Zero-Based Regulatory Budgeting To Unleash American Energy

               By the authority vested in me as President by the 
               Constitution and the laws of the United States of 
               America, it is hereby ordered:

               Section 1. Purpose. In our country, laws are supposed 
               to provide the certainty and order necessary to foster 
               liberty and innovation. Instead, our vast regulatory 
               structure often serves to constrict ordered liberty, 
               not promote it. The United States Code itself is more 
               than 60,000 pages. But unelected agency officials write 
               most of the complex, legally binding rules on top of 
               that, often stretching these statutory provisions 
               beyond what the Congress enacted.

               In particular, the previous administration added more 
               pages to the Federal Register than any other in 
               history, with the result that the Code of Federal 
               Regulations now approaches a staggering 200,000 pages. 
               These regulations linger in such volume that serious 
               reexamination seldom occurs.

               This regime of governance-by-regulator has imposed 
               particularly severe costs on energy production, where 
               innovation is critical. The net result is an energy 
               landscape perpetually trapped in the 1970s. By 
               rescinding outdated regulations that serve as a drag on 
               progress, we can stimulate innovation and deliver 
               prosperity to everyday Americans.

               This order directs certain agencies to incorporate a 
               sunset provision into their regulations governing 
               energy production to the extent permitted by law, thus 
               compelling those agencies to reexamine their 
               regulations periodically to ensure that those rules 
               serve the public good.

               Sec. 2. Definitions. For the purposes of this order:

                   (a) ``Conditional Sunset Date'' means the date a 
               regulation will cease to be effective and be removed 
               from the Code of Federal Regulations, if the agency 
               does not extend the Sunset Date pursuant to section 
               4(d) of this order.
                   (b) ``Covered Agency'' means one of the agencies 
               listed in section 3(a) of this order.
                   (c) ``Covered Regulation'' means a regulation 
               issued in whole or in part pursuant to a statutory 
               authority listed in sections 3(b)-(j) of this order.
                   (d) ``DOGE Team Lead'' means the leader of the DOGE 
               Team at each agency as described in Executive Order 
               14158.
                   (e) ``Regulation'' means each part, subpart, or 
               individual provision of the Code of Federal Regulations 
               promulgated under an agency rule as defined in 5 U.S.C. 
               551(4).

               Sec. 3. Covered Agencies and Regulations. (a) This 
               order applies to the following agencies and their 
               subcomponents: the Environmental Protection Agency 
               (EPA); the Department of Energy (DoE); the Federal 
               Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC); and the Nuclear 
               Regulatory Commission (NRC). It further applies to the 
               following agency subcomponents: the Office of Surface 
               Mining Reclamation and Enforcement (OSMRE), the Bureau 
               of Land Management (BLM), the Bureau of Ocean Energy 
               Management (BOEM), the Bureau of Safety and 
               Environmental Enforcement (BSEE), and the United States 
               Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS), all within the 
               Department of the Interior;
               and the United States Army Corps of Engineers (ACE), 
               within the United States Army.

                   (b) For the DoE, this order applies to all 
               regulations issued pursuant to the following statutes 
               and any amendments thereto:

(i) the Atomic Energy Act of 1954;

(ii) the National Appliance Energy Conservation Act of 1987;

(iii) the Energy Policy Act of 1992;

(iv) the Energy Policy Act of 2005; and

(v) the Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007.

                   (c) For FERC, this order applies to all regulations 
               issued pursuant to the following statutes and any 
               amendments thereto:

(i) the Federal Power Act of 1935;

(ii) the Natural Gas Act of 1938; and

(iii) the Powerplant and Industrial Fuel Use Act of 1978.

                   (d) For the NRC, this order applies to all 
               regulations issued pursuant to the following statutes 
               and any amendments thereto:

(i) the Atomic Energy Act of 1954;

(ii) the Energy Reorganization Act of 1974; and

(iii) the Nuclear Waste Policy Act of 1982.

                   (e) For the OSMRE, this order applies to all 
               regulations issued pursuant to the Surface Mining 
               Control and Reclamation Act of 1977 and any amendments 
               thereto.
                   (f) For the BLM, this order applies to all 
               regulations issued pursuant to the following statutes 
               and any amendments thereto:

(i) the Mining Act of 1872;

(ii) the Federal Land Policy and Management Act of 1976; and

(iii) the Energy Policy Act of 2005.

                   (g) For the BOEM, this order applies to all 
               regulations issued pursuant to the following statutes 
               and any amendments thereto:

(i) the Outer Continental Shelf Act of 1953; and

(ii) the Energy Policy Act of 2005.

                   (h) For the BSEE, this order applies to all 
               regulations issued pursuant to the Outer Continental 
               Shelf Act of 1953 and any amendments thereto.
                   (i) For the FWS, this order applies to all 
               regulations issued pursuant to the following statutes 
               and any amendments thereto:

(i) the Bald and Golden Eagle Protection Act;

(ii) the Migratory Bird Treaty Act of 1918;

(iii) the Fish and Wildlife Coordination Act of 1934;

(iv) the Anadromous Fish Conservation Act of 1965;

(v) the Marine Mammal Protection Act of 1972;

(vi) the Endangered Species Act of 1973;

(vii) the Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act of 1976; 
and

(viii) the Coastal Barrier Resources Act of 1982.

                   (j) For the EPA and ACE, within 30 days of the date 
               of this order, the Administrator of the EPA and 
               Secretary of the Army shall provide to the President, 
               through the Director of the Office of Management and 
               Budget (OMB Director), a list of statutes vesting EPA 
               and ACE with regulatory authority that shall be subject 
               to this order.

               Sec. 4. Zero-Based Regulating. (a) To the extent 
               consistent with applicable law, each of the Covered 
               Agencies shall issue a sunset rule, effective not
               later than September 30, 2025, that inserts a 
               Conditional Sunset Date into each of their Covered 
               Regulations.

                   (b) The sunset rule shall provide that each Covered 
               Regulation in effect on the date of this order shall 
               have a Conditional Sunset Date of 1 year after the 
               effective date of the sunset rule, subject to the 
               process set forth in subsection (d) of this section. 
               Unless the extension condition specified in subsection 
               (d) of this section is satisfied, agencies will treat 
               Covered Regulations as ceasing to be effective on that 
               date for all purposes. An agency shall not take any 
               action to enforce such an ineffective regulation and, 
               to the maximum extent permitted by law, shall remove it 
               from the Code of Federal Regulations.
                   (c) In any new Covered Regulation, to the maximum 
               extent consistent with law, the relevant Covered Agency 
               shall include a Conditional Sunset Date that is not 
               more than 5 years in the future. Amendments to any 
               Covered Regulation shall provide that they do not reset 
               that regulation's Conditional Sunset Date and shall be 
               subject to the same Conditional Sunset Date as the 
               amended regulation. The OMB Director may exempt a new 
               regulation or amendment from the requirements of this 
               paragraph if he determines that the new regulation or 
               amendment has a net deregulatory effect.
                   (d) The sunset provision added to existing and new 
               Covered Regulations shall provide that the agency will 
               offer the public an opportunity to comment on the costs 
               and benefits of each regulation, such as through a 
               request for information, prior to a rule's expiration, 
               and following such opportunity the Conditional Sunset 
               Date for that Covered Regulation may be extended if the 
               agency finds an extension is warranted. A request for 
               information shall not automatically extend the 
               Conditional Sunset Date. A Covered Agency may extend 
               the Conditional Sunset Date for a particular Covered 
               Regulation as many times as is appropriate, but never 
               to a date more than 5 years in the future.

               Sec. 5. Implementation. (a) Neither a determination to 
               extend the Conditional Sunset Date of a particular 
               regulation, nor a regulation that expires as a result 
               this order, shall count towards the ten-for-one 
               regulatory requirement in Executive Order 14192 of 
               January 31, 2025 (Unleashing Prosperity Through 
               Deregulation).

                   (b) Agency heads shall coordinate with their DOGE 
               Team Leads and the Office of Management and Budget to 
               implement this order.
                   (c) This order shall not apply to regulatory 
               permitting regimes authorized by statute.

               Sec. 6. Severability. If any provision of this order, 
               or the application of any provision to any agency, 
               person or circumstance, is held to be invalid, the 
               remainder of this order and the application of its 
               provisions to any other agencies, persons or 
               circumstances shall not be affected thereby.

               Sec. 7. General Provisions. (a) Nothing in this order 
               shall be construed to impair or otherwise affect:

(i) the authority granted by law to an executive department or agency, or 
the head thereof; or

(ii) the functions of the OMB Director relating to budgetary, 
administrative, or legislative proposals.

                   (b) This order shall be implemented consistent with 
               applicable law and subject to the availability of 
               appropriations.

                   (c) This order is not intended to, and does not, 
               create any right or benefit, substantive or procedural, 
               enforceable at law or in equity by any party against 
               the United States, its departments, agencies, or 
               entities, its officers, employees, or agents, or any 
               other person.
               
                DONALD J. TRUMP

               THE WHITE HOUSE,

                   April 9, 2025.