These changes will generate expenses that will ultimately be passed on to patients.
Right-to-Know: Much Pain, Little Gain [for Small Businesses]
[Mandating that businesses share trade secrets with the EPA is a] formidable burden [that may] ruin many businesses.
[Do we really need] strict regulations or to go in with fines?
[Requiring small businesses to report their toxic releases would] cost thousands of dollars for over 100,000 small business facilities, many of which have profits in the $10,000 range.
Research shows that no one level of dust is more hazardous than another -- it's a combination of factors… We think the record shows elevators of various size are using a variety of options to reduce explosions.
[OSHA has] substantially overstated the risks of fires, explosions and other hazards…the costs of the rule greatly exceed the benefits.
We feel that [the court’s decision] is not the step in the right direction because the mushroom industry is faced with the dilemma of increased costs. It’s an economic crunch. We’ve been in that crunch for two, 2 _ years and here’s another cost factor.
The law would have us label every single container, and in our case that is burdensome and unrealistic.
We estimate it will take approximately 9 man-months to meet the law’s mandates for each plant. Considering that E. F. Houghton has six plants in the United States, it would consume 4 _ man-years to meet S.51’s proposed paperwork burden.
