CEI’s Battered Business Bureau: The Week In Regulation

by Ryan Young on February 4, 2013 · 0 comments

in Features, Regulation

This week in the world of regulation:

·         Last week, 70 new final regulations were published in the Federal Register. This is up from 56 new final rules the previous week.

·         That’s the equivalent of a new regulation every two hours and 24 minutes — 24 hours a day, seven days a week.

·         All in all, 260 final rules have been published in the Federal Register this year.

·         If this keeps up, the total tally for 2013 will be 2,966 new final rules.

·         Last week, 1,931 new pages were added to the 2013 Federal Register, for a total of 7,628 pages.

·         At its current pace, the 2013 Federal Register will run 86,591 pages.

·         Rules are called “economically significant” if they have costs of $100 million or more in a given year. One such rule was published last week, for a total 5 so far in 2013.

·         The total compliance costs of this year’s economically significant regulations ranges from $2.325 billion to $4.575 billion.

·         So far, 19 final rules that meet the broader definition of “significant” have been published in 2013.

·         So far this year, 47 final rules affect small business; 4 of them are significant rules.

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Highlights from final rules published last week:..To Read More….