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Title 7
Chapter 55
§ 2204d. Encouragement of privat...
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U.S. Code
§ 2204e.
Office of Risk Assessment and Cost-Benefit Analysis
(a)
Office of Risk Assessment and Cost-Benefit Analysis
(b)
Functions
The Director shall ensure that any regulatory analysis that is conducted under this section includes a risk assessment and cost-benefit analysis that is performed consistently and uses reasonably obtainable and sound scientific, technical, economic, and other data.
(1)
In general
Effective six months after
October 13, 1994
(A)
the risk, including the effect of the risk, to human health, human safety, or the environment, and any combination thereof, addressed by the regulation, including, where applicable and practicable, the health and safety risks to persons who are disproportionately exposed or particularly sensitive;
(B)
the costs associated with the implementation of, and compliance with, the regulation;
(C)
where appropriate and meaningful, a comparison of that risk relative to other similar risks regulated by the Department or other Federal Agency, resulting from comparable activities and exposure pathways (such comparisons should consider relevant distinctions among risks, such as the voluntary or involuntary nature of risks and the preventability or nonpreventability of risks); and
(D)
the quantitative and qualitative benefits of the regulation, including the reduction or prevention of risk expected from the regulation.
Where such a regulatory analysis is not practicable because of compelling circumstances, the Director shall provide an explanation in lieu of conducting an analysis under this section.
(2)
Evaluation
The regulatory analysis referred to in paragraph (1) should also contain a statement that the Secretary of Agriculture evaluated—
(A)
whether the regulation will advance the purpose of protecting against the risk referred to in paragraph (1)(A); and
(B)
whether the regulation will produce benefits and reduce risks to human health, human safety, or the environment, and any combination thereof, in a cost-effective manner as a result of the implementation of and compliance with the regulation, by local, State, and Federal Government and other public and private entities, as estimated in paragraph (1)(B).
(3)
Construction
(c)
“Major regulation” defined
(
Pub. L. 103–354, title III, § 304
,
Oct. 13, 1994
,
108 Stat. 3239
.)
cite as:
7 USC 2204e
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