There are more than 4,100 regulations in the pipeline and just a sampling of these regulations will cost the economy $515 billion.

 

Regulation	Capital Cost	Total Annual Cost Over Four Years	Source
National Ambient Air Quality Standards (NAAQS) for Ozone		360,000,000,000	President Obama’s Letter to Speaker of the House Boehner, August 30, 2011
Boiler MACT	9,500,000,000	11,600,000,000	Office of Management and Budget, “National Emission Standards for Hazardous Air Pollutants for Major Sources: Industrial, Commercial, and Institutional Boilers and Process Heaters; Proposed Reconsideration,” accessed 6/26/12
Cross State Air Pollution Rule		3,200,000,000	EPA, “Cross-State Air Pollution Rule,” accessed 6/26/12
Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standard No. 111, Rearview mirrors		10,800,000,000	Federal Register, “Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standard, Rearview Mirrors; Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standard, Low-Speed Vehicles Phase-In Reporting Requirements,” accessed 6/26/12
National Ambient Air Quality Standards (NAAQS) for Particulate Matter		1,560,000,000	http://www.epa.gov/ttn/ecas/regdata/RIAs/PMRIACombinedFile_Bookmarked.pdf
Florida Numeric Nutrient Standards (Phase 2)		100,000,000	Congressional Research Service, 4/25/12, “EPA Regulations: Too Much, Too Little, or On Track,” by James McCarthy
Clean Water Act Jurisdictional Guidance and Rulemaking		684,000,000	EPA, “Potential Economic Impacts and Benefits Associated with Guidance Clarifying the Scope of the Clean Water Act,” accessed 6/26/12
Non-Hazardous Solid Waste Rule (Reconsideration)	706,000,000	1,120,000,000	Office of Management and Budget, Standards of Performance for New Stationary Sources and Emission Guidelines for Existing Sources: Commercial and Industrial Solid Waste Incineration Units; Reconsideration and Proposed Amendments , accessed 6/26/12
Tier 3 Pollution Motor Vehicle Emission and Fuel Standards	17,000,000,000	52,000,000,000	API, July 2011, “Potential Supply and Cost Impacts of Lower Sulfur, Lower RVP of Gasoline,” pg 56
Uniform Standard for Stationary Sources (Flare Rule)	460,000,000	384,000,000	EPA notice of submitting rule for publication to Federal Register on 6/1/12, pg 17, accessed 6/26/12
Utility MACT		38,400,000,000	Office of Management and Budget, “National Emission Standards for Hazardous Air Pollutants From Coal- and Oil-Fired Electric Utility Steam Generating Units and Standards of Performance for Electric Utility Steam Generating Units ,” Accessed 6/26/12
Cooling Water Intake Structures		1,596,000,000	EPA, Criteria and Standards for Cooling Water Intake Structures, accessed 6/26/12)
Coal Combustion Residuals Generated by Electric Utilities		5,896,000,000	EPA, “Hazardous and Solid Waste Management System: Identification and Listing of Special Wastes; Disposal of Coal Combustion Residuals from Electric Utilities,” pg 8, accessed 6/26/12
Total Cost Over Four Years	$515,006,000,000.00