🌧️California EIDL Declaration Offers Financial Assistance to Businesses
This is a notice of an Economic Injury Disaster Loan (EIDL) declaration for the State of California dated February 13, 2025. Incident: 2024 Coastal Storm and High Surf Event.
Learn More🎨NEH Announces Upcoming Meetings for Grant Review and Funding Opportunities
The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) will hold thirty-four meetings, by video conference, of the Humanities Panel, a federal advisory committee, during March 2025. The purpose of the meetings is for panel review, discussion, evaluation, and recommendation of applications for financial assistance under the National Foundation on the Arts and the Humanities Act of 1965.
Learn More🚂Implications of Arkansas Louisiana Railroad Service Discontinuation
The Surface Transportation Board has approved the Arkansas Louisiana & Mississippi Railroad Co.'s request to discontinue rail service over a 9.32-mile line in Morehouse Parish, Louisiana. The decision follows the lease expiration with Union Pacific Railroad and could affect local and overhead rail traffic. Protections for adversely affected employees have also been established.
Learn More🌧️SBA Disaster Assistance Loan Amendments for Puerto Rico Businesses
This is an amendment of the Presidential declaration of a major disaster for Public Assistance Only for the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico (FEMA-4850-DR), dated November 27, 2024. Incident: Tropical Storm Ernesto.
Learn More💰Louisiana Economic Injury Disaster Loan Declaration for 2025
This is a notice of an Economic Injury Disaster Loan (EIDL) declaration for the State of Louisiana dated February 5, 2025. Incident: January 2025 Winter Storm.
Learn More🏢SBA Amends Disaster Declaration for North Carolina Businesses
This is an amendment of the Presidential declaration of a major disaster for the State of North Carolina (FEMA-4827-DR), dated September 28, 2024. Incident: Tropical Storm Helene. Incident Period: September 25, 2024, through December 28, 2024.
Learn More🏗️EDA Seeks Comments on Construction Investment Requirements
The Department of Commerce is soliciting public comments regarding the information collection requirements for the Economic Development Administration's construction investments necessary for supporting essential public infrastructure. This feedback period aims to evaluate the effectiveness of these requirements in facilitating economic development and capital attraction, particularly through the Public Works and Economic Adjustment Assistance Programs.
Learn More⚡NRC Draft Assessment for Palisades Nuclear Plant Operations Restart
The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) is issuing for public comment a draft environmental assessment (EA) and draft finding of no significant impact (FONSI) evaluating the environmental impacts from proposed Federal actions related to reauthorizing power operations at the Palisades Nuclear Plant (Palisades). Specifically, the NRC is considering an exemption request, a license transfer request, and license amendment requests (LARs) to support reauthorizing power operation under the NRC license. The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), Loan Programs Office (LPO), is a cooperating agency on the draft EA. DOE LPO's proposed action is to provide Federal financial support (a loan guarantee) for refueling and resumption of power generation activities at Palisades.
Learn More🌪️Texas Disaster Declaration
This is a notice of an Administrative declaration of a disaster for the State of Texas dated January 16, 2025. Incident: Severe Storm, Tornadoes, and Straight-line Winds.
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