burdensome
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In November, it got rid of quality-control orders—a burdensome licensing requirement—on 25 industrial inputs.
“For too long, burdensome red tape has stood in the way of progress localities want to see, making it too hard to deliver critical housing and infrastructure,” Hochul said in a statement.
Larger banks also face stress tests and other burdensome regulations that smaller banks don’t.
Overlapping authority has more broadly created a burdensome and confusing regulatory environment that drives up costs.
“We must tackle the issue of burdensome fines, fees and assessments that disproportionately drag low-income individuals deeper into debt and away from full participation in their communities,” Newsom wrote at the time.
From Los Angeles Times
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