Sentences with phrase «government agency review»

Each year the government agencies review the area median incomes and area median home prices and update their loan limits for each county in California.

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The government of Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau introduced the Foreign Investment Review Act (FIRA) in 1973, forming a federal agency to advise on the respective benefits and hazards of particular transactions.

Those reviews are seen by many government agencies like the Environmental Protection Agency, as well as environmentalists, as cornerstones to ensuring the environment is taken into account when new construction projects are ordered.

Beijing this year said it would review all imported security products for potential security flaws following revelations by former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden that U.S. technology companies co-operated with widespread government spying.

Professor Poole is one of a six - member committee appointed to review collaboration between Australia's public universities and publicly funded research agencies, as part of the Federal Government's higher education reform package.

The filing, which came out in March, disclosed a review of certain activities in the wealth and investment management business in response to inquiries from federal government agencies.

Whitmarsh declined an interview, but did say his correspondence with the government began after reading in the media that officials said the Public Service Agency could do the review because they said they weren't involved in the firings.

Earlier this fall, the government announced a review into the matter to be conducted by the Public Service Agency.

«We are writing to set out Mr. Whitmarsh's concerns with respect to the manner in which the Public Service Agency's review is being conducted, as well as the damaging public comments that have been made about him recently by the Minister of Health Terry Lake, Premier Christy Clark and others in Government,» wrote Adams.

A long - delayed merger between Henrico County - based insurer Genworth Financial Inc. and China Oceanwide Holdings Group Co. Ltd. is being extended yet again as the proposed deal remains under review by some government regulatory agencies.

Vacancies left in senior positions at several government agencies, almost five months after Trump's inauguration, have caused delays and fueled uncertainty in the CFIUS review system.

Entities that may still have access to your Equifax credit file include: companies like Equifax Global Consumer Solutions which provide you with access to your credit report or credit score, or monitor your credit file; federal, state, and local government agencies; companies reviewing your application for employment; companies that have a current account or relationship with you, and collection agencies acting on behalf of those whom you owe; for fraud detection purposes; and companies that wish to make pre-approved offers of credit or insurance to you.

One reason Russia requests the reviews before allowing sales to government agencies and state - run companies is to ensure that U.S. intelligence services have not placed spy tools in the software.

The ArcSight review took place last year, at a time when Washington was accusing Moscow of an increasing number of cyber attacks against American companies, U.S. politicians and government agencies, including the Pentagon.

Echelon operates as an official laboratory and software tester of FSTEC and Russia's FSB spy agency, according to Russian government registries of testing laboratories and software certifications reviewed by Reuters.

The review, which covers a wide range of industry opinion from media owners, agencies and other government departments, recognised that media buying does not exist in isolation, but needs to be defined within a wider planning system and a much more inter-related and interactive «media ecology».

Each of the 97 petitions that have crossed the signature threshold so far have been carefully reviewed by experts here at the White House and in agencies across the federal government, and the majority have already been answered, with more coming every week.

That conclusion, based on a full but complicated analysis of every possible measurement ¬ — complaints to Ombudsfolk, audit reports of all kinds, measurement of times and numbers, review of agency work and outsourcing — stands up against every possible reservation, such as the argument that costs and complaints would have risen even more had the reforms not been undertaken, or that social change made it necessary for government to run faster to stand still.

He says he will review all government agencies for efficiency — but he already has some ideas.

But City Comptroller Scott Stringer, in a review of both city and state laws, found that government agencies themselves — at both levels — are not prohibited from discriminating in their choice of companies bidding on providing services for government, even though the contractors selected are barred from discriminating as employers.

- Administering the New York State and Local Retirement System for public employees, with more than one million members, retirees and beneficiaries and more than 3,000 employers; - Acting as sole trustee of the $ 129 billion Common Retirement Fund, one of the largest institutional investors in the world; - Maintaining the State's accounting system and administering the State's $ 12.6 billion payroll; - Issuing reports on State finances; - Managing the State's assets and issuing debt; - Reviewing State contracts and payments before they are issued; - Conducting audits of State agencies and public benefit corporations; - Overseeing the fiscal affairs of local governments, including New York City; - Overseeing the Justice Court Fund and the Oil Spill Fund Acting as custodian of more than $ 9 billion in abandoned property and restoring unclaimed funds to their rightful owners;

«What customs is doing is to start engagement from the government agency to government agency; so we are going to be talking to CBN first to see what can be done in terms of review of policy.

A Government Accountability Office has agreed to review how classified information is kept secure at Trump's Mar - a-Lago resort in Florida, the agency said, after Democratic lawmakers raised concerns about the issue last month.

Nick Clegg, the Liberal Democrat leader, has commissioned a review into the new intrusive capabilities of British intelligence agencies and the legal framework in which they operate, after failing to persuade David Cameron that the coalition government should act now to tighten the accountability of Britain's spies.

The aide, Brendan Fitzgerald, the deputy secretary for general government and financial services, asked to review and possibly edit requests that the agency sent to financial institutions, the people said.

«We must be willing to work together, with full transparency from all government agencies, to review all studies, analyze all options and focus on the most important goal: to ensure the people of Hoosick Falls have a safe and healthy place to call home.»

When rating agencies review municipal governments» credit rating, an improvement in the outlook from stable to positive often portends a future rating upgrade.

Long explained that the agency's review determined the damage outlined in the state's request «resulted from separate and distinct events, none of which were of the severity and magnitude as to be beyond the capabilities of the state, affected local governments and voluntary agencies.»

The program provides expert peer review and guidance to academia, industry, foundations, and government agencies engaged in scientific research, development and innovation in the US and around the world.

Such benefits require governments to bring scientists into their agencies and departments, use their peer - reviewed data and analyses to inform policymaking and evaluations — approaches that also should be extended to the legislative and judicial branches of government, she said.

«We're government, and so we have a responsibility to be putting out recommendations and scientific data that are reliable — we have a whole peer - review process, and you're not even allowed to publish anything until it goes through that process at the agency,» she says.

New agency head will review whether federal government should regulate CO2 emissions after all

Based on that guidance, NASA and the Department of Energy (DOE) announced in April that they would block most government travel to Russia; other agencies are reviewing and in some cases not allowing such travel.

In the coming months, the government is expected to establish an agency akin to the U.S. National Science Foundation that will distribute research funds through competitive, peer - reviewed grants.

Academic toxicologists often explore molecular mechanisms of toxicity, whereas government agencies employ toxicologists to review and regulate drugs and chemicals.

Price Waterhouse, at the behest of the Department of Trade and Industry, is reviewing the position of the Patent Office after its three years as a government agency.

Although the U.K's new coalition government plans to disband the agency later this year, HFEA today announced a scientific review into a potential new fertility treatment that involves swapping DNA from one woman's fertilized egg into that of another.

The OSR pre-award office is responsible for reviewing all research applications to government and private funding agencies to ensure that proposal - related costs are accurate and proposals comply with Sponsor and the University guidelines.

Our clients include, amongst others, Chief Scientific Advisers; senior EU scientific officials; representatives of national governments, academies and agencies; prominent business leaders; stakeholders from pan-European scientific organisations and membership groups; science media and senior editors from peer - reviewed journals; and various talking - heads from internationally renowned research facilities.

All government agencies should review the scientific justifications for their policies and regulations to ensure they meet strict reproducibility standards.

The government - sponsored agency that reviews drugs for the public plans has recommended only those infants with the most severe form of SMA be covered, which excludes children like Sophie and Erin.

Beyond its primary mission of supporting the NRC, CNWRA conducts independent research and peer reviews related to radioactive waste management for foreign governments and regulatory agencies around the world.

The White House indicated that the president felt the need to personally lobby the Senate against Senator Hoeven's amendment because it did not provide for a means of review by appropriate agencies of the federal government.

Like most R - rated movies, we did not review The Wolf of Wall Street but instead we provide you with content information through various government and industry ratings agencies.

The directive also advised government agencies to review their employment rules and eliminate practices that involve quotas or set - asides.

To identify what makes turnarounds successful, we reviewed dozens of studies across a wide range of organizations: nonprofits of differing sizes, some in highly regulated industries such as health care; government agencies with varying missions; and for - profits in numerous industries.

By ignoring standard rulemaking procedures, the civil rights office avoids subjecting its regulations to public comment and review by other government agencies.

It prefers unilateral announcements of agency policy without any form of public participation or review by other government agencies.

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Minister of Education Ahmed bin Mohammed Al - Issa announced the termination on Tuesday of Mohammed bin Attia Al - Harthi, undersecretary for educational curricula and programs, along with the team of supervisors that reviewed and approved textbooks in the government agency.