Advocacy Publishes Status Report on r3 Rules
Sep 15th, 2008 | By Dawn R. Rivers | Category: RegulationsFile this one under “studies in government being effective.” Last year, the SBA Office of Advocacy decided to light a fire under federal regulators on the matter of compliance with Section 610 of the Regulatory Flexibility Act — the part that requires them to take out the rules occasionally, dust them off and examine them to decide if they are useless or obsolete. Advocacy asked for nominations from small business owners and selected a Top 10 to be sent to the relevant agencies for proposed review and reform. And, to make sure they didn’t just file the memo away somewhere, Advocacy promised to publish progress reports every six months. Lo and behold, the first six-month progress report was posted online last month. The whole thing has been an absolute dream sequence of a federal agency doing just what it says it’s going to do. Interested parties can review Advocacy’s status report online here. Meanwhile, Advocacy is also accepting nominations for a second round of regulatory review proposals; information about how to nominate a rule can be found on this page of Advocacy’s web site. Nominations will be accepted until December 31, 2008.
