CEI’s Battered Business Bureau: The Week in Regulation

Besides 50 proposed rules, last week’s final rules cover everything from mangoes to credit rating agencies.

On to the data:

Last week, 72 new final regulations were published in the Federal Register. There were 64 new final rules the previous week.
That’s the equivalent of a new regulation every two hours and 20 minutes.
So far in 2014, 2,593 final regulations have been published in the Federal Register. At that pace, there will be a total of 3,562 new regulations this year. This would be the lowest total in decades; this will likely change as the year goes on.
Last week, 1,587 new pages were added to the Federal Register.
Currently at 56,459 pages, the 2014 Federal Register is on pace for 77,554 pages. This would be the 6^th-largest page count since the Federal Register began publication in 1936.
Rules are called “economically significant” if they have costs of $100 million or more in a given year. 29 such rules have been published so far this year, none in the past week.
The total estimated compliance costs of 2014’s economically significant regulations currently ranges from $7.62 billion to $10.87 billion. They also affect several billion dollars of government spending.
211 final rules meeting the broader definition of “significant” have been published so far this year.
So far in 2014, 502 new rules affect small businesses; 71 of them are classified as significant.

Highlights from selected final rules published last week:

New rules for importing mangoes from Jamaica.
OSHA updated its list of who is and is not required to track work-related injuries and illnesses.
The federal government has a National Sheep Industry Improvement Center. A new rule updates some of its administrative policies.
New maturity requirements for avocados grown in South Florida or imported from abroad. The rule will be enforced by the federal government’s Florida Avocado Administrative Committee.
As part of Dodd-Frank, the SEC has new requirements for credit rating agencies.

For more data, see Ten Thousand Commandments and follow @10KC and @RegoftheDay on Twitter.