Grant Opportunities, Compliance Requirements, Economic Development 8 Jan 2025 business compliance, regulatory requirements, housing, disaster recovery, financial management, grant funding, cdbg-dr

🏗️Summary of CDBG-DR Grant Requirements and Financial Oversight

This notice contains a preamble and the Community Development Block Grant Disaster Recovery Universal Notice: Waivers and Alternative Requirements (the "Universal Notice"). The Universal Notice describes the processes, procedures, timelines, waivers, and alternative requirements that U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) intends to implement with each allocation of Community Development Block Grant Disaster Recovery (CDBG-DR) funding after a qualifying presidential disaster declaration. Specifically, following the appropriation of CDBG-DR funds for qualifying disasters, HUD will publish an Allocation Announcement Notice in the Federal Register that incorporates, via cross-reference, the waivers and alternative requirements provided in the Universal Notice, as appropriate, along with any other new requirements imposed by the specific appropriation. This notice also describes the grant award process, pre-award certification submissions, criteria for Action Plan approval, and eligible disaster recovery activities to streamline post-disaster processes for future grantees. By publishing the Universal Notice, HUD intends to provide grantees and the public with increased transparency, consistency, and more timely access to CDBG-DR funds, helping to minimize program delays and accelerate recovery.

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Grant Opportunities, Economic Development 8 Jan 2025 education, funding, grant application, technical education, native hawaiian

🎓Grant Opportunities for Native Hawaiian Career Education Programs

The Department of Education (Department) is issuing a notice inviting applications for new awards for fiscal year (FY) 2025 for the Native Hawaiian Career and Technical Education Program (NHCTEP).

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Compliance, Employment Initiatives 8 Jan 2025 compliance, government procurement, government regulations, procurement policy, pay equity, federal contracting

📉Withdrawal of Proposed Rule on Pay Equity in Federal Contracting

DoD, GSA, and NASA are withdrawing the proposed rule to amend the Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) titled: Pay Equity and Transparency in Federal Contracting. The Administrator for Federal Procurement Policy (OFPP Administrator) is simultaneously withdrawing a proposed Government-wide policy, upon which the proposed rule was based.

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Regulatory Compliance, Trade Agreements 8 Jan 2025 china, trade regulations, investigations, u.s. international trade commission, tariffs, aluminum industry

⚖️Final Phase of Aluminum Import Duty Investigations Announced

The Commission hereby gives notice of the scheduling of the final phase of antidumping and countervailing duty investigation Nos. 701-TA-727 and 731-TA-1695 (Final) pursuant to the Tariff Act of 1930 ("the Act") to determine whether an industry in the United States is materially injured or threatened with material injury, or the establishment of an industry in the United States is materially retarded, by reason of imports of disposable aluminum containers, pans, trays, and lids from China, provided for in statistical reporting number 7615.10.7125 of the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States, preliminarily determined by the Department of Commerce ("Commerce") to be subsidized and sold at less-than-fair-value.

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Regulatory Compliance, Trade Regulations 8 Jan 2025 regulations, international trade, public interest, complaints, importation

⚖️Notice of Complaint on Dryer Wall Exhausts - Comments Solicited

Notice is hereby given that the U.S. International Trade Commission has received a complaint entitled Certain Dryer Wall Exhaust Vent Assemblies and Components Thereof, DN 3800; the Commission is soliciting comments on any public interest issues raised by the complaint or complainant's filing pursuant to the Commission's Rules of Practice and Procedure.

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Compliance, Regulatory, Cybersecurity 8 Jan 2025 compliance, cybersecurity, homeland security, executive order, cisa, data protection

🔒New Cybersecurity Requirements for Restricted Transactions Announced

CISA is announcing publication of finalized security requirements for restricted transactions pursuant to Executive Order (E.O.) 14117, "Preventing Access to Americans' Bulk Sensitive Personal Data and United States Government-Related Data by Countries of Concern." In October 2024, CISA published proposed security requirements for restricted transactions which would apply to classes of restricted transactions identified in regulations issued by the Department of Justice (DOJ). CISA solicited comment on those proposed security requirements and considered that public feedback when developing the final security requirements. This notice also provides CISA's responses to the public comments received.

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Arms Sales, Regulatory Compliance, Defense Industry 8 Jan 2025 defense contracting, taiwan, arms sales, military exports, u.s. government

💼Proposed $75 Million Arms Sale to Taiwan

The DoD is publishing the unclassified text of an arms sales notification.

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Regulatory Compliance, Environmental Impact 8 Jan 2025 endangered species, regulatory compliance, incidental take permit, fishery survey, northeast usa

🌊Draft Environmental Assessment Notice for Incidental Take Permit

NMFS announces the availability of the Draft Environmental Assessment (EA) on the effects of issuing an Incidental Take Permit (ITP) (No. 27490) to the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth School for Marine Science and Technology (SMAST), pursuant to the Endangered Species Act (ESA) of 1973, as amended, for the incidental take of ESA- listed sea turtles and sturgeon associated with the otherwise lawful fisheries survey activities within and adjacent to the Massachusetts/ Rhode Island Wind Energy Area. The duration of the requested permit is 10 years. NMFS is requesting comment on the draft EA.

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Regulatory Changes, Business Incentives 8 Jan 2025 regulatory compliance, securities, options trading, fee discount, miami
Regulatory Compliance, Risk Management 8 Jan 2025 compliance, risk management, flood insurance, fema, hazard determination, community impact

🌊New FEMA Flood Hazard Changes Impacting Business Compliance

This notice lists communities where the addition or modification of Base Flood Elevations (BFEs), base flood depths, Special Flood Hazard Area (SFHA) boundaries or zone designations, or the regulatory floodway (hereinafter referred to as flood hazard determinations), as shown on the Flood Insurance Rate Maps (FIRMs), and where applicable, in the supporting Flood Insurance Study (FIS) reports, prepared by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) for each community, is appropriate because of new scientific or technical data. The FIRM, and where applicable, portions of the FIS report, have been revised to reflect these flood hazard determinations through issuance of a Letter of Map Revision (LOMR), in accordance with Federal Regulations. The currently effective community number is shown in the table below and must be used for all new policies and renewals.

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