CEI’s Battered Business Bureau: The Week in Regulation

by Ryan Young on September 23, 2013

This week in the world of regulation:

1.       Last week, 76 new final regulations were published in the Federal Register. There were 61 new final rules the previous week.

2.      That’s the equivalent of a new regulation every two hours and 13 minutes — 24 hours a day, seven days a week.

3.      All in all, 2,670 final rules have been published in the Federal Register this year.

4.      If this keeps up, the total tally for 2013 will be 3,706 new final rules.

5.      Last week, 1,339 new pages were added to the 2013 Federal Register, for a total of 57,956 pages.

6.      At its current pace, the 2013 Federal Register will run 79,175 pages, which would be good for fourth all time. The current record is 81,405 pages, set in 2010.

7.      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 of 28 so far in 2013.

8.     The total estimated compliance costs of this year’s economically significant regulations ranges from $5.78 billion to $10.39 billion.

9.      So far, 231 final rules that meet the broader definition of “significant” have been published in 2013.

10.  So far this year, 510 final rules affect small business; 67 of them are significant rules.

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