[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