Risk assessment rebuff for OMB

摘要

The White House Office of Management and Budget's (OMB's) attempt to standardize risk assessments conducted by federal agencies has been unanimously rejected as "fundamentally flawed" by a National Research Council (NRC) committee. As a result, OMB will rethink its approach to developing improved guidance for risk assessment, according to Steven Aitken, acting administrator for the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs (OIRA), an agency within OMB. It has yet to be determined whether OMB will revise its draft risk assessment bulletin, issue a new draft, or devise another alternative, he says.