Full Title: Regulatory Reform Officers and Regulatory Policy Officers at Executive Departments and Agencies
Author(s): Dominic J. Mancini
Publisher(s): Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs
Publication Date: May 1, 2017
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Description (excerpt):
This memorandum provides guidance regarding Section 2 of Executive Order (EO) 13783, titled
“Promoting Energy Independence and Economic Growth,” published on March 28, 2017.
Section 2(a) of EO 13783 requires the head of each Executive Department and Agency (agency)
to review all of that agency’s existing regulations, orders, guidance documents, policies, and any
other similar agency actions (collectively, agency actions) that potentially burden the
development or use of domestically produced energy resources, with particular attention to oil,
natural gas, coal, and nuclear energy resources.
Section 2(c) requires the head of each agency to submit to the Director of the Office of
Management and Budget (OMB) by May 12, 2017, (i.e., 45 days from the date EO 13783 was
issued) a plan to carry out the review of agency actions discussed above. The plan shall also be
sent to the Vice President, the Assistant to the President for Economic Policy, the Assistant to the
President for Domestic Policy, and the Chair of the Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ).
An agency that determines that it does not have agency actions described above shall submit a
written statement to the OMB Director to that effect and, absent a determination by the OMB
Director that such agency has agency actions described in Section 2(a), shall have no further
responsibilities under Section 2.