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New — Executive Summaries in Rules & Proposed Rules
The Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs issued a memo to Executive departments and agencies on January 4, 2012, advising that they should immediately begin to include “Executive Summaries” in regulatory preambles of lengthy or complex proposed and final rules. Executive Summaries are intended to ensure an open exchange of information and perspectives, and should describe the major provisions and policy choices in the rulemaking documents.
We have updated our “Regulatory Improvement” page on FederalRegister.gov (under the heading for OMB Memos on E.O. 13563 & E.O. 13579) to include a link to the new memo.