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Annual Report of the Chief Counsel for Advocacy on Implementation of the Regulatory Flexibility Act, Fiscal Year 2000. 20 Years of the Regulatory Flexibility Act: Rulemaking in a Dynamic Economy

机译：2000年“监管灵活性法案”实施宣传首席法律顾问年度报告。“监管灵活性法案”20年：动态经济中的规则制定

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Twenty years ago, on September 19, 1980, Congress enacted the Regulatory Flexibility Act (RFA) mandating that agencies consider the impacts of regulatory proposals on small entities and determine in good faith whether there were equally effective alternatives that would make the regulatory burden on small business more equitable. In 1996, Congress enacted the Small Business Regulatory Enforcement Fairness Act (SBREFA), amending the RFA in three significant ways. First, courts were given authority to review agency compliance with the RFA in appeals from agency final actions. Second, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) were required to convene small business advocacy review panels to consult with small entities when the agency believed it would have to prepare an initial regulatory flexibility analysis of the small entity impacts. Finally, the Chief Counsel for Advocacy's authority to file amicus curiae ('friend of the Court') briefs, authority first granted by the RFA in 1980, was reaffirmed and broadened. This is the seventh report that the Chief Counsel for Advocacy has submitted since being nominated by the President and confirmed by the Senate in May 1994. Although compliance with the RFA still remains somewhat uneven, improved agency compliance is very clearly under way. The Act has become measurably and significantly effective in achieving the laws objective, namely, more equitable regulations. Agencies are learning to do more in-depth and quality regulatory impact analyses and seeking more guidance on how to comply with the RFA. The Office of Advocacy is also now able to estimate the compliance costs that small businesses will not have to incur as the result of regulatory changes made in response to Advocacys recommendations and those of small business. These regulatory savings amounted to $20.6 billion for the three-year period 1998, 1999, and 2000 and resulted from markedly improved analyses of economic and scientific data urged upon the agencies by Advocacy and others. Agencies should be applauded for their willingness to change regulatory proposals after analyzing both burdensome impacts and alternatives that are equally effective in accomplishing public policy objectives. This, after all, was the result Congress intended when it enacted the RFA.

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