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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND
HUMAN SERVICES
45 CFR Subtitle A
Request for Information (RFI) on
Redundant, Overlapping, or
Inconsistent Regulations
Immediate Office of the
Secretary, Department of Health and
Human Services (HHS).
ACTION: Request for information.
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The Immediate Office of the
Secretary (IOS) is issuing this Request
for Information (RFI) to assist the
Department in identifying redundant,
overlapping, or inconsistent regulations.
DATES: To be considered, responses and
comments must be received
electronically, at the email address
provided below, no later than 11:59
p.m., Eastern on December 21, 2020,
and will be reviewed on a rolling basis
during this period.
ADDRESSES: Responses must be
submitted electronically, and should be
addressed to DuplicativeRegulations@
hhs.gov.
SUMMARY:
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IMPROVEMENT
The Chief
of Staff for the Department has issued a
policy statement entitled ‘‘Avoiding
Duplicative Regulation.’’ In the policy
statement, the Chief of Staff noted that
redundant, overlapping, or inconsistent
regulations undermine agency and
regulatory goals by injecting
uncertainty, creating potentially
conflicting regulatory regimes, and
increasing transaction costs with no
discernible benefit to the public. The
policy statement also placed new
requirements on HHS agencies to avoid
duplicative regulation. This Request for
Information seeks input from the public
on how HHS may improve its
regulations, to include regulations
issued by any HHS office or agency.
HHS plans to use comments from the
public to improve existing regulations,
and eliminate unnecessary or
duplicative regulations through future
exercise of rulemaking authority.
Specifically, responders may address
one or more of the topics below:
1. Any HHS regulations that are
redundant with other HHS regulations,
and how HHS could best eliminate such
redundancies.
2. Any HHS regulations that are
inconsistent with other HHS
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regulations, and how HHS could best
resolve any inconsistencies.
3. Any HHS regulations that overlap
with federal regulation issued by
another HHS office or agency in a
manner that creates confusion or
uncertainty, and how HHS could best
address potential problems caused by
such overlapping HHS regulations.
4. Challenges faced by you, your
company or others when trying to
comply with redundant, overlapping, or
inconsistent HHS regulations and the
impact or result of facing such
challenges.
Collection of Information
Requirements: This document does not
impose information collection
requirements, that is, reporting,
recordkeeping or third-party disclosure
requirements. However, this document
does contain a general solicitation of
comments in the form of a request for
information. In accordance with
implementing regulations of the
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995
(PRA), specifically 5 CFR 1320.3(h)(4),
this general solicitation is exempt from
the PRA. Facts or opinions submitted in
response to general solicitations of
comments from the public, published in
the Federal Register or other
publications, regardless of the form or
format thereof, provided that no person
is required to supply specific
information pertaining to the
commenter other than that necessary for
self-identification, as a condition of the
agency’s full consideration, are not
generally considered information
collections and therefore not subject to
the PRA.
Brian Harrison,
Chief of Staff, Department of Health and
Human Services.
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
45 CFR Subtitle A
Request for Information (RFI) on Redundant, Overlapping, or
Inconsistent Regulations
AGENCY: Immediate Office of the Secretary, Department of Health and
Human Services (HHS).
ACTION: Request for information.
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SUMMARY: The Immediate Office of the Secretary (IOS) is issuing this
Request for Information (RFI) to assist the Department in identifying
redundant, overlapping, or inconsistent regulations.
DATES: To be considered, responses and comments must be received
electronically, at the email address provided below, no later than
11:59 p.m., Eastern on December 21, 2020, and will be reviewed on a
rolling basis during this period.
ADDRESSES: Responses must be submitted electronically, and should be
addressed to [email protected].
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The Chief of Staff for the Department has
issued a policy statement entitled ``Avoiding Duplicative Regulation.''
In the policy statement, the Chief of Staff noted that redundant,
overlapping, or inconsistent regulations undermine agency and
regulatory goals by injecting uncertainty, creating potentially
conflicting regulatory regimes, and increasing transaction costs with
no discernible benefit to the public. The policy statement also placed
new requirements on HHS agencies to avoid duplicative regulation. This
Request for Information seeks input from the public on how HHS may
improve its regulations, to include regulations issued by any HHS
office or agency. HHS plans to use comments from the public to improve
existing regulations, and eliminate unnecessary or duplicative
regulations through future exercise of rulemaking authority.
Specifically, responders may address one or more of the topics below:
1. Any HHS regulations that are redundant with other HHS
regulations, and how HHS could best eliminate such redundancies.
2. Any HHS regulations that are inconsistent with other HHS
regulations, and how HHS could best resolve any inconsistencies.
3. Any HHS regulations that overlap with federal regulation issued
by another HHS office or agency in a manner that creates confusion or
uncertainty, and how HHS could best address potential problems caused
by such overlapping HHS regulations.
4. Challenges faced by you, your company or others when trying to
comply with redundant, overlapping, or inconsistent HHS regulations and
the impact or result of facing such challenges.
Collection of Information Requirements: This document does not
impose information collection requirements, that is, reporting,
recordkeeping or third-party disclosure requirements. However, this
document does contain a general solicitation of comments in the form of
a request for information. In accordance with implementing regulations
of the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (PRA), specifically 5 CFR
1320.3(h)(4), this general solicitation is exempt from the PRA. Facts
or opinions submitted in response to general solicitations of comments
from the public, published in the Federal Register or other
publications, regardless of the form or format thereof, provided that
no person is required to supply specific information pertaining to the
commenter other than that necessary for self-identification, as a
condition of the agency's full consideration, are not generally
considered information collections and therefore not subject to the
PRA.
Brian Harrison,
Chief of Staff, Department of Health and Human Services.
[FR Doc. 2020-26022 Filed 11-24-20; 8:45 am]
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