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⚖️Notice of Inventory Completion Under NAGPRA for Northwestern University

In accordance with the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), Northwestern University has completed an inventory of human remains and associated funerary objects and has determined that there is a cultural affiliation between the human remains and associated funerary objects and Indian Tribes or Native Hawaiian organizations in this notice.

📚Notice on Best Interest Determination for Prison Education Program

In accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act (PRA) of 1995, the Department is proposing a new information collection request (ICR).

📄Regulatory Notice on Railroad Retirement Annuity Applications and Compliance

🏛️Proposed Collection on Appraisal Management Companies Regulations

In accordance with the requirements of the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (PRA), the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA or the Agency) is seeking public comments concerning an information collection called the "Minimum Requirements for Appraisal Management Companies," which has been assigned control number 2590-0013 by the Office of Management and Budget (OMB). FHFA intends to submit the information collection to OMB for review and approval of a three-year extension of the control number, which is due to expire on March 31, 2025.

💼DoD Adjusts Civil Monetary Penalties for Inflation

The DoD is issuing this final rule to adjust each of its statutory civil monetary penalties (CMP) to account for inflation. The Federal Civil Penalties Inflation Adjustment Act of 1990, as amended by the Debt Collection Improvement Act of 1996 and the Federal Civil Penalties Inflation Adjustment Act Improvements Act of 2015 (the 2015 Act), requires the head of each agency to adjust for inflation its CMP levels in effect as of November 2, 2015, under a revised methodology that was effective for 2016 and for each year thereafter.

🌱CEQ Updates Regulations for Environmental Quality Management Fund

The Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ) is amending its Office of Environmental Quality Management Fund regulations to clarify their meaning, modernize them to reflect developments in CEQ's practices in administering the Office of Environmental Quality Management Fund (the Management Fund) since CEQ first adopted its regulations, and make administrative changes.

💧EPA Draft Water Quality Criteria Correction for PFAS Substances

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is making a correction to a notice that appeared in the Federal Register on December 26, 2024. The notice of availability contained an incorrect value in Table 1, which is corrected below.

🌍EPA Seeks Comments on U.S. Greenhouse Gas Emissions Report

The Draft Inventory of U.S. Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Sinks: 1990-2023 report is available for public review. Sectoral chapters within the report and cross-cutting summary and trends chapters will be posted to the identified docket on a rolling basis between January 15 and February 13, 2025. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) requests recommendations for improving the overall quality of the inventory report to be finalized in April 2025, as well as subsequent inventory reports.

📜NARA Information Collection Activities

We have submitted a request to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for approval to continue to use three currently approved information collections. People use the first information collection to request permission to film, photograph, or videotape at a NARA facility for news purposes. People use the second information collection to request permission to use NARA facilities for events in the Washington, DC, area, at a Federal records center, or at a Presidential library. People use the third information collection to request their name be placed on a list of independent researchers who perform freelance research for hire in the Washington, DC, area. We invite you to comment on the proposed information collections.

🐟South Atlantic Fishery Management Council Public Meeting Notice

The South Atlantic Fishery Management Council (Council) will hold a meeting of the Ad Hoc For-Hire Reporting Advisory Panel in January.