[Federal Register Volume 86, Number 14 (Monday, January 25, 2021)]
[Presidential Documents]
[Pages 7049-7050]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2021-01767]


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                Executive Order 13992 of January 20, 2021

                
Revocation of Certain Executive Orders Concerning 
                Federal Regulation

                By the authority vested in me as President by the 
                Constitution and the laws of the United States of 
                America, it is hereby ordered that:

                Section 1. Policy. It is the policy of my 
                Administration to use available tools to confront the 
                urgent challenges facing the Nation, including the 
                coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, economic 
                recovery, racial justice, and climate change. To tackle 
                these challenges effectively, executive departments and 
                agencies (agencies) must be equipped with the 
                flexibility to use robust regulatory action to address 
                national priorities. This order revokes harmful 
                policies and directives that threaten to frustrate the 
                Federal Government's ability to confront these 
                problems, and empowers agencies to use appropriate 
                regulatory tools to achieve these goals.

                Sec. 2. Revocation of Orders. Executive Order 13771 of 
                January 30, 2017 (Reducing Regulation and Controlling 
                Regulatory Costs), Executive Order 13777 of February 
                24, 2017 (Enforcing the Regulatory Reform Agenda), 
                Executive Order 13875 of June 14, 2019 (Evaluating and 
                Improving the Utility of Federal Advisory Committees), 
                Executive Order 13891 of October 9, 2019 (Promoting the 
                Rule of Law Through Improved Agency Guidance 
                Documents), Executive Order 13892 of October 9, 2019 
                (Promoting the Rule of Law Through Transparency and 
                Fairness in Civil Administrative Enforcement and 
                Adjudication), and Executive Order 13893 of October 10, 
                2019 (Increasing Government Accountability for 
                Administrative Actions by Reinvigorating Administrative 
                PAYGO), are hereby revoked.

                Sec. 3. Implementation. The Director of the Office of 
                Management and Budget and the heads of agencies shall 
                promptly take steps to rescind any orders, rules, 
                regulations, guidelines, or policies, or portions 
                thereof, implementing or enforcing the Executive Orders 
                identified in section 2 of this order, as appropriate 
                and consistent with applicable law, including the 
                Administrative Procedure Act, 5 U.S.C. 551 et seq. If 
                in any case such rescission cannot be finalized 
                immediately, the Director and the heads of agencies 
                shall promptly take steps to provide all available 
                exemptions authorized by any such orders, rules, 
                regulations, guidelines, or policies, as appropriate 
                and consistent with applicable law. In addition, any 
                personnel positions, committees, task forces, or other 
                entities established pursuant to the Executive Orders 
                identified in section 2 of this order, including the 
                regulatory reform officer positions and regulatory 
                reform task forces established by sections 2 and 3 of 
                Executive Order 13777, shall be abolished, as 
                appropriate and consistent with applicable law.

                Sec. 4. General Provisions. (a) Nothing in this order 
                shall be construed to impair or otherwise affect:

(i) the authority granted by law to an executive department or agency, or 
the head thereof; or

(ii) the functions of the Director of the Office of Management and Budget 
relating to budgetary, administrative, or legislative proposals.

                    (b) This order shall be implemented in a manner 
                consistent with applicable law and subject to the 
                availability of appropriations.

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                    (c) This order is not intended to, and does not, 
                create any right or benefit, substantive or procedural, 
                enforceable at law or in equity by any party against 
                the United States, its departments, agencies, or 
                entities, its officers, employees, or agents, or any 
                other person.
                
                
                    (Presidential Sig.)

                THE WHITE HOUSE,

                    January 20, 2021.

[FR Doc. 2021-01767
Filed 1-22-21; 11:15 am]
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