The Hill reports:
The government shutdown has all but turned off the regulatory spigot, reducing the flow of new rules from federal agencies to a trickle.
Regulators and proponents of stronger protections warn that rulemaking delays will jeopardize public safety and health. But some conservatives say the reprieve from red tape is welcome, even if it doesn’t last long.
“We’re very pleased that the Obama administration’s ongoing efforts to wreck the U.S. economy with more and more heavy-handed and colossally expensive regulations has been put on hold,” said Myron Ebell, director of the right-leaning Competitive Enterprise Institute’s energy and environment center…
Monday’s edition of the Federal Register — the last one published before the shutdown — clocked in at more than 400 pages and contained 40 rules or proposals for the public to look over, covering everything from fees charged by U.S. Marshals to protecting habitat for sea turtles.
Friday’s edition was less than a third the size, and had just six rules. All but one was from the National Marine Fisheries Service, where workers are allowed to continue writing rules to prevent overfishing.
Didn’t keep the TCEQ from issuing this monstrosity
http://www.tceq.texas.gov/rules/pendprop.html#13040
They haven’t stopped writing regulations, just stopped publishing them.
Bureaucrats never quit,
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