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Show The Enterprise Review , July 28, 1976 Page 2b Bungling Bureaucrats Tied in Bed Tape Continued from page lb and bad legislation is even Sen. Charles Percy worse. introduced a bill last year calling for A study of the purpose and current effectiveness' of certain agencies. Over many years, Percy said, "government regulation has by small degrees run amuck.' a Percy said that a recent Federal Trade Commission (FTC) study found $80 billion economic waste in the American economy. The FTC attributed the wasted money to (R-Ill- about the company that was tion Agency. Its chief function required by government to put would be correct grammatical bells on all construction and spelling errors while equipment to warn employees government of their approach? Unfortungobbledygook into English. In order to comply with ately, all the workers were required to wear ear muffs. government paperwork re-- ; quirements, U.S. businesses Obscurities sent over 4.5 million cubic feet Vague of paper to Washington D.C. The new regulatory ex- last year. Thats enough plosion" seems to be paper to fill every floor of the .) prompted government by vagueness and complexity of diction. Congress begins with vaguely worded laws and regulatory agencies only add to "regulatory overkill" and the laws obscurity and com- plicate its meaning. "anticompetitive practices. Percy also said that the General Accounting Office blames an additional $60 billion waste on "defective regulation. Talk about excess regulation, have you heard the one For this reason, William A. Sullivan, a Washington attorney, suggests one more Sullivan regulatory agency. wants to call the office the GPA orGrammatical Protec- - HP-2- 2 COME IN FOR DEMO A complete financial tool to answer any problem confronted by the professional banker, realtor, businessman and serious business student. We carry the complete line of and Accessories. Hewlett-Packar- d L.D.S. Church Office Building six feet high with paper. Thats 28 stories! Thats a lot of paper! What happens to all that paper? "They file it, Thoresen said. "Thats too much to read, Im sure they just file it and forget about it. A new 14 member Commission on Federal Paperwork has undertaken the task to disentangle the mess. So far the commission has found that the bigger government gets, the more paperwork it requires to keep up with all its various branches and the paper burden is growing all the time. According to former Sen. Sam Erwin, all volumes of the U.S. Code, from 1789 to present, do not occupy nearly as much space on his book shelf as do the regulations last two years. The paperwork commission is not the first attempt at controlling the proliferation of paperwork. Others have tried and obviously failed. In fact, the new commission itself has apparently gotten off to a slow start. Established in December of 1974, work didnt actually begin until Oct. 3, 1975 and up to now the comfhission has not proceeded beyond selecting a staff. One might assume they are bogged down with paperwork. Register Out of Control Thoresen thinks the Federal Register, now approaching 50,000 pages for 1976, indicates the cancerous rate of growth of government verb"I used to take the osity. Federal Register," he said. "I used to read its entire content. Now, the multiplication of its pages is beyond hope. Its too big and wordy and it requires an expert for interpretation. Not only does the government. waste words, they spend outrageous amounts of tax money. The budget of the Occupational Health and issued by the Executive Safety Administration (OSHA) has ballooned from $36 million branch of government over the in 1960 to $117 million in 1976. OSHA has over 5,000 regula- tions that industrial and con- struction businesses must comply with'. Kennecott Copper has dealt with OSHA. OSHA representatives have taken to living Kenneth here," Kefauver, public relations director for Kennecott s Magna operations, said. Some of our people say they are a nuisance rather an aid to safetv. Kefauver said that Kennecott has always been extremely safety conscious and that OSHA has done very little to help them prevent accidents. He also said the Utah Copper Division of Kennecott has spent over 2,000 man hours complying with government paperwork requirements. "We havent actually increased the size of our staff, he said. Instead we have asked our personnel to increase their productivity and we have people doing paperwork when they could .be doing more I dont important things. know how much money weve spent filling out forms but the amount of paperwork is reaching catastrophic amounts. At last count, there were over 63,000 federal regulators. If each one passes several Continued on page 5b TEXAS INSTRUMENTS SR-50- A SR-5- 1 A $58.50 $72.50 SR-5SR-5- 6 2 $99.50 $239.50 Storage Reservoir to Reduce Fuel Curtailments for Users A ACCESSORIES (21 SJOKES 346 I. 200 So. E, S.I.C.531-022- 2 (Wait mnd Albanian'! parking I at) csO BROIHERS 3670 Wall Ava., OgcUn62 44 S. 200 E., Provo375-200- 0 Mountain Fuel Resources, Inc., a subsidiary of Mountain busSmessinniGiGD, FfsQG detains ns flCn flUne (7p posni ftaCxfimg CiGOFGafle. vjQFSfl Sure, if you get tight spot, karate will get you out. But for the businessman especially, the sport of karate offers greater , rewards. 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