Search Results Archives: May 2015
From: FederalNewsRadio.com 1500AM
Locality pay will increase at 13 new cities next January, Beth Cobert, deputy director of the Office of Management and Budget, told members of a federal employee union Friday.
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The Office of Personnel Management submitted its rulemaking proposal on May 5, to the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, according to an OMB official. OIRA will soon publish the proposed rulemaking in the Federal Register to solicit public comment.
From: Lexology
Alexander J. Bandza | Jenner & Block
Last week, the EPA-specific listing on the website of the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs was updated with timelines on the EPA’s regulatory efforts. Of potential interest, in chronological order of expected release, are the following rules:
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Editor’s Note: The GAO report, Federal Motor Carrier Safety: Modifying the Compliance, Safety, Accountability Program Would Improve the Ability to Identify High Risk Carriers, is available here.
From: Overdrive
The lack of crash accountability or crash weighting in the DOT’s Compliance, Safety, Accountability program is unfair to carriers, said one of the FMCSA’s top dogs at Overdrive sister publication CCJ’s Spring Symposium this week in Birmingham, Ala.
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The looming Safety Fitness Determination rule also includes an adjudication process similar to CSA’s already exisiting DataQs system. The rule is currently under review by the Office of the Secretary of Transportation, he said. “Hopefully it will go on to the OMB very, very soon,” he said.
Editor’s Note: Cross-Posted from OIRA Watch. Emphasis added.
From: Reuters
WASHINGTON, May 22, 2015 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — Inside EPA reports that it is likely that CCS is not in the New Source Performance Standard (NSPS) rule sent by EPA to OMB for interagency review. In response to this information some stakeholder groups are rallying their supporters to meet with OMB to reverse the decision.
It should be noted that all parties interested in a viable climate change program cannot afford to have EPA reversed in court on a rule which is predicate to the issuance of subsequent climate change rules. The elimination of CCS from the rule will make it virtually litigation proof; litigants will be mining for fools gold.
From: Inside EPA
The White House Office of Management & Budget (OMB) has begun reviewing proposed revisions to EPA’s hazardous waste export-import requirements that would move to electronic-based submittals and validations of export notices and other documents, and would add consistency to export-import requirements.
From: Transport Topics
A proposed rule to require the installation and use of speed-limiting devices on heavy trucks has been sent to the White House Office of Management and Budget for review.
The joint National Highway Traffic Safety Administration and Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration proposal, forwarded to OMB on May 19, is expected to be published in the Federal Register on Aug. 27.
From: insideARM.com
It seems likely that the CFPB will follow the Small Business Regulatory Enforcement Fairness Act of 1996 (SBREFA) and convene a Review Panel as the next step in the debt collection rulemaking process. However, as of this date the CFPB has not made any formal announcements about the formation of a SBREFA panel for debt collection.
Under SBREFA, when developing rules that may have a significant economic impact on a substantial number of small businesses, the CFPB, in conjunction with the Small Business Administration (SBA) and the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), is required to form a Review Panel to obtain input from a group of small business representatives. The Panel is selected by the CFPB in consultation with the SBA.
From: Sentry Data Systems
Last week, the White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB) received the Health Resources and Service Administration’s (HRSA’s) 340B Program Omnibus Guidelines (RIN 0906-AB08) for review. The OMB review process is expected to last approximately 90 days from May 6, the date the RegInfo.gov website notes that the OMB received the proposed guidelines.
From: RegBlog | Penn Program on Regulation
Health experts claim that inhaling tiny crystalline silica particles can cause respiratory impairment and may result in lung cancer. Since crystalline silica exposure is common in many occupations, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OHSA) proposed a rule recently that would reduce the risks of respirable crystalline silica in the workplace.
However, two scholars doubt the effectiveness of OSHA’s proposal. Susan E. Dudley of George Washington University and Andrew P. Morriss of Texas A&M University argue that OSHA should encourage investigations and experimentation by employers, rather than restrict them with inflexible compliance standards. They urge a performance-based approach that will bring about a “generation of better information” and allow OSHA to implement more effective policies.
From: Lexology/Association of Corporate Counsel
Alfred B. Robinson, Jr. | Ogletree Deakins
On Tuesday, May 5, 2015, the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) announced that it had sent its draft proposed part 541 overtime regulations to the Office of the Information and Regulatory Affairs (OIRA) at the Office of Management and Budget for review. President Obama signed a presidential memorandum on March 13, 2014, directing the Secretary of Labor to revise the Part 541 overtime regulations that define the executive, administrative, professional, outside sales, and computer employee exemptions from overtime and minimum wage requirements contained in section 13(a)(1) of the Fair Labor Standards Act. The DOL last revised these Part 541 regulations in 2004.