Amendment requires federal agencies to identify in any Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPR) the achievable objective of the proposed rule and the metrics to be used. Amendment also requires federal agencies, in issuing final rules, to certify that the rule meets the objectives the agency identified in the NPR.

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   Inserted: (E) an achievable objective for the rule and metrics by which the agency will measure progress toward that objective;

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   Inserted: (iii) an achievable objective for the rule and metrics by which the agency will measure progress toward that objective;

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   Inserted: (G) the agency's reasoned final determination that the rule meets the objectives that the agency identified in subsection (d)(1)(E)(iii) or that other objectives are more appropriate in light of the full administrative record and the rule meets those objectives;

   Inserted: (H) the agency's reasoned final determination that it did not deviate from the metrics the agency included in subsection (d)(1)(E)(iii) or that other metrics are more appropriate in light of the full administrative record and the agency did not deviate from those metrics; and

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