Notice2025-15604
Request for Information on State Laws Having Significant Adverse Effects on the National Economy or Significant Adverse Effects on Interstate Commerce
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Published
August 15, 2025
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Justice Department
Abstract
The Department of Justice is soliciting public comments on State laws significantly and adversely affecting the national economy or interstate commerce along with suggested solutions that could address such effects.
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[Federal Register Volume 90, Number 156 (Friday, August 15, 2025)]
[Notices]
[Pages 39427-39428]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2025-15604]
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DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE
[Docket No. OLP182]
Request for Information on State Laws Having Significant Adverse
Effects on the National Economy or Significant Adverse Effects on
Interstate Commerce
AGENCY: Department of Justice.
ACTION: Request for information.
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SUMMARY: The Department of Justice is soliciting public comments on
State laws significantly and adversely affecting the national economy
or interstate commerce along with suggested solutions that could
address such effects.
DATES: Electronic comments must be submitted, and written comments must
be postmarked, on or before September 15, 2025.
ADDRESSES: You may submit comments, identified by Docket No. OLP182
through the Federal eRulemaking Portal: <a href="https://www.regulations.gov">https://www.regulations.gov</a>.
Follow the instructions for submitting comments.
<bullet> Postal Mail or Commercial Delivery: If you do not have
internet access or electronic submission is not possible, you may send
written comments to Docket Clerk, Office of Legal Policy, U.S.
Department of Justice, 950 Pennsylvania Ave. NW, Washington, DC 20530.
To ensure proper handling, please reference Docket No. OAG182 on your
correspondence.
<bullet> Privacy Note: The Department of Justice general policy is
to make all comments received from members of the public available for
public viewing in their entirety on the Federal eRulemaking Portal at
<a href="http://www.regulations.gov">http://www.regulations.gov</a>. Therefore, commenters should be careful to
include in their comments only information that they wish to make
publicly available.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: From his first day in office, President
Trump and his Administration have prioritized eliminating the
``crushing regulatory burden'' that has ``made necessary goods and
services scarce.'' Memorandum on Delivering Emergency Price Relief for
American Families and Defeating the Cost-of-Living Crisis, 90 FR 8245
(Jan. 20, 2025). Deregulatory efforts will boost the American economy,
relieve Americans of undue
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burdens, and make America affordable and energy dominant again.
President Trump issued multiple Executive Orders to advance his
deregulatory agenda and requiring the Executive Branch to put that
policy into action. On January 31, 2025, President Trump signed
Executive Order 14192 (``Unleashing Prosperity Through Deregulation''),
90 FR 9065 (Jan. 31, 2025), declaring ``the policy of the executive
branch'' to be that Federal agencies should ``alleviate unnecessary
regulatory burdens placed on the American people.''
Consistent with this policy, on February 19, 2025, President Trump
signed Executive Order 14219 (``Ensuring Lawful Governance and
Implementing the President's `Department of Government Efficiency'
Deregulatory Initiative''), 90 FR 10583 (Feb. 19, 2025), directing
agencies to ``initiate a process to review all regulations'' and
identify regulations that, among other things, ``impose undue burdens
on small businesses and impede private enterprise and
entrepreneurship.'' He also signed Executive Orders aimed at unleashing
American Energy, E.O. 14270, 90 FR 15643 (Apr. 9, 2025) (``Zero-Based
Regulatory Budgeting to Unleash American Energy''), rolling back Obama-
era regulations micro-managing Americans' showers, E.O. 14264, 90 FR
15619 (Apr. 9, 2025) (``Maintaining Acceptable Water Pressure in
Showerheads''), and tackling anti-competitive rules, E.O. 14267, 90 FR
15629 (``Reducing Anti-Competitive Regulatory Barriers'') (Apr. 9,
2025).
However, Federal regulatory burdens are only part of the story. As
President Trump also recognized, in Executive Order 14260 (``Protecting
American Energy from State Overreach''), 90 FR 15513 (Apr. 8, 2025),
State-level practices can drive up nationwide costs and undermine
American safety and ``undermine Federalism by projecting the regulatory
preferences of a few States into all States.'' Anecdotal evidence and
the experience of countless Americans across the country strongly
suggest that State laws and regulations can significantly burden
commerce in other States and between States, thus raising costs
unnecessarily and harming markets nationwide.
Request for Information
The Department of Justice is publishing this Request for
Information (``RFI'') on behalf of the Administration as a whole.
Accordingly, comments may address matters within the purview of any
Executive Branch agency.
The public is invited to provide input to aid the Administration's
efforts as set forth in the above-cited Executive Orders and elsewhere
to alleviate unnecessary regulatory burdens and costs imposed on the
American people.
This RFI seeks information pertaining to State laws, regulations,
causes of action, policies, and practices (collectively, State laws)
that adversely affect interstate commerce and business activities in
other States.
In particular, comments are invited on:
<bullet> Which State laws significantly burden commerce in other
States and between States, thus raising costs unnecessarily and harming
markets nationwide.
<bullet> Whether the laws identified may be preempted by existing
Federal authority and, if so, what authority.
<bullet> Whether there may be Federal legislative or regulatory
means for addressing the State laws identified or the burdens they
cause.
<bullet> Which Federal agency has the subject-matter expertise to
address concerns lawfully within the Federal government's authority.
Several other initiatives are currently underway to identify
Federal regulations for possible streamlining. Commenters interested in
identifying problematic Federal regulations may visit <a href="https://www.regulations.gov">https://www.regulations.gov</a>, which has a ``Submit Your Deregulatory
Recommendations'' section on its homepage.
Dated: August 13, 2025.
Nicholas J. Schilling, Jr.,
Supervisory Official, Office of Legal Policy.
[FR Doc. 2025-15604 Filed 8-14-25; 8:45 am]
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