Agricultural Research and 2018 Farm Bill Implementation
On June 13, 2019, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) released what it describes as a “Cost-Benefit Analysis” of the proposed relocation of NIFA and ERS from Washington DC to Kansas City.
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Increasing Consistency and Transparency in EPA's Benefit Cost Analysis
In this ANPRM, EPA seeks comment on the appropriate role for regulatory analysis in decisions authorized by the different statutes EPA administers. It explicitly does not seek comment on “how best to conduct the underlying analysis of regulatory actions."
DHS Proposes Raising Barriers to Foreign Entrepreneurship in the U.S.
DHS recently proposed a rule to eliminate its international entrepreneur program, and the proposed removal would have negative economic effects.
Regulators’ Budget: OIRA’s Growth and the Future of Regulatory Reform
Sizing Up the Regulatory Landscape
DHS's Proposed Rule: Removal of International Entrepreneur Parole Program
The Department of Homeland Security’s proposed rule would eliminate its international entrepreneur (IE) program.
FDA's Proposal to Regulate Nicotine Levels
The U.S. Food & Drug Administration recently published an “Advance Notice of Proposed Rulemaking, Tobacco Product Standard for Nicotine Level of Combusted Cigarettes1" to invite comments and submissions of information for it to consider as it plans to develop a maximum nicotine level for cigarettes. The agency hopes to establish a standard for nicotine levels in cigarettes so that they do not initiate or perpetuate addiction to cigarettes for some portion of potential smokers.
FDA’s plan to restrict nicotine to very low levels in combusted cigarettes in order to reduce smokers’ addiction to cigarettes is a novel and creative approach
FSIS's Egg Products Inspection Regulations
The Food Safety Inspection Service (FSIS) is proposing to require official plants that process egg products to develop and implement Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Point (HACCP) Systems and Sanitation Standard Operating Procedures (Sanitation SOPs).
A Taxonomy of Regulatory Forms
There is a lot of interest in understanding what effects regulations have on economic growth and other macroeconomic measures, but measuring those impacts is challenging, in part because regulatory metrics themselves are rather blunt. Pages or even words in regulatory code may not tell the whole story. Intuitively, the form a regulation takes is relevant for predicting its impacts.