United States Government Publishing Office publisher pbl distributor dst United States Government Accountability Office author aut Government Organization text government publication eng GAOREPORTS Legislative Agency Publications gao legislative 2010-08-12 U.S. Government Printing Office 2002-02-15 monographic deposited born digital 50 p. GA 1.13:GAO-02-370R https://www.govinfo.gov/app/details/GAOREPORTS-GAO-02-370R P0b002ee180373309 f:d02370r DGPO 2010-08-12 2011-03-23 GAOREPORTS-GAO-02-370R machine generated eng fdlp REPORT GAOREPORTS-GAO-02-370R GAO-02-370R Federal regulations Presidential transition Correspondence A02774

Citing the desire to "ensure that the President's appointees have the opportunity to review any new or pending regulations," Assistant to the President and Chief of Staff Andrew H. Card, Jr. sent a memorandum to the heads of all executive agencies on January 20, 2001, directing them to (1) not send proposed or final regulations to the Office of the Federal Register (OFR), (2) withdraw regulations that had been sent to the Office but not yet published in the Federal Register, and (3) postpone for 60 days the effective date of regulations that had been published in the Federal Register but had not yet taken effect. GAO's found that federal agencies delayed the effective dates for 90 of the 371 final rules that were subject to the Card memorandum. The effective dates for the remaining 281 rules were either not delayed or GAO could find no indication in the Federal Register of a delay. https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/GAOREPORTS-GAO-02-370R/html/GAOREPORTS-GAO-02-370R.htm https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/GAOREPORTS-GAO-02-370R/pdf/GAOREPORTS-GAO-02-370R.pdf GAO-02-370R https://www.govinfo.gov/app/details/GAOREPORTS-GAO-02-370R Correspondence GAO-02-370R; Regulatory Review: Delay of Effective Dates of Final Rules Subject to Administration's January 20, 2001, Memorandum; Federal regulations Presidential transition Title 5 Section 553 Title 5 Section 801et seq. 5 U.S.C. 553 5 U.S.C. 801et seq.