Compliance, Regulatory Requirements 3 Jan 2025 compliance, transportation, railroad industry, drug testing, alcohol testing, federal regulations

🚦Drug and Alcohol Testing Regulations Impacting Business for 2025

This notification of determination announces FRA's minimum annual random drug and minimum annual random alcohol testing rates for covered service, maintenance-of-way (MOW), and mechanical (MECH) employees for calendar year 2025.

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Compliance, Financial Implications 3 Jan 2025 trading, connectivity, fees, regulation, securities, nyse
Regulatory Compliance, Aviation 3 Jan 2025 aviation, compliance, basicmed, transport, regulations, faa
Regulatory Compliance, Financial Regulation 3 Jan 2025 texas, compliance, bank control, acquisitions, federal reserve, california
Regulatory Compliance, Financial Services 3 Jan 2025 cboe, timestamping service, compliance, financial reporting, market data
Compliance, Regulatory Requirements, Professional Events 3 Jan 2025 groundwater withdrawals, public hearing, water regulations, environmental justice, susquehanna river, pennsylvania

📢Upcoming Public Hearing on Water Regulations and Permits - 2025

The Susquehanna River Basin Commission will hold a public hearing on January 30, 2025. The Commission will hold this hearing in person and telephonically. At this public hearing, the Commission will hear testimony on the projects listed in the Supplementary Information section of this notice. The Commission will also hear testimony on a proposed general permit, GP-04 relating to Into Basin Diversions of Water and a proposed Dry Cooling Resolution to update the 2015 Dry Cooling Resolution previously adopted by the Commission. Such projects and actions are intended to be scheduled for Commission action at its next business meeting, tentatively scheduled for March 13, 2025, which will be noticed separately. The public should note that this public hearing will be the only opportunity to offer oral comments to the Commission for the listed projects and actions. The deadline for the submission of written comments is February 10, 2025.

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Compliance, Regulatory Changes 3 Jan 2025 debarment, government contracts, compliance, suspension, government procurement, federal acquisition regulation

⚖️FAR Amendments Enhancing Compliance for Federal Contractors

DoD, GSA, and NASA are issuing a final rule amending the Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) to improve consistency between the procurement and nonprocurement procedures on suspension and debarment, based on the recommendations of the Interagency Suspension and Debarment Committee.

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Compliance, Financial Assistance, Business Incentive 3 Jan 2025 small business, federal acquisition, contracting, mentor-protégé program, government procurement, regulations, puerto rico

💼New FAR Rule Incentivizes Puerto Rican Small Businesses in 2025

DoD, GSA, and NASA are issuing a final rule amending the Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) to implement regulatory changes made by the Small Business Administration to add incentives for certain United States territories under the Small Business Administration mentor-prot[eacute]g[eacute] program.

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Regulatory, Economic Development, Energy Sector 3 Jan 2025 oil and gas, bureau of land management, regulatory requirements, coastal plain, alaska, lease sale

🛢️Coastal Plain Lease Sale Notice

The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) is changing the oil and gas lease sale bid opening date, previously published in the Federal Register on December 10, 2024, for 12 tracts in the Coastal Plain of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.

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Regulatory Compliance, Environmental Impact 3 Jan 2025 poultry, avian influenza, agriculture, environmental impact, compliance, usda

🦠Reopening Comment Period for Avian Influenza EIS - USDA Notice

We are reopening the comment period for our notice advising the public that a draft programmatic environmental impact statement (EIS) has been prepared by the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service relative to our response activities to highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) outbreaks in commercial and backyard poultry operations located throughout the United States, including the U.S. territories. The draft EIS analyzes and compares the potential environmental effects of using three action alternatives during an HPAI outbreak. This action will allow interested persons additional time to prepare and submit comments.

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