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The next U.S. Small Business Administration, Office of Advocacy Environmental Roundtable will meet to discuss the following topics, beginning at 10 a.m. on Friday, August 30, 2019. The meeting will be held in Washington, D.C.,…

On June 13, 2019 the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Forest Service (Service) published a proposed rule to revise National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) regulations. According to the Service, the revisions would speed up the pace for…

On August 9, 2019, the U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (DOE) published a proposed rule to withdraw the energy efficiency test procedures for conventional cooking tops. The Agency states that the…

By Claudia Rodgers, Senior Counsel Minimum wage, overtime, worker visas, health care reporting, fish sound monitoring, lobster fishing restrictions and more were brought up by small businesses who attended the Office of Advocacy’s…

Full ReportDownload Advocacy's Office of Economic Research (OER) is the only federal office statutorily tasked with examining small business challenges and contributions in the U.S. economy. In fiscal year 2018, OER continued to…

By Janis Reyes, Assistant Chief Counsel Memphis is known as the Home of the Blues and the Birthplace of Rock ‘n Roll, where you can visit Elvis Presley’s Graceland estate and listen to late night jam sessions on Beale Street. …

On July 29, 2019, EPA published a proposed rulemaking for five chemicals that the agency identified as persistent, bioaccumulative and toxic under section 6(h) of the Toxic Substance Control Act (TSCA). The chemicals include…

On July 26, 2019, the Department of Labor (DOL) published a proposed rule with changes to the H-2A or the agricultural guest worker program. DOL is changing the Adverse Effect Wage Rate and Prevailing Wage Methodologies utilized for…

Vol. 38, No. 6 The Office of Advocacy has released the latest edition of its newsletter, “The Small Business Advocate,” Vol. 38, No. 6. If you would like to subscribe to our newsletter, you may do so here.

On November 26, 2018, the Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau (TTB) published a proposed rule titled Modernization of the Labeling and Advertising Regulations for Wine, Distilled Spirits, and Malt Beverages. Although the original…