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EPA also estimates that 49 public utilities owned by 41 municipalities will be affected by the rule, and of that total, the 18 small governmental entities (populations under 50,000) affected will expend less than 1 percent of their annual revenues for compliance.
California officials have been especially aggressive, muscling reluctant FEMA officials to expend billions on "code upgrades" requiring massive or even total reconstruction of buildings suffering relatively minor damage.
With fewer resources to expend and a growing client base to serve, LSC has embraced service area reconfiguration as one important way to "insure that grants and contracts are made so as to provide the most economical and effective delivery of legal assistance to persons in both urban and rural areas."
EPA's analysis indicates that the first year, 60 percent (2,895) of the small entities will expend less than 1 percent of their annual revenue for the rule's compliance costs, 12 percent (569) will expend between 1 percent and 3 percent, and 119 or 2 percent will expend 3 percent or more of their annual revenues for compliance.
A perfectly efficient government would find its platforms instantly implemented; a completely inefficient one would expend all its resources without accomplishing any of its goals.