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Unified Agenda: About
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Order 12866 (58 FR 51735) and the Regulatory Flexibility Act (5 U.S.C.
602) require that agencies publish semiannual regulatory agendas describing
regulatory actions they are developing or have recently completed. Agencies
of the United States Congress are not included. The agendas are published
in the Federal Register, usually during April and October each year, as
part of the Unified Agenda of Federal Regulatory and Deregulatory Actions.
The Unified Agenda has appeared in the Federal Register twice each year
since 1983 and is available electronically on GPO Access from
1994 forward.
The Unified Agenda is compiled by the General Services Administration's
Regulatory Information Service Center in cooperation with the Office of
Information and Regulatory Affairs (OIRA), part of the Office of Management
and Budget. It is then published by the Office of the Federal Register,
National Archives and Records Administration (NARA).
In the table of contents for the Federal Register issue,
the agendas are listed by the issuing agency under the Proposed Rule section
of the Federal Register. Each agenda begins with a preamble. Many include
a table of contents.
The Regulatory Information Service Center assigns a Regulation Identifier
Number (RIN) to identify each regulatory action listed in the Unified
Agenda.
Example: RIN: 1205-AB02: Disaster Unemployment Assistance
Program, Amendment to Regulations [Completed Actions]
Because of its unique schedule and content, the Unified Agenda is maintained
as a separate database on GPO Access. Documents are available as
ASCII text and Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF) files.
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