President Trump signed an Executive Order 14219, Ensuring Lawful Governance and Implementing the President’s “Department of Government Efficiency” Deregulatory Initiative, n February 19^th ensuring lawful governance and implementing the President’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) deregulatory initiative. The Executive Order will end Federal overreach in regulation and enforcement and restore the constitutional separation of powers.

The EO directs agency heads, in coordination with their DOGE team leads and the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), to review all regulations subject to their jurisdiction for consistency with law and Trump Administration policy, prioritizing rules that impose heavy costs.

The National Aquaculture Association requests your assistance to identify federal regulations that fall into the following classes:

1. unconstitutional regulations and regulations that raise serious constitutional difficulties, such as exceeding the scope of the power vested in the Federal Government by the Constitution;
2. regulations that are based on unlawful delegations of legislative power;
3. regulations that are based on anything other than the best reading of the underlying statutory authority or prohibition;
4. regulations that implicate matters of social, political, or economic significance that are not authorized by clear statutory authority;
5. regulations that impose significant costs upon private parties that are not outweighed by public benefits;
6. regulations that harm the national interest by significantly and unjustifiably impeding technological innovation, infrastructure development, disaster response, inflation reduction, research and development, economic development, energy production, land use, and foreign policy objectives; and
7. regulations that impose undue burdens on small business and impede private enterprise and entrepreneurship.

The Order exempts, among other things, any action respecting a military, national security, homeland security, foreign affairs, or immigration-related function of the United States.

Please share your analysis with the NAA Office via email, naa@nationalaquaculture.org, or request a phone conversation with Paul Zajicek, Executive Director.