[Federal Register Volume 76, Number 54 (Monday, March 21, 2011)]
[Proposed Rules]
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From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2011-6576]
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Federal Register / Vol. 76, No. 54 / Monday, March 21, 2011 /
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DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
5 CFR Chapter XLII
20 CFR Chapters IV, V, VI, VII, and IX
29 CFR Subtitle A and Chapters II, IV, V, XVII, and XXV
30 CFR Chapter I
41 CFR Chapters 50, 60, and 61
48 CFR Chapter 29
Reducing Regulatory Burden; Retrospective Review Under E.O. 13563
AGENCY: Office of the Secretary, Labor.
ACTION: Request for Information.
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SUMMARY: In response to the President's Executive Order 13563 on
improving regulation and regulatory review, the Department of Labor
(DOL or the Department) is preparing a preliminary plan to review its
existing significant regulations. The purpose of this notice is to
invite public comment on how the Department can improve any of its
significant regulations by modifying, streamlining, expanding, or
repealing them.
DATES: Comments must be received on or before March 31, 2011.
ADDRESSES: You may submit comments through the Department's Regulations
Portal at http://www.dol.gov/regulations/regreview.htm.
All comments will be available for public inspection at http://www.dol.gov/regulations/regreview.htm.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: e. christi cunningham, Associate
Assistant Secretary for Regulatory Policy, U.S. Department of Labor,
200 Constitution Avenue, NW., Room S-2312, Washington, DC 20210,
[email protected], (202) 693-5959 (this is not a toll-free
number). Individuals with hearing impairments may call 1-800-877-8339
(TTY/TDD).
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: On January 18, 2011, President Obama issued
Executive Order 13563, ``Improving Regulation and Regulatory Review.''
The Order explains the Administration's goal of creating a regulatory
system that protects ``public health, welfare, safety, and our
environment while promoting economic growth, innovation,
competitiveness, and job creation'' while using ``the best, most
innovative, and least burdensome tools to achieve regulatory ends.''
The Executive Order requires agencies to develop and submit a
preliminary plan within 120 days from the January 18 issuance date that
explains how each agency will review existing significant regulations
to identify whether any regulations may be made more effective or less
burdensome.
Request for Comments
As a first step in developing its regulatory review plan, the
Department is requesting public comment on how the Department can
increase the effectiveness of its significant regulations while
minimizing the burden on regulated entities. The Department recognizes
the knowledge of programs and their implementing regulations that
exists within our regulated communities, academia and the public, and
therefore is requesting public comment on how the Department can
foster, promote, and develop the welfare of the wage earners, job
seekers, and retirees of the United States; improve working conditions;
advance opportunities for profitable employment; and assure work-
related benefits and rights in ways that are more effective and less
burdensome.
This request for public input will inform development of the
Department's plan to review its existing significant regulations. To
facilitate receipt of the information, the Department has created an
Internet portal specifically designed to capture your input and
suggestions, http://www.dol.gov/regulations/regreview.htm. The portal
contains a series of questions designed to gather information on how
DOL can best meet the requirements of the Executive Order. The portal
will be open to receive comments from March 16, 2011 through March 31,
2011.
Questions for the Public
The Department intends the questions on the portal to represent a
starting point for discussion of the criteria that can be used to
prioritize its regulatory review. The questions are meant to initiate
public dialogue, and are not intended to restrict the issues that may
be raised or addressed. The questions were developed with the intent to
probe a range of areas, including tools that can be used to prioritize
regulations for review; strategies that can be used to increase
flexibility of regulations; and ensuring scientific integrity of data.
Please note that these questions do not pertain to DOL rulemakings
currently open for public comment. To comment on an open rulemaking,
please visit regulations.gov and submit comments by the deadline
indicated in that rulemaking.
When addressing these questions, the Department requests that
commenters identify with specificity the regulation or reporting
requirement at issue, providing legal citation(s) where available. The
Department also requests that submitters provide, in as much detail as
possible, an explanation of why a regulation or reporting requirement
should be modified, streamlined, expanded, or repealed, as well as
specific suggestions of ways the Department can better achieve its
regulatory objectives. Whenever possible, please provide empirical
evidence and data to support your response.
The Department will consider public comment as we develop this plan
to periodically review the Department's significant rules. The
Department is issuing this request solely to seek useful information as
it develops its review plan. While responses to this request do not
bind the Department to any further actions related to the response, all
submissions will be made available to the public on http://www.dol.gov/regulations/regreview.htm.
Authority: E.O. 13653, 76 FR 3821, Jan. 21, 2011; E.O. 12866,
58 FR 51735, Oct. 4, 1993.
Dated: March 15, 2011.
Seth D. Harris,
Deputy Secretary.
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