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GGD/OGC-97-77R 1 (1997-04-22)

handle is hein.gao/gaobacllj0001 and id is 1 raw text is: United States GAO General Accounting Office Washington, D.C. 20548 General Government Division B-276662 April 22, 1997 The Honorable Christopher S. Bond Chairman, Committee on Small Business United States Senate Subject: Regulatory Flexibility Act: Agencies' Use of the November 1996 Unified Agenda Did Not Satisfy Notification Requirements Dear Mr. Chairman: This letter responds to your request that we determine whether federal agencies' entries in the Unified Agenda of Federal Regulatory and Deregulatory Actions satisfy the notification requirements of subsection 610(c) of the Regulatory Flexibility Act of 1980, 5 U.S.C. 610(c). The Unified Agenda is published twice each year by the Regulatory Information Service Center (RISC) and provides for uniform reporting of data on regulatory activities under development throughout the federal government. Subsection 610(c) of title 5 requires federal agencies to publish and solicit public comments on a list of rules that affect small entities and that they plan to review and possibly eliminate or change in the next year. To conduct this review, we analyzed and researched the Regulatory Flexibility Act and its legislative history, reviewed the most recent edition of the Unified Agenda, and discussed the Agenda's preparation with the Executive Director of RISC. At the conclusion of our review, we discussed our findings with officials from the Small Business Administration (SBA) and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and obtained agency comments from officials at RISC and the Office of Management and Budget's (OMB) Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs (OIRA). We conducted our review from March 1997 through April 1997 in accordance with generally accepted government auditing standards. RESULTS IN BRIEF Although there is no legal barrier to an agency using the Unified Agenda of Federal Regulatory and Deregulatory Actions to satisfy the public notification requirements of subsection 610(c), we do not believe that agencies' entries in GAO/GGD/OGC-97-77R Use of Agenda Did Not Satisfy 5 U.S.C. 610(c)

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