CEI’s Battered Business Bureau: The Week In Regulation

by Ryan Young on February 11, 2013 · 0 comments

in Features, Regulation

This week in the world of regulation:

Last week, 61 new final regulations were published in the Federal Register. This is down from 70 new final rules the previous week.

·         That’s the equivalent of a new regulation every 2 hours and 46 minutes — 24 hours a day, seven days a week.

·         All in all, 321 final rules have been published in the Federal Register this year.

·         If this keeps up, the total tally for 2013 will be 3,004 new final rules.

·         Last week, 1,931 new pages were added to the 2013 Federal Register, for a total of 9,559 pages.

·         At its current pace, the 2013 Federal Register will run 88,510 pages.

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

·         The total compliance costs of this year’s economically significant regulations ranges from $2.518 billion to $4.768 billion.

·         So far, 30 final rules that meet the broader definition of “significant” have been published in 2013.

·         So far this year, 59 final rules affect small business; 7 of them are significant rules.

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