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By: FEDweek StaffJust ahead of leaving office, the Trump administration issued several management-related directives that likely will be reassessed by the Biden administration along with numerous previously issued orders and memos. They include:
OMB Memo M-21-12, which stresses to agencies that OMB’s Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs can override an agency decision and declare that an agency regulatory action is “a significant energy action” requiring the agency to provide a detailed statement effects on energy supply, distribution or use.
OMB Memo M-21-13, telling agencies to “narrow the volume of performance and priority goals they are tracking, enabling them to better measure what is measurable, and to track performance toward those objectives they are most committed to attaining”—a follow-up to recent budget preparation guidance relieving agencies of some data reporting requirements on grounds that the information is little-used.
An executive order requiring that certain types of rule-making may be initiated only by a political appointee and that an appointee must approve such rules before they are issued.
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