Just another week in the world of regulation:

This is from the Competive Enterprise Institute's Open Market.org site.

• Last week, 71 new final rules were published, down from 82 the previous week.
• That’s the equivalent of a new regulation every 2 hours and 22 minutes — 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
• All in all, 2,861 final rules have been published in the Federal Register this year.
• If this keeps up, the total tally for 2012 will be 3,850 new rules.
• Last week, 968 new pages were added to the 2012 Federal Register last, for a total of 59,616 pages.
• At its current pace, the 2012 Federal Register will run 78,858 pages.
• Rules are called “economically significant” if they have costs of $100 million or more in a given year. The 39 such rules published so far in 2012 have compliance costs of at least $17.4 billion. Two of the rules do not have cost estimates, and a third cost estimate does not give a total annual cost. We assume that rules lacking this basic transparency measure cost the bare minimum of $100 million per year. The true cost is almost certainly higher.
• No economically significant rules were published last week.
• So far, 285 final rules that meet the broader definition of “significant” have been published in 2012.
• So far this year, 547 final rules affect small business; 78 of them are significant rules.

Highlights from final rules published last week:……

For more data, go to TenThousandCommandments.com.