Chemical reporting, sanitary sewer overflow and lead paint are among the regulatory areas in which the Environmental Protection Agency plans to make changes this year, according to its regulatory review plan.
The Obama administration published regulatory reviews by 30 agencies, including the Environmental Protection Agency and Department of Energy, last week. The White House said that the reports, prepared to comply with the president’s January order on reducing red tape, identified billions of dollars in savings.
In the EPA’s report (pdf), the agency lays out 31 regulatory reviews as priority activities.
Sixteen of these items are categorized as “early actions”. The EPA says this means that “the Agency intends to take a specific step which could lead to modifying, streamlining, expanding, or repealing a regulation or related program during the 2011 calendar year.”
The other 15 reviews are longer-term actions, meaning that the agency intends to review those regulations and determine whether revisions are needed.