tained in Executive Order 12866 ("Regulatory Planning and Review"),Executive Order 12988 ("Civil Justice Reform"), and OMB Circular A-19. (c) Executive Order 12612 of October 26, 1987, and Executive Order12875 of October 26, 1993, are revoked. (d) The consultation and waiver provisions in sections 4 and 5 ofthis order shall complement the Executive order entitled, "Consultation and Coordination with Indian Tribal Governments," being issued on thisday. (e) This order shall be effective 90 days after the date of this order. WILLIAM J. CLINTON THE WHITE HOUSE May 14, 1998This order basically says that any State that is not following the Federal guidelines on Federal regulations can be forced to comply with those guidelines whether they want to or not. Now What? The Appointment Process at Century’s EndPublished at the time of the 1996 election, Obstacle Course was a report card on the status of the presidential appointment process. Many of the grades were not very high. Where do things stand one year later?The procedural burden noted a year ago has not abated in any appreciable way. Nominees today have as many questionnaires and forms to fill out, as many checks to undergo, as much scrutiny to endure, as they ever have. Securing a presidential appointment is a long and winding road. Nothing has happened in the past year to straighten it out. The Twentieth Century Fund has initiated an effort to mitigate matters somewhat by using the Internet and other modern communications technologies to improve and speed up the orientation of new appointees and their journey through the appointment process. That will help. But without a commitment to simplify and rationalize the process from political leaders at both ends of Pennsylvania Avenue, significant reduction in the procedural burden will not occur.The task of filling these positions continues to overwhelm the processes for doing so. And the number of positio...
