[CPEO-BIF] March 17 Video Town Hall Discussion on Designing EPA’s Regulatory Retrospective Review Plan

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

From Mathy Stanislaus
Assistant Administrator for EPA's Office of Solid Waste and Emergency  
Response

Subject Line: March 17 Video Town Hall Discussion on Designing EPA’s  
Regulatory Retrospective Review Plan

Hello,

Please join me for the sixth Video Town Hall discussion on Thursday,  
March 17 from 1:00 - 1:45 PM EST. Anyone who wishes to attend will  
have an opportunity to ask questions directly to myself and other EPA  
experts.

President Obama’s Regulatory Strategy requires Federal agencies to  
design cost-effective, evidence-based regulations that are compatible  
with economic growth, job creation, and competitiveness. In the  
spirit of transparency and accountability, EPA is beginning a new  
periodic retrospective review of our existing significant regulations  
to determine whether any of those regulations should be modified,  
streamlined, expanded, or repealed. Our goal is to make EPA  
regulations less burdensome while still achieving their regulatory  
objectives. Your ideas on rules that could be modified to help us  
reach environmental justice goals, or promote sustainable  
development, or take advantage of new scientific data are areas that  
can help focus this review.

There are two ways to participate:

Discuss your ideas online

1.	Discuss/Watch online. Access the streaming video feed at  
www.epa.gov/oswer/videotownhall.htm. You can e-mail questions to  
townhallquestions@epa.gov before or during the meeting. We will  
select a representative sample of questions and answer as many as  
possible. Please include your name or organization when submitting a  
question.

or...

2.	Call in. You can listen to the meeting toll-free by calling  
1-877-220-5073, conference code 49951681. People attending by phone  
will have an opportunity to ask questions towards the end of the  
meeting. We will answer as many questions as possible.

We want you to help us design the plan we will use to periodically  
review our regulations. Share your ideas by issue or impact (e.g.  
state, local and tribal governments, EJ impacts,
Small business impacts, technological innovation).
Share your ideas by program area (e.g. waste, water, air)
Share general issues (e.g. what to consider in conducting our review,  
process for setting priorities, or the identification of candidate  
rules for review)

Submit your ideas online
EPA is accepting comments on Regulations.gov from now through  
03/20/2011. We won't be able to respond to every individual comment,  
but we value your input and will give your ideas careful  
consideration. By late May, you will have the chance to read our  
retrospective review plan on this website, as well as an initial list  
of regulations that we plan to review first. We also have an open  
discussion forum on the web for collecting your ideas too: http:// 
blog.epa.gov/oswerforum/2011/02/regulation-review/.
As you prepare your comments which will be placed in the official  
docket, please remember that supplying EPA with supporting data and a  
rationale for the expected benefit for any candidate rule will help  
us focus on the most promising ideas first.
Get more information
Visit http://www.epa.gov/improvingregulations to learn more about our  
periodic retrospective review efforts. Information about this Video  
Town Hall and previous discussions is available at www.epa.gov/oswer/ 
videotownhall.htm. I
I hope you'll join me on the 17th.

Sincerely,
Mathy Stanislaus
Assistant Administrator for EPA's Office of Solid Waste and Emergency  
Response


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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
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