President Trump Signs Executive Order Setting Guidelines For Identifying Regulations For Repeal, Replacement, Or Modification

On February 24, 2017, President Trump signed an Executive Order setting forth guidelines pursuant to which the Trump administration will implement and enforce its regulatory reform initiatives and identify regulations for repeal, replacement, or modification.¹ This Executive Order follows President Trump's January 30, 2017 Executive Order in which he required that whenever an agency publicly proposes or promulgates a new regulation, it must identify at least two existing regulations to be repealed. These Executive Orders, which do not themselves effect any changes to existing regulations, nevertheless indicate a real commitment to regulatory reform by the Trump administration.

The February 24 Executive Order requires the head of each agency, unless that agency receives a waiver from the Director of the Office of Management and Budget, to designate an agency official as a Regulatory Reform Officer (RRO), who is tasked with overseeing the implementation of various