January 21, 2009

The Obama Administration has issued a notice to all federal agencies directing that:

• No proposed or final regulation be sent to the Office of the Federal Register (the "OFR") for publication unless and until it has been reviewed and approved by his administration,
  
  
• Proposed or final regulations that are already at the OFR that have not been published are to be withdrawn, pending review, and
  
  
• Consider extending for 60 days the effective date of regulations that have been published in the Federal Register but not yet taken effect, for the purpose of reviewing questions of law and policy raised by those regulations.

An exception is provided for emergency situations or other urgent circumstances relating to health, safety, environmental, financial, or national security matters.

Customs and Border Protection has not yet indicated whether it will push out the effective date of it’s “10+2” Importer Security Filing program  for marine cargo, currently scheduled for implementation on January 26, 2009. (See our recent newsletter for more information on this program.)

The text of the memo can be found at http://media.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/documents/emanuel-regulatory-review.pdf.

If you have any questions on the issues raised in this newsletter, please contact George R. Tuttle, III at the Law Offices of George R. Tuttle, P.C. at (415) 986-8780 or at geo@tuttlelaw.com.

George R. Tuttle, III is an attorney with the Law Offices of George R. Tuttle in San Francisco.

The information in this article is general in nature, and is not intended to constitute legal advice or to create an attorney-client relationship with respect to any event or occurrence, and may not be considered as such.

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