Information & Regulatory Affairs

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The Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs (OIRA) is located within the Office of Management and Budget and was created by Congress with the enactment of the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1980 (PRA). OIRA carries out several important functions, including reducing paperwork burdens, reviewing Federal regulations, and overseeing policies relating to privacy, information quality, and statistical programs.

Please see www.reginfo.gov, which is a public website disclosing information about OIRA's review of draft regulations under Executive Order 12866. This dashboard graphically presents information about rules under OIRA review through an easy-to-use interactive display and allows the public to sort rules by agency, length of review, state of rulemaking, and economic significance.

Key Documents

• Paperwork Reduction Act
• Executive Order 12866
• Circular A-4, "Regulatory Analysis" (48 pages, 435 kb)
   

  Click on the relevant sections on the left for additional policy guidance documents.

Key Reports

• 2008 Information Collection Budget (94 pages, 672 kb)
• 2008 Report to Congress on the Benefits and Costs of Federal Regulations and Unfunded Mandates on State, Local, and Tribal Entities (159 pages, 1,072 kb)
   

  Click on the relevant sections on the left for additional reports and publications.

OIRA Focus

• 03/10/2010 – OIRA Administrator Addresses "The Power of Open Government"
• 02/16/2010 – OIRA's "dashboard" on www.reginfo.gov, is a public website disclosing information about OIRA's review of draft regulations under Executive Order 12866
• 01/27/2010 – 2009 Report to Congress on the Benefits and Costs of Federal Regulations and Unfunded Mandates on State, Local, and Tribal Entities (92 pages, 928 kb)
• 10/27/2009 – Improving Implementation of the Paperwork Reduction Act, request for comments (4 pages, 70 kb)