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Compliance Requirements, Financial Impact 13 Jan 2025 regulations, environmental protection, government contracts, securities, administrative practice and procedure, reporting and recordkeeping requirements, mineral resources, penalties, investigations, environmental impact statements, oil and gas, oil pollution, civil penalties, surety bonds, boem, oil and gas exploration, department of the interior, pipelines, rights-of-way, sulfur, offshore, continental shelf

⚖️2025 Civil Penalties Adjustments for Offshore Energy Operations

This final rule implements the 2025 inflation adjustments to the maximum daily civil monetary penalties in the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management's (BOEM) regulations for violations of the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act (OCSLA) and the Oil Pollution Act of 1990 (OPA). These inflation adjustments are made pursuant to the Federal Civil Penalties Inflation Adjustment Act Improvements Act of 2015 (Improvements Act) and Office of Management and Budget (OMB) memorandum M-25-02. The 2025 adjustment multiplier of 1.02598 accounts for 1 year of inflation from October 2023 through October 2024.

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Regulatory Compliance, Business Efficiency 10 Jan 2025 regulatory compliance, electronic filing, administrative practice and procedure, claims, business efficiency, department of the interior

⚖️Regulatory Changes for Efficiency in Hearings and Appeals Process

The Office of Hearings and Appeals (OHA) will make comprehensive procedural changes to Federal regulations governing hearings and appeals proceedings before the Department of the Interior's administrative tribunals. We will modify and update our regulations located in title 43 of the Code of Federal Regulations in part 4 to: promote expeditious and meaningful review of administrative decisions; reflect changes in the law; reorganize and streamline procedures and retitle subparts to improve clarity to parties; consolidate redundant language; eliminate outdated procedures; and allow OHA to continue to modernize its practice and keep pace with technological and other advancements, including the establishment of a regulatory framework for an electronic filing and case docket management system.

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