Annual Report on the RFA

The Office of Advocacy’s efforts at monitoring federal agency compliance with the Regulatory Flexibility Act (RFA) resulted in changes to 18 specific rules that reduced the regulatory burden for small business. These include $253.3 million…

Every year, the Office of Advocacy reports on efforts to relieve the burden of new regulations on small businesses. These efforts are the result of the Regulatory Flexibility Act (RFA), a tool that requires federal agencies to evaluate the…

Fiscal Year 2016 was a milestone in the Office of Advocacy’s history. It marked 40 years since the office’s founding, 20 years since the passage of the Small Business Regulatory Enforcement Fairness Act, and 15 years of carrying out the…