Compliance, Regulatory Affairs, Professional Events 21 Jan 2025 business compliance, advisory board, cdc, radiation health, niosh

⚖️Meeting Notice for Advisory Board on Radiation and Worker Health

In accordance with the Federal Advisory Committee Act, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) announces the following meeting of the Advisory Board on Radiation and Worker Health (ABRWH or the Advisory Board). This meeting is open to the public, but without a public comment period. The public is welcome to submit written comments in advance of the meeting, to the contact person listed in the Addresses section below. Written comments received in advance of the meeting will be included in the official record of the meeting. The public is also welcome to listen to the meeting by joining the teleconference (information below), limited only by the number of audio conference lines available (150).

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Compliance, Trade Regulations 21 Jan 2025 imports, administrative practice and procedure, reporting and recordkeeping requirements, business compliance, trade regulations, tariffs, freight, exports, trade agreements, bonds, low-value shipments, customs

📦New Rules on Low-Value Shipments Affecting Trade Compliance

This document proposes amendments to the U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) regulations pertaining to the administrative exemption for certain low-value shipments not exceeding $800. Specifically, CBP proposes to make merchandise that is subject to specified trade or national security actions ineligible for this administrative exemption and to require that certain shipments claiming this exemption provide the 10-digit Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States (HTSUS) classification of the merchandise.

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Compliance Requirements, Regulatory Changes 21 Jan 2025 environmental regulation, environmental protection, epa, reporting and recordkeeping requirements, incorporation by reference, business compliance, intergovernmental relations, ozone, air pollution control, ohio, volatile organic compounds, air quality, nitrogen dioxide, particulate matter, clean air act, lead, sulfur oxides, carbon monoxide

🌍EPA Reinstates Ohio Air Nuisance Rule

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is taking final action to correct a November 19, 2020, rulemaking removing the Air Nuisance Rule (ANR) from the Ohio State Implementation Plan (SIP). This action is in response to a February 10, 2023, decision by the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit (Sixth Circuit or Court) to remand without vacatur EPA's removal of the ANR from the Ohio SIP. Because the Court did not vacate EPA's removal of the ANR, the ANR is currently not in Ohio's SIP. After reevaluating EPA's November 19, 2020, rulemaking, upon remand, EPA proposed to determine that its November 2020 final action was in error, and to correct that action by reinstating the ANR as part of the Ohio SIP. EPA proposed to take this action on February 22, 2024 and received both supportive and adverse comments. EPA is finalizing this action as proposed, and upon the effective date of this action, the ANR will be reinstated into the Ohio SIP.

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Regulatory Compliance, Operational Efficiency 21 Jan 2025 business compliance, nuclear regulatory commission, amendments, operating efficiency, facility operating licenses

⚛️NRC Regulatory Notice on Facility Operating License Amendments

Pursuant to section 189a.(2) of the Atomic Energy Act of 1954, as amended (the Act), the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) is publishing this regular monthly notice. The Act requires the Commission to publish notice of any amendments issued, or proposed to be issued, and grants the Commission the authority to issue and make immediately effective any amendment to an operating license or combined license, as applicable, upon a determination by the Commission that such amendment involves no significant hazards consideration (NSHC), notwithstanding the pendency before the Commission of a request for a hearing from any person.

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Compliance, Financial Impact 21 Jan 2025 regulation, cboe, business compliance, securities exchange, fee amendment
Compliance, Regulatory Requirements 21 Jan 2025 epa, business compliance, environmental regulations, delaware river, clean water act

🏞️Proposed Consent Decree on Clean Water Act by EPA Impacting Businesses

In accordance with the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator's March 18, 2022, memorandum regarding "Consent Decrees and Settlement Agreements to resolve Environmental Claims Against the Agency," notice is hereby given of a proposed consent decree in Delaware Riverkeeper Network et al. v. U.S. EPA et al., Docket No. 2:24-cv-05308 (E.D. Pa.). On October 2, 2024, Delaware Riverkeeper Network and Maya K. van Rossum, the Delaware Riverkeeper, filed a complaint in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. The complaint alleges that: the EPA failed to comply with its mandatory duty under the Clean Water Act (CWA) to promulgate revised water quality standards to protect aquatic life in the Delaware River within 90 days of proposal; and the EPA's failure to promulgate revised water quality standards is an unreasonable delay under the Administrative Procedure Act. The EPA seeks public input on a proposed consent decree prior to its final decision-making with regard to potential settlement of the litigation.

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Compliance, Economic Impact, Regulatory Changes 21 Jan 2025 agriculture, administrative practice and procedure, wildlife, reporting and recordkeeping requirements, business compliance, alaska, interior department, public lands, fish, wildlife regulations, subsistence management, national forests, hunting

🦌Implications of Alaska's Subsistence Management Regulations 2026

This proposed rule would establish regulations for hunting and trapping seasons, harvest limits, and methods and means related to taking of wildlife for subsistence uses during the 2026-27 and 2027-28 regulatory years. The Federal Subsistence Board (hereafter referred to as "the Board") is on a schedule of completing the process of revising subsistence taking of wildlife regulations in even-numbered years and subsistence taking of fish and shellfish regulations in odd- numbered years; public proposal and review processes take place during the preceding year. The Board also addresses customary and traditional use determinations during the applicable cycle. When final, the resulting rulemaking will replace the existing subsistence wildlife taking regulations. This proposed rule could also amend the general regulations on subsistence taking of fish and wildlife.

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Regulatory Compliance, Environmental Standards 21 Jan 2025 environmental regulation, environmental protection, epa, reporting and recordkeeping requirements, incorporation by reference, business compliance, clean water act, water pollution control, npdestesting

🚧EPA's Proposed Clean Water Act Methods

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is proposing to promulgate new methods and update the tables of approved methods for the Clean Water Act. The Clean Water Act requires the EPA to promulgate test procedures for the analysis of pollutants. Promulgating new methods and updating the tables of approved methods increases the quality and consistency of data collected for the purposes of the Clean Water Act. In this rule, the EPA proposes to add new EPA methods for per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) and polychlorinated biphenyl (PCB) congeners, and add methods previously published by voluntary consensus bodies that industries and municipalities would use for reporting under the EPA's National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System permit program. The EPA also proposes to withdraw the seven Aroclor (PCB mixtures) parameters. In addition, the EPA is proposing to simplify the sampling requirements for two volatile organic compounds, and make a series of minor corrections to existing tables of approved methods. This proposed rule does not mandate when a parameter must be monitored or establish a discharge limit.

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Compliance, Regulatory Requirement, Business Impact 21 Jan 2025 pennsylvania, business compliance, susquehanna river basin commission, consumptive use, water regulation, approvals

💧Approved Water Use Projects by Susquehanna River Basin Commission

This notice lists Approvals by Rule for projects by the Susquehanna River Basin Commission during the period set forth in DATES.

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Compliance, Regulatory Requirements 17 Jan 2025 environmental regulation, information collection, epa, tsca, business compliance, chemical management

🏭EPA Notice on Chemical Risk Evaluation and Public Comment Requested

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has submitted an information collection request (ICR), TSCA Existing Chemical Risk Evaluation and Management; Generic ICR for Interview and Focus Groups, (EPA ICR Number 2584.03 and OMB Control Number 2070-0219) to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for review and approval in accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act. This is a proposed extension of the ICR, which is currently approved through February 28, 2025. Public comments were previously requested via the Federal Register on May 15, 2024. This notice allows for an additional 30 days for public comments.

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