Rule 5 Jun 2025 regulations, reporting and recordkeeping requirements, security measures, harbors, coast guard, waterways, marine safety, navigation (water), safety zone, florida, bridge construction

🚧Temporary Safety Zone Regulations for Big Carlos Pass Bridge

The Coast Guard is establishing a temporary safety zone for navigable waters within a 150-yard radius of the Big Carlos Pass Bridge. The safety zone is needed to protect personnel, vessels, and the marine environment from potential hazards created by construction work on the bridge. Entry of vessels or persons into this zone is prohibited unless specifically authorized by the Captain of the Port Sector St. Petersburg or a designated representative.

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Rule 5 Jun 2025 environmental regulation, environmental protection, reporting and recordkeeping requirements, incorporation by reference, business compliance, intergovernmental relations, air pollution control, volatile organic compounds, air quality, nitrogen dioxide, particulate matter, clean air act, sulfur oxides, carbon monoxide, florida, visibility impairment

🌫️Florida Haze Plan Approval & Business Compliance Implications

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is approving a regional haze State Implementation Plan (SIP) revision submitted by the Florida Department of Environmental Protection (FDEP) on October 8, 2021, and supplemented on June 14, 2024, and October 28, 2024, as satisfying applicable requirements under the Clean Air Act ("CAA" or "Act") and EPA's Regional Haze Rule (RHR) for the program's second planning period. Florida's SIP submissions were submitted to address the requirement that states must periodically revise their long-term strategies for making reasonable progress toward the national goal of preventing any future, and remedying any existing, anthropogenic impairment of visibility, including regional haze, in mandatory Class I Federal areas (hereinafter referred to as "Class I areas"). These SIP submissions also address other applicable requirements for the second planning period of the regional haze program. EPA is taking this action pursuant to sections 110 and 169A of the Act.

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Notice 4 Jun 2025 regulatory compliance, native american, florida, nagpra, cultural heritage, museums

🏛️Notice of Inventory Completion for University of Florida Museum

In accordance with the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), the University of Florida, Florida Museum of Natural History (FLMNH) has completed an inventory of human remains and has determined that there is a cultural affiliation between the human remains and Indian Tribes or Native Hawaiian organizations in this notice.

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Notice 3 Jun 2025 compliance, native american, florida, repatriation, cultural heritage, nps

⚰️Notice of Inventory Completion and Repatriation of Remains

In accordance with the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), the University of Florida, Florida Museum of Natural History (FLMNH) has completed an inventory of human remains and associated funerary objects and has determined that there is a cultural affiliation between the human remains and associated funerary objects and Indian Tribes or Native Hawaiian organizations in this notice.

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Notice 3 Jun 2025 regulatory compliance, native american, florida, nagpra, cultural heritage, archaeology, museums

🏺Notice of Inventory Completion Under NAGPRA by University of Florida

In accordance with the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), the University of Florida, Florida Museum of Natural History (FLMNH) has completed an inventory of human remains and associated funerary objects and has determined that there is a cultural affiliation between the human remains and associated funerary objects and Indian Tribes or Native Hawaiian organizations in this notice.

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Rule 3 Jun 2025 aviation, incorporation by reference, business operations, safety compliance, airspace, navigation (air), airspace regulation, florida

✈️FAA Amends Class D Airspace in Jupiter, FL for Business Safety

This action amends Class D airspace extending upward from the surface to and including 2,500 feet MSL within a 4.5-mile radius of William P. Gwinn Airport, beginning at the 205[deg] bearing from the airport clockwise to the 145[deg] bearing, thence to the beginning point. Controlled airspace is necessary for the safety and management of instrument flight rules (IFR) operations at this airport.

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Rule 19 May 2025 transportation, maritime regulation, coast guard, drawbridge, bridges, florida

🌉Temporary Rule for Drawbridge Operations on Okeechobee Waterway

The Coast Guard is extending the effective period for the temporarily modified operating schedule that governs the Florida East Coast Railroad Bridge, across the Okeechobee Waterway, mile 7.41, at Stuart, FL. This action allows for continuity in drawbridge operations while the Coast Guard evaluates documentation received for a request to permanently change the operating regulation. This temporary rule will be in place until September 30, 2025.

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Notice 15 May 2025 transportation, infrastructure, florida, federal actions, truck parking

🚛Notice of Final Federal Agency Actions on Truck Parking Project

The FHWA, on behalf of the Florida Department of Transportation (FDOT), is issuing this notice to announce actions taken by FDOT and other Federal agencies that are final agency actions. These actions relate to the proposed Truck Parking--Central Florida Corridor: Orange County Site (Financial Management Number 446445-3) the Orange County Site is located on the northeast corner of Sand Lake Road and John Young Parkway, immediately west of and adjacent to Florida's Turnpike, approximately 2.90 miles east of Interstate 4 (I-4). The site will supply approximately 93 truck parking spaces and a centralized restroom building with restroom facilities, and an office for security staff. The recommended site will provide needed truck parking facilities to address existing truck parking deficiencies and accommodate future truck parking demand within or near the I-4 corridor.

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Rule 12 May 2025 regulations, reporting and recordkeeping requirements, security measures, harbors, maritime, coast guard, waterways, marine safety, navigation (water), safety zone, florida, events, cocoa beach

🚤Temporary Safety Zone Regulations for Cocoa Beach Powerboat Event

The Coast Guard is establishing a temporary safety zone for certain waters of the Atlantic Ocean near Cocoa Beach, Florida. This safety zone is needed to protect personnel, vessels, and the marine environment from potential hazards associated with the Thunder on Cocoa Beach powerboat racing event. Entry of vessels or persons into this zone is prohibited unless specifically authorized by the Captain of the Port Jacksonville or a designated representative.

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Notice 12 May 2025 public meeting, civil rights, florida, voting rights, u.s. commission on civil rights

🗳️Public Meeting Notice for Florida Advisory Committee on Civil Rights

Notice is hereby given, pursuant to the provisions of the rules and regulations of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights (Commission) and the Federal Advisory Committee Act, that the Florida Advisory Committee (Committee) to the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights will hold a public meeting via Zoom at 3 p.m. eastern time (ET) on Monday, May 19, 2025. The purpose of the meeting is to discuss the Committee's project, "Voting Rights and Emergency Preparedness in Florida".

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