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The bill improves visibility, tailored outreach, and federal coordination for residents and officials in pene-exclaves—helping them influence rulemaking and get faster responses—at the cost of added agency deadlines, administrative burdens, potential delays, and privacy and definitional risks.
Residents of pene-exclaves (border communities and tribal lands) will get dedicated public meetings and written responses when a proposed federal rule may uniquely burden them, improving their ability to influence rulemaking.
Agencies must identify and state potential unique burdens for pene-exclave populations up front in rule notices, giving affected communities and state/local officials clearer, earlier information about possible impacts.
Meeting recordings and minutes about burdens on pene-exclave communities will be published in the Federal Register within 60 days, creating a public record and improving agency accountability and transparency.
Agencies face tighter procedural deadlines (e.g., 30‑day meeting scheduling, 60‑day publication) that could increase administrative workload, raise costs for taxpayers, and slow or complicate broader rulemaking timelines.
Requiring exclusive meetings for small pene-exclave populations may be logistically difficult and divert limited agency resources from other stakeholder engagement, reducing efficiency of agency outreach.
Because the bill does not define 'pene-exclave', agencies and local entities could inconsistently identify which areas qualify, causing confusion about who should be contacted or listed and uneven application of the law.
Based on analysis of 3 sections of legislative text.
Requires agencies to identify potential rulemaking burdens on pene-exclave residents, hold exclusive meetings and publish records, and directs OMB to list pene-exclaves and contacts.
Requires federal agencies to identify when proposed rules may place a “unique burden” on residents of U.S. pene-exclaves and to hold accessible, exclusive public meetings for those residents, with meeting records published in the Federal Register and written responses to comments in the final rule. Directs OMB to publish a nationwide list of pene-exclaves and contact information for local officials and to add 501(c)(3) organizations domiciled in those areas to the list when they petition. Sets definitions for “pene-exclave” and “unique burden,” establishes notice and timing requirements for meetings and publication of records, and tasks OIRA/OMB with processes to identify relevant comments and to compile and maintain the pene-exclave list within specified deadlines.
Official title: To amend title 5, United States Code, to require consultation by agencies during rulemaking in the case of unique burdens on pene-exclaves.
Introduced June 24, 2026 by Richard Ray Larsen · Last progress June 24, 2026