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                            WASHINGTON, D.C.  20460
                                       

 								 OFFICE OF POLICY




MEMORANDUM

SUBJECT:	Transmittal to Docket:  Summary of the March 17, 2011, Public Meeting via Webinar in Seattle, Washington, regarding the Environmental Protection Agency's Implementation of Executive Order 13563:  Improving Regulation and Regulatory Review

FROM:	Stuart C. Miles-McLean
		Office of Regulatory Policy and Management

TO: 		Public Docket #EPA-HQ-OA-2011-0156:  Improving Regulations:  General
      
      
      As called for by President Obama in Executive Order 13563, "to facilitate the periodic review of existing significant regulations," the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is considering "how best to promote retrospective analysis of rules that may be outmoded, ineffective, insufficient, or excessively burdensome, and to modify, streamline, expand, or repeal them in accordance with what has been learned."  
      
      As part of its retrospective review of regulations, EPA convened public meetings around the country to gather input on how we might design the plan we will use to periodically review our regulations.  This Memo transmits to the docket a summary of the public meeting held via webinar on March 17, 2011, in Seattle, Washington.  

