Recommendation 2018-1 – Paperwork Reduction Act Efficiencies encourages collaboration between the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs and federal agencies to maximize opportunities for making the information collection clearance process under the Paperwork Reduction Act more efficient, while still maintaining its integrity. The recommendation encourages using generic clearances and common forms more
Recommendation 2021-2, Periodic Retrospective Review – offers practical suggestions to agencies about how to establish periodic retrospective review plans.
Recommendation 2014-6 – Petitions for Rulemaking identifies agency procedures and best practices for accepting, processing, and responding to petitions for rulemaking. It seeks to ensure that the public's right to petition is a meaningful one, while still respecting the need for agencies to retain decisional autonomy.
Recommendation 2017-3 – Plain Language in Regulatory Drafting identifies tools and techniques agencies have used successfully to write regulatory documents (including rulemaking preambles and guidance documents) using plain language, proposes best practices for agencies in structuring their internal drafting processes, and suggests ways agencies can best use trainings and other informational resources.
Recommendation 2022-4, Precedential Decision Making in Agency Adjudication – identifies best practices on the use of precedential decisions in agency adjudication.
Recommendations 2023-1, Proactive Disclosure of Agency Legal Materials – identifies statutory reforms that, if enacted by Congress, would provide clear standards as to what legal materials agencies must publish and where agencies must publish those legal materials (whether in the Federal Register, on the agency's website, or elsewhere).
Recommendation 2015-1 - Promoting Accuracy and Transparency in the Unified Agenda offers proposals for improving the accuracy and transparency of the Unified Agenda of Federal Regulatory and Deregulatory Actions. Among other things, it urges agencies to consider providing relevant updates between Agenda reporting periods, offers recommendations for ensuring that Agenda entries are properly categorized by projecte
Recommendation 2020-2, Protected Materials in Public Rulemaking Dockets – offers agencies best practices for protecting sensitive personal and confidential commercial information in public rulemaking dockets. It identifies, in particular, best practices for agencies to use when redacting, summarizing, and aggregating comments that contain such information.
Recommendation 2021-6, Public Access to Agency Adjudicative Proceedings – identifies best practices regarding when and how federal agencies provide public access to adjudicative proceedings. Within the legal framework established by federal law, it identifies factors agencies should consider when determining whether to open or close particular proceedings.
Recommendation 2018-5 – Public Availability of Adjudication Rules offers best practices to optimize agencies’ online presentations of procedural rules governing adjudications.