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Regulatory Look-Back: How Agencies
Define “Less” to Mean “More”
Sam Batkins
Director of Regulatory Policy
American Action Forum
sbatkins@americanactionforum.org
@sambatkins
What is Retrospective?
• President Carter’s EO 12,044: “Agencies shall
periodically review their existing regulations to determine
whether they are achieving the policy goals of this order.”
• OECD: “Conduct systematic programme reviews of the
stock of significant regulation.”
• President Obama’s EO 13,563: “Promote retrospective
analysis of rules that may be outmoded, ineffective,
insufficient, or excessively burdensome.”
President Carter’s Retrospective Review Criteria
• The continued need for the regulation;
• The burdens imposed on those directly or indirectly
affected by the regulations;
• The need to eliminate overlapping and duplicative
regulations; and
• The length of time since the regulation has been
evaluated.
Implementation of EO 12,044
• Interior publishes plan (43 Fed. Reg. 22,573) to amend
regulatory process and determine at an early stage
whether a rule is “significant.”
– Before discharging a final significant rule, Interior will
only approve “the least burdensome of the
acceptable alternatives.”
– All significant rules should include a plan “for
evaluating the rule after its issuance.”
Implementation of EO 12,044 Continued
• Regulatory Analysis shall be prepared if:
– “The rule will have an annual economic effect of $100
million or more,” or
– “The potential economic effect … is sufficiently major
as to require formal analyses to assure that the
objectives of the rule are achieved with minimum
burden.”
– Other factors: imposing total paperwork burden in
excess of 100,000 hours, or requires more than
20,000 persons to respond. Current paperwork
burden is 10.39 billion hours.
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Regulatory Accountability Act v. President Carter
• Publish in the Federal Register an advanced notice of
proposed rulemaking for a major or high-impact rule;
• “The agency shall adopt the least costly rule considered
during the rulemaking … that meets relevant statutory
objectives.”
• President Carter: Only approve “the least burdensome
of the acceptable alternatives.”
• President Carter: notice of intent for significant
regulations.
Results of EO 12,044
• Energy published a plan (43 Fed. Reg. 50,812) and
identified 68 regulations for review or implementation, but
many were simply new regulations, not “look-backs.”
• EPA published a plan (43 Fed. Reg. 23,679), but did not
initially list specific proposals. EPA did propose a “sunset”
policy for all reporting requirements after five years.
• Labor establishes a “Regulatory Review Plan,” consisting
of agency-appointed representatives (43 Fed. Reg.
22,918). Agency identified 47 past regulations for review.
• Many agency plans simply restated the goals of the EO
12,044.
Struggles of Regulatory Reform
-7,000
-5,000
-3,000
-1,000
1,000
3,000
5,000
7,000
9,000
11,000
13,000
1972 1976 1980 1984 1988 1992 1996 2000 2004 2008 2012
Year-to-year Change in Code of Federal Regulations Pages
Change
Executive Order 13,563
January 18, 2011
• Reaffirmed EO 12,866: Each agency must “adopt a
regulation only upon a reasoned determination that its
benefits justify its costs.”
• Section 6: Retrospective Analysis of Existing Rules.
“Promote retrospective analysis of rules that may be
outmoded, ineffective, insufficient, or excessively
burdensome.”
• Agencies should: “Modify, streamline, expand, or repeal
them in accordance with what has been learned.”
Implementation of EO 13,563
• Section 6(b): “Within 120 days of the date of this order,
each agency shall develop and submit to [OIRA] a
preliminary plan … which will periodically review its
existing significant regulations.”
• Memorandum 11-19 of April 25, 2011. EO 13,563
“recognizes the importance of maintaining a consistent
culture of retrospective review and analysis
throughout the executive branch.”
• EO 13,610: “Agencies shall submit draft reports to OIRA
… on the second Monday of January and July.” The final
reports should be available to the public no later than
three weeks from the submission to OIRA (February 3
and August 4 of 2014).
Meeting Deadlines
• Meeting this deadline?
– Energy update submitted March 9, 2014;
– HUD retrospective plan posted on March 10, 2014;
– Interior update posted on March 11, 2014;
– Treasury submitted update on March 11, 2014.
• On March 11, 2014, Administrator Howard Shelanski testified before
the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs
Committee, pledging all of the updated plans would be completed
that week.
Agency Number of
Reviews
Costs ( in
millions)
Burden Hours
Commerce 4
Defense 48 2,985
DHS 20 $381 -229,953
Education 12 -$169 -4,186,661
Energy 18 $10,570 -166,858
EPA 18 $25,112 -476,916
HHS 75 $10,169 14,229,874
HUD 17 -$14 3,797,494
Interior 18 221,862
Justice 10 -64,629
State 43 -294,680
Transportation 94 -$2,199 -43,829,483
Treasury 16 16,321
Veterans
Affairs
6 -797,323
Totals 400 $43,851 -31,777,967
March Retrospective Review Plans
Ratio of New Burdens to Fewer Burdens
0
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
Review Plan Rules: Paperwork Comparison
Rules Increasing Paperwork
Rules Decreasing Paperwork
More Burdens Continued
0
1
2
3
4
5
6
Review Plan Rules: Cost Comparison
Rules Increasing Costs
Rules Decreasing Costs
Look Back or Look Forward?
• Energy included 18 regulations, but none reduced costs.
The four regulations that monetized costs were new
efficiency standards.
– E.g. A direct final rule, without prior public comment,
that imposes new standards for residential
dishwashers (77 Fed. Reg. 31,917).
• HHS included 15 ACA regulations, or one-fifth of the
entire review plan.
– E.g. A final rule that implements § 1104 of the ACA,
electronic fund transfers, which will cost $333 million
annually (77 Fed. Reg. 48,007).
Look Back or Look Forward? Continued
• EPA’s plan included the most expensive major rule OIRA
ever approved, new CAFE standards for 2017-2025
light-duty vehicles (77 Fed. Reg. 62,623), and Tier 3
emission standards that lower the sulfur content in
gasoline, which will cost $1.5 billion annually (79 Fed.
Reg. 23,413).
• DOT appears to be the only bright spot. It listed 94
rulemakings for review, and plans to cut $2 billion in
costs and more than 43 million hours. If all of DOT’s
paperwork cuts are finalized, it could reduce its
paperwork burden by 21 percent.
Recycling Old Regulations
• Many of the regulations in retrospective review plans
predate EO 13,563, and several are from the previous
administration.
• By AAF’s count, at least 39 proposed or final rules
predate EO 13,563, and 15 rulemakings originated from
the previous administration.
• Example: Fabled “spilled milk” rule. President Obama
mentioned it in his 2012 SOTU, but the Unified Agenda
noted the rule was scheduled for amendment in 2009.
SBA records reveal the rule was nominated for repeal in
2008 as part of SBA’s “Regulatory Review and Reform
Initiative.”
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RegData
Overall Paperwork Growth
6
8
10
12
Government-Wide Paperwork Hours (in billions)
Regulatory Duplication
• In their 2013 annual report, “Actions Needed to Reduce
Fragmentation, Overlap, and Duplication,” GAO
identified 17 areas of duplication.
• Senator Tom Coburn estimates roughly $95 billion in
annual spending is duplicative.
• AAF examined these 17 problem areas for duplicative
paperwork. AAF found 642 million hours of regulatory
duplication, totaling 990 forms, and approximately $46
billion in related costs.
Adding to Duplication
• GAO identified Medicaid as a primary area of
duplication.
• AAF found 9 agencies involved in the administration of
Medicaid, generating 47 million hours of paperwork from
125 forms.
• As part of ACA implementation, there is more Medicaid
paperwork. New eligibility changes will add 21.2 million
paperwork burden hours, or 3.4 percent of HHS’s total
paperwork budget.
Managing the Regulatory Thicket
Finding Plans
Anywhere and Everywhere
Possible Reform Options
• Codify EOs 13,563, 13,610, and 13,579 (applies to
independent agencies) and include a judicial review
component.
• Putting teeth in the Paperwork Reduction Act. Set a cap
on the total number of collections (currently around
9,200) and hours (10.3 billion). 1995 PRA amendments
set a goal to reduce overall paperwork by 35 percent
over five years.
• Borrow EPA’s idea from 1978 and sunset regulations
after a period of time. This already applies to paperwork
collections (three years).

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May2 regu

  • 1. Regulatory Look-Back: How Agencies Define “Less” to Mean “More” Sam Batkins Director of Regulatory Policy American Action Forum sbatkins@americanactionforum.org @sambatkins
  • 2. What is Retrospective? • President Carter’s EO 12,044: “Agencies shall periodically review their existing regulations to determine whether they are achieving the policy goals of this order.” • OECD: “Conduct systematic programme reviews of the stock of significant regulation.” • President Obama’s EO 13,563: “Promote retrospective analysis of rules that may be outmoded, ineffective, insufficient, or excessively burdensome.”
  • 3. President Carter’s Retrospective Review Criteria • The continued need for the regulation; • The burdens imposed on those directly or indirectly affected by the regulations; • The need to eliminate overlapping and duplicative regulations; and • The length of time since the regulation has been evaluated.
  • 4. Implementation of EO 12,044 • Interior publishes plan (43 Fed. Reg. 22,573) to amend regulatory process and determine at an early stage whether a rule is “significant.” – Before discharging a final significant rule, Interior will only approve “the least burdensome of the acceptable alternatives.” – All significant rules should include a plan “for evaluating the rule after its issuance.”
  • 5. Implementation of EO 12,044 Continued • Regulatory Analysis shall be prepared if: – “The rule will have an annual economic effect of $100 million or more,” or – “The potential economic effect … is sufficiently major as to require formal analyses to assure that the objectives of the rule are achieved with minimum burden.” – Other factors: imposing total paperwork burden in excess of 100,000 hours, or requires more than 20,000 persons to respond. Current paperwork burden is 10.39 billion hours.
  • 7. Regulatory Accountability Act v. President Carter • Publish in the Federal Register an advanced notice of proposed rulemaking for a major or high-impact rule; • “The agency shall adopt the least costly rule considered during the rulemaking … that meets relevant statutory objectives.” • President Carter: Only approve “the least burdensome of the acceptable alternatives.” • President Carter: notice of intent for significant regulations.
  • 8. Results of EO 12,044 • Energy published a plan (43 Fed. Reg. 50,812) and identified 68 regulations for review or implementation, but many were simply new regulations, not “look-backs.” • EPA published a plan (43 Fed. Reg. 23,679), but did not initially list specific proposals. EPA did propose a “sunset” policy for all reporting requirements after five years. • Labor establishes a “Regulatory Review Plan,” consisting of agency-appointed representatives (43 Fed. Reg. 22,918). Agency identified 47 past regulations for review. • Many agency plans simply restated the goals of the EO 12,044.
  • 9. Struggles of Regulatory Reform -7,000 -5,000 -3,000 -1,000 1,000 3,000 5,000 7,000 9,000 11,000 13,000 1972 1976 1980 1984 1988 1992 1996 2000 2004 2008 2012 Year-to-year Change in Code of Federal Regulations Pages Change
  • 10. Executive Order 13,563 January 18, 2011 • Reaffirmed EO 12,866: Each agency must “adopt a regulation only upon a reasoned determination that its benefits justify its costs.” • Section 6: Retrospective Analysis of Existing Rules. “Promote retrospective analysis of rules that may be outmoded, ineffective, insufficient, or excessively burdensome.” • Agencies should: “Modify, streamline, expand, or repeal them in accordance with what has been learned.”
  • 11. Implementation of EO 13,563 • Section 6(b): “Within 120 days of the date of this order, each agency shall develop and submit to [OIRA] a preliminary plan … which will periodically review its existing significant regulations.” • Memorandum 11-19 of April 25, 2011. EO 13,563 “recognizes the importance of maintaining a consistent culture of retrospective review and analysis throughout the executive branch.” • EO 13,610: “Agencies shall submit draft reports to OIRA … on the second Monday of January and July.” The final reports should be available to the public no later than three weeks from the submission to OIRA (February 3 and August 4 of 2014).
  • 12. Meeting Deadlines • Meeting this deadline? – Energy update submitted March 9, 2014; – HUD retrospective plan posted on March 10, 2014; – Interior update posted on March 11, 2014; – Treasury submitted update on March 11, 2014. • On March 11, 2014, Administrator Howard Shelanski testified before the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, pledging all of the updated plans would be completed that week.
  • 13. Agency Number of Reviews Costs ( in millions) Burden Hours Commerce 4 Defense 48 2,985 DHS 20 $381 -229,953 Education 12 -$169 -4,186,661 Energy 18 $10,570 -166,858 EPA 18 $25,112 -476,916 HHS 75 $10,169 14,229,874 HUD 17 -$14 3,797,494 Interior 18 221,862 Justice 10 -64,629 State 43 -294,680 Transportation 94 -$2,199 -43,829,483 Treasury 16 16,321 Veterans Affairs 6 -797,323 Totals 400 $43,851 -31,777,967 March Retrospective Review Plans
  • 14. Ratio of New Burdens to Fewer Burdens 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Review Plan Rules: Paperwork Comparison Rules Increasing Paperwork Rules Decreasing Paperwork
  • 15. More Burdens Continued 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 Review Plan Rules: Cost Comparison Rules Increasing Costs Rules Decreasing Costs
  • 16. Look Back or Look Forward? • Energy included 18 regulations, but none reduced costs. The four regulations that monetized costs were new efficiency standards. – E.g. A direct final rule, without prior public comment, that imposes new standards for residential dishwashers (77 Fed. Reg. 31,917). • HHS included 15 ACA regulations, or one-fifth of the entire review plan. – E.g. A final rule that implements § 1104 of the ACA, electronic fund transfers, which will cost $333 million annually (77 Fed. Reg. 48,007).
  • 17. Look Back or Look Forward? Continued • EPA’s plan included the most expensive major rule OIRA ever approved, new CAFE standards for 2017-2025 light-duty vehicles (77 Fed. Reg. 62,623), and Tier 3 emission standards that lower the sulfur content in gasoline, which will cost $1.5 billion annually (79 Fed. Reg. 23,413). • DOT appears to be the only bright spot. It listed 94 rulemakings for review, and plans to cut $2 billion in costs and more than 43 million hours. If all of DOT’s paperwork cuts are finalized, it could reduce its paperwork burden by 21 percent.
  • 18. Recycling Old Regulations • Many of the regulations in retrospective review plans predate EO 13,563, and several are from the previous administration. • By AAF’s count, at least 39 proposed or final rules predate EO 13,563, and 15 rulemakings originated from the previous administration. • Example: Fabled “spilled milk” rule. President Obama mentioned it in his 2012 SOTU, but the Unified Agenda noted the rule was scheduled for amendment in 2009. SBA records reveal the rule was nominated for repeal in 2008 as part of SBA’s “Regulatory Review and Reform Initiative.”
  • 22. Overall Paperwork Growth 6 8 10 12 Government-Wide Paperwork Hours (in billions)
  • 23. Regulatory Duplication • In their 2013 annual report, “Actions Needed to Reduce Fragmentation, Overlap, and Duplication,” GAO identified 17 areas of duplication. • Senator Tom Coburn estimates roughly $95 billion in annual spending is duplicative. • AAF examined these 17 problem areas for duplicative paperwork. AAF found 642 million hours of regulatory duplication, totaling 990 forms, and approximately $46 billion in related costs.
  • 24. Adding to Duplication • GAO identified Medicaid as a primary area of duplication. • AAF found 9 agencies involved in the administration of Medicaid, generating 47 million hours of paperwork from 125 forms. • As part of ACA implementation, there is more Medicaid paperwork. New eligibility changes will add 21.2 million paperwork burden hours, or 3.4 percent of HHS’s total paperwork budget.
  • 28. Possible Reform Options • Codify EOs 13,563, 13,610, and 13,579 (applies to independent agencies) and include a judicial review component. • Putting teeth in the Paperwork Reduction Act. Set a cap on the total number of collections (currently around 9,200) and hours (10.3 billion). 1995 PRA amendments set a goal to reduce overall paperwork by 35 percent over five years. • Borrow EPA’s idea from 1978 and sunset regulations after a period of time. This already applies to paperwork collections (three years).