Sentences with phrase «existing agency rules»

The latest RFIs examine the agency's adopted regulations, new rulemaking authorities, and inherited rulemaking authority, requesting feedback on such issues as amending existing agency rules or issuing new rules in accordance with its existing authority.

Not exact matches

The new rules update existing regulations and are designed to better codify what constitutes a violation of discipline, the official Xinhua news agency reported late on Wednesday.
The lawsuit filed in the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, seeks to set aside and hold unlawful the Environmental Protection Agency's effort to weaken the existing clean car rules.
I've long assumed that once this agency released its competitive food rules, the packaged food industry would simply work around those rules by reformulating existing snack foods to artificially fortify them with key nutrients.
Second, they should ensure that a legislative approach — rather than tighter enforcement of existing rules or closer working between different government agencies — is absolutely necessary.
It is a recipe for disaster to allow billions in state funds to be contracted through state controlled non-profits, including SUNY Poly, Fort Schuyler / Fuller Road Management and SUNY Research Foundation — all of which are exempt from the bidding rules for state agencies, and exist in a deliberately designed legal gray area of non-accountability.
Review Federal Regulations for Repeal — Vote Passed (240 - 185, 4 Not Voting) The measure would establish a commission to review existing federal regulations and identify those that should be repealed in order to reduce costs on the U.S. economy — including those that should be repealed immediately and those that should be repealed over time through a new regulatory «cut - go» system under which agencies could not issue new rules unless the cost of a new rule was offset by repealing existing rules identified by the commission.
Collaborating with more than ten City agencies, the initiative will build upon existing regulatory reforms by reaching small businesses and under - served New Yorkers across the five boroughs, promoting education and compliance as part of enforcement, and reducing violations by focusing on cross-agency collaboration to simplify rules and compliance processes.
The dual - use rules come into force immediately, and agencies will have 90 days to report existing projects of dual - use risk to their parent agencies.
I strongly oppose efforts to weaken existing safe water standards or undermine the Environmental Protection Agency's ability to enforce water quality rules.
Upon taking office Trump signed executive orders mandating a regulatory freeze and requiring agencies to repeal two existing rules for every new one it puts in place.
And it tweaks the rules governing existing activities, from the fledgling Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy at DOE to long - running training programs at NSF, with the goal of getting a bigger economic payoff from federal investments.
On Monday, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) officially released their highly anticipated rule for carbon emissions reductions in existing power plants.
But acting EPA Assistant Administrator Janet McCabe said the agency has decided to delay that rollout and release the new power plant rules at the same time as the regulations governing existing and modified plants.
However, Thompson said this guidance conflicts with existing rules and called for the agency to address the discrepancy.
The agency develops rules for the accounts and communicates via email and semi-regular meetings with new applicants and existing account holders.
The announcement comes in response to an Executive Order issued by President Obama in May 2012, which instructed Federal agencies to continually examine all existing rules and requirements in order to make sure they are all still necessary, streamlined, and up - to - date.
At this time, the Agency is unaware of any other existing technologies that should be included in the amendments made via this rule.
The new arrangement means Canadian banks would report «relevant» information on accounts held by U.S. residents or citizens to the Canada Revenue Agency, which would share it with the IRS under existing tax treaty rules — making it consistent with Canadian privacy laws, said senior government officials.
ABOLISHES the Commercial Pet Breeder Agency and the administrative rules by placing oversight and regulation of pet breeding under the Department of Agriculture — an industry outside their scope — without benefit of the knowledge, experience and technical competencies of the existing board of directors (or advisory council)
The pending rules from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) are widely expected to set emission - reduction targets for existing power plants and allow states to craft their own plans for how to meet the standard.
S. Environmental Protection Agency, Carbon Pollution Emission Guidelines for Existing Stationary Sources: Electric Utility Generating Units; Proposed Rule Federal Register / Vol.
The Supreme Court ruled last year that the agency could regulate carbon dioxide, the most prevalent global warming gas, under existing law.
S. Environmental Protection Agency, Carbon Pollution Emission Guidelines for Existing Stationary Sources: Electric Utility Generating Units (Proposed Rule), 79 Fed.
To prohibit the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency from finalizing any rule imposing any standard of performance for carbon dioxide emissions from any existing or new source that is a fossil fuel - fired electric utility generating unit unless and until carbon capture and storage is found to be technologically and economically feasible.
WASHINGTON, DC (December 1, 2014)-- Today, The Climate Reality Project announced the delivery of more than 126,000 citizen comments to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in support of the EPA's proposed Clean Power Plan, a rule that would limit carbon pollution from existing power plants.
In important cases, agencies have been unable to quantify the benefits of rules, simply because existing information does not permit reliable estimates.»
In June 2014, under authority from the Clean Air Act (CAA) section 111 (d), the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) published their draft Clean Power Plan, a proposed rule to limit carbon emissions from existing large coal facilities across the country.
And finally, the leaked EPA document says that the agency is considering «developing a rule similarly intended to reduce CO2 emissions from existing fossil fuel electric utility generating units.»
Last year, the Environmental Protection Agency finalized a far - reaching rule that would, for the first time ever, regulate carbon dioxide emissions from America's existing coal - and gas - fired power plants — one of the biggest sources of climate pollution around.
On September 27, 2016, the entire United States District Court for the District of Columbia will hear oral arguments in West Virginia, et al. v EPA, to which E&E Legal is party, challenging the EPA's «Carbon Pollution Emission Guidelines for Existing Stationary Sources: Electric Utility Generating Units» rule under section 111 (d) of the Clean Air Act, over the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) regulation that will cripple, and in many cases, shut down coal - fired power plants.
The proposed rule on carbon emissions from existing electric power plants released by the Environmental Protection Agency for public comment on June 2 «has a fundamental flaw,» according to Prof. Robert Howarth at Cornell University.
He led the construction of an energy efficiency costing tool for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to support the EPA's development of the draft 111 (d) rule for limiting CO2 emissions from existing power plants.
Though legislation to limit CO2 pollution failed to pass in the Senate in 2010, President Obama and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) have since announced the Clean Power Plan, which lays out new rules that govern carbon emissions from existing power plants.
Though Congress could theoretically overturn an Environmental Protection Agency rule to regulate existing utilities under the Clean Air Act, Democrats have the votes they need in the Senate to block such an effort.
For example, if a federal government agency publishes something in the federal register that does not exactly restate an existing regulation, then it is a rule change, in the narrow sense that is changes an existing published narrowly defined Code of Federal Regulations rule.
Removing any bias or adverse impacts that exist in the agency's rules, standards, formal and informal policies, procedures, decision - making practices and organizational culture
Or the Canada Revenue Agency could better enforce existing personal service business rules and corporate attribution rules, reduce the gap between the capital gains rates and the dividend rates and effectively end «artificial tax planning» (thus avoiding pages and pages of new rules).
Any order of the Oklahoma Supreme Court modifying or repealing any provision of the Code of Judicial Conduct as it exists on the effective date of this act, or enacting a revision to the Code of Judicial Conduct as it exists on the effective date of this act, shall be submitted to the Legislature for its review as and in the manner that agency rules are submitted pursuant to the provisions of the Administrative Procedures Act.
Response: We support other federal agencies to whom the rules apply in their efforts to review existing regulations and policies regarding protected health information.
However, it was found that Dacas certainly did not rule out the possibility of dual contracts existing between a worker and the agency as well as the end user.
Idaho Governor C.L. «Butch» Otter signed Executive Order 2018 - 01 on January 2, 2018 to create the Autonomous and Connected Vehicle Testing and Deployment Committee to identify relevant state agencies to support the testing and deployment of autonomous and connected vehicles, discuss how best to administer the testing of autonomous and connected vehicles in relation to issues such as vehicle registration, licensing, insurance, traffic regulations, and vehicle owner or operator responsibilities and liabilities under current law, review existing state statutes and administrative rules and identify existing laws or rules that impede the testing and deployment of autonomous and connected vehicles on roads and identify strategic partnerships to leverage the social, economic, and environmental benefits of autonomous and connected vehicles.
Agency workers can still apply to Employment Tribunals for rights as employees against the hiring client, despite current rulings against such rights existing and the introduction of the Agency Workers Regulations (AWR).
The U.S. Small Business Administration, a federal agency responsible for protecting the interests of small businesses, has asked the Administration to withdraw a proposed rule that changes the scope of existing law without Congress» authority and expand federal regulatory power under the Clean Water Act.
The Agencies intend to publish a supplemental proposal to request comment on possible exemptions for «streamlined» refinance programs and small dollar loans, as well as to seek comment on whether application of the rule to loans secured by certain other property types, such as existing manufactured homes, is appropriate.
As a result of the latest investigation, the Competition Bureau wants CREA to remove its «Agency Pillar» and three of its seven «Interpretations» of how existing MLS rules are applied.
In its tribunal filing, the bureau singles out four key conditions contained in CREA's existing MLS rules: CREA's «Agency» rule and MLS Interpretations 1, 3 and 6.
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