Rule 23 May 2025 compliance, regulation, administrative practice and procedure, incorporation by reference, business operations, postal service, mailing standards, domestic mail

📦New Mailing Standards and Regulations for Businesses

The Postal Service announces the issuance of the Mailing Standards of the United States Postal Service, Domestic Mail Manual (DMM[supreg]), dated April 7, 2025, and its incorporation by reference in the Code of Federal Regulations.

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Rule 23 May 2025 regulatory compliance, environmental protection, epa, administrative practice and procedure, reporting and recordkeeping requirements, intergovernmental relations, penalties, hazardous waste, confidential business information, hazardous materials transportation, indians-lands, mississippi

♻️Mississippi's Final Authorization of Hazardous Waste Management Program

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is taking direct final action on the authorization of changes to Mississippi's hazardous waste program under the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA), as amended. These changes were outlined in an April 2, 2024 application to the EPA. We have determined that these changes satisfy all requirements needed for final authorization.

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Proposed Rule 22 May 2025 environmental protection, administrative practice and procedure, reporting and recordkeeping requirements, food safety, pesticide regulation, agricultural compliance, agricultural commodities, pesticides and pests

🌱EPA Proposes New Pesticide Tolerances for Compliance

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA or Agency) is proposing to implement several tolerance actions under the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (FFDCA) that the Agency previously determined were necessary or appropriate during the registration review conducted under the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA). During registration review, EPA reviews all aspects of a pesticide case, including existing tolerances, to ensure that the pesticide continues to meet the standard for registration under FIFRA. The pesticide tolerances and active ingredients addressed in this rulemaking are identified and discussed in detail in Unit III. of this document.

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Rule 22 May 2025 compliance, agriculture, regulations, usda, imports, administrative practice and procedure, reporting and recordkeeping requirements, tobacco, advisory committees, pesticides and pests, government publications, grading

🚬Changes to Tobacco Grading Regulations by USDA

This action removes and reserves subpart D, titled "Orders of Designation of Tobacco Markets" from the Code of Federal Regulations (CFR). The regulations subpart D are obsolete and unnecessary because The Fair and Equitable Tobacco Reform Act of 2004 eliminated mandatory grading of types of tobacco eligible for price support programs and a referendum of eligible producers voted in favor of terminating the designations for tobacco auction markets in June of 2005.

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Rule 21 May 2025 compliance, federal regulation, administrative practice and procedure, justice department, legal, parole, prisoners, probation and parole

⚖️Final Rule on Parole Process for Mixed Code Offenders

The U.S. Parole Commission is adopting a final rule to remove and reserve a procedural rule which concerns prisoners serving any combination of U.S. and D.C. Code sentences that have been aggregated by the U.S. Bureau of Prisons ("mixed code" offenders) and considered for parole on the basis of a single parole eligibility and mandatory release date on the aggregate sentence.

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Rule 21 May 2025 compliance, federal regulations, administrative practice and procedure, penalties, claims, fraud, civil penalties, monetary penalties, program fraud

💰Update on Civil Penalties for Program Fraud Under OPM Regulations

This rule adjusts the level of civil monetary penalties contained in U.S. Office of Personnel Management regulations implementing the Program Fraud Civil Remedies Act of 1986, in accordance with the Federal Civil Penalties Inflation Adjustment Act Improvements Act of 2015 and Office of Management and Budget guidance.

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Rule 20 May 2025 compliance, regulation, imports, administrative practice and procedure, reporting and recordkeeping requirements, intergovernmental relations, business impact, small businesses, energy conservation, household appliances, confidential business information, commercial appliances

❌Withdrawal of Energy Standards for Commercial Refrigerators

Pursuant to the Congressional Review Act, this document withdraws a disapproved final rule that was published in the Federal Register on January 21, 2025. The final rule would have established amended energy conservation standards for commercial refrigerators, freezers, and refrigerator-freezers.

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Rule 20 May 2025 environmental protection, epa, administrative practice and procedure, reporting and recordkeeping requirements, ozone, air pollution control, particulate matter, emissions, indiana, nitrogen oxides, electric power plants, csapr, electric power generation, fossil fuel

⚡Adjusted Emissions Budgets for Indiana Under CSAPR

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is taking interim final action to adjust the Revised Cross-State Air Pollution Rule (CSAPR) Update "budget" for nitrogen oxides (NO<INF>X</INF>) emissions from Indiana electricity generating units (EGUs) during the May-September "ozone season" for 2024 and subsequent years. Relatedly, EPA is also adjusting the default unit-level allocations of emission allowances to Indiana EGUs for 2024 and subsequent years in accordance with the adjustments to the state emissions budget. When originally establishing state emissions budgets and default unit-level allocations for 2024 and subsequent years in the Revised CSAPR Update rulemaking, EPA relied in part on announcements from EGU owners regarding their plans to retire certain EGUs before the 2024 ozone season. The purpose of the adjustments being made in this action is to account for the subsequent decisions by some EGU owners to defer or cancel the previously announced retirement plans.

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Rule 20 May 2025 compliance, business regulation, imports, administrative practice and procedure, reporting and recordkeeping requirements, intergovernmental relations, small businesses, department of energy, energy conservation, household appliances, confidential business information, walk-in coolers

❄️DOE Withdraws Energy Conservation Standards for Walk-In Coolers

Pursuant to the Congressional Review Act, this document withdraws a disapproved final rule that was published in the Federal Register on December 23, 2024. The final rule would have established amended energy conservation standards for walk-in coolers and walk-in freezers.

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Rule 20 May 2025 regulatory compliance, imports, administrative practice and procedure, reporting and recordkeeping requirements, intergovernmental relations, small businesses, department of energy, energy conservation, household appliances, confidential business information, appliance standards, gas appliances

🚰Energy Conservation Standards for Gas-Fired Water Heaters Withdrawn

Pursuant to the Congressional Review Act, this document withdraws a disapproved final rule that was published in the Federal Register on December 26, 2024. The final rule would have established amended energy conservation standards for gas-fired instantaneous water heaters.

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