Rule 15 Jul 2025 compliance, regulations, transportation, administrative practice and procedure, grant programs, reporting and recordkeeping requirements, intergovernmental relations, alcohol abuse, drug abuse, highway safety, grant programs-transportation

🚦Technical Amendments to Highway Safety Grant Procedures

This final rule makes technical amendments to the Uniform Procedures for State Highway Safety Grant Programs to remove references to rescinded Executive Orders.

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Notice 7 Jul 2025 compliance, information collection, grant programs, education, federal assistance

📚Comment Request for Impact Aid Program - Business Implications

In accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act (PRA) of 1995, the Department is proposing an extension without change of a currently approved information collection request (ICR).

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Rule 3 Jul 2025 environmental regulation, commerce, grant programs, business compliance, grant programs-housing and community development, nepa, technical assistance, community development, eda, grant programs-business

🏗️EDA Amends Environmental Regulation Affecting Grant Compliance

Through this final rule, the Economic Development Administration (EDA), U.S. Department of Commerce, is amending its environmental regulation. Amending this regulation is necessary to remove references to the Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ)'s National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) implementing regulations, which CEQ has rescinded, and to clarify EDA internal staffing of Environmental Officers.

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Rule 3 Jul 2025 compliance, agriculture, regulations, environmental protection, usda, administrative practice and procedure, grant programs, natural resources, environmental impact statements, housing, loan programs, nepa, environmental policy, science and technology, utilities, buildings and facilities, national forests, federal projects

🌱USDA Interim Final Rule on NEPA Regulations Revisions

This interim final rule modifies the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) regulations implementing the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) and removes various USDA agency regulations for implementing NEPA. USDA is taking this action in response to the Council on Environmental Quality's rescission of its NEPA implementing regulations (which USDA's NEPA regulations were designed to supplement), statutory changes to NEPA, executive orders, and case law. Comments are voluntarily requested on this action to inform USDA's decision-making.

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Rule 1 Jul 2025 compliance, government contracts, federal regulations, administrative practice and procedure, accounting, grant programs, reporting and recordkeeping requirements, colleges and universities, intergovernmental relations, grants, indians, labor department, loan programs, hospitals, nonprofit organizations, business owners

📄Removal of Obsolete Regulations on Federal Grants and Contracts

This DFR removes obsolete grant and contract regulations in the Department of Labor's regulations. These grant and contract regulations were superseded by the Office of Management and Budget's (OMB's) Guidance for Grants and Agreements, codified in the Code of Federal Regulations, which the Department of Labor adopted and gave regulatory effect to in 2014.

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Rule 12 Jun 2025 compliance, regulation, government contracts, consumer protection, administrative practice and procedure, grant programs, reporting and recordkeeping requirements, intergovernmental relations, penalties, claims, investigations, grant programs-housing and community development, mortgages, housing, loan programs-housing and community development, manufactured homes, fair housing, financial impact, fraud, urban development, civil penalties, loan programs, civil rights, hud, individuals with disabilities, aged, lobbying, government employees, mortgage insurance, warranties

💰2025 Adjustment of Civil Monetary Penalties by HUD

This rule provides for 2025 inflation adjustments of civil monetary penalty amounts required by the Federal Civil Penalties Inflation Adjustment Act of 1990, as amended by the Federal Civil Penalties Inflation Adjustment Act Improvements Act of 2015 (the 2015 Act). This rule also removes an obsolete regulation relating to the imposition of civil monetary penalties.

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Notice 11 Jun 2025 regulatory compliance, epa, grant programs, clean buses, diesel emission reduction, environmental policy

🚍EPA Releases Grant Program Reporting Templates for Comment

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has submitted an information collection request (ICR), Transportation and Climate Division Grant Program Reporting Templates: Supplemental Project Application Template and Project Reporting Templates for Diesel Emission Reduction Act, Clean School Bus, Clean Heavy Duty and Clean Ports Grant Programs (EPA ICR Number 2793.02, OMB Control Number 2060- 0754) to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for review and approval in accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act. This is a revision to an existing ICR, which is currently approved through April 30, 2027. Public comments were previously requested via the Federal Register on January 2, 2025 during a 60-day comment period. This notice allows for 30 days of public comments.

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Rule 3 Jun 2025 compliance, small business administration, regulations, government contracts, administrative practice and procedure, financial assistance, grant programs, reporting and recordkeeping requirements, penalties, claims, small businesses, fraud, civil penalties, loan programs, lobbying, investment companies, loan programs-business

💰Adjustment of Civil Monetary Penalties by SBA for 2025

The Small Business Administration (SBA) is amending its regulations to adjust for inflation the amount of certain civil monetary penalties that are within the jurisdiction of the agency. These adjustments comply with the requirement in the Federal Civil Penalties Inflation Adjustment Act of 1990, as amended by the Federal Civil Penalties Inflation Adjustment Act Improvements Act of 2015, to make annual adjustments to the penalties.

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Rule 12 May 2025 compliance, food assistance, agriculture, regulations, usda, grant programs, reporting and recordkeeping requirements, grant programs-social programs, intergovernmental relations, day care, grant programs-health, child care, infants and children, food assistance programs

🍽️Rescission of Obsolete Data Collection Requirements for CACFP

This rule rescinds an obsolete data collection requirement in regulations regarding the Child and Adult Care Food Program.

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Notice 28 Mar 2025 compliance, grant programs, federal assistance, funding opportunities, justice department, violence against women

🎟️DOJ Notice of Funding Opportunity for Violence Against Women Grants

The Department of Justice (DOJ), Office on Violence Against Women, will be submitting the following information collection request to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for review and approval in accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995.

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