Notice 18 Apr 2025 compliance, environmental regulation, agriculture, epa, pesticide registration

🌿EPA's Interim Registration Decision for Dicrotophos - Impacts on Business

This notice announces the availability of EPA's interim registration review decision for dicrotophos.

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Notice 16 Apr 2025 agriculture, regulatory compliance, usda, trade, tariffs, import duties, sugar, foreign agricultural service

🍬Notice of Special Safeguard Duties on Sugar Imports in 2025

After reviewing the volume of articles containing over 65 percent by dry weight of sugars described in the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States (HTS), the Administrator of the Foreign Agricultural Service has determined that the yearly special safeguard trigger level has been met and a special safeguard duty on articles containing over 65 percent by dry weight of sugars will be imposed.

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Notice 15 Apr 2025 agriculture, regulatory compliance, environmental impact, wildlife management, montana, grizzly bears

🐻Notice of Intent for Grizzly Bear Damage Management in Montana

We are advising the public of our intent to prepare an environmental impact statement (EIS) evaluating the effects of managing grizzly bear (Ursus arctos horribilis) damage in Montana. The unique identification number for this project is EISX-005-32-24W-1738675512. This notice proposes issues and alternatives for consideration in the EIS and requests public comments to further delineate the scope of the alternatives, environmental issues, and other issues of public concern to be considered in the EIS. This notice also serves to inform the public that the Department of the Interior's U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and Montana Fish, Wildlife, and Parks have joined as cooperating agencies in the EIS process.

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Notice 14 Apr 2025 agriculture, public meeting, advisory committee, funding, forest service, shasta county

🌲Shasta County Resource Advisory Committee Meeting Notice

The Shasta County Resource Advisory Committee (RAC) will hold a public meeting according to the details shown below. The committee is authorized under the Secure Rural Schools and Community Self- Determination Act (the Act) and operates in compliance with the Federal Advisory Committee Act. The purpose of the committee is to improve collaborative relationships and to provide advice and recommendations to the Forest Service concerning projects and funding consistent with title II of the Act, as well as make recommendations on recreation fee proposals for sites on the Shasta-Trinity National Forest within Shasta County, consistent with the Federal Lands Recreation Enhancement Act.

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Notice 11 Apr 2025 agriculture, import regulations, usa, pest risk analysis, phytosanitary measures, glasswort, israel

🌿Pest Risk Analysis Notice for Importation of Glasswort from Israel

We are advising the public that we have prepared a pest risk analysis that evaluates the risks associated with the importation of fresh leaves and stems of glasswort (Salicornia europaea L.) for consumption from Israel into the United States. Based on the analysis, we have determined that the application of one or more designated phytosanitary measures will be sufficient to mitigate the risks of introducing or disseminating plant pests or noxious weeds via the importation of fresh leaves and stems of glasswort from Israel into the United States. We are making the pest risk analysis available to the public for review and comment.

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Notice 11 Apr 2025 agriculture, regulatory compliance, usda, business operations, user fees, aphis

💵APHIS User Fee System Modification and Business Implications

Pursuant to the Privacy Act of 1974 and Office of Management and Budget Circular No. A-108, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) gives notice that an agency component, the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS), proposes to modify an existing system of records notice titled, APHIS Veterinary Services User Fee System, USDA/APHIS-18. The system will be renamed the APHIS User Fee System, USDA/APHIS-18. This system, among other things, helps APHIS track, collect, and process fees associated with services APHIS provides.

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Notice 9 Apr 2025 agriculture, regulation, public comment, forest service, directives

🌲Forest Service Directive Publication Notice

The Forest Service (Forest Service or Agency), U.S. Department of Agriculture, provides direction to employees through issuances in its Directive System, comprised of the Forest Service Manual and Forest Service Handbooks. The Agency must provide public notice of and opportunity to comment on directives that formulate standards, criteria, or guidelines applicable to Forest Service programs. Once per quarter, the Agency provides advance notice of proposed and interim directives that will be made available for public comment during the next three months; proposed and interim directives that were previously published for public comment but not yet finalized and issued; and notice of final directives issued in the last three months.

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Notice 9 Apr 2025 agriculture, regulation, fda, food safety, opiate alkaloids, poppy seeds

🌿FDA Extends Comment Period for Poppy Seed Practices

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA or we) is extending the comment period for a request for information on industry practices related to poppy seeds, such as information about growing, harvesting, processing, and distribution of poppy seeds, including industry practices to reduce the opiate alkaloid content of poppy seeds. We are taking this action in response to requests for an extension to allow interested persons additional time to submit comments. We intend to use the information to help determine what type(s) of actions, if any, we should take to help ensure that poppy seed products do not pose a health risk when consumed.

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Notice 8 Apr 2025 agriculture, regulatory compliance, public participation, contracts, water management, bureau of reclamation

💧Overview of Quarterly Water Service and Contract Actions

Notice is hereby given of contractual actions that have been proposed to the Bureau of Reclamation (Reclamation) and are new, discontinued, or completed since the last publication of this notice. This notice is one of a variety of means used to inform the public about proposed contractual actions for capital recovery and management of project resources and facilities consistent with section 9(f) of the Reclamation Project Act of 1939. Additional announcements of individual contract actions may be published in the Federal Register and in newspapers of general circulation in the areas determined by Reclamation to be affected by the proposed action.

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Notice 8 Apr 2025 compliance, agriculture, regulation, financial services, cftc

📈CFTC Announces Compliance Reporting Requirements for Chief Compliance Officers

The Commodity Futures Trading Commission ("Commission" or "CFTC") is announcing an opportunity for public comment on the proposed renewal of a collection of certain information by the agency. Under the Paperwork Reduction Act ("PRA"), Federal agencies are required to publish notice in the Federal Register concerning each proposed collection of information, including each proposed extension of an existing collection of information, and to allow 60 days for public comment. This notice solicits comments on the collections of information mandated by Commission Regulation 3.3 (Chief Compliance Officer).

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