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Eo 12291 Regulatory Review

The Desk · Actions · Executive order

Executive Order 12291

Signed: Feb 17, 1981
Kind: Executive order
Document: 12291
Presidency: Ronald Reagan

Directed agencies to submit major rules to OMB for regulatory impact analysis before publication.

Why tracked

Ledger editorial note, not a Federal Register abstract.

Required major rules to clear OMB cost-benefit review; remade how agencies write regulations.

Topics: regulation · omb · historical

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