Compliance, Regulatory Requirements 2 Jan 2025 polar bears, stock assessment, fish and wildlife service, alaska, marine mammals, regulation compliance

🐻‍❄️Draft Stock Assessment Reports for Polar Bears in Alaska

In accordance with the Marine Mammal Protection Act of 1972, as amended, and its implementing regulations, we, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS), have developed draft revised marine mammal stock assessment reports (SARs) for the Chukchi/Bering Seas and Southern Beaufort Sea polar bear (Ursus maritimus) stocks in Alaska. We invite comments on the two draft revised SARs from the public and from Federal, Tribal, State, and local governments.

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Compliance, Regulatory Changes 2 Jan 2025 homeland security, investigations, civil penalties, aliens, vessels, business compliance, fraud, administrative practice and procedure, regulatory requirements, harbors, maritime carriers, inflation adjustment, oil pollution, employment, freight, law enforcement, penalties, exports, reporting and recordkeeping requirements

📈Civil Penalty Inflation Adjustments

In this final rule, DHS adjusts for inflation its civil monetary penalties for 2025, in accordance with the Federal Civil Penalties Inflation Adjustment Act Improvements Act of 2015 and Executive Office of the President (EOP) Office of Management and Budget (OMB) guidance. The new penalty amounts will be effective for penalties assessed after January 2, 2025, whose associated violations occurred after November 2, 2015.

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Business Opportunities, Compliance, Professional Events 2 Jan 2025 regulation, youth, children, trafficking, compliance, advisory committee, social services

🤝Notice of Meeting

Notice is hereby given, pursuant to the provisions of the Federal Advisory Committee Act (FACA), that a meeting of the National Advisory Committee on the Trafficking of Children and Youth in the United States (Committee) will be held on January 13, 2025. The purpose of the meeting is for the Committee to discuss its plans and responsibilities over its 24-month extension to advise on the development and implementation of successful interventions with children and youth who have been impacted by labor and sex trafficking, make recommendations for administrative and legislative changes regarding the trafficking of children and youth, and publish information on best practices regarding the labor and sex trafficking of children and youth.

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Regulatory Requirements, Financial Implications 2 Jan 2025 filings, regulation, federal, wholesale generator, energy, compliance
Compliance, Regulatory Requirements 2 Jan 2025 small business, information collection, paperwork reduction act, compliance, fcc

📄FCC Notice on Information Collection and Small Business Compliance

As part of its continuing effort to reduce paperwork burdens, as required by the Paperwork Reduction Act (PRA) of 1995, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC or the Commission) invites the general public and other Federal Agencies to take this opportunity to comment on the following information collection. Pursuant to the Small Business Paperwork Relief Act of 2002, the FCC seeks specific comment on how it might "further reduce the information collection burden for small business concerns with fewer than 25 employees."

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Compliance, Economic Development 2 Jan 2025 federal energy regulatory commission, tariff filing, southwestern power administration, department of energy, compliance
Regulatory Compliance, Trade Regulation 2 Jan 2025 department of commerce, trade regulations, china, antidumping, corrosion inhibitors, compliance

📈Preliminary Antidumping Duty Results for Corrosion Inhibitors from China

The U.S. Department of Commerce (Commerce) preliminarily determines that the companies under review sold certain corrosion inhibitors (corrosion inhibitors) at prices below normal value (NV) during the period of review (POR) March 1, 2023, through February 29, 2024. Further, Commerce is rescinding this review with respect to one company. Commerce invites interested parties to comment on the preliminary results of this review.

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Compliance, Economic Impact, Trade Regulations 2 Jan 2025 trade regulations, crystalline silicon photovoltaic cells, u.s. department of commerce, solar industry, vietnam

⚖️Amended Dumping Margin for Vietnamese Solar Cells by U.S. Commerce

The U.S. Department of Commerce (Commerce) is amending its preliminary affirmative determination in the less-than-fair-value (LTFV) investigation of crystalline silicon photovoltaic cells, whether or not assembled into modules (solar cells) from the Socialist Republic of Vietnam (Vietnam) to correct for a significant ministerial error. The period of investigation (POI) is October 1, 2023, through March 31, 2024.

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Grant Opportunities, Compliance 2 Jan 2025 research, integrative medicine, nih, funding, grants, meeting, health
Professional Events, Grant Opportunities 2 Jan 2025 federal advisory, committee meeting, humanities, arts, funding opportunities

🎨Notice of 78th Committee Meeting on Arts and Humanities, 2025

Pursuant to the Federal Advisory Committee Act, notice is hereby given that the President's Committee on the Arts and the Humanities will meet to consider a subcommittee proposal.

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