As of late 2023, the Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) contained 1,098,730 regulatory restrictions across 245 volumes and 190,260 pages. The number of pages has grown by more than 86 percent since 1980. This growth is enabled by congressional authorization, either through specific grants of power to agencies to take certain actions or through general delegations of authority that allow agencies broad discretion to decide what actions to take. Pacific Legal Foundation’s Nondelegation Project brings the administrative state and nearly all congressional authorizations to one user-friendly website.

About the Nondelegation Project

The Nondelegation Project database links every rule in the Code of Federal Regulations to its underlying statutory authority. Each delegation is classified as specific or general, based on the level of statutory direction provided. Users can sort regulations by agency, delegation type, or regulatory burden (measured using data from the RegData project). The result is a comprehensive resource for analyzing the reach and concentration of delegated power across the federal bureaucracy.

Visit nondelegationproject.org to explore the tool.