    [Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: William J. Clinton (1993, Book II)]
    [September 30, 1993]
    [Page 1636]
    [From the U.S. Government Publishing Office www.gpo.gov]

    Memorandum on Report of Regulatory Review
    September 30, 1993

    Memorandum for the Administrator, Office of Information and Regulatory
    Affairs

    Subject: Report of Regulations Reviewed

        Today, I issued an Executive order setting forth the
    Administration's regulatory philosophy; defining a more effective and
    accountable role for the Executive Office of the President in regulatory
    planning and review; and establishing the procedures to be followed by
    agencies and your office in promulgating and reviewing regulations. The
    review process set forth in the order is designed to assist agencies in
    issuing better regulations by, among other things, streamlining the
    review process and enhancing accountability.
        In order to ascertain the success of the regulatory review process,
    I direct you to monitor your review activities over the next 6 months
    and, at the end of this period, to prepare a report on your activities.
    This report shall include a list of the regulatory actions reviewed by
    OIRA, specifying the issuing agency; the nature of the regulatory action
    (e.g., advance notice of proposed rulemaking, notice of proposed
    rulemaking, interim final rule, or final rule); whether the agency or
    OIRA identified the reviewed regulatory action as ``significant,''
    within the meaning of the order; and the time dedicated to the review,
    including whether there were any extensions of the time periods set
    forth in the order, and, if so, the reason for such extensions. The
    report shall include any other information that your office may have
    with respect to the kind or amount of regulatory actions that were not
    reviewed by your office. Finally, the report shall identify any
    provisions of the order that, based on your experience or on comments
    from interested persons, warrant reconsideration so that the purposes
    and objectives of this order can be better achieved.
        I further direct you to submit this report to the Vice President and
    me by May 1, 1994, and to publish the report in the Federal Register.

                                                          William J. Clinton