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What is regulatory streamlining?
Regulatory streamlining is making regulations simpler, speedier, and less expensive for business without decreasing the protections that Oregonians expect for the public and the environment.
Background
Governor Kulongoski’s first executive order after taking office in 2003 was to create the Office of Regulatory Streamlining, housed at the Department of Consumer and Business Services, to work with regulatory agencies on streamlining projects. The office helped facilitate more than 300 streamlining projects that removed barriers to businesses. These include investing in online technology to give businesses easier and faster access to state government compliance services, simplifying processes and procedures, and creating consistency where administrative rules are duplicative or overlap. In addition to taking on special projects, state regulatory agencies have incorporated regulatory streamlining into their daily business practices and performance management.
At the first Oregon Business Plan summit in 2002, the burden of government regulation on business was a theme that dominated the day’s proceeding. Six years later, panelists and speakers at the 2008 summit remarked on Oregon’s enviable and progressive regulatory climate that keeps Oregon businesses competitive.
A renewed commitment
Governor Kulongoski’s commitment to regulatory streamlining remains strong. To continue the momentum, the Governor has shifted elements of regulatory streamlining to the Economic Revitalization Team (ERT). The ERT is a natural home for regulatory streamlining, as it already works with many of the state’s major regulatory agencies and is able to partner with local governments, tribal nations, businesses and others to address regulatory efficiency issues. ERT will continue elements of the Office of Regulatory Streamlining’s past work, including coordinating agency efforts and making recommendations for legislative measures to achieve streamlining. Click below to read the Governor’s amended executive order regarding regulatory streamlining.
The ERT Office is currently engaged with state agencies in the reporting process required by the amended executive order. Documents related to state agency reporting are:
State agency reports are due to the ERT Office by July 1, 2010. The ERT Office will work with the reporting agencies to develop a consolidated report on the regulatory streamlining activities of state agencies for the 09-11 biennium. The ERT Office anticipates finalizing this report by the end of 2010.
To contact the ERT about state agency reporting, please contact Christine Valentine via email at Christine.Valentine@state.or.us.
For more information about the ERT, please click here.
How to get involved
The Economic Revitalization Team is interested in your ideas for regulatory streamlining. Click here for information on how to contact the ERT.
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