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It's too early to tell whether President Bush's recentexecutive order and OSHA's creation of a small-business officewill prove to be wellsprings of regulatory relief.
The president's mid-August order calls for the Office ofManagement and Budget to make sure federal agencies take the22-year-old Regulatory Flexibility Act (RFA) seriously. That lawsays federal agencies must consider the impact their rules have onsmall businesses. Of course, the Small Business Regulatory andEnforcement Fairness Act (SBREFA), passed in 1996, had the samegoal-but Claudia Rayford-Rodgers, senior counsel for the SBA'sOffice of Advocacy, argues that the executive order will be moreeffective.
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