‘‘(3) address research needs identified under 
paragraph (2) through appropriate funding mecha-
nisms, which may include solicitations involving 2 or 
more agencies and public-private partnerships;’’. 
SEC. 103. REVIEW OF FEDERAL REGULATIONS AND RE-
PORTING REQUIREMENTS. 
(a) ESTABLISHMENT.—The Director of the Office of 
Science and Technology Policy shall establish or designate 
a working group under the National Science and Tech-
nology Council with the responsibility of reviewing Federal 
regulatory and reporting requirements across Federal 
agencies that affect the conduct of United States research 
in an effort to reduce regulatory burdens and to eliminate 
and harmonize duplicative regulatory and reporting re-
quirements. 
(b) RESPONSIBILITIES.—The working group estab-
lished or designated under subsection (a) shall— 
(1) periodically review all Federal regulations 
and reporting requirements that affect the conduct 
of United States research to— 
(A) identify ways to harmonize overlapping 
or duplicative research regulations and report-
ing requirements across Federal agencies; 
(B) evaluate such regulations and report-
ing requirements in relationship to the risks the 
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requirements seek to address to determine if 
the benefits of the requirements are commensu-
rate with the costs to the progress of science or 
to the taxpayer; 
(C) identify any regulations that are ap-
plied to scientific researchers or to research-per-
forming institutions for which exemptions could 
be reasonably applied or for which adjustments 
could be made to better fit those regulations to 
diverse research environments; and 
(D) identify any specific regulations which 
could be refocused on performance-based goals 
rather than on process while still meeting the 
desired outcome; 
(2) examine the extent to which agencies’ guid-
ance documents adhere with the most recently up-
dated version of the Office of Management and 
Budget’s Agency Good Guidance Practices bulletin; 
and 
(3) develop and update at least once every 3 
years a strategic plan for streamlining Federal regu-
lations and reporting requirements that affect the 
conduct of United States research that contains, at 
a minimum— 
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(A) a priority list of research-related regu-
lations, reporting requirements, and agency 
guidance to be harmonized, streamlined, up-
dated, or eliminated; and 
(B) a plan, including a timeline, for imple-
menting the regulatory and reporting reforms 
identified in subparagraph (A). 
(c) STAKEHOLDER INPUT.—In carrying out the re-
sponsibilities under subsection (b), including the develop-
ment of the strategic plan under subsection (b)(3), the 
working group established or designated under subsection 
(a) shall take into account input and recommendations 
from non-Federal stakeholders, including federally funded 
and nonfederally funded researchers, institutions of higher 
education, scientific disciplinary societies and associations, 
nonprofit research institutions, industry, including small 
businesses, federally funded research and development 
centers, and others with a stake in ensuring effectiveness, 
efficiency, and accountability in the performance of sci-
entific research. 
(d) RESPONSIBILITIES OF OSTP.—The Director of 
the Office of Science and Technology Policy, in collabora-
tion with the Office of Management and Budget Office 
of Information and Regulatory Affairs, shall encourage 
and monitor the efforts of the participating agencies to 
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