Sentences with phrase «agency guidelines for»

Perhaps the family does not meet agency guidelines for domestic adoption but qualifies for intercountry adoption.

Building off the 2010 YouthPrint report, BLOCS» partners created the Louisville Out - of - School Time Program Quality Standards to provide youth - serving agencies guidelines for ensuring positive youth programming.

On the government insured loans (FHA, VA, and USDA) follow the insuring agencies guidelines for Homebuyer Education / Counseling requirements.

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THE state's screen funding and development agency, ScreenWest, is considering changes to its funding guidelines to provide support for local game developers.

Only about a quarter of those sites contained any content at all, which leads the agency to believe they are serving as placeholders for future crowdfunding portals, perhaps readying to launch once the SEC implements its investor guidelines.

He's called for the agency to issue guidelines on how to carry out background checks in a non-discriminatory manner.

To drive engagement, the company enlisted Likeable to launch a #purebarrelife campaign, a contest which asked clients to share personal stories about integrating Pure Barre into their daily lives through text, photos and videos on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and Pinterest for a chance to win prizes.The company enlisted the agency's help because Likeable has the expertise to navigate the challenges involved in running a national social - media contest, such as time demands, possible legal issues, and the unique rules and guidelines of each individual platform.

The state will «rely heavily» on the federal guidelines for self - driving vehicles released last fall by the agency, Soublet said.

An infographic from My Clever Agency provides basic guidelines for creating effective Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, and Google + posts.

A federal agency for labor practices offers long - awaited guidance to employers on social - media guidelines at work.

The actual amount transferred may differ from the agreed - upon dollar amount of the transaction as a result of: the allowable delivery variance of + / - 0.01 %, in accordance with the Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association's Good Delivery Guidelines for To - Be-Announced (TBA) trading of agency MBS; periodic net settlement of purchases and sales; principal paydowns; and accrued interest.

This is not so much a belief or strategy as it is a matter of fact; there are extensive, well - established guidelines from multiple agencies at all levels of government on how to work within the system, and harsh consequences for those who do not comply.

Also, the 4A's is to collaborate on a code of decency with the Media Ratings Council, that will live within MRC's brand safety guidelines as a resource for media agencies to identify and mitigate fake news.

Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, two agencies that set rules for the majority of U.S. loans, publish guidelines for these loans that most lenders follow.

In his view the agency merely has to adjust and simplify their guidelines for tokenized securities, some of which can be supported by code contracts, such as standard ERC 884, which «allows for the use of blockchains to maintain corporate share registries.»

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has reported that in the ten years since it implemented water pollution guidelines for Lake Michigan, the quality of lake water has actually improved.

Perusing the index of Origins, the weekly publication of representative documents and speeches compiled by Catholic News Service, our imaginary historian will note, for example, the following initiatives undertaken at the national, diocesan and parish levels in 1994 - 95: providing alternatives to abortion; staffing adoption agencies; conducting adult education courses; addressing African American Catholics» pastoral needs; funding programs to prevent alcohol abuse; implementing a new policy on altar servers and guidelines for the Anointing of the Sick; lobbying for arms control; eliminating asbestos in public housing; supporting the activities of the Association of Catholic Colleges and Universities (227 strong); challenging atheism in American society; establishing base communities (also known as small faith communities); providing aid to war victims in Bosnia; conducting Catholic research in bioethics; publicizing the new Catechism of the Catholic Church; battling child abuse; strengthening the relationship between church and labor unions; and deepening the structures and expressions of collegiality in the local and diocesan church.

Jewish Telegraphic Agency: Conservative rabbinic group issues guidelines for same - sex wedding rituals The Conservative movement - affirming that same - sex marriages have «the same sense of holiness and joy as that expressed in heterosexual marriages» - last week established rituals for same - sex wedding ceremonies.

In the workplace context, federal agencies have issued guidelines stating that employees should be permitted to determine for themselves the most appropriate and safest restroom to use, and employers should refrain from requiring or deciding which restroom should be used by an employee.

On Nov. 21, the regulatory agency sent a letter to two consumer advocacy groups saying that it is seriously considering setting guidelines for what levels of inorganic arsenic should be allowed in apple juice.

The Commission for the Accreditation of Birth Centers (CABC) was established in 1985, after the American Association of Birth Centers (AABC) had evaluated the quality of birth centers, encouraged national guideline development, reviewed state regulations, and explored and evaluated programs of other accrediting agencies.

The Adoption and Safe Families Act, passed in 1997, requires state agencies to speed up a child's move from foster care to adoption by establishing time frames for permanency planning and guidelines for when a child must be legally freed for adoption.

«The Illinois Distinguished Accreditation program provides an opportunity for these agencies to undergo a voluntary, comprehensive evaluation process to demonstrate that they have met state guidelines to provide exceptional park and recreation services to their community.

Today, on behalf of Corporate Accountability International and in collaboration with the Campaign for a Commercial - Free Childhood, I submitted the following comments to the U.S. Department of Agriculture regarding its proposal to require schools to only allow marketing for those foods allowed under the agency's «Smart Snacks» nutrition guidelines.

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UN agencies have developed counseling guidelines for health workers and policy makers that address the risks and benefits of available infant feeding methods and how to make the chosen method of infant feeding as safe as possible.

Today, CCFC and Corporate Accountability International submitted the following comments to the U.S. Department of Agriculture regarding its proposal to require schools to only allow marketing for those foods allowed under the agency's «Smart Snacks» nutrition guidelines.

The agency will also act on behalf of the intended parents with respect to establishing the billing guidelines for the surrogate's services.

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA), the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the 2015 - 2020 Dietary Guidelines for Americans recommend that pregnant women eat at least 8 ounces and up to 12 ounces (340 grams) of a variety of seafood lower in mercury a week.

Citing concerns about the possibility of a link between this toxin and impaired language, memory, cognitive thinking and fine - motor and visual - spatial skills among children who were exposed to it in utero, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) have established fish - intake guidelines for women who are pregnant or might become pregnant (and, later, when nursing).

A guidelines manual, providing best practices for other organizations and agencies interested in developing similar trails, will be available online at no cost.

Efforts are underway to develop dietary guidelines for children, although most agencies have not yet grappled with recommendations for children under 2 years of age (apart from providing advice on breastfeeding).

Although nutrition during pregnancy and lactation was the topic of two comprehensive documents published by the U.S. Institute of Medicine, 6,7 and guidelines for maternal nutrition have been developed by various agencies, states, and countries, no critical scientific review or systematic consolidation of these recommendations has taken place.

Both the tax levy guideline and the spending targets for departments and County agencies to use in preparing their budgets were approved by unanimous votes.

U.S. Senator Charles Schumer is urging the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to update its drinking water guidelines for chemical contaminants recently found in some upstate New York water supplies.

She also would require the board to set public guidelines for the types of projects it will approve, including a minimum number of «quality» jobs that must be created, and allow the agency to claw back benefits if those goals are not met.

That's why this past month Erie County, through our Department of Environment and Planning and with assistance procured by Congressman Brian Higgins, built three new homes for the Lackawanna Housing Development Agency to be rented to families who qualified under low income guidelines.

The agency also does not include in that policy guidelines for companies to claim sales and mortgage tax exemptions, the audit said.

Zucker, testifying under oath, blamed the federal Environmental Protection Agency for any mix - up, saying they kept making «sudden» changes on their guidelines for safe levels of PFOA for human consumption, and the state health department struggled to keep up.

A source with DoITT said the agency followed guidelines that Stringer laid out for the contract «to a T.»

The Environmental Protection Agency recently set a guideline of 70 parts per trillion for PFOS and PFOA in drinking water supplies.

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo's administration has long blamed federal guidelines for hampering its response to an upstate village's water - contamination crisis and accused the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency of sowing confusion.

It would set up guidelines for city agencies, train agency personal, monitor the use of the guidelines and require an annual report to the speaker on the city's efforts to increase its use of Empire State food.

The agency tweets were unusual for a site that normally sends out buttoned - up explanations of ethics guidelines.

Instead of a CD4 cell count of 200, the threshold which the WHO recommended in its 2006 guidelines for HIV treatment, a CD4 cell count at or below 350 should be the cutoff, the agency now advises.

In 2014 the agency released proposed guidelines that will subject the measures, for the first time, to federal oversight — including having to submit evidence of efficacy to it before the tests may be marketed.

Henry Hogo, assistant deputy executive officer of the South Coast Air Quality Management District, said his agency offers guidelines for choosing school sites, but there are no regulations since it has no authority over land use planning.

NICE, the agency that produces clinical guidelines for the UK National Health Service, recommends that talking therapies should be offered to all those with schizophrenia, in addition to antipsychotic drugs.

The committee, chaired by forester Norm K. Johnson of Oregon State University in Corvallis, was convoked by U.S. Agriculture Secretary Dan Glickman in December 1997 to provide new guidelines for the Forest Service, a federal agency that has been at the center of a heated debate for decades.

The agency has been forced to tighten its eligibility rules in light of recent Supreme Court decisions — including a 2013 ruling that struck down patents on human genes — but its first pass at new guidelines for examiners raised a stink.