Rule 29 Sep 2025 administrative practice and procedure, claims, administrative wage garnishment, regulations, postal service, compliance, debt collection

📄Final Rule for Administrative Wage Garnishment by the Postal Service

This document contains the final rule for proceedings in which the Judicial Officer Department conducts fact-finding relative to administrative wage garnishment initiated by the Department of the Treasury.

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Rule 29 Sep 2025 administrative practice and procedure, transportation, immigration, safety, licensing, regulation, motor carriers, drug abuse, compliance, non-domiciled, highway safety, commercial driving, alcohol abuse

🚚New Regulations for Non-Domiciled Commercial Driver's Licenses

FMCSA amends the Federal regulations for State Driver's Licensing Agencies (SDLAs) issuing commercial driving credentials to foreign-domiciled individuals. Through this interim final rule (IFR), FMCSA restores the integrity of the commercial driver's license (CDL) issuance processes by significantly limiting the authority for SDLAs to issue and renew non-domiciled commercial learner's permits (CLPs) and CDLs to individuals domiciled in a foreign jurisdiction. This change strengthens the security of the CDL issuance process and enhances the safety of commercial motor vehicle (CMV) operations.

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Rule 29 Sep 2025 administrative practice and procedure, caregiving, claims, veterans, health care, travel and transportation expenses, regulatory compliance, financial assistance, public assistance programs, health professions, healthcare, mental health programs, health facilities

🏥Extension of PCAFC for Legacy Participants and Applicants

The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) adopts as final, with changes, an interim final rule that amended VA's regulations governing the Program of Comprehensive Assistance for Family Caregivers (PCAFC) and extended the transition period for legacy participants, legacy applicants, and their Family Caregivers (the legacy cohort) through September 30, 2025. This final rule will further extend the transition period for the legacy cohort through September 30, 2028.

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Rule 29 Sep 2025 penalties, administrative practice and procedure, excise taxes, cigars and cigarettes, claims, packaging and containers, regulation, deregulatory action, u.s. government, seizures and forfeitures, surety bonds, compliance, tobacco, reporting and recordkeeping requirements, tax

🚬Deregulatory Action on Tobacco Product Floor Stocks Tax Regulations

In this final rule, the Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau (TTB) is removing regulations related to the 2009 tobacco product floor stocks tax. These regulations are no longer necessary because they implement a tax that applied only to specified articles held for sale on April 1, 2009, and was required to be paid on or before August 1, 2009. This deregulatory action removes 42 regulatory sections from TTB regulations.

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Rule 26 Sep 2025 code cases, nuclear regulation, radiation protection, nuclear power plants and reactors, engineering standards, classified information, safety, penalties, incorporation by reference, nrc, administrative practice and procedure, fire prevention, antitrust, compliance, education, asme, whistleblowing, intergovernmental relations, reporting and recordkeeping requirements

⚛️NRC Updates Regulatory Guide on ASME Code Cases for Nuclear Plants

The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) is amending its regulations to incorporate by reference a regulatory guide that approves unconditioned code cases published by the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME). This action allows nuclear power plant applicants and licensees to use the code cases as voluntary alternatives to engineering standards for nuclear power plant components. These standards are set forth in the ASME Boiler and Pressure Vessel Code and ASME Operation and Maintenance of Nuclear Power Plants, which are currently incorporated by reference into the NRC's regulations.

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Proposed Rule 26 Sep 2025 administrative practice and procedure, engineering, reporting and recordkeeping requirements, nuclear, fire prevention, classified information, penalties, radiation protection, incorporation by reference, antitrust, compliance, education, asme, nuclear power plants and reactors, nrc, whistleblowing, intergovernmental relations, regulation

⚛️NRC Proposes Approval of ASME Unconditioned Code Cases

The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) is proposing to amend its regulations to incorporate by reference a regulatory guide that approves unconditioned code cases published by the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME). This action would allow nuclear power plant applicants and licensees to use the code cases as voluntary alternatives to engineering standards for nuclear power plant components. These standards are set forth in the ASME Boiler and Pressure Vessel Code and ASME Operation and Maintenance of Nuclear Power Plants, which are currently incorporated by reference into the NRC's regulations. The NRC is requesting comments on this proposed rule.

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Rule 25 Sep 2025 reporting and recordkeeping requirements, bureau of land management, intergovernmental relations, mines, public lands-mineral resources, environmental protection, federal law, mining, regulations, wilderness areas, administrative practice and procedure, compliance, environmental management, surety bonds

⛏️Rescission of Mining Claims Regulations by Bureau of Land Management

This direct final rule rescinds a portion of Bureau of Land Management (BLM) regulations that address Mining Claims Under the General Mining Laws--Surface Management--Operations Conducted Under Notices--Does this subpart apply to my existing notice-level operations.

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Proposed Rule 25 Sep 2025 air quality, air pollution control, reporting and recordkeeping requirements, clean air act, emissions, intergovernmental relations, ozone, environmental protection, environmental regulations, nitrogen oxides, volatile organic compounds, business compliance, administrative practice and procedure, utah

🌫️Proposed Expansion of Northern Wasatch Front Ozone Nonattainment Area

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is proposing to approve a request to expand the boundary for the Northern Wasatch Front (NWF) 2015 8-hour ozone national ambient air quality standard (NAAQS) nonattainment area (NAA). The request was submitted by the State of Utah on February 27, 2023. The newly expanded portion of the NWF NAA will have the same classification as the original NWF NAA under the 2015 ozone NAAQS and all applicable Clean Air Act (CAA) requirements will become applicable to the newly designated portion upon the effective date of the final action. The EPA is taking this action pursuant to the CAA.

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Proposed Rule 25 Sep 2025 passports, regulation, administrative practice and procedure, compliance, department of state, passports and visas, courier services

📄New Regulations for Passport Courier Services Explained

The Department of State (the Department) establishes rules for the registration program and hand delivery procedures for courier companies used by applicants to transport their passport applications, and U.S. passports issued to them, to and from participating passport agencies. This supplemental notice of proposed rulemaking, along with the original notice of proposed rulemaking (NPRM), is intended to continue the program that was established by prior policy, to maintain vigilance over the security of the passport application process, to require companies to register with the Department prior to providing hand delivery services to certain applicants for U.S. passports, and to follow a uniform set of hand delivery procedures.

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Rule 25 Sep 2025 syria, foreign assets, penalties, reporting and recordkeeping requirements, executive orders, foreign trade, services, sanctions, banks, ofac, banking, credit, administrative practice and procedure, blocking of assets, regulatory compliance

🏛️New Amendments to Syria-Related Sanctions Regulations and Their Impact

The Department of the Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) is changing the heading of the Syria-Related Sanctions Regulations to the Promoting Accountability for Assad and Regional Stabilization Sanctions Regulations and amending the renamed regulations to implement a January 15, 2025 Syria-related Executive order and a June 30, 2025 Syria-related Executive order.

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