CEI’s Battered Business Bureau: The Week in Regulation

CEI’s Battered Business Bureau: The Week in Regulation

by Ryan Young on May 6, 2013 in Features, Regulation

This week in the world of regulation:

·         Last week, 62 new final regulations were published in the Federal Register. This is down from 66 new final rules the previous week.

·         That’s the equivalent of a new regulation every 2 hours and 43 minutes — 24 hours a day, seven days a week.

·         All in all, 1,163 final rules have been published in the Federal Register this year.

·         If this keeps up, the total tally for 2013 will be 3,451 new final rules.

·         Last week, 1,250 new pages were added to the 2013 Federal Register, for a total of 26,190pages.

·         At its current pace, the 2013 Federal Register will run 76,134 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 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, 85 final rules that meet the broader definition of “significant” have been published in 2013.

·         So far this year, 216 final rules affect small business; 20 of them are significant rules. ……To Read More…..