They also highlight many weaknesses in several state regulatory programs.
Other states have also updated their regulatory programs.
"We look forward to working together to help our government customers launch successful regulatory programs".
"But today, few dispute it is one of the government's most successful regulatory programs ever".
That bill calls for a "harmonization" of the California and federal regulatory programs to provide a nationwide standard.
"The state has 150 different regulatory programs," said Patrick J. O'Keefe, chief executive of the New Jersey Builders Association.
Regulatory programs are supposed to receive consultation and careful judicial review, but deferred prosecution agreements usually do not.
In theory it could be one of the most far-reaching environmental regulatory programs in American history.
On the one hand, the county and the state have regulatory programs in effect to identify and address specific ground-water quality issues.
"The organic industry is booming, and the National Organic Program is a high priority for the U.S.D.A.," said Bruce I. Knight, under secretary for marketing and regulatory programs.
It is a mistake, he said, "to apply a strict First Amendment standard virtually as a matter of course when a court reviews ordinary economic regulatory programs".
