Page:United States Statutes at Large Volume 93.djvu/1113

 PUBLIC LAW 96-143—DEC. 13, 1979

93 STAT. 1081

waiver, including a statement of the reasons therefor, to the Committees. "(d) Concurrently with the publication in the Federal Register of any final regulation, a copy of such final regulation shall be transmitted to the Speaker of the House of Representatives and the President of the Senate. Except as is provided in the following sentence, no such final regulation may take effect until 45 calendar days after such transmission. If the Director determines that such 45-day requirement would cause undue delay in the implementation of the regulation, thereby causing substantial hardship for the intended beneficiaries of any program carried out under this Act, the Director may waive the application of such requirement and shall promptly submit a notice of such determination and waiver, including a statement of the reasons therefor, to the Committees. "(e) Not later than 60 days after the date of the enactment of any Act affecting the administration of any program carried out under this Act, the Director shall submit to the Committees a schedule in accordance with which the Director has planned to prescribe final regulations implementing such Act or part of such Act. Such schedule shall provide that all such final regulations shall be prescribed not later than 180 days after the submission of such schedule. Except as is provided in the following sentence, all such final regulations shall be prescribed in accordance with such schedule. If the Director determines that, due to circumstances unforeseen at the time of the submission of any such schedule, the schedule submitted pursuant to this subsection cannot be met, the Director shall submit a notice of such determination, including a statement of the reasons therefor, to the Committees and shall submit a new schedule which shall then be considered, for the purposes of this subsection, as the schedule originally submitted in connection with the enactment of the Act involved.". (b) The table of contents for the Act is amended by striking out the item relating to section 420 and inserting in lieu thereof the following new item:

Final regulations, transmittal to Speaker of House and President of Senate. 45-day notice, waiver.

Schedule of regulations, submission to congressional committees.

"Sec. 420. Requirements for prescribing regulations.". REDUCTION OF PAPERWORK; REVIEW OF PROJECT RENEWALS

SEC. 14. (a) Title IV of the Act is amended by adding at the end the following new sections: "REDUCTION OF PAPERWORK

"SEC. 423. In order to reduce unnecessary, duplicative, or disrup- 42 USC 5063. tive demands for information, the Director, in consultation with other appropriate agencies and organizations, shall continually review and evaluate all requests for information made under this Act and take such action as may be necessary to reduce the paperwork required under this Act. The Director shall request only such information as the Director deems essential to carry out the purposes and provisions of this Act. REVIEW OF PROJECT RENEWALS

"SEC. 424. If the executive authority of any State or local govern- 42 USC 5064. ment submits to the Director, not later than 30 days before the expiration of any contract or grant to carry out any project under this Act, a statement which objects to the renewal of such contract or

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