Natural Resources Roundtable- August 4, 2022
The Office of Advocacy will host a roundtable to discuss the United States Department of the Interior’s Bureau of Ocean Energy Management’s draft guidance regarding mitigating the impacts of offshore wind energy development on fisheries.…
June-July Small Business Advocate
The Office of Advocacy has released the latest edition of its newsletter, “The Small Business Advocate,” Vol. 41, No. 5. If you would like to subscribe to our newsletter, you may do so here.
DOL Revives Proposal for Federal Contractors to Retain Qualified Workers Under Service Contracts
On July 15, 2022, the Department of Labor (DOL) published a proposed rule to implement Executive Order 14055, Nondisplacement of Qualified Workers Under Service Contracts, signed on November 18, 2021. The rule establishes that federal…
EPA Issues Draft Revisions to its Risk Determination for the Perchloroethylene (PCE) risk evaluation…
On June 30, 2022, EPA published a draft revision to its risk determination for perchloroethylene, also referred to as “PCE.” The draft revision proposed by EPA proposes to supersede the conditions of use previously issued in the 2020 PCE…
EPA Issues Draft Revisions to its Risk Determination for Trichloroethylene (TCE) under the Toxic…
On July 7, 2022, EPA published a draft revision to its risk determination for trichloroethylene (TCE), superseding the condition of use-specific no unreasonable risk determinations in 2020. TCE is a volatile and organic compound most…
EPA Issues Draft Revisions to its Risk Determination for Methylene Chloride (MC) under the Toxic…
On July 5, 2022, EPA published a draft revision to its risk determination for methylene chloride, also referred to as “MC.” Previously, in June 2021, EPA published a risk evaluation for MC, finalizing determinations of unreasonable risk…
EPA Issues Draft Revisions to its Risk Determination for N-Methylpyrrolidone (NMP) under the Toxic…
On July 1, 2022, EPA published a draft revision to its risk determination for n-methylpyrrolidone, also referred to as “NMP.” Previously, in 2020, EPA published a risk evaluation for NMP, finalizing determinations of unreasonable risk for…
Small Business Lending in the United States, 2020
Advocacy’s small business lending report examines FDIC data to determine the state of bank lending to small businesses. This report, which analyzes loan data from June 2019 to June 2020, examines the small business lending market at the…
EPA Seeks Small Entity Representatives for a Potential SBREFA Panel for its TSCA Section 8(a) Tiered…
On July 6, 2022, EPA announced that it is seeking small businesses to participate as Small Entity Representatives (SERs) for a Small Business Advocacy Review Panel (SBREFA Panel) for the development of a proposed rule, under Toxic…
Endangered Species Roundtable- July 20, 2022
The Office of Advocacy will host a roundtable to discuss the United States Fish and Wildlife Service’s proposed rule to update regulations concerning experimental populations of endangered and threatened species. The Service is proposing…