| Number | 21584 |
| Subject | Federal Government |
| Source | Washington Post |
| State | D.C. |
| Year | 2004 |
| Publication Date | Aug. 15-17, 2004 |
| Summary | This three-day series revealed how small, subtle regulatory changes by the Bush administration at three federal agencies have had large consequences for the American people. The Occupational Safety and Health Administration has eliminated nearly five times as many pending regulations as it has completed. The Data Quality Act, slipped into an appropriations bill, directs the Office of Management and Budget to ensure all information disseminated by the government is reliable, but in practice it allows industries to challenge the need for stiffer regulations. A one-word change in another regulation accelerated "mountaintop removal" mining because the debris was reclassified from "waste" to "fill." |
| Category | Contest Entry |
| Pages | 30 |
| Keywords | federal regulatory process;Occupational Safety and health Administration;OSHA;Office of Management and Budget;OMB;Data Quality Act;federal government;Unified Agenda of Regulatory and Deregulatory Actions. |
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