On January 18, 2011, in Executive Order 13563, the
President directed each agency to review their "existing significant
regulations, and consider how best to promote retrospective analysis of rules
that may be outmoded, ineffective, insufficient, or excessively burdensome, and
to modify, streamline, expand, or repeal them in accordance with what has been
learned."
In response to this directive, Commerce created and released
a preliminary plan for review of its regulations on May 26, 2011.
Commerce welcomes the public's comments and feedback on
this preliminary plan. Please send your
comments to open@doc.gov with "EO 13563
retrospective plan" in the subject line of the email. We will accept comments until midnight on
July 25th.