🌍New EPA Updates to Alaska Air Quality Regulations Announced
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is updating the materials that are incorporated by reference (IBR) into the Alaska State Implementation Plan (SIP). The regulations affected by this update have been previously submitted by the State of Alaska and approved by the EPA. In this final rule, the EPA is also notifying the public of corrections and clarifying changes in the Code of Federal Regulations tables that identify the materials incorporated by reference into the Alaska SIP. This update affects the materials that are available for public inspection at the National Archives and Records Administration and the EPA Regional Office.
Learn More📜Compliance and Trade Implications for USMCA Textile and Automotive Industries
This interim final rule amends the U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) regulations to add implementing regulations for the preferential tariff treatment and related customs provisions of the Agreement Between the United States of America, the United Mexican States, and Canada (USMCA) with respect to general definitions, drawback and duty-deferral programs, textile and apparel goods, and automotive goods. This document also amends the regulations to implement the temporary admission of goods, to delineate recordkeeping and protest requirements, to clarify the fee provisions, and to make conforming amendments, including technical corrections to other laws as required by statute.
Learn More⚡NEPA Revisions to Expedite Geothermal Exploration Approvals
This notice announces the Department of the Interior's (Department) proposal to revise the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) implementing procedures for the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) at chapter 11 of part 516 of the Departmental Manual (DM) to add a new categorical exclusion (CX) for geothermal resource exploration operations.
Learn More📊FEMA Seeks Comments on National Training Evaluation Collection Forms
The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), as part of its continuing effort to reduce paperwork and respondent burden, invites the general public to take this opportunity to comment on a revision of a currently approved information collection. In accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, this notice seeks comments concerning the consolidation of all previous instruments into two evaluation forms to be shared by three FEMA offices to evaluate training programs.
Learn More💵Proposed Disaster Relief Fund Collection for Child Care Programs
The Office of Child Care (OCC), Administration for Children and Families is requesting comment on the proposed application for disaster relief funding provided in the American Relief Act, 2025.
Learn More📊New DoD Regulation on Material Weakness and Business Compliance
DoD is issuing a final rule amending the Defense Federal Acquisition Regulation Supplement (DFARS) to implement sections of the National Defense Authorization Acts for Fiscal Year 2021 that defines the term "material weakness" for Government evaluation of contractor business systems. The term "material weakness" replaces the term "significant deficiency."
Learn More⚖️Notice of Inventory Completion Under NAGPRA for Business Compliance
In accordance with the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), the U.S. Department of the Interior, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS), Northeast Region, Iroquois National Wildlife Refuge (NWR) has completed an inventory of human remains and associated funerary objects and has determined that there is a cultural affiliation between the human remains and associated funerary objects and Indian Tribes or Native Hawaiian organizations in this notice.
Learn More⚖️Regulatory Updates for Federal Mine Safety and Health Compliance
The Federal Mine Safety and Health Review Commission (the "Commission") is an independent adjudicatory agency that provides trials and appellate review of cases arising under the Federal Mine Safety and Health Act of 1977 (the "Mine Act"). Trials are held before the Commission's Administrative Law Judges, and appellate review is provided by a five-member Review Commission appointed by the President and confirmed by the Senate. This rule makes final revisions to many of the Commission's procedural rules. The Commission makes these changes in a continued effort to ensure the just, speedy, and inexpensive determination of all proceedings before the Commission.
Learn More🏥FDA Workshop on Optimizing Pregnancy Registries
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA, the Agency, or we) is announcing the following public workshop entitled "Optimizing Pregnancy Registries." The purpose of the public workshop is to discuss challenges in designing and implementing pregnancy registries and to consider innovative approaches to improve the design and conduct of pregnancy registries to inform the safety of drug and biological products during pregnancy. This public workshop is being held in collaboration with the University of Maryland Center of Excellence in Regulatory Science and Innovation program.
Learn More💊FDA Notice on Type V Drug Master Files for ANDA Support
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA or Agency), Center for Drug Evaluation and Research (CDER), Office of Generic Drugs is establishing a public docket entitled "Use of a Type V Drug Master File (DMF) for Model Master File (MMF) Submissions to Support Abbreviated New Drug Applications (ANDAs)." The purpose of this docket to solicit input from interested parties on this topic.
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