💰$12 Billion CDBG-DR Funds for Disaster Recovery Announced
This Allocation Announcement Notice announces $12,070,701,000 of Community Development Block Grant--Disaster Recovery (CDBG-DR) funds made available by the Disaster Relief Supplemental Appropriations Act, 2025, for major disasters occurring in 2023 or 2024. This Allocation Announcement Notice identifies grant requirements for these funds, including requirements in HUD's CDBG-DR Universal Notice ("Universal Notice") published in the Federal Register. The Universal Notice includes waivers and alternative requirements, relevant regulatory requirements, the grant award process, criteria for action plan approval, and eligible disaster recovery activities.
Learn More📋SBA Transfers Licensing Responsibilities for Small Business Investment
This document provides the public with notice that the Administrator of the Small Business Administration (SBA) has transferred the responsibilities previously assigned to the Agency Licensing Committee related to the licensing of Small Business Investment Companies and transferred those responsibilities to the Chief Financial Officer, Chief Operating Officer, and Chief of Staff through the Agency's internal clearance process.
Learn More🌍BLM Announces Environmental Impact Statement for Oil and Gas Leasing
The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) intends to prepare an Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) for approximately 3,224 oil and gas leases sold in Colorado, Montana, New Mexico, North Dakota, South Dakota, Utah, and Wyoming and issued pursuant to 74 individual lease sale decisions. The EIS will provide a comprehensive analysis of the potential environmental impacts from these leases, which have been remanded to BLM for further review, including the impacts of greenhouse gas emissions (to include the social cost of carbon) and other common impacts.
Learn More⚛️NRC Draft Guidance on Risk Assessment for Nuclear Construction Permits
The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) is soliciting public comment on its draft Interim Staff Guidance (ISG) "Content of Risk Assessment and Severe Accident Information in Light-Water Power Reactor Construction Permit Applications." This draft ISG clarifies the scope and depth of the NRC staff review of the content of risk assessment and severe accident information in a construction permit (CP) application for a light-water power reactor. The purpose of this draft ISG is to clarify existing guidance in NUREG-0800, "Standard Review Plan [SRP] for the Review of Safety Analysis Reports for Nuclear Power Plants: LWR Edition (NUREG-0800, formerly issued as NUREG-75 087)," ("the SRP"; Ref. 1).
Learn More⚖️Notice on Hazardous Materials Special Permits Actions by DOT
In accordance with the procedures governing the application for, and the processing of, special permits from the Department of Transportation's Hazardous Material Regulations, notice is hereby given that the Office of Hazardous Materials Safety has received the application described herein.
Learn More⚖️NTSB Civil Monetary Penalty Adjustments Effective January 2025
Pursuant to the Federal Civil Penalties Inflation Adjustment Act Improvements Act of 2015, this final rule provides the 2025 adjustment to the civil penalties that the agency may assess for violations of certain NTSB statutes and regulations.
Learn More🏡HUD Withdraws Proposed Fair Housing Rule – No New Compliance Required
This document informs the public that HUD has determined not to pursue the proposed rule published in the Federal Register on February 9, 2023, entitled "Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing". HUD will proceed to formally withdraw the rule from HUD's upcoming Spring 2025 Unified Agenda of Regulatory and Deregulatory Actions.
Learn More📊Mandatory Civil Rights Data Collection Notice by Department of Education
In accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act (PRA) of 1995, the Department is proposing a revision of a currently approved information collection request (ICR).
Learn More✈️Proposed Amendment of Class E Airspace at Beckley, WV
This action proposes to amend the Class E airspace at Beckley, WV. The FAA is proposing this action as the result of an airspace review conducted due to the decommissioning of the Beckley very high frequency omnidirectional range (VOR) as part of the VOR Minimum Operational Network (MON) Program. This action will bring the airspace into compliance with FAA orders and support instrument flight rule (IFR) procedures and operations.
Learn More🏛️NAGPRA Notice
In accordance with the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard University (PMAE) has completed an inventory of human remains and has determined that there is a cultural affiliation between the human remains and Indian Tribes or Native Hawaiian organizations in this notice. The human remains were collected at the U.S. Indian Vocational School, Bernalillo County, NM.
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