Compliance, Economic Development, Environmental Management 15 Jan 2025 environmental impact, land use, bureau of land management, resource management, north dakota, mineral leasing

🌍Approved Resource Management Plan for North Dakota Announced

The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) announces the availability of the Record of Decision (ROD) and Approved Resource Management Plan (RMP) for North Dakota. The Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for Land and Minerals Management signed the ROD on January 8, 2025, which constitutes the decision of the BLM and makes the Approved RMP effective immediately.

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Compliance, Trade Regulation, Financial Impact 15 Jan 2025 international trade, china, countervailing duty, department of commerce, active anode material, u.s. industry
Grants, Professional Events 15 Jan 2025 grants, funding, nih, health, research, meetings, virtual meetings, council of councils
Regulatory Requirements, Service Changes 15 Jan 2025 regulatory compliance, postal service, shipping, priority mail, business contracts

📦Notice of Postal Service Priority Mail Contract Changes for Businesses

The Postal Service gives notice of filing a request with the Postal Regulatory Commission to add a domestic shipping services contract to the list of Negotiated Service Agreements in the Mail Classification Schedule's Competitive Products List.

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Compliance, Financial Assistance 15 Jan 2025 compliance, federal regulations, finance, administrative practice and procedure, accounting, business funding, environmental quality

🌱CEQ Updates Regulations for Environmental Quality Management Fund

The Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ) is amending its Office of Environmental Quality Management Fund regulations to clarify their meaning, modernize them to reflect developments in CEQ's practices in administering the Office of Environmental Quality Management Fund (the Management Fund) since CEQ first adopted its regulations, and make administrative changes.

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Compliance, Financial Regulations 15 Jan 2025 regulatory compliance, administrative practice and procedure, farm credit administration, penalties, investigations, financial impact, inflation adjustments, civil money penalties, crime

📈Inflation Adjustments to Civil Money Penalties - FCA 2025

This regulation implements inflation adjustments to civil money penalties (CMPs) that the Farm Credit Administration (FCA) may impose or enforce pursuant to the Farm Credit Act of 1971, as amended (Farm Credit Act), and pursuant to the Flood Disaster Protection Act of 1973, as amended by the National Flood Insurance Reform Act of 1994, and further amended by the Biggert-Waters Flood Insurance Reform Act of 2012 (Biggert-Waters Act) (collectively FDPA, as amended).

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Compliance, Financial Impact 15 Jan 2025 compliance, regulation, administrative practice and procedure, civil monetary penalties, inflation adjustment, penalties, department of defense

💼DoD Adjusts Civil Monetary Penalties for Inflation

The DoD is issuing this final rule to adjust each of its statutory civil monetary penalties (CMP) to account for inflation. The Federal Civil Penalties Inflation Adjustment Act of 1990, as amended by the Debt Collection Improvement Act of 1996 and the Federal Civil Penalties Inflation Adjustment Act Improvements Act of 2015 (the 2015 Act), requires the head of each agency to adjust for inflation its CMP levels in effect as of November 2, 2015, under a revised methodology that was effective for 2016 and for each year thereafter.

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Compliance, Regulatory Requirements 15 Jan 2025 compliance, federal regulations, financial services, appraisal management companies, housing finance

🏛️Proposed Collection on Appraisal Management Companies Regulations

In accordance with the requirements of the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (PRA), the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA or the Agency) is seeking public comments concerning an information collection called the "Minimum Requirements for Appraisal Management Companies," which has been assigned control number 2590-0013 by the Office of Management and Budget (OMB). FHFA intends to submit the information collection to OMB for review and approval of a three-year extension of the control number, which is due to expire on March 31, 2025.

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Regulatory Compliance, Privacy 15 Jan 2025 compliance, privacy act, federal energy regulatory commission, system of records

📜FERC Proposes Rescindment of Systems of Records Notice

Pursuant to the Privacy Act of 1974 and Office of Management and Budget (OMB) Circular No. A-108, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (Commission or FERC) proposes to rescind two existing systems of records notices (SORNs). The Rescindment of System of Records Notice identifies the systems of records and explains why each is being rescinded.

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Regulatory Notice, Public Commentary 15 Jan 2025 small business administration, veterans affairs, public comments, data collection, boots to business

📢SBA Notice

The Small Business Administration (SBA) intends to request approval, from the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for the collection of information described below. The Paperwork Reduction Act (PRA) requires federal agencies to publish a notice in the Federal Register concerning each proposed collection of information before submission to OMB, and to allow 60 days for public comment in response to the notice. This notice complies with that requirement.

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