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Description:: This comment on the Food and Drug Administration’s draft environmental assessment and preliminary finding of no significant impact concerning investigational use of Oxitec OX513A mosquitoes does not represent the views of any particular affected party or special interest, but is designed to...
Author:: Pérez, Daniel R.
Keyword:: Public Comments, Public Interest, Administrative Law, Public Policy, Economic Analysis, Regulatory Policy, Regulatory Studies, and Regulation
GW Unit:: Regulatory Studies Center
Resource Type:: Report

Description:: We define eRulemaking as the application of information technology to the process of developing regulations. It offers the potential to substantially transform the process and the use of regulatory information by improving internal government operations, enhancing transparency and public...
Author:: Otis, Rick
Keyword:: Public Policy, Working Paper, Regulatory Studies, Modernization, Technology, and Regulation
GW Unit:: Regulatory Studies Center
Resource Type:: Working Paper

Description:: The questions or whether to develop a “mass-based” or “rate-based” emissions trading program under that rule arise in the context of EPA’s EPA’s proposed Clean Power Plan or Federal Implementation Plans, so we are re-filing the comment in the current docket for the Agency’s consideration. The...
Author:: Mannix, Brian F.
Keyword:: Public Comments, Public Interest, Administrative Law, Public Policy, Economic Analysis, Regulatory Policy, Regulatory Studies, and Regulation
GW Unit:: Regulatory Studies Center
Resource Type:: Report

Description:: Through a series of Executive Orders, President Obama has encouraged federal regulatory agencies to review existing regulations “that may be outmoded, ineffective, insufficient, or excessively burdensome, and to modify, streamline, expand, or repeal them in accordance with what has been learned.”...
Author:: Miller, Sofie E.
Keyword:: Environmental Protection Agency, Public Policy, Working Paper, Regulatory Policy, Regulatory Studies, Environmental Policy, and Regulation
GW Unit:: Regulatory Studies Center
Resource Type:: Working Paper

Description:: Despite efforts to ensure that new regulations provide net benefits to citizens, the accumulation of regulations threatens economic growth and well-being. As a result, the U.S. legislature is exploring the possibility that applying fiscal budgeting concepts to regulation could bring more...
Author:: Dudley, Susan E.
Keyword:: Public Policy, Working Paper, Regulatory Policy, Regulatory Studies, Fiscal Budget, and Regulation
GW Unit:: Regulatory Studies Center
Resource Type:: Working Paper

Description:: This Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB or “Bureau”) proposed rule would extend various consumer protections to prepaid account products. Protections for traditional bank account and credit products now exist through Regulation E, which governs electronic funds transfers, and Regulation...
Author:: Taylor, Blake
Keyword:: Public Comments, Public Interest, Administrative Law, Public Policy, Economic Analysis, Regulatory Policy, Regulatory Studies, and Regulation
GW Unit:: Regulatory Studies Center
Resource Type:: Report

Description:: The charge questions that EPA has presented to the EEAC for consideration this week relate to the analytical foundations of a procedure for estimating the value of statistical lives saved in the future – possibly the distant future – as a result of regulations imposed today. Reductions in...
Author:: Mannix, Brian
Keyword:: Public Comments, Public Interest, Administrative Law, Public Policy, Economic Analysis, Regulatory Policy, Regulatory Studies, and Regulation
GW Unit:: Regulatory Studies Center
Resource Type:: Report

Description:: This response to the Department of Energy’s request for information on reducing regulatory burdens does not represent the views of any particular affected party or special interest, but is designed to improve DOE rulemakings and enhance DOE’s retrospective review efforts. As DOE notes in its...
Author:: Miller, Sofie E.
Keyword:: Public Comments, Public Interest, Administrative Law, Public Policy, Economic Analysis, Regulatory Policy, Regulatory Studies, and Regulation
GW Unit:: Regulatory Studies Center
Resource Type:: Report

Description:: This Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) proposal would allow small unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) to operate in the National Airspace System (NAS) pursuant to specific limitations and standards, which address small UAS operation, operator certification, and registration. Small UAS currently...
Author:: Taylor, Blake
Keyword:: Public Comments, Public Interest, Administrative Law, Public Policy, Economic Analysis, Regulatory Policy, Regulatory Studies, and Regulation
GW Unit:: Regulatory Studies Center
Resource Type:: Report

Description:: As part of a cooperative agreement with the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), the George Washington University Regulatory Studies Center produced a five-chapter report on regulatory differences between the United States (U.S.) and the European Union (EU) and their effects on...
Author:: Pérez, Daniel R. , Prasad, Aryamala, and Xie, Zhoudan
Keyword:: Public Interest, Public Policy, Working Paper, Economic Analysis, Regulatory Policy, Regulatory Studies, Regulation, and Agriculture
GW Unit:: Regulatory Studies Center
Resource Type:: Working Paper

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