Small business owners support recommendations to cut environmental red tape
February 22, 2012
The Small Business Association of Michigan (SBAM) supports the Michigan Office of Regulatory Reinvention (ORR) recommendations released today that update environmental regulations in order to make Michigan a more competitive place to do business.
“These recommendations are the result of a productive dialogue that has taken place between the Snyder administration and the state’s job providers,” says Rob Fowler, President and CEO of SBAM. “Historically there have been two major factors contributing to making it expensive to do business in Michigan: the system by which we tax businesses and an overly stringent regulatory structure. In 2011, Gov. Snyder took a huge first step on his promise to restructure business taxation. The administration’s comprehensive review of regulation stands to be the next major milestone in making Michigan once again a good place in which to do business.”
SBAM supports a more efficient, customer service-oriented licensing process that services private sector business needs, with a particular emphasis placed on cost containment and timetable efficiency; and predictability in regulatory applications to allow businesses to plan for future liabilities (particularly important for small businesses as they typically do not have the resources to navigate a complex regime of regulation.) “Many of the recommendations on environmental regulation that ORR has announced today are targeted toward these objectives and SBAM looks forward to the future release of reforms in other areas of state government,” says Fowler. “SBAM applauds the ORR efforts and is eager to partner with the administration and legislative leaders to make the necessary statutory changes recommended in the package.”