CEI’s Battered Business Bureau: The Week In Regulation

by Ryan Young on March 4, 2013 · 0 comments

in Features, Regulation

This week in the world of regulation:

·         Last week, 74 new final regulations were published in the Federal Register. This is up from 53 new final rules the previous week.

·         That’s the equivalent of a new regulation every two hours and 16 minutes — 24 hours a day, seven days a week.

·         All in all, 538 final rules have been published in the Federal Register this year.

·         If this keeps up, the total tally for 2013 will be 3,273 new final rules.

·         Last week, 1,405 new pages were added to the 2013 Federal Register, for a total of 13,976 pages.

·         At its current pace, the 2013 Federal Register will run 85,220 pages.

·         Rules are called “economically significant” if they have costs of $100 million or more in a given year. No such rules were published last week, for a total of nine so far in 2013.

·         The total compliance costs of this year’s economically significant regulations ranges from $2.532 billion to $4.810 billion.

·         So far, 51 final rules that meet the broader definition of “significant” have been published in 2013.

·         So far this year, 93 final rules affect small business; 13 of them are significant rules.

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