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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/.

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Health and Human Services Seeks Public Input on Regulations that may Inhibit Economic Recovery…

Office of Advocacy Nov 25, 2020

Under an Executive Order that directs federal agencies to address the economic emergency created by the COVID-19 pandemic by rescinding, modifying, waiving, or providing exemptions from regulations and other requirements that may inhibit…

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TTB Requests Comments on Proposed Information Collections

Office of Advocacy Nov 12, 2020

On November 3, 2020, the Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau (TTB) published Proposed Information Collections; Comment Request (No. 81), requesting comments on information collections (forms, recordkeeping and labeling requirements,…

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EPA seeks small businesses that use or are exposed to HBCD for SBREFA panel

Office of Advocacy Nov 9, 2020

EPA recently published its final risk evaluation for the third of its 10 high-priority chemicals under the amended Toxic Substance Control Act (TSCA). In September 2020, EPA published a risk evaluation for HBCD, finalizing…

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CPSC Seeks Comments on Safety Standards for Crib Mattresses

Office of Advocacy Nov 6, 2020

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…

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DOI Seeks Comments on a Proposed Rule to Streamline Evaluation Criteria for Financial Assurances for…

Office of Advocacy Oct 26, 2020

On October 16, 2020, the United States Department of the Interior’s Bureau of Ocean Energy Management and Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement issued a notice of proposed rulemaking to regulate risk management, financial…

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USDA Seeks Comments on a Request for Information Collection on Domestic Hemp Production

Office of Advocacy Oct 19, 2020

On October 16, 2020, the United States Department of Agriculture’s Agricultural Marketing Service published a notice of a request for approval for an information and data collection pertaining to hemp production using a producer survey.…

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DOD Issues Interim Final Rule Assessing Contractor Implementation of Cybersecurity Requirements

Office of Advocacy Sep 30, 2020

On September 29, 2020, the Defense Acquisition Regulations System issued an interim final rule to implement the DoD’s Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification. The interim final rule seeks to assess contractor implementation of…

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FDA Announces FSMA Food Traceability Proposed Rule

Office of Advocacy Sep 22, 2020

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…