BY ANTHONY RIZZO
Governor Rick Snyder has announced that the state has successfully eliminated one thousand administrative rules in Michigan.
The Governor created the Office of Regulatory Reinvention in part, to review Michigan's administrative rules.
Before the ORR was established in April 2011, there were over nineteen thousand rules. Today, there are just over eighteen thousand.
Officials said they are making great strides in streamlining Michigan's regulations, while ensuring health, safety and consumer protection.
Rob Nederhood is the Deputy Director of the ORR.
"We want to make sure that Michigan's regulatory environment is simple, fair, efficient, and conducive to business growth and job-creation in the state. There are studies out there, including one from NYU, which show that about 20 percent of the national economy is regulated by state-administrative rules." Nederhood said.
Nederhood said the state's regulatory environment has a big impact on Michigan's economic turnaround.
He said the ORR is trying to get rid of the rules that are becoming more and more obsolete.