CEI’s Battered Business Bureau: The Week In Regulation

by Ryan Young on February 18, 2013 · 0 comments

in Features, Regulation

This week in the world of regulation:

·         Last week, 90 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 hour and 52 minutes — 24 hours a day, seven days a week.

·         All in all, 411 final rules have been published in the Federal Register this year.

·         If this keeps up, the total tally for 2013 will be 3,261 new final rules.

·         Last week, 1,975 new pages were added to the 2013 Federal Register, for a total of 11,554 pages.

·         At its current pace, the 2013 Federal Register will run 90,110 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 eight 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, 42 final rules that meet the broader definition of “significant” have been published in 2013.

·         So far this year, 75 final rules affect small business; eight of them are significant rules.

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