Financial Assistance, Compliance, Economic Development 16 Jan 2025 compliance, financial assistance, disaster recovery, hud, business grants, cdbg-dr, economic revitalization

💰$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.

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Compliance, Financial Assistance 16 Jan 2025 compliance, veterans, administrative practice and procedure, financial assistance, reporting and recordkeeping requirements, employment, loan programs-education, colleges and universities, grant programs-education, vocational education, education, claims, health care, conflict of interests, civil rights, travel and transportation expenses, armed forces, grant programs-veterans, loan programs-veterans, va regulations, manpower training programs, defense department, schools

🎓Post-9/11 VA Educational Assistance Regulations Overview

The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) is amending its regulations that govern VA's administration of educational assistance programs to implement the provisions of the Post-9/11 Veterans Educational Assistance Improvements Act of 2010, which modified the manner in which payments of educational assistance are determined and expanded the types of programs students may pursue under the Post-9/11 GI Bill; section 1002 of the Supplemental Appropriations Act, 2009, which authorized the "Marine Gunnery Sergeant John David Fry Scholarship;" and a select number of provisions of the Harry W. Colmery Veterans Educational Assistance Act of 2017.

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Financial Assistance Programs, Compliance Requirements 16 Jan 2025 environmental protection, epa, business regulation, financial assistance, reporting requirements

💼EPA's Environmental Justice Reporting Requirements for Businesses

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has submitted an information collection request (ICR), Environmental Justice CPS and G2G Programs: Progress and Final Reporting Information Collections (EPA ICR Number 2807.01, OMB Control Number 2035-NEW) to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for review and approval in accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act. This is a request for approval of a new collection. Public comments were previously requested via the Federal Register on February 21, 2024 during a 60-day comment period. This notice allows for an additional 30 days for public comments.

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Regulation, Compliance, Financial Assistance 16 Jan 2025 regulation, transportation, financial assistance, business compliance, federal railroad administration, emergency relief

🚂FRA Announces Emergency Relief Docket for 2025 Business Impact

This Notice announces the establishment of FRA's emergency relief docket (ERD) for calendar year 2025. The designated ERD for calendar year 2025 is docket number FRA-2025-0015.

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Financial Assistance, Compliance, Grant Opportunities 16 Jan 2025 compliance, environmental protection, epa, financial assistance, grant opportunities, climate justice

🌱EPA's Climate Justice Grant Program

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has submitted an information collection request (ICR), Environmental and Climate Justice Community Change Grant Program: Post-Award Reporting (EPA ICR Number 7781.01, OMB Control Number 2035-NEW) to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for review and approval in accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act. This is a request for approval of a new collection. Public comments were previously requested via the Federal Register on August 6, 2024 during a 60-day comment period. This notice allows for an additional 30 days for public comments.

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Financial Assistance, Compliance Requirements, Insurance 15 Jan 2025 compliance, financial assistance, flood insurance, fema, emergency management, private insurers

🌊FY 2026 Financial Assistance for National Flood Insurance

The Federal Emergency Management Agency announces the Fiscal Year 2026 Financial Assistance/Subsidy Arrangement for private property insurers interested in participating in the National Flood Insurance Program's Write Your Own Program.

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Grant Opportunities, Professional Events 15 Jan 2025 financial assistance, grants, meetings, national endowment for the arts, arts education, arts advisory panel

🎭National Endowment for the Arts Advisory Panel Meeting Notice

Pursuant to the Federal Advisory Committee Act, as amended, notice is hereby given that 4 meetings of the Arts Advisory Panel to the National Council on the Arts will be held by teleconference or videoconference.

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Regulatory Changes, Financial Assistance 15 Jan 2025 administrative practice and procedure, financial assistance, reporting and recordkeeping requirements, student aid, loan programs-education, colleges and universities, vocational education, education, business impact, department of education, federal student loans, income-contingent repayment

🎓Income-Contingent Repayment Plan Changes

The Department of Education (Department) adopts as final, without changes, the interim final rule published in the Federal Register on November 15, 2024. This final rule amends the regulations governing income-contingent repayment plans available to Federal student loan borrowers to satisfy the Department's statutory obligation under the Higher Education Act of 1965, as amended, (HEA) to offer borrowers access to an income-contingent repayment plan. The scope of this rule is narrow. It revises the last date for most borrowers to enroll in the Income-Contingent Repayment or Pay As You Earn plans from July 1, 2024, to July 1, 2027. Changing the eligibility restrictions that went into effect on July 1, 2024, to July 1, 2027, allows the Department to meet its statutory obligations while it undertakes the necessary administrative changes to make its repayment plans compliant with the terms of an injunction pending appeal from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit (Eighth Circuit).

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Regulatory Compliance, Economic Development, Employee Relations 14 Jan 2025 regulatory compliance, financial assistance, environmental assessment, railroad abandonment, employee protection, lewis county
Regulatory Compliance, Economic Development 14 Jan 2025 regulatory compliance, environmental impact, financial assistance, surface transportation, new york, rail abandonment