§610 Periodic Review of Rules

Summary

Agencies must put a plan in the Federal Register within 180 days that explains how they will regularly review rules that have a big economic effect on a large number of small entities. The plan can be changed later by publishing the update. The reviews must decide whether each rule should stay, be changed, or be removed while still meeting the law. The plan must cover rules that already exist within 10 years, and new rules within 10 years after they become final. If an agency head cannot finish on time, they must publish a statement and may delay completion one year at a time, for up to five years total. When doing reviews, agencies must look at things like whether the rule is still needed, public complaints or comments, how complicated it is, overlap or conflict with other rules, and whether technology or the economy has changed since it was last checked. Each year agencies must publish a list in the Federal Register of the rules they will review in the next 12 months, with a short description, why the rule exists and its legal basis, and they must ask the public for comments.