🚂Business Implications of Colorado Railroad Abandonment Notice
Colorado Pacific Rio Grande Railroad LLC has filed a notice for the exemption of abandonment for a 26.55-mile segment of its rail line in Rio Grande County. The application includes conditions regarding employee protections and opportunities for financial assistance for potential interested parties. Compliance with environmental and historical regulations is also addressed, with potential impacts for local businesses dependent on the rail service.
Learn More🏦SBA Tribal Consultation on Business Financial Assistance Programs
The U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) announces that it is holding a tribal consultation meeting in Wayland, Michigan requesting comments and input on all issues or concerns relating to any of SBA's programs. Specifically, SBA seeks comments on how best SBA can provide access for tribally-owned small businesses to SBA's various financial assistance programs under SBA's Office of Capital Access as well as its contracting, business counseling and technical assistance programs. SBA is requesting general comments and input on how these programs are working and is inviting suggestions on potential avenues for making the programs more efficient or reducing any unnecessary regulatory burden associated with the programs.
Learn More🌾Changes to ECAP Eligibility and Application Deadlines Announced
The Farm Service Agency (FSA) is issuing this notice to announce a change to ECAP related to subsequent acres of eligible commodities. It also announces the deadline to apply for an ECAP payment for the additional acres that are now eligible as a result of the change announced in this notice.
Learn More🏦PBGC Updates on Pension Plans and Premium Rates Compliance
The Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC) is making miscellaneous technical corrections, clarifications, and improvements to its regulations, including its regulations on premium rates, premium due dates, and termination of single-employer plans. These changes are a result of PBGC's ongoing retrospective review of the effectiveness and clarity of its rules and of statutory changes.
Learn More🏘️HUD Announces Major Funding Awards for Housing Initiatives
In accordance with section 102(a)(4)(C) of the Department of Housing and Urban Development Reform Act of 1989, this announcement notifies the public of funding decisions made by the Department in competitions for funding under the Notices of Funding Opportunity (NOFOs) and Notices for the following program(s): Fiscal Year 2023 Continuum of Care, FY23 Notice of Funding Opportunity for the Department's FY23 Homeownership Initiative Grant, FY23 Increasing the Supply of Affordable Housing through Off-Site Construction and Pro- Housing Reforms Research Grant Program, FY23 Comprehensive Housing Counseling, FY23 Choice Neighborhoods Implementation Grants, FY23 ICDBG-Single Purpose, FY23 ICDBG- Imminent Threat (IT) Grant, FY22 Resident Opportunity and Self-Sufficiency Service Coordinator Program (ROSS), and FY23 ROSS.
Learn More🌱Notice on Information Collection for Regional Agricultural Promotion Program
The Department of Agriculture published a notice regarding the submission of an information collection requirement for the Regional Agricultural Promotion Program, previously the Agricultural Trade Promotion Program. The program's purpose is to mitigate trade damages experienced by U.S. agricultural entities, facilitating their efforts in foreign market development. Comments on the collection are invited until September 2025.
Learn More📅SJI Board of Directors Meeting Notice on Grant Applications
The purpose of this meeting is to consider grant applications for the 4th quarter of FY 2025, and other business.
Learn More🎨Upcoming Arts Advisory Panel Meetings - Grant Opportunities
Pursuant to the Federal Advisory Committee Act, as amended, notice is hereby given that 1 meeting of the Arts Advisory Panel to the National Council on the Arts will be held by teleconference or videoconference.
Learn More🌾Notice for Extension of Information Collection on Rural Business Programs
In accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (44 U.S.C. Chapter 35), this notice announces RBCS, RHS, and RUS', agencies of the USDA Rural Development (RD) mission area, intention to request an extension to a currently approved information collection for the Strategic Economic and Community Development Program.
Learn More🌊Notice of Intent for Environmental Impact on New Mexico Watersheds
The Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) New Mexico State Office announces its intent to prepare a PEIS for the HPCC Burn Scar Project, in Mora, Colfax, Taos, Rio Arriba, Santa Fe, Guadalupe, and San Miguel Counties, New Mexico. The PEIS will examine alternative solutions to address flooding, sedimentation, erosion, water quality impairments, and agricultural water management on private lands due to loss of land cover and the overall burn severity of the HPCC fire. The project area is approximately 500 square miles and includes 33 Hydrologic Unit Code-12 watersheds within nine Hydrologic Unit Code-10 watersheds (nine watersheds). The primary purpose for the PEIS is to provide improvement to increase the flood resilience to protect the communities that have been affected by the HPCC fire and restore the project areas' function that is essential to healthy streams and clean water; healthy forest, soil, and ecosystem; and healthy flora and fauna on private lands and in conjunction with other restoration efforts on National Forest System (NFS) lands. NRCS is requesting comments to identify significant issues, potential alternatives, information, and analyses relevant to the Proposed Action from all interested individuals, Federal and State agencies, and Tribes and Pueblos.
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