Featured OMB Papers:

Johnson Administration
• Systems Analysis Group
• "Effective Public Policy and the Government Budget: a Uniform Treatment of Public Expenditures and Public Rules"
  
  
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)
  
  
  
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)
• Other Relevant Materials
George Bush Administration
• Council on Competitiveness #1
• Council on Competitiveness #2
• Council on Competitiveness #3
• Council on Competitiveness #4
• 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
  
  
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
• 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