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• W3125510913 abstract "In recent years, the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs (OIRA) within the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) has asserted a remarkable degree of authority over administrative agencies' rulemaking processes. One of the ways in which OIRA has exercised power over agencies has been to foist upon them its own views about the requirements of the statutes under which they operate. The most notable trend in this area has been OIRA's insistence on converting technology-based environmental laws into cost-benefit laws. In OIRA's hands, for example, the Clean Water Act (1) (the Act) is being transformed from a technology-based regime into a cost-benefit regime. I will argue that this transformation is illegal. Given the plain language of the statute, it would be illegal even if the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)--the agency charged with implementing the Act--had chosen this course. But EPA did not choose this course; OIRA did. OIRA's role in transforming EPA's understanding of the Act robs EPA's interpretation of any deference it might have been given under Chevron, U.S.A., Inc. v. Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc. (2) if EPA itself had chosen the interpretation. I use the Clean Water Act, and in particular a rule governing cooling water towers for power plants, as my case study. But the analysis applies whenever OIRA foists upon an administrative agency an interpretation of a statute that the agency has Congressional authority to administer. When OIRA's interpretation, not the agency's, prevails, the agency's reluctant embrace of OIRA's views does not deserve the deference Chevron might otherwise afford. Part I of this Article provides background on OIRA, the Clean Water Act, and EPA's rulemaking on cooling water towers. Part II discusses why EPA's interpretation of the Clean Water Act in the proceeding on cooling water towers was in error and why, given OIRA's deep involvement, EPA's interpretation does not deserve Chevron deference. I. BACKGROUND A. The Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs OIRA is situated within the OMB. Created by the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1980, (3) OIRA has the authority to monitor and reduce the paperwork burden of the federal government and private entities. (4) OIRA also oversees the Unfunded Mandate Reform Act, which creates special procedural rules for Congress's consideration of legislation having certain specified effects on obligations of states and local governments; (5) the Information Quality Act, which aims at ensuring the reliability of information disseminated by the federal agencies; (6) and the Small Business Regulatory Enforcement Fairness Act, which requires agencies to consider the effects of their actions on the nation's small businesses. (7) Under the Regulatory Right-to-Know Act, OIRA is also required to publish an annual report on the costs and benefits of federal regulation. (8) Yet, in terms of influence, none of OIRA's statutory obligations has surpassed the authority given to it under two different Executive Orders. The first, Executive Order 12,291, (9) which was issued by President Reagan in 1981, required OIRA to oversee compliance with the Executive Order's new requirement that agency regulations costing $100 million or more be subject to a cost-benefit analysis. (10) The second, President Clinton's Executive Order 12,866, superseded Executive Order 12,291 in 1993. (11) Executive Order 12,866 is similar in many respects to the Order it displaced; it, too, requires cost-benefit analysis for major agency regulations and gives OIRA oversight authority regarding agencies' cost-benefit analyses. (12) Moreover, Executive Order 12,866, like Executive Order 12,291, specifically states that it does not displace any statutory requirements the agencies otherwise face. (13) In its memorandum concluding that Executive Order 12,291 did not unconstitutionally interfere with other agencies' prerogatives, the Department of Justice's Office of Legal Counsel emphasized that the Executive Order did not undo agencies' obligations under existing law, including congressional enactments: [I]t is clear that the President's exercise of supervisory powers must conform to legislation enacted by Congress. …" @default.
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• W3125510913 title "Statutory Interpretation in the Era of OIRA" @default.
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