EPA is failing to carry out rulemaking changes, GAO says. (Environmental Protection Agency, General Accounting Office)

Chemical Market Reporter, September, 1997

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION Agency has not consistently carried out the goals of President Clinton's 1993 executive order, which sought to improve the federal rulemaking process, General Accounting Office will say in three upcoming reports.

The GAO findings, based on a review of hundreds of regulatory actions by several federal agencies, will be detailed in a series of reports requested by Sen. Fred Thompson (R-Tenn.), chairman of the Senate Governmental Affairs Committee.

Two of the reports are slated for release in October. A third report assessing costbenefit analyses in regulations will follow in the spring. An industry-supported regulatory reform bill sponsored by Sen. Thompson would codify some of the inconsistently met requirements of the...

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