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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/.
NRC Seeks Comments on Systematic Review of Addressing Environmental Justice
On July 9, 2021 the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) issued a notice of public meeting and request for comments on how NRC addresses environmental justice (EJ) in its programs, policies, and activities, including conducting…
EPA’s Proposed TSCA Section 8(a)(7) Reporting and Recordkeeping Requirements for Perfluoroalkyl and…
On June 28, 2021, EPA proposed reporting and recordkeeping requirements for perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) under the Toxic Substance Control Act (TSCA). As a result of a recent 2019 amendment to TSCA under section…
Labor Department Proposes New Tip Credit Regulations that Implement Prior 80/20 Rule, with a 30…
On June 21, 2021, the U.S. Department of Labor’s Wage and Hour Division released a proposed rule changing the tip credit regulations under the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA). The tip credit allows an employer to pay an employee in a…
DOE Seeks Comments on Reviews of Energy Conservation Standards
The U.S. Department of Energy is requesting comments and information on reviews of several current energy conservation standards and/or test procedures for the products listed below. In conducting these reviews, the agency seeks to…
ONRR Proposes to Withdraw 2020 Valuation Reform and Civil Penalties Rule
On June 11, 2021, the U.S. Department of the Interior’s Office of Natural Resource Revenue (ONRR) issued a proposal to withdraw the 2020 final rule that amended procedures by which the agency values coal and gas produced from federal…
DOI Seeks Comments on Proposal to List Two Distinct Population Segments of the Lesser Prairie…
On June 1, 2021, the U.S. Department of the Interior’s Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) published a proposed rule to list the lesser prairie chicken northern distinct population segment as threatened and southern distinct population segment…
EPA Seeks Comments on Notice of Intent to Revise the Clean Water Act Section 401 Certification Rule
On June 2, 2021 the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) issued a notice of intent to revise the Clean Water Act Section 401 Certification Rule (the Certification Rule). Under Section 401 of the Clean Water Act, a federal agency is…