oversight of regulatory and administrative policy. E.O. 12866 provides for the incorporation of public comments into the rulemaking procedure and the public release of documents related to the regulatory review procedure. The lodge also authorizes the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs (OIRA) within the OMB to review what it considers all new and preexisting significant regulatory deportment.[12] [13] [14]

Agencies

  • U.Due south. Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs (OIRA)
    • A division of the Role of Direction and Budget; Its responsibilities include regulatory review, clearance and approval of government data collection requests, and oversight of government statistical practices and privacy policies. OIRA is responsible for reviewing and coordinating what it deems all significant regulatory actions made past federal agencies, excluding those defined equally independent federal agencies.[xv] [xvi] [17]
  • Administrative Conference of the United states of america (ACUS)
    • An independent federal agency tasked with developing recommendations to improve federal administrative processes. ACUS recommendations focus on organizational and procedural authoritative reforms rather than substantive policy problems.[eighteen]

Terms and definitions

  • Significant regulatory action (includes economically significant rules and other pregnant rules)
    • An bureau rule that has had or may have a big touch on on the economy, environment, public health, state or local governments or communities, or may cause other problems such as conflicts or inconsistencies with other agencies or rules or with the priorities of the president. The term was divers by Executive Club 12866. Every bit function of its part in the regulatory review process, the Role of Data and Regulatory Diplomacy determines which rules run across this definition are thus are subject to its review.[12] [xiii] [fourteen]
  • OIRA prompt alphabetic character
    • A letter issued to a federal agency by the Function of Information and Regulatory Affairs that proposes a recommendation for new regulatory action. The messages are independently developed by OIRA and are non sent as response messages to ongoing bureau rulemaking action.
  • Regulatory impact analysis (RIA)
    • A process used by regulators and other government officials to assess the anticipated costs and benefits of a regulation. The procedure involves comparing the estimated effects of a regulation with the estimated effects of other regulatory and non-regulatory options, including inaction. RIAs are used by the federal government to inform the rulemaking and regulatory review processes.[19] [twenty] [21]

Judicial review

The capricious-or-capricious test is a legal standard of review used by judges to appraise the actions of administrative agencies. It was originally defined in a provision of the 1946 Administrative Procedure Act, which instructs courts reviewing bureau actions to invalidate any that they discover to exist "arbitrary, capricious, an abuse of discretion, or otherwise not in accordance with law." The exam is nearly ofttimes employed to assess the factual basis of an agency'due south rulemaking, specially informal rulemakings.[i] [2] [3] [22]

Deference is a principle of judicial review. In the context of authoritative constabulary, deference applies when a federal court yields to an bureau'due south interpretation of either a statute that Congress instructed the bureau to administrate or a regulation promulgated by the agency. The U.S. Supreme Courtroom has developed several forms of deference in reviewing bureau actions, including Chevron deference, Skidmore deference, and Auer deference.[23] [24]

See as well

  • Rulemaking
  • Adjudication
  • Retrospective regulatory review

External links

  • Executive Order 13771, "Reducing Regulation and Controlling Regulatory Costs" (2017)
  • Executive Society 13610, "Identifying and Reducing Regulatory Burdens" (2012)
  • Executive Order 13563, "Improving Regulation and Regulatory Review" (2011)
  • Executive Order 12866, "Regulatory Planning and Review" (1993)
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Footnotes

  1. ane.0 1.ane The Regulatory Grouping, "Regulatory Glossary," accessed Baronial iv, 2017
  2. 2.0 ii.1 Electronic Privacy Data Center, "The Authoritative Procedure Human activity (APA)," accessed Baronial xiv, 2017
  3. 3.0 3.1 Environmental Protection Bureau, "Summary of the Authoritative Procedure Act," accessed August 14, 2017
  4. Legal Dictionary, "Administrative Process Act of 1946," accessed August 14, 2017
  5. 5.0 5.i five.ii U.South. News, "Democrats Push button to Repeal Congressional Review Act," June 1, 2017
  6. 6.0 6.1 half-dozen.2 The Colina, "The Congressional Review Human action and a deregulatory agenda for Trump'south 2d year," March 31, 2017
  7. 7.0 7.ane Smithsonian Magazine, "What Is the Congressional Review Act?" Feb 10, 2017
  8. GAO, "About GAO," accessed May nine, 2016
  9. 9.0 9.1 ix.two Congressional Inquiry Service, "The Congressional Review Act: Frequently Asked Questions," Nov 17, 2016
  10. United States Senate, "Legislation, Laws, and Acts," accessed September 25, 2017
  11. Merriam-Webster, "Joint resolution," accessed September 25, 2017
  12. 12.0 12.1 Federal Annals, "Executive Society 12866," Oct 4, 1993
  13. thirteen.0 thirteen.1 Center for Effective Government, "Executive Society 12866," accessed July xx, 2017
  14. 14.0 14.1 Environmental Protection Bureau, "Summary of Executive Order 12866 - Regulatory Planning and Review," accessed July twenty, 2017
  15. Office of Management and Budget, "Part of Information and Regulatory Affairs," accessed July 18, 2017
  16. Office of Management and Upkeep, "The Mission and Construction of the Office of Management and Budget," archived December 19, 2016
  17. RegInfo.gov, "Often Asked Questions," accessed August 3, 2017
  18. Administrative Briefing of the United States, "About the Administrative Conference of the United States (ACUS)," accessed July 17, 2017
  19. Department of Wellness and Homo Services, "Guidelines for Regulatory Touch Analysis," 2016
  20. Mercatus Center, "The Part of Regulatory Affect Analysis in Federal Rulemaking," April ten, 2014
  21. Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, "Regulatory Touch Analysis," accessed August iv, 2017
  22. Center for Effective Authorities, "Arbitrary-or-Capricious Test," accessed August fifteen, 2017
  23. Yale Law Journal, "The Origins of Judicial Deference to Executive Estimation," February 2017
  24. Blattmachr, J. (2006). Circular 230 Deskbook. New York, NY: Practising Police Institute. (pages 1-21)