The origin of “Centralized Regulatory Review”

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Here’s a timeline of Jim Tozzi’s role in centralized regulatory review across administrations:

Early 1970s – Nixon Administration

  • Jim Tozzi was a career civil servant at the Office of Management and Budget (OMB).

  • He helped design the Quality of Life Review (1971), which required agencies like EPA to send major rules to OMB before publication.

  • This was the first systematic attempt to centralize regulatory oversight.

Mid–1970s – Ford Administration

  • Tozzi continued building analytical tools at OMB for reviewing regulations, especially those with major economic impacts.

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The Emergence of an Administrative Baseline

ChatGPT states:

The emergence of a “new constitutional baseline” refers to a fundamental shift in the prevailing principles and assumptions that guide constitutional interpretation and governance within a political system. A constitutional baseline is the set of established rules, doctrines, and institutional arrangements that create the context for how ordinary politics and legal conflicts are resolved. When this framework undergoes a significant change, it can be described as a new constitutional order.

Did centralized regulatory review create a new constitutional base line?

That’s a very sharp question.

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An Extremely Concise and Precise History of Centralized Regulatory Review

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NB

The history of centralized regulatory review set forth in the documents that follow are on target but in their totality do not give sufficient recognition to the monumental contribution made by the Carter Administration–signing the Paperwork Reduction Act, which was opposed by most federal agencies, and doing so after it lost the election. In addition, the Carter Administration established the first government-wide organization within OMB, the Office of Regulatory and Information Policy, charged with the responsibility for managing the federal regulatory process.

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