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The Trump Administration released the Spring edition of the semi-annual:
Unified Agenda of Regulatory and Deregulatory Actions (“Agenda”)
Federal agencies twice a year produce in combination a comprehensive report describing regulations currently under development or recently completed.
In particular, the Agenda identifies each regulatory action that the federal agency (in this case the United States Environmental Protection Agency [“EPA”]) expects to work on within the next 12 months.
Agenda entries are typically associated with one of five rulemaking stages. Two key rulemaking states include:
- Proposed Rulemaking Stage (indicating that the agency plans to issue a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking or to close an existing comment period), and
- Final Rule Stage (indicating that the agency plans to issue a Final Rule)
Each Agenda entry typically provides a variety of information.
Congress, interest groups, regulated entities, environmental organizations and the general public rely on the Agenda to understand which rules EPA plans to issue in the upcoming year. Nevertheless, the Agenda does not create a legal obligation to adhere to schedules in the publication or limit their regulatory activities to those items that are encompassed by it.
EPA states that this Agenda includes:
- 40 deregulatory actions under development
- 29 new actions expected to be issued over the next 12 months
A link to the EPA news release which includes the Agenda can be found here.
