How to Improve Regulatory Accounting: Costs, Benefits, and Impacts of Federal Regulations : Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Energy Policy, Natural Resources, and Regulatory Affairs of the Committee on Government Reform, House of Representatives, One Hundred Eighth Congress, First Session, March 11, 2003, Part 1 |
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Page 139 - The purposes of this title are — "(1) to protect and enhance the quality of the Nation's air resources so as to promote the public health and welfare and the productive capacity of its population...
Page 97 - In choosing among alternative regulatory approaches, agencies should select those approaches that maximize net benefits (including potential economic, environmental, public health and safety, and other advantages; distributive Impacts; and equity), unless a statute requires another regulatory approach. (b) The Principles of Regulation. To ensure that the agencies...
Page 97 - Federal agencies should promulgate only such regulations as are required by law, are necessary to interpret the law. or are made necessary by compelling public need, a'uch as material failures of private markets...
Page 94 - Before the Subcommittee on Energy Policy, Natural Resources and Regulatory Affairs, Committee on Government Reform...
Page 60 - RJA is expected to inform the decision process, the analysis must precede the decisions themselves. Making such analyses widely available is an important first step in holding lawmakers and regulators more accountable for proposed and final regulations. Some agencies, such as the Department of Health and Human Services and, increasingly, the Environmental Protection Agency, are moving in that direction by eventually putting the regulatory impact analysis on the Internet. Requiring that an analysis...
Page 10 - Graham follows:] STATEMENT OF JOHN D. GRAHAM, PH.D. ADMINISTRATOR OFFICE OF INFORMATION AND REGULATORY AFFAIRS OFFICE OF MANAGEMENT AND BUDGET EXECUTIVE OFFICE OF THE...
Page 94 - Regulation is a nonprofit research and educational organization of university-affiliated academics with expertise in the legal, economic, and scientific issues related to regulation of health, safety, and the environment. CPR supports regulatory action to protect health, safety, and the environment, and rejects the conservative view that government's only function is to increase the economic efficiency of private markets. Through research and commentary, CPR seeks to inform policy debates, critique...
Page 10 - I am John D. Graham, Ph.D., Administrator, Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, Office of Management and Budget.
Page 53 - Institution established the AEI-Brookings Joint Center for Regulatory Studies. The primary purpose of the center is to hold lawmakers and regulators more accountable by providing thoughtful, objective analysis of existing regulatory programs and new regulatory proposals. The Joint Center builds on...
Page 10 - Congress, with the budget, an accounting statement and associated report containing (1) an estimate of the total annual costs and benefits (including quantifiable and nonquantifiable effects) of Federal rules and paperwork, to the extent feasible (A) in the aggregate; (B) by agency and agency program; and (C) by major rule...