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PAD-80-43 1 (1980-02-14)

handle is hein.gao/gaobabafy0001 and id is 1 raw text is: COMPTROLLER GENERAL OF THE UNITED STATES WASHINGTON. D.C. 20 4 B-197318 February 14, 1980 The Honorable Edward M. Kennedy 111578 Chairman, Committee on the Judiciary United States Senate Dea L C-0 214 the Regulatory Flexibility and Administrative Reform Act 1979 proposes to establish the Regulatory Policy Board, to provide for the regulatory analysis of pro- posed rules, to require the evaluation of existing regula- tions, to require the Congress and the President to review certain regulatory agencies, to increase competition in regulated industries, and to make other improvements in reg- ulatory procedures. The General Accounting Office (GAO) strongly supports the general thrust of this bill to reform the regulatory process with the objective of making government regulation less burdensome. We do, however, want to make a number of suggestions for improving this bill. OVERSIGHT BY THE CONGRESS Section 104 of S. 2147 requires the Director of the Congressional Budget Office (CEO) to monitor agency comp- liance with the requirements of subchapter III to perform regulatory analyses, the requirements of.subchapter IV to promote regulatory flexibility, and to keep the Congress fully informed of any failures to comply or any problems arising in the implementation of the subchapters. We believe that S. 2147 is correct in providing for an explicit congressional oversight process. However, we strongly recommend that the oversight role that the bill vests with the CSO should be assigned to the GAO. The essence of proposed section 104 is the review of compliance with legislative iandates on the part of executive and inde- pendent regulatory agencies, the evaluation of the perform- mance of these agencies in discharging specific responsibili- ties, and the reporting to Congress the results of these PAD- 80-4 3

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