Overview
Executive Order 13771 (January 30, 2017) established a regulatory budgeting approach requiring agencies to offset new regulations. The authoritative text is published in the Federal Register. It is a first-term presidential management directive, not a statute.
Full article
Executive Order 13771, “Reducing Regulation and Controlling Regulatory Costs,” directed executive departments and agencies to manage regulatory costs by eliminating existing regulations when issuing new ones, under the order’s stated two-for-one and budgeting framework.
The Federal Register document is the controlling public text for the order’s operative language, effective dates, and agency instructions. Archive White House materials may provide contemporaneous context but do not supersede the Register publication.
Key points
- Signed January 30, 2017; Federal Register publication followed.
- Document number 2017-02451 on federalregister.gov.
- Directed regulatory offsets for new significant regulations.
- Applies as a presidential executive order to covered executive agencies.
- Read the Register text for exact definitions and exceptions.
Official record
Federal Register document 2017-02451 is the linked official publication of EO 13771.
Source attribution: View original official record