Sentences with phrase «by federal standards»

Even with respect to state laws relating to the privacy of medical information, the statute shields such state laws from preemption by the federal standards only if they are «more» stringent than the related federal standard or implementation specification.

The population of Châteauguay mobilized, and the public consultation process required by federal standards then resumed.

(Sec. 213) Amends the EPCA to: (1) revise the definition of «energy conservation standard» to include energy efficiency for certain covered equipment, water efficiency for certain covered equipment, and both energy and water efficiency for certain equipment; (2) allow the adoption of consensus and alternative test procedures for purposes of the Energy Conservation Program for Consumer Products Other Than Automobiles; (3) require the Secretary to prescribe a new test method for televisions; (4) expand the list of criteria for prescribing new or amended energy conservation standards, including requiring Energy Guide labels to include the carbon output of each covered product; (5) require manufacturers of covered products to submit annual reports and information to DOE regarding compliance, economic impact, annual shipments, facility energy and water use, and sales data that could support an assessment of the need for regional standards; and (6) require state and local building codes to use appliance efficiency requirements that are no less stringent than those set by federal standards.

With a relatively small (by federal standards) amount of money, he has catalyzed a large amount of worthwhile education - reform activity in a great many places.

Although STAR's $ 50 million budget isn't big by federal standards, «it's big enough that [eliminating] it would have an impact in the subset of [environmental] science research,» says Shane Hutson, a biological physicist at Vanderbilt University in Nashville.

«When you look at the fact that there are 27 schools by federal standards that have been failing for more than a decade, we deserve collective blame for not properly addressing that, so I don't think we should shy away from that discussion or anything else,» he said.

The current allowable amount by federal standards is 100 parts per trillion.

The water district is currently served by a mix of shallow and deep wells and is operating under a variance from the state because radium levels in the water are greater than allowed by federal standards.

At a glance, their pay seems out of whack by federal standards.

The dummy in the rear seat also recorded relatively low measures, although its head did hit the pillar behind the back door — an area required by federal standard to limit head impact forces.

The pillar is required by federal standard to provide some protection for occupants» heads.

This area is required by federal standard to provide some protection for an occupant's head, but the Fusion is rated poor overall because of high forces recorded on the driver dummy's head, pelvis, and torso.

Not exact matches

The numbers are not large by the standards of political donations but they mark the first time the industry has tilted its contributions toward Republicans, according to federal records.

The federal government, meanwhile, is trying to tame the market by tightening mortgage lending standards and warning the public at every opportunity that Vancouver is a risky city for buying real estate.

A report released by the Labor Department in 2016, called the «Workforce Investment Act Gold Standard Evaluation,» concluded that the federal government's primary job - training programs don't really work.

While most of his proposals — «to abandon the gold standard, let international exchange rates float, use federal surpluses and deficits as macroeconomic policy tools that could counter cyclical trends, and establish bureaus of economic statistics (including a consumer price index) in order to facilitate this effort» — are now conventional practice, his critique of fractional - reserve banking still «remains outside the bounds of conventional wisdom» although a recent paper by the IMF reinvigorated his proposals.

However, it's a specific type of plan offered by the Department of Education that helps students who can't afford their monthly federal student loan payments under the Standard Repayment Plan.

For the time period in question, the federal funds rate was low (by historic standards), leading the Fed to dismiss the yield curve's «prediction» of recession.

10 The Firm calculates its Tier 1 capital ratio and risk - weighted assets in accordance with the capital adequacy standards for financial holding companies adopted by the Federal Reserve Board.

The following are some facts about diesel car engines, the tailpipe pollution they emit and the «defeat device» software that federal regulators say VW used to circumvent emissions standards set by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the state of California.

A long - awaited bill will bring federal corporate governance laws up to speed with standards already expected by the country's securities exchanges and regulators, lawyers say.

In an era when the toy industry can pinpoint the overall value of all dolls sold domestically each year and the federal government tracks the number of trucks sold in any given month, data on gun sales is obscured by foggy reporting standards and loopholes.

Absent such a standard, the shareholder proposal rule becomes nothing less than a species of private eminent domain by which the federal government allows a small minority to appropriate someone else's property — the company is a legal person, after all, and it is the company's proxy statement at issue — for use as a soap - box to disseminate their views.

Online lenders aside, the best rates were found and Third Federal Savings & Loan, which beat the closest competing bank by 0.11 percentage points on a standard 30 - year mortgage.

The recent Basel III pact, an international accord under which central banks across the world — including the U.S. Federal Reserve — agreed to regulatory standards, requires banks to increase their equity funding to at least 7 % of their «risk - weighted» assets by 2019.

The FHA also mandates that homes meet minimum property standards as prescribed by local, state, and federal guidelines.

In fact, to support virtual currency businesses, Coin Center strongly advocates for a federal licensing system for money transmitters rather than the state - by - state licensing that is currently standard.

Gov. Jerry Brown on Tuesday announced a lawsuit by California and 17 other states against the Trump administration to protect national vehicle emission standards from being rolled back by the federal government.

These risks and uncertainties include food safety and food - borne illness concerns; litigation; unfavorable publicity; federal, state and local regulation of our business including health care reform, labor and insurance costs; technology failures; failure to execute a business continuity plan following a disaster; health concerns including virus outbreaks; the intensely competitive nature of the restaurant industry; factors impacting our ability to drive sales growth; the impact of indebtedness we incurred in the RARE acquisition; our plans to expand our newer brands like Bahama Breeze and Seasons 52; our ability to successfully integrate Eddie V's restaurant operations; a lack of suitable new restaurant locations; higher - than - anticipated costs to open, close or remodel restaurants; increased advertising and marketing costs; a failure to develop and recruit effective leaders; the price and availability of key food products and utilities; shortages or interruptions in the delivery of food and other products; volatility in the market value of derivatives; general macroeconomic factors, including unemployment and interest rates; disruptions in the financial markets; risk of doing business with franchisees and vendors in foreign markets; failure to protect our service marks or other intellectual property; a possible impairment in the carrying value of our goodwill or other intangible assets; a failure of our internal controls over financial reporting or changes in accounting standards; and other factors and uncertainties discussed from time to time in reports filed by Darden with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

(2) The prohibition in paragraph (u)(1) of this provision does not contravene requirements applicable to Standard Form 312 (Classified Information Nondisclosure Agreement), Form 4414 (Sensitive Compartmented Information Nondisclosure Agreement), or any other form issued by a Federal department or agency governing the nondisclosure of classified information.

That would be a relatively low level by historical standards; in the past two tightening cycles by the Fed, the federal funds rate peaked at around 6 per cent.

But the prescription offered by the Taylor rule changes significantly if one instead assumes, as I do, that appreciable slack still remains in the labor market, and that the economy's equilibrium real federal funds rate — that is, the real rate consistent with the economy achieving maximum employment and price stability over the medium term — is currently quite low by historical standards.

He weighed in with a call for a federal «breach notification standard» to replace data notification laws that vary by state.

Second, there needs to be some mechanism, such as the cost - shared financing programs established by Tom Kent and Lester Pearson with the support of Tommy Douglas, to guarantee on - going federal investment conditional on provincial obedience to national principles around minimum standards.

But if the state issued a dollar - for - dollar state tax credit for charitable contributions made to, say, the state's general infrastructure fund, the first $ 6,000 donated, though reducing state tax liability by $ 6,000, does nothing to lower federal taxes owed because the taxpayer would still take the standard deduction.

Dear Minister Morneau, For decades, successive federal governments have recognized the need to ensure that Canada's business tax burden is competitive by international standards,...

From 1990 to 2005, he was Director Fiscal Policy Division Department of Finance, responsible for overall preparation of the federal budget; preparation and assessment of medium - and long - term projections of federal revenues and expenses and implications for fiscal policy; analysis of fiscal conditions at both the federal and provincial levels; evaluation of various budget proposals; preparation of monthly Fiscal Monitor; with the Office of the Comptroller General (OCG), assessing and evaluating accounting standards proposed by the Public Sector Accounting Board (PSAB) of the CICA and recommending changes in government accounting policies; with the OCG, responsible for implementation of accrual accounting for the federal budget and the government's financial statements.

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The rule of law, he has argued, demands that we be bound by the text of the law» not by evolving social standards, not even by some elusive authorial intent, but by the actual words of the Constitution and of the statutes passed by state and federal legislatures.

According to the standard account of the matter, the power of judicial review — that is, the authority of the federal judiciary to invalidate acts of Congress and the President when they are deemed to be unconstitutional — came to be entrenched in our law by the acceptance, tacit or otherwise, of the Supreme Court's ruling in the 1803 case of Marbury v. Madison.

WASHINGTON, D.C. - The Grocery Manufacturers Association (GMA) today issued the following statement by GMA Vice President of Federal Affairs Scott Faber regarding standards for school foods:

CSPI supports the recently passed federal law for mandatory disclosure of GMOs, and believes there should be a national standard for non-GMO labeling enforced by the USDA and not a consensus - based standard such as the Non-GMO Project Verified seal seen on many labels.

The FDA Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA) was created in 2011 to reinforce the U.S. food safety standards by shifting the focus of federal regulators on preventing contamination instead of just reacting to the problem after it has already happened.

«We were the first dairy processor to elevate milk from a commodity to a specialty food by establishing the North Coast Excellence Certified (NCEC) program — setting some of the most rigorous standards in the dairy industry which surpass those of the state and federal governments.

If the DAIRY PRIDE agenda sounds familiar, you may recall similar federal standard waiving done by Unilever in 2014, the parent company to best - selling mayonnaise brand, Hellmann's (Best Foods in the western U.S.).

Also, production processes must meet federal organic standards and must have been independently verified by accredited inspectors.

Natural disasters devastate communities and the environment, leaving public water systems compromised in the aftermath, unsafe by both state and federal health standards.

QAI is a USDA - accredited certifying agency, approved to provide certification to the national organic standards, under a federal regulation created by the USDA and administered by the National Organic Program.

The ship has been languishing in Fremantle Port as it undergoes improvements to meet new airflow standards implemented by the federal government.

An attempt by Kraft Canada and Saputo to overturn Canadian government standards on the composition of cheese has been dismissed by the Federal Court of Appeal.