Assess whether to delay a rule or publish with a weaker RIA (985592)

SITUATION Emergency resource-allocation spreadsheet arrived with a subrecipient that cannot produce payroll for match for regulatory-impact analyst. That is a Government Operations and Emergency decision on to delay a rule in an emergency-management shop allocating scarce resources.

DECISION Regulatory-impact analyst in an emergency-management shop allocating scarce resources must choose To delay a rule / Publish with a weaker RIA using emergency resource-allocation spreadsheet after a subrecipient that cannot produce payroll for match.

HYPOTHESES TO TEST 1. Authorize To delay a rule now; emergency resource-allocation spreadsheet already has the discriminator after a subrecipient that cannot produce payroll for match. 2. Keep Publish with a weaker RIA in force until emergency resource-allocation spreadsheet is completed after a subrecipient that cannot produce payroll for match for regulatory-impact analyst. 3. Treat emergency resource-allocation spreadsheet as To delay a rule because both readings appear after a subrecipient that cannot produce payroll for match. 4. Refuse a Government close: regulatory-impact analyst does not have the decision to delay a rule turns on in emergency resource-allocation spreadsheet.

ANALYSIS REQUIRED 1. Test a single-case exception versus a control gap in an emergency-management shop allocating scarce resources. 2. Check notice and appeal timing around a subrecipient that cannot produce payroll for match. 3. Trace the audit trail regulatory-impact analyst would produce for oversight. 4. For this Government Operations and Emergency file, read emergency resource-allocation spreadsheet against a subrecipient that cannot produce payroll for match and write the one fact that would move to delay a rule for regulatory-impact analyst.

RECOMMENDATION Choose To delay a rule / Publish with a weaker RIA on this Government / Operations and Emergency packet (emergency resource-allocation spreadsheet after a subrecipient that cannot produce payroll for match). If emergency resource-allocation spreadsheet cannot force a Government label under Operations and Emergency, stop. Do not invent missing evidence an emergency-management shop allocating scarce resources does not have.

COMMAND RETURNS - Bottom-line Government option on to delay a rule, then the evidence in emergency resource-allocation spreadsheet, then the action for regulatory-impact analyst - Hypothesis scorecard against emergency resource-allocation spreadsheet: supported / rejected / untestable - Owner and next date for regulatory-impact analyst in an emergency-management shop allocating scarce resources - What changes to delay a rule if a subrecipient that cannot produce payroll for match is later withdrawn