CEI’s Battered Business Bureau: The Week In Regulation

CEI’s Battered Business Bureau: The Week In Regulation

by Ryan Young on April 22, 2013

This week in the world of regulation:

·         Last week, 86 new final regulations were published in the Federal Register. This is up from 67 new final rules the previous week.

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

·         All in all, 1,035 final rules have been published in the Federal Register this year.

·         If this keeps up, the total tally for 2013 will be 3,466 new final rules.

·         Last week, 1,368 new pages were added to the 2013 Federal Register, for a total of 23,633 pages.

·         At its current pace, the 2013 Federal Register will run 77,741 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 of 12 so far in 2013.

·         The total estimated compliance costs of this year’s economically significant regulations ranges from $5.58 billion to $10.19 billion.

·         So far, 83 final rules that meet the broader definition of “significant” have been published in 2013.

So far this year, 188 final rules affect small business; 20 of them are significant rules.

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