🌍Rescission of Geothermal Production Incentives
This direct final rule rescinds Bureau of Land Management (BLM) regulations that address production incentives for geothermal leases.
Learn More🚧Rescission of Oil Shale Placer Mining Fees Regulation
This direct final rule rescinds the Bureau of Land Management's (BLM) regulations that address the payment of annual maintenance fees for oil shale placer mining claims under the U.S. mining laws.
Learn More🌍Rescission of Geothermal Lease Regulations by the Department of the Interior
This direct final rule rescinds a portion of the Bureau of Land Management's (BLM) regulations that address geothermal resource leasing.
Learn More🌾New EPA Regulation on Cypermethrin Tolerances for Durian
This regulation establishes a tolerance action for residues of cypermethrin (CASRN 52315-07-8) in or on the food and feed commodities of durian. Under the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (FFDCA), the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) submitted a petition to EPA requesting that EPA establish a maximum permissible level for residues of this pesticide on in or on the identified commodity(ies).
Learn More🏥Proposed Changes to Medicare Outpatient Payment Regulations
This proposed rule would revise the Medicare Hospital Outpatient Prospective Payment System (OPPS) and the Medicare Ambulatory Surgical Center (ASC) payment system for calendar year 2026 based on our continuing experience with these systems. We also describe the changes to the amounts and factors used to determine the payment rates for Medicare services paid under the OPPS and those paid under the ASC payment systems. This proposed rule would also update and refine the requirements for the Hospital Outpatient Quality Reporting Program, Rural Emergency Hospital Quality Reporting Program, Ambulatory Surgical Center Quality Reporting Program, Overall Hospital Quality Star Rating, and hospitals to make public their standard charge information and enforcement of hospital price transparency. This rule also contains requests for information on measure concepts regarding Well-Being and Nutrition for consideration in future years for all three programs (OQR, REHQR, and ASCQR; expanding the method to control for unnecessary increases in the volume of covered OPD services to on- campus clinic visits; software as a service; and adjusting payment under the OPPS for services predominately performed in the ambulatory surgical center or physician office settings.
Learn More⚒️Rescission of Solid Minerals Leasing Regulations
This direct final rule rescinds portions of the Bureau of Land Management's (BLM) regulations that address the Leasing of Solid Minerals Other Than Coal and Oil Shale--Areas Available for Leasing and Hardrock Mineral Development Contracts; Processing and Milling Arrangements.
Learn More🌍Rescission of Geothermal Lease Regulations and Business Implications
This direct final rule rescinds a portion of the Bureau of Land Management's (BLM) regulations that address geothermal resource leasing.
Learn More⛏️Rescission of Mineral Disposal Regulations and Its Business Impact
This direct final rule rescinds a portion of the Bureau of Land Management's (BLM) regulations pertaining to mineral reservation in patent; conditions to be noted on mineral applications.
Learn More⛏️Proposed Rescission of Mining Regulations by Bureau of Land Management
This direct final rule rescinds a portion of the Bureau of Land Management's (BLM) regulations that address mining in powersite withdrawals.
Learn More🌫️Colorado Regional Haze Regulation and Business Implications
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is proposing to partially approve and partially disapprove a regional haze state implementation plan (SIP) submission submitted by the State of Colorado under the Clean Air Act (CAA) and the EPA's Regional Haze Rule (RHR) for the program's second implementation period. Colorado's 2022 SIP submission addresses the requirement that states revise their long-term strategies every implementation period to make reasonable progress towards the national goal of preventing any future, and remedying any existing, anthropogenic impairment of visibility, including regional haze, in mandatory Class I Federal areas. We propose to base our partial disapproval of Colorado's long-term strategy on its inclusion of insufficiently justified enforceable source closures that are not consistent with statutory requirements. Colorado's 2022 SIP submission also addresses other applicable requirements for the second implementation period of the regional haze program. Concurrently, the EPA is proposing to approve a revision to Colorado's SIP consolidating existing regional haze provisions into the same regulation where the State's new, second planning period provisions are located.
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