CEI’s Battered Business Bureau: The Week in Regulation

by Ryan Young on June 10, 2013

This week in the world of regulation:

·         Last week, 72 new final regulations were published in the Federal Register. This is up from 61 new final rules the previous week.

·         That’s the equivalent of a new regulation every 2 hours and 20 minutes — 24 hours a day, seven days a week.

·         All in all, 1,499 final rules have been published in the Federal Register this year.

·         If this keeps up, the total tally for 2013 will be 3,463 new final rules.

·         Last week, 1,563 new pages were added to the 2013 Federal Register, for a total of 34,491 pages.

·         At its current pace, the 2013 Federal Register will run 78,389 pages.

·         Rules are called “economically significant” if they have costs of $100 million or more in a given year. No such rules were published for the second consecutive week, for a total of 13 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, 108 final rules that meet the broader definition of “significant” have been published in 2013.

·         So far this year, 265 final rules affect small business; 23 of them are significant rules.

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