President Donald Trump issued an executive order Wednesday calling on federal agencies to identify regulations that can be rescinded or temporarily waived to promote job creation and economic growth.

The order calls for agencies to address the COVID-19 economic emergency by rescinding, modifying, waiving, or providing exemptions from regulations and other requirements that may inhibit economic recovery, consistent with applicable law and with protection of the public health and safety, with national and homeland security, and with budgetary priorities and operational feasibility.”

Section 4 of the order calls for the heads of all agencies to “identify regulatory standards that may inhibit economic recovery and shall consider taking appropriate action, consistent with applicable law, including by issuing proposed rules as necessary, to temporarily or permanently rescind, modify, waive, or exempt persons or entities from those requirements, and to consider exercising appropriate temporary enforcement discretion or appropriate temporary extensions of time as provided for in enforceable agreements with respect to those requirements, for the purpose of promoting job creation and economic growth.”

The order establishes a “Regulatory Bill of Rights,” that includes the following principles:

• The Government should bear the burden of proving an alleged violation of law; the subject of enforcement should not bear the burden of proving compliance.
• Administrative enforcement should be prompt and fair.
• Administrative adjudicators should be independent of enforcement staff.
• Consistent with any executive branch confidentiality interests, the Government should provide favorable relevant evidence in possession of the agency to the subject of an administrative enforcement action.
• All rules of evidence and procedure should be public, clear, and effective.
• Penalties should be proportionate, transparent, and imposed in adherence to consistent standards and only as authorized by law.
• Administrative enforcement should be free of improper Government coercion.
• Liability should be imposed only for violations of statutes or duly issued regulations, after notice and an opportunity to respond.
• Administrative enforcement should be free of unfair surprise.
• Agencies must be accountable for their administrative enforcement decisions.