Regional Regulatory Reform Roundtable Follow Up

As a result of President Trump’s Executive Orders, 13771 and 13777, Advocacy has begun an effort to hear, firsthand, from small businesses across the country about specific federal regulatory burdens facing their businesses. Under the Regulatory Flexibility Act (RFA), agencies are required to consider the impact of their regulations on small entities when promulgating federal regulations. Advocacy believes that the RFA and consideration of small business economic impacts is a good place to start when an agency is selecting rules that are being reviewed for reform or elimination.

In December 2018, Advocacy published a report on the roundtable effort from June 2017 to September 2018. The report outlines the initiative, top small business regulatory issues, and progress that has been made so far.

What Small Businesses Are Saying and What Advocacy Is Doing About It: Progress Report on the Office of Advocacy’s Regional Regulatory Reform Roundtables

These are the letters that Advocacy disseminated to federal agencies as a follow up to the feedback received from online comment letters and Regional Regulatory Reform Roundtables:

2017

U.S. Department of Agriculture
U.S. Department of Education
U.S. Department Energy
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
Federal Communications Commission
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
U.S. Department of Homeland Security
U.S. Department of the Interior
U.S. Department of Justice
U.S. Department of Labor
U.S. Small Business Administration
U.S. Department of State
U.S. Department of Transportation
U.S. Department of the Treasury
 U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development

2018
U.S. Department Energy
Federal Communications Commission
U.S. Small Business Administration and U.S. Department of Agriculture
U.S. Department of the Interior
U.S. Department of the Treasury
U.S. Department of Education
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
U.S. Department of Agriculture
U.S. Department of Labor
U.S. Department of Homeland Security
U.S. Department of Justice