OMB Plan To Expand Guidance Reviews Could Delay Key EPA Policies

The White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB) is planning to require both internal and external reviews of almost all the guidance documents EPA and other agencies issue, a significant expansion of OMB oversight that agency sources say will cripple their ability to issue risk values for controversial chemicals and delay implementation policies for a slew of programs. EPA sources say the draft OMB document announcing the new policy, entitled OMB Bulletin on Good Guidance , could delay agency...