[Federal Register Volume 90, Number 92 (Wednesday, May 14, 2025)]
[Presidential Documents]
[Pages 20367-20368]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2025-08682]




                        Presidential Documents 



Federal Register / Vol. 90, No. 92 / Wednesday, May 14, 2025 / 
Presidential Documents

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                Executive Order 14295 of May 9, 2025

                
Increasing Efficiency at the Office of the 
                Federal Register

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

                Section 1. Purpose. Deregulation is a critical priority 
                for my Administration. We will foster prosperity by 
                freeing Americans from the heavy burden of Federal 
                regulations accumulated over decades. Although the 
                decision about which regulations to eliminate is 
                sometimes complex, the administrative process of 
                removing a regulation from the Code of Federal 
                Regulations through a rulemaking should be simple. It 
                is not.

                The Office of the Federal Register frequently takes 
                days or, in some cases, even weeks to publish new 
                regulatory actions. Such delay is unwarranted. The 
                Office of the Federal Register receives final documents 
                that are fully executed by the relevant 
                decisionmakers--all that remains is publication. Yet 
                despite those delays, executive departments and 
                agencies are charged $151-$174 per column of text to 
                publish each rule in the Federal Register. These 
                inefficiencies inhibit my Administration's deregulatory 
                agenda and waste taxpayer money.

                Sec. 2. Increasing Efficiency in the Federal Register. 
                (a) The Archivist of the United States (Archivist), 
                acting through the Office of the Federal Register, 
                shall work with the Director of the Government 
                Publishing Office to reduce publication delays to the 
                greatest extent feasible, including by modernizing 
                computer systems and eliminating unnecessary 
                bureaucracy.

                    (b) Within 15 days of the date of this order, the 
                Archivist, acting through the Office of the Federal 
                Register, shall submit a report to the Director of the 
                Office of Management and Budget (OMB) reflecting 
                average publication times for different categories of 
                documents.
                    (c) Within 45 days of the date of this order, the 
                Archivist, acting through the Office of the Federal 
                Register, shall review the fee schedules for 
                publication in the Federal Register and, working with 
                the Director of the Government Publishing Office, take 
                steps to ensure that fees are based on the actual costs 
                of publication and account for increased efficiencies 
                achieved as a result of this order. The Archivist, 
                acting through the Office of the Federal Register, 
                shall promptly file a report with the Director of OMB 
                calculating the percentage difference in fees between 
                any proposed new fee schedule and the prior one.
                    (d) No later than August 22, 2025, the Archivist, 
                acting through the Office of the Federal Register, 
                shall submit a second report to the Director of OMB 
                reflecting average publication times between July 15, 
                2025, and August 15, 2025, for the same categories of 
                documents on which the Office of the Federal Register 
                reported under subsection (b) of this section.

                Sec. 3. 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 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.
                    (d) The costs for publication of this order shall 
                be borne by the National Archives and Records 
                Administration.
                
                
                    (Presidential Sig.)

                THE WHITE HOUSE,

                    May 9, 2025.

[FR Doc. 2025-08682
Filed 5-13-25; 8:45 am]
Billing code 7515-01-P