PUBLIC LAW 96-354—SEPT. 19, 1980
94 STAT. 1165
(b) It is the purpose of this Act to establish as a principle of regulatory issuance that agencies shall endeavor, consistent with the objectives of the rule and of applicable statutes, to fit regulatory and informational requirements to the scale of the businesses, organizations, and governmental jurisdictions subject to regulation. To achieve this principle, agencies are required to solicit and consider flexible regulatory proposals and to explain the rationale for their actions to assure that such proposals are given serious consideration. ANALYSIS OF REGULATORY FUNCTIONS
SEC. 3. (a) Title 5, United States Code, is amended by adding immediately after chapter 5 the following new chapter:
"CHAPTER 6—THE ANALYSIS OF REGULATORY FUNCTIONS "Sec. "Sec. "Sec. "Sec. "Sec. "Sec. "Sec. "Sec. "Sec. "Sec. "Sec. "Sec.
601. Definitions. 602. Regulatory agenda. 603. Initial regulatory flexibility analysis. 604. Final regulatory flexibility analysis. 605. Avoidance of duplicative or unnecessary analyses. 606. Effect on other law. 607. Preparation of analyses. 608. Procedure for waiver or delay of completion. 609. Procedures for gathering comments. 610. Periodic review of rules. 611. Judicial review. 612. Reports and intervention rights.
"§ 60L Definitions "For purposes of this chapter— "(1) the term 'agency' means an agency as defined in section 551(1) of this title; "(2) the term 'rule' means any rule for which the agency publishes a general notice of proposed rulemaking pursuant to section 553(b) of this title, or any other law, including any rule of general applicability governing Federal grants to State and local governments for which the agency provides an opportunity for notice and public comment, except that the term rule' does not include a rule of particular applicability relating to rates, wages, corporate or financial structures or reorganizations thereof, prices, facilities, appliances, services, or allowances therefor or to valuations, costs or accounting, or practices relating to such rates, wages, structures, prices, appliances, services, or allowances; "(3) the term 'small business' has the same meaning as the term 'small business concern' under section 3 of the Small Business Act, unless an agency, after consultation with the Office of Advocacy of the Small Business Administration and after opportunity for public comment, establishes one or more definitions of such term which are appropriate to the activities of the agency and publishes such definitions) in the Federal Register; ' (4) the term 'small organization' means any not-for-profit enterprise which is independently owned and operated and is not dominant in its field, unless an agency establishes, after opportunity for public comment, one or more definitions of such term which are appropriate to the activities of the agency and publishes such definitions) in the Federal Register;
5 USC 60i. 5 USC 551. ^ ^SC 553.
15 USC 632.
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