Public Participation

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.