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On the recordSeptember 21, 2016
If a guidance is promulgated by any entity and, fairly quickly, industry, businesses, whoever it may be, States--contacts you and say, this has above $100 million of cost, and they can show you pretty quickly how and why, is there a position from OIRA to then stop and say: This is economically significant, or it could be.
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James Lankford
Republican · Oklahoma

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Lankford questions the process for addressing economically significant guidance.

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