{ "id": "R45032", "type": "CRS Report", "typeId": "REPORTS", "number": "R45032", "active": false, "source": "EveryCRSReport.com", "versions": [ { "source": "EveryCRSReport.com", "id": 596711, "date": "2017-11-29", "retrieved": "2020-01-02T16:42:53.930904", "title": "The Trump Administration and the Unified Agenda of Federal Regulatory and Deregulatory Actions", "summary": "Donald J. Trump promised that if he were elected President, he would instruct federal agencies to reduce their regulations significantly. As of late 2017, this deregulation was underway in agencies across the federal government.\nOne way for Congress and the public to be informed about this deregulatory activity is to consult the \u201cUnified Agenda of Federal Regulatory and Deregulatory Actions.\u201d The Unified Agenda is a government-wide publication of rulemaking actions agencies expect to take in the coming months, and it contains both regulatory actions (i.e., new regulations) and deregulatory actions (i.e., reductions in or elimination of current regulations). \nThe Unified Agenda is typically published twice each year by the Regulatory Information Service Center (RISC), a component of the General Services Administration (GSA), for the Office of Management and Budget\u2019s (OMB\u2019s) Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs (OIRA). OIRA is the entity within OMB that has primary oversight responsibilities over most agencies\u2019 rulemaking activities. All entries in the Unified Agenda have uniform data elements that can be searched in an online database. Each entry includes information about the rule, including the department and agency issuing the rule, the title of the rule, the Regulation Identifier Number (RIN), an abstract of the action being taken, a timetable of past actions and a projected date for the next action, and information about the priority of the rule (e.g., whether it is \u201ceconomically significant\u201d or \u201cmajor\u201d).\nThe Trump Administration\u2019s first Unified Agenda, which was issued on July 20, 2017, and was referred to by the Administration as the \u201cUpdate to the 2017 Unified Agenda of Federal Regulatory and Deregulatory Actions,\u201d contains information on many deregulatory actions that the Trump Administration has undertaken so far. For example, the Agenda lists 469 actions that agencies have withdrawn since the previous (Fall 2016) edition of the Unified Agenda and 22 major and/or economically significant actions that were reclassified from \u201cactive\u201d under the Barack Obama Administration to \u201clong-term\u201d under the Trump Administration. The 2017 Update lists a total of 58 economically significant \u201cactive\u201d actions, as compared to 113 such actions that had been published in the Fall 2016 edition. \nNotably, it also appears that the Unified Agenda could be an important source of information for another major regulatory development in the Trump Administration: the regulatory budget, which was announced in a memorandum issued by OIRA on September 7, 2017. The Trump Administration\u2019s regulatory budget will require the cost of most agencies\u2019 new regulations to remain below a regulatory cost cap, which OMB will set for each covered agency in each fiscal year. The tracking of agencies\u2019 implementation of this regulatory budget is expected to be tied to future editions of the Unified Agenda, beginning with the next edition.\nThis report provides an overview of the Unified Agenda, discusses the additional significance of the Unified Agenda in the Trump Administration, provides summary information about content of the 2017 Update, and discusses what additional information can be expected in the subsequent edition of the Agenda.", "type": "CRS Report", "typeId": "REPORTS", "active": false, "formats": [ { "format": "HTML", "encoding": "utf-8", "url": "https://www.crs.gov/Reports/R45032", "sha1": "d1656c23b3dabb7f1e4b953749ca57d28caeffeb", "filename": "files/20171129_R45032_d1656c23b3dabb7f1e4b953749ca57d28caeffeb.html", "images": { "/products/Getimages/?directory=R/html/R45032_files&id=/1.png": "files/20171129_R45032_images_fd1bf457d3a4d79f3e9b26000b832b8f1ed91e61.png", "/products/Getimages/?directory=R/html/R45032_files&id=/4.png": "files/20171129_R45032_images_9435606ba2904b90932618a22509efba2acee759.png", "/products/Getimages/?directory=R/html/R45032_files&id=/3.png": "files/20171129_R45032_images_5c56aa37570158a94966347eaf0ad8611b330a57.png", "/products/Getimages/?directory=R/html/R45032_files&id=/0.png": "files/20171129_R45032_images_2a15f3441580ed134124a67ca023e1a628d79d71.png", "/products/Getimages/?directory=R/html/R45032_files&id=/2.png": "files/20171129_R45032_images_e1a3e5eb9cb6f39ded20bbcba011f4fe3f95b2d2.png" } }, { "format": "PDF", "encoding": null, "url": "https://www.crs.gov/Reports/pdf/R45032", "sha1": "cd3cf276805ad68628bb554b13fd8ca90cdb96a7", "filename": "files/20171129_R45032_cd3cf276805ad68628bb554b13fd8ca90cdb96a7.pdf", "images": {} } ], "topics": [] } ], "topics": [ "American Law", "Domestic Social Policy", "Energy Policy" ] }