Improving Our Regulations Through Periodic Retrospective Review

            Fact Sheet

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is beginning a new periodic retrospective
review of our existing significant regulations, to determine whether any such regulations
should be modified, streamlined, expanded, or repealed, so as to make the Agency's
regulatory program more effective or less burdensome in achieving the regulatory
objectives.

As called for by President Obama in Executive Order 13563,  "to facilitate the periodic review
of existing significant regulations," EPA will "consider how best to promote retrospective
analysis of rules that may be outmoded, ineffective, insufficient, or excessively burdensome,
and to modify, streamline, expand, or repeal them in accordance with what has been
learned."

We want you to  help us design the plan we will use to periodically review our regulations.
We're accepting  your comments from now through 04/04/2011. (This is an extension of the
original comment period end date of 03/20.) We won't be able to respond to every
individual comment, but we value your input and will give your ideas careful consideration.


Submit your ideas online
From 02/18/2011 to 04/04/2011, you may submit comments to a number of dockets on
Regulations.gov that will help us categorize and prioritize your input.

   •  Share your ideas by issue or impact (e.g., innovation, environmental justice,
      science).
   •  Share your ideas by program area (e.g., air, water, pesticides)
   •  Share general ideas (Use this category if you're not sure what other category to
      choose or if your comment spans multiple categories. Also, you may use this
      category  if you wish to provide other general comments on the factors we should
      consider in  conducting our review, the process we will use in setting priorities, or the
      identification of candidate rules for review.)

Please include an explanation as to why you believe a regulation should be modified,
streamlined, expanded, or repealed; provide data or other information that supports your
explanation; and provide suggestions on  how we can better achieve the regulatory
program's objective.

Attend our public  meetings
In March 2011, EPA has and is hosting  a number of meetings to hear what you have to say
about our plan for periodic retrospective review of our existing significant regulations.

Visit our meetings web page for information:
http: //www. eDa.gov/imDrovinq regulations/meeting, html

Get  more information
Visit http://www.epa.qov/improvinqrequlations to learn more about our periodic
retrospective review efforts.  Thank you in advance for your  input on this important effort.
For more  information, please email improving regulations.suggestion box@epa.gov. You may
submit your comments to this email address, as well as via the links provided above.
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