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The Office of Risk Assessment and Cost-Benefit Analysis (ORACBA) was established by the Federal Crop Insurance Reform and Department of Agriculture Reorganization Act of 1994 (P.L. 103-354, H.R.4271, Section 304). ORACBA began operation on April 15, 1995, in USDA's Office of the Chief Economist.

The Office of Risk Assessment and Cost-Benefit Analysis's (ORACBA) primary role is to ensure that major regulations proposed by USDA are based on sound scientific and economic analysis. A major regulation concerns human, health, safety or the environment and has an annual economic impact of at least $100 million in 1994 dollars. For such regulations, ORACBA conducts a thorough analysis that makes clear the nature of the risk, alternative ways of reducing it, the reasoning that justifies the proposed rule, and a comparison of the likely costs and benefits of reducing the risk.

ORACBA will provide guidance and technical assistance, coordinate risk analysis work across the Department, and certify that statutory requirements are met.
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JIFSAN TRAINING
Food Safety Quantitative Risk Assessment
Registration deadline: June 15th, 2009
Join the Joint Institute for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition (JIFSAN) and Greg Paoli on June 22 to 26th, 2009, Washington, DC for our two most recent Quantitative Risk Assessment courses.

Do not miss this opportunity to learn how to build deterministic and stochastic models, handle uncertainly, understand the mechanics of Monte Carlo simulation, and interpret results from quantitative risk assessments. This is an interactive course and participants will learn from exercises involving elements of real world risk assessments that are being used in current policy and risk management.

For more information please contact Juliana Ruzante at Judy Quigley.

SOCIETY FOR RISK ANALYSIS & RESOURCES FOR THE FUTURE
On June 22-23, 2009, the Society for Risk Analysis (SRA) and Resources for the Future (RFF) will hold a major conference on "New Ideas for Risk Regulation." The conference will be at RFF, located at 1616 P Street NW in Washington D.C. The topics to be addressed include improving the role of the U.S. Office of Management and Budget and its Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs in encouraging better regulation domestically and internationally, enhancing the constructive use of risk assessment and benefit-cost analysis in informing choices about these regulations, and addressing several related challenges. Speakers will include current and former senior government officials as well as leading scholars with expertise in a wide array of issues related to regulatory analysis and review. The
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