Last call to register for today’s 1pm convo with OIRA on the new Modernizing Regulatory Review EO and proposed circular A-4!  Hope you can join us.

When: Today -- May 18th, 2023, 1-2pm EST, Register here: http://bitly.ws/EBig 

 

Coby Dolan (he/him/his)

Legislative Director, Access to Justice

Earthjustice

 

 

 

Apologies for any cross-posting:

 

Please join us Thursday May 18th for a conversation with OIRA about the new Modernizing Regulatory Review Executive Order and the proposed circular A-4 and the impacts to environmental regulations we all care about. Register and see more info below about the upcoming even!

 

 

 

Invitation: 21st Century Environmental Safeguards and Protections:

A Conversation with OIRA on Modernizing Regulatory Review.

 

 

When: May 18th, 2023, 1-2pm EST, Register here: http://bitly.ws/EBig 

 

What: Please join Earthjustice for a virtual conversation about the future of environmental regulations with key members of the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs (OIRA). We will focus on the new executive order and proposals from OIRA to update the regulatory review process, including the proposed revisions to circular A-4 and the opportunity for the public to submit comments by June 6th. Kirti Datla of Earthjustice will moderate the conversation.  

 

Who:  

Sam Berger, Associate Administrator of OIRA (OIRA is a Division within the Office of Management and Budget, Executive Office of the President) 

Alexander Mechanick, Policy Advisor, OIRA 

Kirti Datla, Director of Strategic Legal Advocacy, Earthjustice  

(This event is closed to the press) 

 

For additional information and background: The Biden administration has announced actions to modernize the federal rulemaking process, including proposed revisions to Circular A-4. We expect these changes—which many of you urged the administration to implement—will enhance public participation and improve regulatory analysis. This long overdue update to Circular A-4 would bring it in line with updated scientific and economic understanding, improve consideration of the distributional consequences of regulations, and better account for difficulty quantifying regulatory effects.  

OIRA, which reviews federal regulations, is seeking input from the public on these draft updates through June 6. This conversation is intended to help you better understand the scope of the proposals and weigh in on how agencies should consider the impacts of their actions on our communities and environment in rulemaking.  

 

Here are the modernizing regulatory review materials in one place: 

·        Executive Order (Modernizing Regulatory Review): https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/presidential-actions/2023/04/06/executive-order-on-modernizing-regulatory-review/ 

·        Executive Order (Modernizing Regulatory Review) FAQs: https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/ModernizingEOImplementation.pdf 

·        Executive Order (Modernizing Regulatory Review) E.O. 12866 meetings guidance: https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/ModernizingEOSection2eDraftGuidance.pdf 

·        Preamble to the Proposed Circular A-4: https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/DraftCircularA-4Preamble.pdf 

·        Proposed Circular A-4: https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/DraftCircularA-4.pdf 

 

 

For additional information please feel free to contact me or Brielle Green (bgreen@earthjustice.org) cc’d here.