House Panel Targets Agency Guidance But Stops Short Of Industry Calls

House Republicans are advancing legislation that seeks to require EPA and other agencies to ease public access to their “significant” guidance documents as part of a broader regulatory review effort targeting such informal policies, but are stopping short of acting on industry calls to subject guidance to formal notice-and-comment requirements. The House Oversight and Government Reform Committee March 15 approved H.R. 4809 in a voice vote, a bill that codifies requirements for agencies to post their guidance documents online in...