Executive Order 14295: Increasing Efficiency at the Office of the Federal Register

What the order contains

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• Sec. 1. Purpose
• Sec. 2. Increasing Efficiency in the Federal Register
• Sec. 3. General Provisions

Section 1, quoted from the order

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Deregulation is a critical priority for my Administration. We will foster prosperity by freeing Americans from the heavy burden of Federal regulations accumulated over decades. Although the decision about which regulations to eliminate is sometimes complex, the administrative process of removing a regulation from the Code of Federal Regulations through a rulemaking should be simple. It is not. The Office of the Federal Register frequently takes days or, in some cases, even weeks to publish new regulatory actions. Such delay is unwarranted. The Office of the Federal Register receives final documents that are fully executed by the relevant decisionmakers--all that remains is publication. Yet despite those delays, executive departments and agencies are charged $151-$174 per column of text to publish each rule in the Federal Register. […]