# 2025-09802: President Orders Science Back to the Gold Standard Era

2025-09802, Restoring Gold Standard Science, is a Federal Register presidential document from Executive Office of the President published 2025-05-29, effective 2025-05-23 (as of 2026-11-04).

- Canonical: https://policyrisk.com/federal-register/2025-09802
- As of: 2026-11-04
- Plain-text twin of the page above; the HTML and this file carry the same facts.

## Facts
- Document number: 2025-09802
- Title: Restoring Gold Standard Science
- Type: Presidential Document
- Agencies: Executive Office of the President
- Citation: 90 FR 22601
- Published: 2025-05-29
- Effective: 2025-05-23
- Comments close: not stated
- Significant: no
- Touches household money: no
- Regulation identifier numbers: none
- Last updated: 2026-11-04

## In one line

President Orders Science Back to the Gold Standard Era

## Summary

This new order aims to fix broken trust in government science by making sure research is honest, clear, and based on real facts. It affects federal agencies that use science to make decisions, requiring them to avoid worst-case guesses and misleading info. These changes start right away and could save money by preventing bad policies based on shaky science.

## Effects PRIA read

- Government science data must be public: benefit, medium. Federal agencies must make public the data, analyses, conclusions, models, and, where applicable, source code for scientific information the agency reasonably assesses will have a clear and substantial effect on important public policies or important private sector decisions. The order says agencie…
- Agencies must avoid unlikely worst-case assumptions: benefit, medium. Agencies must be transparent about the likelihood of assumptions and scenarios and should rely on highly unlikely or overly precautionary assumptions only when required by law or otherwise pertinent to the agency's action. The order specifically directs employees not to present worst-case scenarios…
- Contractors must follow new science rules: cost, medium. Agency heads shall, to the extent practicable and consistent with law, require agency contractors to follow these scientific policies and rules as though they were agency employees. This means contractors working on scientific analyses or models for agencies may be required to meet the same transpa…
- Enforcement risk models stay confidential: cost, low. The order explicitly states that risk models used to guide agency enforcement actions or to select enforcement targets are not information that must be disclosed under the transparency rules. Agencies do not have to publish those particular risk models.
- Protections for federal scientists' viewpoints: benefit, low. Agencies should encourage open exchange of ideas, provide for consideration of different or dissenting viewpoints, and protect employees from efforts to prevent or deter consideration of alternative scientific opinions. These directions apply while agencies update their scientific integrity policie…

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## Sources
- [2025-09802 on federalregister.gov](https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2025/05/29/2025-09802/restoring-gold-standard-science)
- [2025-09802 as published (PDF)](https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2025-05-29/pdf/2025-09802.pdf)

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Source: PRIA, https://policyrisk.com/federal-register/2025-09802 (as of 2026-11-04).