🏦Change in Bank Control Notices
The Federal Reserve has issued a notice regarding applications for acquiring shares of banks or bank holding companies under the Change in Bank Control Act. It outlines the public comment period and regulatory considerations that applicants must navigate, emphasizing transparency and compliance in financial transactions.
Learn More🚆Administrative Updates on Locomotive Cab Safety Regulations
This rule makes administrative updates to FRA's locomotive cab occupational safety and health regulations, including updating addresses in those regulations.
Learn More✈️New Airworthiness Directive for Embraer Aircraft by FAA
The FAA is adopting a new airworthiness directive (AD) for all Embraer S.A. Model EMB-545 and EMB-550 airplanes. This AD was prompted by a jamming failure of the main door lock sensor. This AD requires repetitive main door sensor operational tests, repetitive lubrication of the main door sensor mechanism, and on condition actions. The FAA is issuing this AD to address the unsafe condition on these products.August 5, 2025.
Learn More🛢️Pipeline Safety Standards Update
This DFR amends PHMSA's regulations to incorporate by reference the updated industry standard ASTM F2145, Standard Specification for Polyamide 11 and Polyamide 12 Mechanical Fittings for Use on Outside Diameter Controlled Polyamide 11 and Polyamide 12 Pipe and Tubing. This updated standard will maintain or improve public safety, prevent regulatory confusion, reduce compliance burdens on stakeholders, and satisfy a mandate in the National Technology Transfer and Advancement Act (NTTAA) of 1995.
Learn More🌬️Review of Wind Tower Duty Orders Impacting U.S. Market
The Commission hereby gives notice that it has instituted reviews pursuant to the Tariff Act of 1930 ("the Act"), as amended, to determine whether revocation of the countervailing duty orders on utility scale wind towers from Canada and Vietnam and the antidumping duty orders on utility scale wind towers from Canada, Indonesia, South Korea, and Vietnam would be likely to lead to continuation or recurrence of material injury. Pursuant to the Act, interested parties are requested to respond to this notice by submitting the information specified below to the Commission.
Learn More🚂Proposed Rule for Locomotive Horn Sounding Flexibility
This proposed rule would provide greater flexibility for compliance with FRA's train horn regulation. Specifically, this proposed rule would allow for regulatory relief from the required pattern of sounding the locomotive horn in two long blasts, one short blast, and one long blast where trains, locomotive consists, and individual locomotives have stopped in close proximity to a public highway-rail grade crossing location. This proposed rule would instead allow locomotive engineers to vary the pattern of sounding the locomotive horn to only one single blast of the horn as they enter onto and cross over these grade crossing locations.
Learn More📄Removal of Obsolete Regulations on Federal Grants and Contracts
This DFR removes obsolete grant and contract regulations in the Department of Labor's regulations. These grant and contract regulations were superseded by the Office of Management and Budget's (OMB's) Guidance for Grants and Agreements, codified in the Code of Federal Regulations, which the Department of Labor adopted and gave regulatory effect to in 2014.
Learn More⚠️Proposed Pipeline Safety Regulation on Enforcement Discretion
PHMSA proposes to codify a statement of limited enforcement discretion applicable to "incidental gathering" lines. The proposed rule completes PHMSA's commitment within its response to a petition for reconsideration of a 2021 final rule affecting the regulation of onshore gas gathering pipelines.
Learn More🚍FTA Proposes Deregulation to Encourage Private Investment in Transportation
In this action, the Federal Transit Administration (FTA) seeks to reduce the regulatory burden on recipients subject to FTA's private investment procedures by removing an unnecessary reporting requirement.
Learn More📄Streamlining Recordkeeping for Hazardous Materials Carriers
This NPRM proposes to revise the hazardous materials program procedures to allow motor and vessel carriers the option to carry their PHMSA certificate of registration in electronic form.
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