Compliance, Regulatory Changes 17 Jan 2025 regulatory compliance, securities, banking, business and industry, electronic filing, administrative practice and procedure, reporting and recordkeeping requirements, business operations, aliens, inflation adjustment, penalties, law enforcement, investigations, small businesses, indians, authority delegations (government agencies), brokers, terrorism, banks, savings associations, investment companies, holding companies, indians-tribal government, indians-law, citizenship and naturalization, insurance companies, fincen, time, commodity futures, currency, financial penalties

⚖️FinCEN Final Rule

FinCEN is publishing this final rule to reflect inflation adjustments to its civil monetary penalties as mandated by the Federal Civil Penalties Inflation Adjustment Act of 1990, as amended. This rule adjusts certain maximum civil monetary penalties within the jurisdiction of FinCEN to the amounts required by that Act.

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Compliance, Financial Impact 16 Jan 2025 administrative practice and procedure, reporting and recordkeeping requirements, business compliance, colleges and universities, inflation adjustment, penalties, alaska, indians, civil penalties, public lands, indians-lands, historic preservation, nagpra, indians-law, hawaiian natives, human remains, cemeteries, treaties, indians-claims, museums, regulation updates, citizenship and naturalization

⚖️2025 Civil Penalties Adjustments for Businesses Under NAGPRA

This rule revises U.S. Department of the Interior (DOI) regulations implementing the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA) to provide for annual adjustments of civil penalties to account for inflation under the Federal Civil Penalties Inflation Adjustment Act Improvements Act of 2015 and Office of Management and Budget guidance. The purpose of these adjustments is to maintain the deterrent effect of civil penalties and to further the policy goals of the underlying statute. This rule also updates the mailing address for the NAGPRA Program.

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Regulatory Changes, Financial Assistance 6 Jan 2025 compliance, puerto rico, regulations, administrative practice and procedure, reporting and recordkeeping requirements, student aid, grant programs-education, grant programs-housing and community development, housing, loan programs-housing and community development, manufactured homes, low and moderate income housing, indians, federal funding, guam, rent subsidies, hud, tenant protections, northern mariana islands, individuals with disabilities, pacific islands trust territory, grant programs-indians, virgin islands, affordable housing, community development block grants, aged, homeless, public housing, american samoa

🏠HUD Updates HOME Investment Program Regulations for 2023

HUD's HOME Investment Partnerships Program (HOME program or HOME) provides formula grants to States and units of general local government to fund a wide range of activities to produce and maintain affordable rental and homeownership housing and provides tenant-based rental assistance for low-income and very low-income households. This final rule revises the current HOME regulations to update, simplify, or streamline requirements, better align the program with other Federal housing programs, and implement recent amendments to the HOME statute. This final rule also includes minor revisions to the regulations for the Community Development Block Grant and Section 8 Housing Choice Voucher Programs consistent with the implementation of the changes to the HOME program. This final rule follows the publication of a proposed rule on May 29, 2024, and takes into consideration the comments received in response to that proposed rule.

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Compliance, Regulatory Requirements 3 Jan 2025 radiation protection, indians, administrative practice and procedure, reporting and recordkeeping requirements, whistleblowing, compliance, security measures, spent fuel, nrc, magnastor, regulations, hazardous waste, penalties, nuclear energy, intergovernmental relations

⚛️NRC Issues Updates on Spent Fuel Storage Regulations and Compliance

The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) is amending its spent fuel storage regulations by revising the NAC International, Inc. MAGNASTOR[supreg] Storage System listing within the "List of approved spent fuel storage casks" to include Amendment No. 14 and revisions to Amendment Nos. 0 through 13 to Certificate of Compliance No. 1031. Amendment No. 14 and revisions to Amendment Nos. 0 through 13 revise the certificate of compliance to add a revised method of evaluation for the non-mechanistic tipover accident, clarify in the technical specifications that damaged missing grid spacers only apply to pressurized-water reactor fuel assembles, clarify inlet and outlet vent blockage and surveillance requirements in limiting condition for operation 3.1.2 in Appendix A to the certificate of compliance and associated technical specification bases, and remove the reference to Type II Portland cement in the description of the certificate of compliance. The NRC is also correcting typographical errors in Revision 1 to Amendment Nos. 11 to 13 and Amendment No. 14 to Certificate of Compliance No. 1031.

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