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Accountability

Transparency and accountability go hand in hand. The following are some of the ways we hold ourselves accountable:

Retrospective Review & Analysis

The Retrospective Review is a response to Executive Order 13563, which requires agencies to develop plans to review their existing significant regulations to explore “whether any such regulations should be modified, streamlined, expanded, or repealed so as to make the agency’s regulatory program more effective or less burdensome in achieving the regulatory objectives.”

The Office of Personnel Management Plan for Retrospective Analysis of Existing Rules was published on August 22, 2011. Following are links to our bi-annual updates:

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