In March 1996, Congress passed the Small Bus. Regulatory Enforcement Fairness Act, which was intended to simplify the language of Fed. regulations affecting small business (SB)Ó & develop more accessible sources of info. on regulatory & reporting requirements for SB.Ó It requires agencies to publish one or more compliance guides (CG) for each rule for which the agency is required to prepare a final regulatory flexibility analysis. This report: determines whether the agencies have published SB CG for each covered rule published in selected years, & describes how the agencies developed the guides & made them available to SB affected by the rules. Charts & tables.

Regulatory Flexibility Act compliance : is EPA failing small businesses : hearing before the Committee on Small Business, United States House of Representatives, One Hundred Twelfth Congress, second session, hearing held June 27, 2012.