Amending Executive Order 12866 on Regulatory Planning and Review
Signed February 26, 2002·George W. Bush·67 FR 9385
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Amends Executive Order 12866, which governs regulatory planning and review, by removing the Vice President's designated role in the regulatory review process and reassigning those responsibilities to the Director of the Office of Management and Budget or the Chief of Staff to the President, depending on the section. It also updates references to certain advisory positions, replacing outdated titles such as the Assistant to the President for Science and Technology and the Assistant to the President for Intergovernmental Affairs with their current equivalents, and adds the Assistant to the President for Homeland Security to the list of officials involved in the regulatory planning process. The changes are made through a series of specific word substitutions and structural edits to numbered sections of the original order, covering how conflicts over proposed regulations are resolved and who convenes and advises on regulatory policy meetings.
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By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered
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Disposition
Amends: EO 12866, September 30, 1993; Revoked by: EO 13497, January 30, 2009
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Executive Order 13258 of February 26, 2002
Amending Executive Order 12866 on Regulatory
Planning and Review
By the authority vested in me as President by the
Constitution and the laws of the United States of
America, it is hereby ordered that Executive Order
12866, of September 30, 1993, is amended as follows:
Section 1. Section (2)(b) is amended by striking “,
the Vice President, and other regulatory policy
advisors” and inserting in lieu thereof “and
regulatory policy advisors”.
Sec. 2. Section (2)(c) is amended by:
(a) striking in the heading the words “The Vice
President” and inserting in lieu thereof
“Assistance”;
(b) striking the sentence that begins “The Vice
President is”;
(c) striking “In fulfilling their
responsibilities” and inserting in lieu thereof “In
fulfilling his responsibilities”; and
(d) striking “and the Vice President” both times
it appears.
Sec. 3. Section 3(a) is amended by:
(a) striking “and Vice President”;
(b) striking “the Assistant to the President for
Science and Technology” and inserting in lieu thereof
“the Director of the Office of Science and Technology
Policy”;
(c) striking “the Assistant to the President for
Intergovernmental Affairs” and inserting in lieu
thereof “the Deputy Assistant to the President and
Director for Intergovernmental Affairs”;
(d) striking “the Deputy Assistant to the
President and Director of the White House Office of
Environmental Policy” and inserting in lieu thereof
“the Chairman of the Council on Environmental Quality
and Director of the Office of Environmental Quality”;
and
(e) striking “and (12)” and inserting in lieu
thereof “(12) the Assistant to the President for
Homeland Security; and (13)”.
Sec. 4. Section 4(a) is amended by striking “the Vice
President shall convene” and inserting in lieu thereof
“the Director shall convene”.
Sec. 5. Section 4(c)(3) is amended by striking “, the
Advisors, and the Vice President” and inserting in
lieu thereof “and the Advisors”.
Sec. 6. Section 4(c)(4) is amended by striking “, the
Advisors, and the Vice President” and inserting in
lieu thereof “and the Advisors”.
Sec. 7. Section 4(c)(5) is amended by striking “, the
Advisors, and the Vice President” and inserting in
lieu thereof “and the Advisors”.
Sec. 8. Section 4(c)(6) is amended by striking “Vice
President, with the Advisors' assistance,” and
inserting in lieu thereof “Director”.
Sec. 9. Section 4(d) is amended by:
(a) striking “, the Advisors, and the Vice
President” and inserting in lieu thereof “and the
Advisors”; and
(b) striking “periodically advise the Vice
President” and inserting in lieu thereof
“periodically advise the Director”.
Sec. 10. Section 5(c) is amended by striking “Vice
President” and inserting in lieu thereof “Director”.
Sec. 11. Section 6(b)(4)(C)(i) is amended by striking
“Vice Presidential and”.
Sec. 12. Section 7 is amended by:
(a) striking “resolved by the President, or by the
Vice President acting at the request of the President”
and inserting in lieu thereof “resolved by the
President, with the assistance of the Chief of Staff to
the President (“Chief of Staff”)”;
(b) striking “Vice Presidential and Presidential
consideration” and inserting in lieu thereof
“Presidential consideration”;
(c) striking “recommendations developed by the
Vice President” and inserting in lieu thereof
“recommendations developed by the Chief of Staff”;
(d) striking “Vice Presidential and Presidential
review period” and inserting in lieu thereof
“Presidential review period”;
(e) striking “or to the staff of the Vice
President” and inserting in lieu thereof “or to the
staff of the Chief of Staff”;
(f) striking “the President, or the Vice President
acting at the request of the President, shall notify”
and insert in lieu thereof “the President, or the
Chief of Staff acting at the request of the President,
shall notify”.
Sec. 13. Section 7 is also amended in the first
paragraph by inserting the designation “(a)” after
the words “Resolution of Conflicts.”, and by
designating the following three paragraphs as “(b)”,
“(c)”, and “(d)” in order.
Sec. 14. Section 8 is amended by striking “Vice
President” both times it appears and inserting in lieu
thereof “Director”.
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THE WHITE HOUSE,
February 26, 2002.Reproduced from the Federal Register plain-text record, signed February 26, 2002. Typesetting artifacts are removed; no wording is changed.