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📈Combined Notice of Filings for Energy Company Acquisitions

The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission has published a notice regarding multiple accounting requests for proposed journal entries related to the acquisitions of energy companies by DTM Interstate Transportation, LLC. Business owners and executives are encouraged to review these filings and engage in the comment process if applicable.

📉Treasury Direct Final Rule on Eliminating Unnecessary Regulations

Pursuant to an Executive order, the Department of the Treasury (Treasury) is conducting a review of existing regulations, with the goal of reducing regulatory burden by revoking or revising existing regulations that meet the criteria set forth in the Executive order. In support of that objective, this direct final rule streamlines titles 12 and 31 of the Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) by removing regulations that are no longer necessary or no longer have any current or future applicability.

🛢️Combined Notice of Filings from the Department of Energy

The Department of Energy's Federal Energy Regulatory Commission issues a Combined Notice of Filings, detailing recent requests for approval from LA Storage, LLC, and Gillis Hub Pipeline, LLC. The notice outlines important dates, filing requirements, and the process for public engagement in the regulatory proceedings, emphasizing participation in the Commission's processes.

📊SEC Rescinds Guidance on Crypto-Assets - SAB 122 Insights

This staff accounting bulletin ("SAB") rescinds the interpretive guidance included in Section FF of Topic 5 in the Staff Accounting Bulletin Series entitled Accounting for Obligations to Safeguard Crypto-Assets an Entity Holds for its Platform Users ("Topic 5.FF").

📜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.

📊PCAOB Extends Comment Period for Firm Reporting Regulations

🌱CEQ Updates Regulations for Environmental Quality Management Fund

The Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ) is amending its Office of Environmental Quality Management Fund regulations to clarify their meaning, modernize them to reflect developments in CEQ's practices in administering the Office of Environmental Quality Management Fund (the Management Fund) since CEQ first adopted its regulations, and make administrative changes.

💼DOE's Update on Technology Investment Agreement Regulations

The Department of Energy (DOE or the Department) is issuing this interim final rule (IFR) to update, streamline, and relocate the policies, procedures, and provisions that are applicable to the award and administration of certain other transaction (OT) agreements awarded under DOE's OT authority provided in the Energy Policy Act of 2005's amendments to the Department of Energy Organization Act. DOE expects that the simplification of the implementing regulations will enable improved use OT Agreements beyond the Technology Investment Agreements (TIAs) contemplated in the original regulations. This IFR will promote more uniform application of this authority and the policies and provisions for the award and administration of it.