Chart - Explosion of Environmental Regulation-Cost to Run Environmental Agency Towers over Every Other Federal Regulatory Agency- 1994 Regulatory Budgets 10 Largest Federal Regulatory Agencies.
1. Environmental Protection Agency $4,213 billion;
2. Coast Guard (Includes only the portions of Coast Guard budget
that deal with marine safety, marine environmental protection,
and the fisheries portion of enforcement law and treaties, not
military budget) $1,158 billion;
3. Food & Drug Administration $877 million;
4. Federal Aviation Administration $616 million;
5. Food Safety & Inspection Service $567 million;
6. Nuclear Regulatory Commission $545 million;
7. Patent & Trademark Office $519 million;
8. Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation $459 million;
9. Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service $492 million;
10. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco & Firearms $380 million.
From report by Melinda Warren, Center for the Study of American Business. Total Cost for All 54 Federal Regulatory Agencies $14.3 Billion, Run by 128,615 people.
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