
H.R. 682 - Reg Flex Burden Bill: first step to regulatory sunsets
by Guest Blogger, 7/21/2005
H.R. 682 — Regulatory Flexibility Improvements Act
POSITION: We OPPOSE this bill.
Description
First step in the direction of regulatory sunsets. The jusitification for reg sunsets is that older regs should expired because they are outdated, but some older regs -- like the phase-out of lead in gasoline -- are still the right thing to do even decades later. This bill would increase the burdensome and unnecessary navel-gazing of the Reg Flex Act and link those periodic reviews with assessments whether older rules should be rescinded.
