Compliance, Regulatory Requirements 13 Jan 2025 compliance, information collection, business regulation, department of justice, gambling

🎰DOJ Seeks Comments on Gambling Devices Registration Compliance

The Criminal Division, Department of Justice (DOJ), will be submitting the following information collection request to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for review and approval in accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995.

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Regulatory Approval, Employment Initiatives 10 Jan 2025 business regulation, transportation, texas, north carolina, acquisition, charter services, employee impact

🚍Avalon Motor Coaches Tentatively Approved for Key Acquisition

On December 11, 2024, Avalon Motor Coaches, LLC (Avalon Motor Coach), an interstate passenger motor carrier, together with its noncarrier affiliates Virgin-Fish, Inc. (Virgin-Fish), and Jeffrey Brush (Avalon Motor Coach, Virgin-Fish, and Jeffrey Brush will be collectively referred to as "Avalon") filed an application for Avalon to purchase most of the assets of another interstate passenger motor carrier, Rose Chauffeured Transportation, Inc. (Rose), and assume substantially all of its outstanding contracts related to its charter services. The Board is tentatively approving and authorizing this transaction. If no opposing comments are timely filed, this notice will be the final Board action.

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Compliance, Financial Reporting 10 Jan 2025 compliance, business regulation, public comment, postal service, annual report

📜2024 Postal Regulatory Commission Annual Compliance Report Summary

The Postal Service has filed an Annual Compliance Report on the costs, revenues, rates, and quality of service associated with its products in fiscal year 2024. Within 90 days, the Commission must evaluate that information and issue its determination as to whether rates were compliant and whether service standards in effect were met. To assist in this, the Commission seeks public comments on the Postal Service's Annual Compliance Report.

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Regulatory Compliance, Trade Impact, Environmental Policy 10 Jan 2025 trade, business regulation, transportation, imports, wildlife, reporting and recordkeeping requirements, injurious wildlife, freshwater mussels, crayfish, fish

🐠Proposed Rule on Injurious Wildlife Affecting Trade and Business

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (Service) proposes to add all species of freshwater mussels from two genera, Asian pond mussels (Sinanodonta species) and golden mussels (Limnoperna species), to the list of injurious mollusks. Additionally, the Service proposes to add marbled crayfish (Procambarus virginalis) to the list of injurious crustaceans. Listing these taxa as injurious will prohibit the importation of any live animal, larvae, viable egg, or hybrid of these taxa into the United States, except as specifically authorized. These listings would also prohibit shipment of any live animal, larvae, viable egg, or hybrid of these species between the continental United States, District of Columbia, Hawaii, Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, or any territory or possession of the United States, except as specifically authorized. The action is necessary to protect wildlife and wildlife resources by preventing the introduction and subsequent establishment of these foreign aquatic invertebrates into ecosystems of the United States.

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Compliance, Economic Development, Regulatory 10 Jan 2025 environmental impact, energy, business regulation, los alamos, nuclear security

🔍Draft SWEIS for LOS Alamos

The National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA), a semi- autonomous agency within the Department of Energy (DOE), announces the availability of the Draft Site-Wide Environmental Impact Statement for Continued Operation of the Los Alamos National Laboratory (Draft LANL SWEIS) (DOE/EIS-0552) in compliance with the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 (NEPA). NNSA also is announcing a 60-day public comment period and four public hearings to receive comments on the Draft LANL SWEIS. NNSA prepared the Draft LANL SWEIS to analyze the potential environmental impacts associated with continuing LANL operations and foreseeable new and/or modified operations and facilities for approximately the next 15 years.

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Regulatory Requirements, Financial Reporting 10 Jan 2025 business regulation, railroad, financial implications, surface transportation, cost of capital

🚂Analysis of Railroad Cost of Capital Regulations for 2024

The Board is instituting a proceeding to determine the railroad industry's cost of capital for 2024. The decision solicits comments on the following issues: the railroads' 2024 current cost of debt capital, the railroads' 2024 current cost of preferred equity capital (if any), the railroads' 2024 cost of common equity capital, and the 2024 capital structure mix of the railroad industry on a market value basis.

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Regulatory Compliance, Public Health Strategy 10 Jan 2025 business regulation, fda, health, food safety, public health, antimicrobial resistance

🏥FDA Seeks Comments for NARMS 2026-2030 Strategic Plan

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA, we, or Agency) is soliciting comments from the public regarding the National Antimicrobial Resistance Monitoring System (NARMS) 2026-2030 Strategic Plan. Comments received will help inform the development of a draft 2026-2030 Strategic Plan, to be discussed at a public meeting in spring 2025. Specific questions and information requests are included in this notice to help guide input from interested parties.

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Compliance, Regulatory Requirements 8 Jan 2025 compliance, business regulation, penalties, erisa, pension, pbgc

⚖️PBGC Announces Civil Penalty Adjustments for 2025 Compliance

The Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation is required to amend its regulations annually to adjust for inflation the maximum civil penalty for failure to provide certain notices or other material information and for failure to provide certain multiemployer plan notices.

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Compliance, Regulatory Requirements 7 Jan 2025 agriculture, epa, business regulation, environmental compliance, pesticide registration

🌱EPA Notice

EPA has received applications to register new uses for pesticide products containing currently registered active ingredients. Pursuant to the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA), EPA is hereby providing notice of receipt and opportunity to comment on these applications.

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Compliance, Regulatory, Defense 7 Jan 2025 compliance, china, business regulation, defense, national security, military

⚔️Notice of Chinese Military Companies and Its Business Implications

The Deputy Secretary of Defense has determined that the entities listed in the SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION section of this notice qualify as "Chinese military companies" in accordance with the William M. (Mac) Thornberry National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2021.

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