The White House Office of Management and Budget, through its review of all agency regulations, has a major influence on the federal regulatory process. The papers posted on this portion of the site include internal OMB working papers which led to the centralized review of agency regulations by OMB. These materials are from the private collection of Dr. Jim Tozzi, a member of the CRE Board of Advisors, who was also the first Deputy Administrator of OMB's Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs (the non-political appointee) and the career official in charge of Quality of Life Review (Nixon), the OMB regulatory review program instituted for EPA in the 1970's and the predecessor to regulatory review Executive Orders 12044 (Carter), 12291 (Reagan), and 12866 (Clinton).

What is OIRA? Presidential Review (ABA)

The History of Centralized Regulatory Review             Review of Centralized Review             National Archives Interview

Featured OMB Papers:

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Johnson Administration
• Systems Analysis Group
• "Effective Public Policy and the Government Budget: a Uniform Treatment of Public Expenditures and Public Rules"
• Institutional Economics
  
Nixon Administration
• Quality of Life Review #1.
• Quality of Life Review #2.
• Quality of Life Review #3.
• Quality of Life Review #4.
• Quality of Life Review #5.
  
• Office of Management and Budget Plays Critical Part In Environmental Policy Making
  
• A History of the Quality of Life Review
  
• Profile of Jim Tozzi (The Environmental Forum, Premier Issue)
  
• Relief or Reform, Eads and Fix
  
• Other Relevant Materials



Ford Administration
• Quality of Life Review #6. (pdf 916KB)
• Quality of Life Review #7. (pdf 297KB)
• Quality of Life Review #8. (pdf 570KB)
• EPA Court Commitments
(pdf 221KB)
• Executive Order 11821 (Inflation Impact Statements)
• Executive Order 11949 (Economic Impact Statements)
  
• Other Relevant Materials



Carter Administration
• Paperwork Reduction Act: OMB Statement to Congress
• A Regulatory Budget-Towards a Regulatory Budget: A Working Paper on the Cost of Federal Regulation (1979)
• Evolution of the Federal Information Triangle
• Executive Order 12044 (Improving Government Regulations) (pdf 1 MB)
• Executive Order 12174 (Paperwork) (pdf 225KB)
• Regulatory Analysis Review Group (RARG)
• Regulatory Cost Accounting Act of 1980 (Proposed)
• Other Relevant Materials



Reagan Administration
• A Quiet Shift of Power
• Linking Domestic Regulatory Relief with International Regulatory Relief (671KB)
• Congressional Reaction to the Regulatory Budget (383KB)
• Executive Order 12291 (Federal Regulations) (pdf 961KB)
• Executive Order 12498 (Regulatory Planning Process) (pdf 406KB)
• Federal Register Analyses (pdf 335KB)
• Reagan Initiatives to Reduce Regulatory Burdens (pdf 1.5MB)
• The 20 Years War (pdf 43KB)
• OMB Pressured EPA (pdf 521KB)
• Review of an Independent Agencies
• Other Relevant Materials
George Bush Administration
• Council on Competitiveness #1
• Council on Competitiveness #2
• Council on Competitiveness #3
• Council on Competitiveness #4
• Fourth Annual Conference
• Other Relevant Materials
Clinton Administration
• President Signs Data Quality Legislation (Public Law 106-554 Section 515)
• Executive Order 12866 (Regulatory Planning and Review)
• President Signs Data Access Law (P.L. 105-277)
• OMB Issues Final Rule on Circular A-110 (Data Access)
• Data Quality Act History
• Data Access Act History
• CRE Responds to Federal Times Article on Data Quality
• Other Relevant Materials

George W. Bush Administration

Definitive Data Quality Articles

• Executive Order 128866 as amended
• OMB Memo Implementing EO 13422 and Good Guidance Practices Bulletin
• OMB Issues Annual Report to Congress On the Costs and Benefits of Federal Regulation
• Accounting For Science: The Independence Of Public Research In The New, Subterranean Administrative Law
  
• Truth and Science Betrayed: The Case Against the Information Quality Act
  
• Les analyses d’impact et la préparation des réglementations publiques aux Etats-Unis
  • Nixon-Ford
• National Medical Groups Use Data Quality Act : Medical Use of Marijuana
  
• 'Data Quality' Law Is Nemesis Of Regulation
  
• CRE Announces the Implications of the Data Quality Act
  
• Bush Administration Moves Rapidly to Revive the OMB Regulatory Review Process
  
• Washington Legal Foundation (WLF) Article Seeks Increased Judicial Review of Agency Science
  
• The Neutered CRS Report On The Data Quality Act
  
• NPR on TheIPD.US
  
• "Hungry? Eat an Environmentalist": From Earth Day to Regulatory Reform, 1970-1980
  
• Corps of Engineers: The Birthplace Of Benefit/Cost Analysis and Centralized Regulatory Review
  
• Putting a Price on Human Life: The Costs and Benefits of Cost-Benefit Analysis : Center For American Progress
  
• The Information Quality Act: The Little Statute That Could (Or Couldn’t?)
  
• OMB Faces Changed Regulatory Review Role In Obama White House
  
• Other Relevant Materials
  
  
Obama Administration
• Administrative Law Review Tozzi
• OIRA’s 30th Anniversary
• National Archives: Centralized Regulatory Review
• Review of OMB Regulatory Authority
• Obama Mandates New Appliance-Efficiency Standards
• Obama Asks Federal Agencies, OMB To Revamp Federal Reg Review Process
• Regulatory Review EO's Revoked
• Obama Regulatory Review
• Midnight Regulation Memorandum #1
• Midnight Regulation Memorandum #2
• CRE Comments On OMB Review:
  • Detailed Recommendations for Regulatory Review Executive Order
  • Request for Comments on Possible New Executive Order on Regulation Review; 74 Fed. Reg. 8819 (Feb. 26, 2009)
• OMB Position on regulatory review
• No Stimulus to Smarter Regulation
• Executive Order on Permitting
• Other Relevant Materials
OMB Regulatory Officials: By Administration

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Chronology of Regulatory Review in OMB

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Key Milestones in Establishing Regulatory Review at OMB

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Unfinished Business
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Required Reading
• Administrative Law Review Tozzi
• GW OIRA 30th Anniversary
• OIRA 30th Anniversary
• Five Governors of the Regulatory State
• NIPCC ( National Industrial Pollution Contol Council)
• A Comparative Contribution of Nixon, Reagan, Carter, Bush II
• A Compilation of Key Documnents Leading to the Creation of OIRA
• The Single Most Significant Document Leading to the Creation of OIRA
• A History of the Quality of Life Review
  
• Profile - OMB's Jim Joseph Tozzi
  
• Recommendations to Brazilian Government
  
• Environmentalism Contained: A History Of Corporate Responses To The New Environmentalism
  
• National Archives Interview March 2009: Centralized Regulatory Review
  
• DQA and Junk Science
  
• Centralized Regulatory Review
  
• DQA Primer
  
• Truth and Science Betrayed: The Case Against the Information Quality Act
  
• Happy Birthday Wishes to the Data Quality Act
  
• Impact of the Data Quality Act on Decisionmaking at the Environmental Protection Agency
  
• History DQA #2
  
• ELI Publications
  
  
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  1983
  
  2004
  
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• As EPA Rules Take Center Stage, OIRA Faces Competing Calls For Reform
  
• Appropriation's Hearings Leading to the Passge of the DQA
  
• DQA O'Reilly
  
• Professor Steinzor and the Abolition of Centralized Regulatory Review
  
• The Federal Rulemaking Process: An Overview
  
• ACUS on the PRA
  
• The Unfunded Mandates Reform Act of 1995
  
• Administrative and Regulatory Law News
  
• A Brief Overview of Rulemaking and Judicial Review
  
• An Interesting Take on OIRA
  
• They Got It Right
  
• The Information Quality Act: An Environmental Primer (Naval Law Review)
  
• DQA Press
  
• The Reg Map: Informal Rulemaking