Regulatory Compliance, Legal Affairs 2 Jan 2025 regulatory compliance, public comment, sentencing guidelines, criminal offenses, business implications

⚖️Proposed Amendments to Sentencing Guidelines

The United States Sentencing Commission is considering promulgating amendments to the sentencing guidelines, policy statements, and commentary. This notice sets forth the proposed amendments and, for each proposed amendment, a synopsis of the issues addressed by that proposed amendment. This notice also sets forth several issues for comment, some of which are set forth together with the proposed amendments, and one of which (regarding retroactive application of proposed amendments) is set forth in the Supplementary Information section of this notice.

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Regulatory Requirements, Financial Implications 2 Jan 2025 compliance, energy, regulation, financial reporting, natural gas, pipeline
Compliance, Professional Events 2 Jan 2025 compliance, public meeting, department of energy, savannah river site, environmental management, advisory board, cleanup activities, waste management

🏛️Upcoming Environmental Management Advisory Board Meeting - January 2025

This notice announces a meeting of the Environmental Management Site-Specific Advisory Board (EM SSAB), Savannah River Site. The Federal Advisory Committee Act requires that public notice of this meeting be announced in the Federal Register.

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Grants, Regulatory Compliance 2 Jan 2025 grants, funding, closed meeting, nih, health, aging research, national institutes of health
Compliance, Regulatory Requirements 2 Jan 2025 regulatory compliance, administrative practice and procedure, ocean common carriers, federal maritime commission, export policy, vessel accommodations

📄FMC Final Rule on Unreasonable Refusal to Deal with Vessel Space

The Federal Maritime Commission (FMC or Commission) received approval from the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for an information collection request associated with the final rule, "Definition of Unreasonable Refusal to Deal or Negotiate with Respect to Vessel Space Accommodations Provided by an Ocean Common Carrier." This rule announces the effective date for the requirements for ocean common carriers to annually file a documented export policy with the Commission and provides implementing instructions. In the final rule published July 23, 2024, the Commission stated it would publish a document in the Federal Register (FR) announcing the effective date of the collection-of-information-related sections upon OMB approval. This rule establishes the effective date of the relevant provisions. It also corrects an error in the regulatory text.

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Compliance, Trade Regulations 2 Jan 2025 commerce, china, business impact, trade regulations, countervailing duty, india, import compliance, overhead door springs
Compliance, Regulatory Requirements 2 Jan 2025 privacy act, institutional compliance, data management, federal student aid, education regulations

🏛️Overview of Department of Education's Modified Records System

In accordance with the Privacy Act of 1974, as amended (Privacy Act), the U.S. Department of Education (Department) publishes this notice of a modified system of records titled "Enterprise Data Management and Analytics Platform Services (EDMAPS)" (18-11-22). The EDMAPS system is a data analytics platform that ingests data from multiple Federal Student Aid (FSA) systems of records to perform big- data analytics on FSA data in one common location, produce reports and statistical models, and serve as a centralized repository of information about FSA customers across the full student aid life cycle.

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Compliance, Regulatory Requirements 2 Jan 2025 alaska, polar bears, marine mammals, stock assessment, fish and wildlife service, 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 administrative practice and procedure, reporting and recordkeeping requirements, business compliance, employment, aliens, homeland security, inflation adjustment, penalties, law enforcement, regulatory requirements, investigations, freight, maritime carriers, fraud, oil pollution, harbors, vessels, exports, civil penalties

📈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 compliance, regulation, advisory committee, children, trafficking, youth, 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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