Regulatory Requirements, Grant Opportunities 13 Jan 2025 historic preservation, real estate, public comment, tourism, national park service, compliance

🏛️Public Comment Opportunity on Historic Places Nominations

The National Park Service is soliciting electronic comments on the significance of properties nominated before January 4, 2025, for listing or related actions in the National Register of Historic Places.

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Regulatory Compliance, Economic Impact 13 Jan 2025 recreational activities, tourism, national parks, motor vehicle regulations, business impact, glen canyon, reporting and recordkeeping requirements

🏞️Glen Canyon Recreation Area Motor Vehicle Regulations Update 2025

The National Park Service revises special regulations for Glen Canyon National Recreation Area to update rules about the use of motor vehicles on roads and off roads on designated routes and areas.

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Compliance, Financial Regulation 13 Jan 2025 gunnison river, tourism, recreation fees, camping, colorado, small business, bureau of land management

⛺New Recreation Fees Impacting Campgrounds and Businesses in Colorado

Pursuant to the Federal Lands Recreation Enhancement Act (FLREA), the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Grand Junction Field Office (GJFO), Upper Colorado River District, and the Uncompahgre Field Office (UFO), Southwest District, intend to establish recreation fee areas at existing developed campgrounds, future developed campgrounds and campsites, and for designated campsites within the Gunnison River Special Recreation Management Area (SRMA) in the Dominguez-Escalante National Conservation Area (D-E NCA) as managed by the field offices as one NCA unit in Delta, Mesa, and Montrose Counties.

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Regulatory Requirements, Economic Development 10 Jan 2025 fees, tourism, public lands, recreation, idaho

🏕️New Recreation Fees Impacting Businesses in Idaho's BLM Areas

Pursuant to the Federal Lands Recreation Enhancement Act (FLREA), the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Coeur d'Alene Field Office will establish day-use fees at Mica Bay Boater Park and Killarney Lake Campground and Access, located in Kootenai County; and at the Huckleberry Campground in Shoshone County.

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Regulatory Compliance, Environmental Impact 6 Jan 2025 fisheries, national marine sanctuaries, marine conservation, cashes ledge, tourism, business regulations

🌊NOAA Adds Cashes Ledge to Potential National Marine Sanctuaries

On June 13, 2014, NOAA published a final rule establishing the Sanctuary Nomination Process, allowing communities to submit nominations to NOAA for consideration as new national marine sanctuaries. The rule outlined the review process, national significance criteria, and management considerations that NOAA uses to evaluate nominations for inclusion in the inventory of areas that could eventually be considered for designation. The rule also states that NOAA will publish a Federal Register notice when areas have been added to the inventory of successful nominations. This notice announces that NOAA has added the Cashes Ledge area to the inventory; the agency is not moving forward with a designation at this time.

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Compliance, Economic Development 6 Jan 2025 visa waiver, customs and border protection, travel authorization, tourism, cnmi, homeland security

✈️New CNMI EVS-TAP Regulations

This document announces the implementation of the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands (CNMI) Economic Vitality & Security Travel Authorization Program (EVS-TAP). The CNMI EVS-TAP is a restricted sub-program of the Guam-CNMI Visa Waiver Program and allows prescreened nationals of the People's Republic of China to travel to the CNMI without a visa under specified conditions. In accordance with Department of Homeland Security regulations, DHS will begin implementation of the CNMI EVS-TAP requirements 45 days after publication of this notification of implementation in the Federal Register.

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