WASHINGTON, D.C. -

Hudson Cook’s legal team spotted an announcement from Reince Priebus, who is assistant to President Trump and his chief of staff, that appears to have been released within moments after this past Friday’s inauguration.

Priebus used the memorandum that contained the subject line “Regulatory Freeze Pending Review” to outline six specific steps the heads of executive departments and agencies are to follow.

“The president has asked me to communicate to each of you his plan for managing the federal regulatory process at the outset of his administration,” Priebus wrote in the memorandum that Hudson Cook posted online here. “In order to ensure that the president’s appointees or designees have the opportunity to review any new or pending regulations, I ask on behalf of the president that you immediately take the following steps.

Among the steps Priebus mentioned are:

— Subject to any exceptions the director or acting director of the Office of Management and Budget allows for emergency situations or other urgent circumstances relating to health, safety, financial, or national security matters, or otherwise, send no regulation to the Office of the Federal Register until a department or agency head appointed or designated by the president after noon on Jan. 20, reviews and approves the regulation.

— With respect to regulations that have been published in the Office of the Federal Register but have not taken effect, as permitted by applicable law, temporarily postpone their effective date for 60 days from the date of this memorandum.

— Continue in all circumstances to comply with any applicable executive orders concerning regulatory management.