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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/.
DOE Seeks Comments and Information on How to Prioritize and Sequence Rulemaking Activities
On February 19, 2021, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) published a request for information and comments on how it should prioritize rulemaking activities concerning its appliance standards program. DOE requests comments on the current…
ONRR Delays Effective Date and Reopens Comment Period on 2020 Valuation Reform and Civil Penalties…
On February 12, 2021, the U.S. Department of the Interior’s Office of Natural Resource Revenue (ONRR) issued a notice delaying the effective date of a final rule to amend the procedures by which the agency values coal and gas produced from…
NMFS Extends Comment Period on Proposal to Designate Critical Habitat for Indo-Pacific Corals
On February 9, 2021 the National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) published a notice extending the public comment period on its proposed rule to designate critical habitat for Indo-Pacific Corals. The proposed rule would designate critical…
FWS Delays Effective Date and Reopens Comment Period for Regulations Governing Take of Migratory…
On February 9, 2021, the U.S. Department of the Interior’s Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) delayed the effective date of a final rule defining the scope of the Migratory Bird Treaty Act (MBTA) as applied to conduct resulting in the injury…
EPA Seeks Comments on Proposed 2021 Pesticide General Permit under the National Pollution Discharge…
On January 15 2021, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) issued a Notice of Availability of proposed 2021 Pesticide General Permit under the National Pollution Discharge Elimination System Permit Program of the Clean Water Act.…
NMFS Seeks Comments on Proposed Atlantic Large Whale Take Reduction Plan
On December 31, 2020 the U.S. Department of Commerce’s National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) published a proposed rule to amend regulations implementing the Atlantic large whale take reduction plan. The agency is proposing several…
NMFS Seeks Comments on Designations of Critical Habitat for Ringed Seals and Beringia Distinct…
On January 8, 2021 the U.S. Department of Commerce’s National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) published two proposed rules to establish critical habitat for ringed and bearded seals. Both rules concern areas of marine habitat in the…