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Regulatory Alerts
Listed below are documents published in the Federal Register and open for comment that may significantly affect small businesses. Advocacy encourages affected small businesses to provide the Federal agency issuing the notice with comments on the proposed action and the agency’s analysis of its potential impacts on small business. Please share with the Office of Advocacy your comments on these and other regulatory proposals of importance to small businesses.
The Regulatory Alerts Archive can be found here: https://advocacy.sba.gov/category/alerts-archive/.
EPA seeks representatives of small businesses that manufacture, use, or are exposed to…
EPA has found unreasonable risks to workers, occupational non-users, consumers, and bystanders from 59 conditions of use of Perchloroethylene (PCE), which is used as a solvent for cleaning and degreasing, and in lubricants, adhesives, and…
EPA Seeks Comments on Proposed Regulation Clarifying That States and Tribes Are Not Required To…
On December 14, 2020, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) issued a Notice of Proposed Regulation and Request for Comment on clarifying that States and Tribes are not required to include the same criminal intent standard under…
EPA Seeks Comments on Draft Guidance Applying the Supreme Court’s County of Maui v. Hawaii Wildlife…
On December 10, 2020, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) issued a Notice of Availability of Draft Guidance and Request for Comment on applying the recent decision of the U.S. Supreme Court in County of Maui v. Hawaii Wildlife…
CPSC Seeks Comments on Safety Standards for Crib Mattresses
On October 26, 2020 the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission published a proposed rule to update safety standards for crib mattresses. The Commission is proposing a safety standard for full-size and non-full-size crib mattresses, and…
FDA Announces FSMA Food Traceability Proposed Rule
On September 21, 2020, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced a proposed rule to establish additional traceability recordkeeping requirements for certain foods. The FDA also published a draft “Food…