Information Management

Information Management:

Subtopics

* The Graham Files *

Imperial Presidency

Anti-Regulatory Hit List

Regulatory Accounting

Analytical Policies

Information Management

Archive

The White House exerts tremendous power over the information that agencies can collect and disseminate to the public, primarily through the Paperwork Reduction Act and behind-the-scenes distortions of scientific work.

Subtopics

Paperwork Reduction Act

Good Guidance Practices

Risk Assessment Guidelines

News

Criticism of Draft Risk Assessment Bulletin May Delay Implementation 09/12/2006
InsideEPA, a Washington trade publication, reports that criticism from federal agency officials could prevent the Office of Management and Budget from finalizing a bulletin on risk assessments.

On Jan. 9, 2006, the OMB released a draft bulletin governing how agencies perform risk assessments. If enacted, the new standards would create a one-size-fits-all standard, requiring more information and analysis before agencies could act to protect the public.

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Risk Bulletin Advances Graham Anti-Reg Agenda 01/24/2006
From cost-benefit guidelines to the new draft policy on risk assessments, White House regulatory czar John Graham has steadily proceeded with a long-range plan laying the groundwork for dramatic limits on public safeguards. Read More

White House 'Guidance' to Burden Agencies, Delay Information 01/11/2006
A White House proposal will hinder federal agency efforts to provide important information to the public by opening guidance documents to politicization and industry influence, according to comments filed by Citizens for Sensible Safeguards. Read More

White House Proposes Guidelines to Control Agency Risk Assessments 01/11/2006
When it rains, it pours: the same day the White House closed the comment period on its proposed bulletin to govern agency guidance practices, the White House Office of Management and Budget released a proposed bulletin to govern agency risk assessments. Read More

White House Asserts Authority Over Agency Guidance Documents 11/29/2005
The White House released a draft bulletin on the day before Thanksgiving that establishes new guidelines for non-rulemaking agency guidance documents. Read More

White House Meets with Industry to Plan Deregulatory Strategy 01/10/2005
Over the past several months, the White House has met with industry representatives to develop a sweeping deregulatory strategy. Read More

Administration Stacks Scientific Advisory Panels 03/19/2003
The Bush administration has been screening nominees for federal scientific advisory committees based on their political views rather than their scientific qualifications. Inevitably, as the list below documents, this has meant tilting committees -- whose findings frequently form the basis for regulation -- in favor of corporate interests and conservative ideologues. Read More

John Graham Advises EPA to Improve Information Policies 03/04/2002
John Graham, administrator of OMB’s Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, today released a “prompt letter” to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) urging the agency to take three steps to improve public access to its information. Graham’s top priority is to have EPA establish an identification number for each facility reporting information to the agency. Read More