An official website of the United States government.

This is not the current EPA website. To navigate to the current EPA website, please go to www.epa.gov. This website is historical material reflecting the EPA website as it existed on January 19, 2021. This website is no longer updated and links to external websites and some internal pages may not work. More information »

Increasing Consistency and Transparency in Considering Costs and Benefits in the Rulemaking Process

This draft document is a pre-publication document that may be revised without public notice prior to signature. EPA is providing this document solely for the convenience of interested parties and to seek informal public input. It is not a proposed rule for purposes of public comment under the Administrative Procedure Act, and it is not a rule for purposes of compliance. This document is not disseminated for purposes of EPA's Information Quality Guidelines and does not represent an Agency determination or policy. Sometime in the future, a signed, official version of this document will be published in the Federal Register (FR) and appear on the Government Printing Office's FDsys website (http://fdsys.gpo.gov/fdsys/search/home.action) and on Regulations.gov (http://www.regulations.gov) in Docket No. EPA-HQ-OA-2018-0107. Once the official version of this document is published in the FR, this STAFF DRAFT will be removed from the Internet and replaced with a link to the official version.

You may need a PDF reader to view some of the files on this page. See EPA’s About PDF page to learn more.
  • Cost and Benefit Consideration ANPRM pre-publication (PDF)(9 pp, 623 K, June 7, 2018, EPA-HQ-OA-2018-0107; FRL-XXXX])
    This is the Advance Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (ANPRM) for standardizing terminology and specificity provided in each law regarding the nature and scope of the cost and benefit considerations when setting pollution standards.