Regulating with Common Sense: A Progress Report on Innovative Regulatory Techniques

摘要

In response to President Carter's request in June 1980 that agencies review regulatory programs to identify possible alternative techniques, the Regulatory Council sponsored workshops for regulatory agencies and issued this report summarizing the workshops. The Council found that: there is a fundamental recent shift in regulatory philosophy among agencies, resulting in adoption of more sophisticated measures that rely on a range of incentives; the change is occurring where it counts most -- in the thinking of those agency officials who actually write regulations; the impact of innovative techniques is only beginning to be felt, partly because many of the ideas are still in the development stage. The report presents a statistical summary of agencies' use of innovative techniques; analysis and examples of each of eight techniques; a summary of agency plans to use innovative techniques in the future; an appendix listing all identified innovative techniques being used by agencies; an appendix listing all procedural changes implemented by agencies; and a list of agency representatives.