OIRA's annual draft report on the costs and benefits of regulations is now out. For whatever reason -- cynically, one might assume the election year has something to do with it, or maybe just the lack of an official OIRA administrator while John Graham's replacement is still being sought -- the White House did not use it this year as a vehicle for anti-regulatory shenanigans. No hit list; no new policy on, say, Quality-Adjusted Life Years; nope, nothing of that sort at all. Sure, there's still an extended section spinning the Bush administration's failures to protect the public as some sort of success, but that's par for the course these days. The report is open for public comment through July 12.