🎓Application Process for FY 2025 Grants and Waivers
The Department of Education (Department) announces the process for the designation of eligible institutions and invites applications for waivers of eligibility requirements for fiscal year (FY) 2025, for the programs listed in the SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION section of this notice.
Learn More💰NRC Proposed Fee Schedules and Recovery for FY 2025
The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) is proposing to amend the licensing, inspection, special project, and annual fees charged to its applicants and licensees. The proposed amendments are necessary to comply with the Nuclear Energy Innovation and Modernization Act, which requires the NRC to recover, to the maximum extent practicable, approximately 100 percent of its annual budget less certain amounts excluded from this fee recovery requirement. In addition, the NRC is proposing amendments to implement a reduced hourly rate for advanced nuclear reactor applicants and pre-applicants for certain activities as required by the Accelerating Deployment of Versatile, Advanced Nuclear for Clean Energy Act of 2024.
Learn More📜USPTO Patent Fees Adjustments Effective January 2025
The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) is correcting several minor typographical and other nonsubstantive inadvertent errors in the preamble and amendatory instructions to a final rule that appeared in the Federal Register on November 20, 2024. That final rule set or adjusted patent fees as authorized by the Leahy- Smith America Invents Act (AIA), as amended by the Study of Underrepresented Classes Chasing Engineering and Science Success Act of 2018 (SUCCESS Act). These corrections do not result in any substantive changes to the final rule.
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