Sentences with phrase «impact of regulation assessment»

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Such risks and uncertainties include, but are not limited to: our ability to achieve our financial, strategic and operational plans or initiatives; our ability to predict and manage medical costs and price effectively and develop and maintain good relationships with physicians, hospitals and other health care providers; the impact of modifications to our operations and processes; our ability to identify potential strategic acquisitions or transactions and realize the expected benefits of such transactions, including with respect to the Merger; the substantial level of government regulation over our business and the potential effects of new laws or regulations or changes in existing laws or regulations; the outcome of litigation, regulatory audits, investigations, actions and / or guaranty fund assessments; uncertainties surrounding participation in government - sponsored programs such as Medicare; the effectiveness and security of our information technology and other business systems; unfavorable industry, economic or political conditions, including foreign currency movements; acts of war, terrorism, natural disasters or pandemics; our ability to obtain shareholder or regulatory approvals required for the Merger or the requirement to accept conditions that could reduce the anticipated benefits of the Merger as a condition to obtaining regulatory approvals; a longer time than anticipated to consummate the proposed Merger; problems regarding the successful integration of the businesses of Express Scripts and Cigna; unexpected costs regarding the proposed Merger; diversion of management's attention from ongoing business operations and opportunities during the pendency of the Merger; potential litigation associated with the proposed Merger; the ability to retain key personnel; the availability of financing, including relating to the proposed Merger; effects on the businesses as a result of uncertainty surrounding the proposed Merger; as well as more specific risks and uncertainties discussed in our most recent report on Form 10 - K and subsequent reports on Forms 10 - Q and 8 - K available on the Investor Relations section of www.cigna.com as well as on Express Scripts» most recent report on Form 10 - K and subsequent reports on Forms 10 - Q and 8 - K available on the Investor Relations section of www.express-scripts.com.

ALBANY, NY (10/01/2012)(readMedia)-- On Friday, September 28, Governor Andrew Cuomo's Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) released a brief statement indicating that no regulations for high - volume hydraulic fracturing, or «fracking,» would be finalized until Department of Health Commissioner Shah reviews the DEC's already - completed health impact assessment.

The proposal would phase out licenses for deep - sea trawling 2 years after the regulation is approved, require strict quotas for deep - sea species that lack solid scientific data on the size of populations, and require impact assessments for opening new areas to deep - sea bottom fishing.

There are a range of critical issues, such as: the implementation of the reauthorized ESEA (now called The Every Student Succeeds Act) which includes new flexibility for states in designing state standards and accountability systems as well as a hard cap on the number of students with the most significant cognitive disabilities taking alternate assessments on alternate standards; regulations on disproportionate identification of minority students to special education; and, the goal to transition more disadvantaged students into college and careers that will have a significant impact on some of the most vulnerable children.

The authors of Essential Assessment identify four characteristics of classrooms where assessment and self - regulation work well together to create student investment: a vision for learning, meaningful and valuable work, asset - based focus, and action and impact (p. 121).

identify four characteristics of classrooms where assessment and self - regulation work well together to create student investment: a vision for learning, meaningful and valuable work, asset - based focus, and action and impact (p. 121).

Dakin said a full impact assessment should have been carried out when the regulations were amended in 2013, adding: «All evidence shows that regular attendance at school is crucial to ensuring children fulfil their potential, 100 per cent attendance records should be the ambition of all children, but this problem is of the government's own making.»

(2) A military activity carried out by DOD as of the effective date of these regulations and specifically identified in the section entitled «Department of Defense Activities» of the FMP / FEIS is not considered a pre-existing activity if: (i) It is modified in such a way that requires the preparation of an environmental assessment or environmental impact statement under the National Environmental Policy Act, 42 U.S.C. 4321 et seq., relevant to a Sanctuary resource or quality; (ii) It is modified, including but not limited to changes in location or frequency, in such a way that its possible adverse effects on Sanctuary resources or qualities are significantly greater than previously considered for the unmodified activity; (iii) It is modified, including but not limited to changes in location or frequency, in such a way that its possible adverse effects on Sanctuary resources or qualities are significantly different in manner than previously considered for the unmodified activity; or (iv) There are new circumstances or information relevant to a Sanctuary resource or quality that were not addressed in the FMP / FEIS.

We'll stop there for now, although the federal government has provided plenty more material that merits a closer look — including its very rosy assessment of Canada's coal regulations or the assertion that the Keystone XL project would be a huge job creator when the State Department's recently - releasedsupplemental environmental impact statement found that operating the multi-billion dollar Keystone XL pipeline would create a total of 35 permanent jobs.

It says thorough environmental impact assessments were not carried outon the project and, contrary to international regulations, Romania — whose border is less than 20 kms from the Kostolac plant — was not consulted on the impact of the facility's expansion.

The leaked draft of the regulatory coherence chapter of the Trans Pacific Partnership trade agreement encourages countries joining the pact to conduct regulatory impact assessments or RIAs when developing regulations, including environmental measures, which have more than a minimal cost burden on business and the economy.

The EPA's assessment of reliability impacts under the Clean Power Plan is at the center of the legal dispute around those proposed carbon regulations, with many generators arguing the agency did not properly address those concerns in that rule either.

At Tuesday's House Energy & Commerce Committee hearing on Climate Science and EPA's Greenhouse Gas Regulation, Dr. Christopher Field of the Carnegie Institution for Science, presented a scary assessment of global warming's impact on U.S. grain yields.

[1] European Commission, Executive summary of the impact assessment accompanying the Proposal for a Council Regulation on the establishment of the European Public Prosecutor's Office, SWD (2013) 275 final, p. 2.

Dubbed «Environmental impact assessment and review procedure of certain projects,» the draft regulations propose several changes to the existing «Regulation respecting environmental impact assessment and review» that it will replace.

The testimony of a regulations expert can have a huge impact on a case because he / she can also make an assessment regarding the compliance of the truck driver involved in the accident.

The new Canadian Energy Regulator (replacing the National Energy Board), and the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission retain their responsibility for lifecycle regulation of a project but the impact assessment of new projects will no longer be assessed by those agencies and will instead fall to the Agency to manage.

«This uncertainly has a material impact on our ability to reach definitive conclusions, both about the impact in relation to individual regulatory objectives and better regulation duties, and our assessment of the broader impact on the overall public interest,» he said.

Instead the Commission has limited itself to an impact assessment, leaving agents to be regulated by an incoherent mix of differing national laws and sports regulations.