WASHINGTON, July 12 (TNSFR) -- The U.S. Department of the Treasury Comptroller of the Currency, Federal Reserve System and Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation have issued an interim final rule (Docket ID OCC--2025-0006) entitled "Modifications to the Enhanced Supplementary Leverage Ratio Standards for U.S. Global Systemically Important Bank Holding Companies and Intermediate Holding Companies." This rule adjusts the enhanced supplementary leverage ratio for specific large banking organization  more

WASHINGTON, July 12 (TNSFR) -- The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has issued a proposed rule withdrawal (Docket No. EPA-HQ-OPPT-2023-0245) entitled "Chemical Substances (23-2.5e)." This action withdraws proposed significant rules for 18 chemical substances. The initial proposed rules aimed to regulate these substances under the Toxic Substances Control Act due to premanufacture notices and a subsequent order from EPA. These substances were derived from plastic waste and the proposed rules  more

WASHINGTON, July 12 (TNSFR) -- The Federal Communications Commission has issued a rule (WC Docket Nos. 10-90, 23-328, 14-58, 09-197, 16-271; WT Docket No. 10-208; FCC 23-60 and 23-87) entitled "Connect America Fund et al." This rule states that the Office of Management and Budget has approved, for a period of three years, an information collection requirement for the Connect America Fund. This approval is tied to rules in the commission's Enhanced A-CAM Order of August 17, 2023, and the Connect  more

WASHINGTON, July 13 (TNSFR) -- The U.S. Department of Labor Occupational Safety and Health Administration has issued a final rule (Docket No. OSHA-2025-0040) entitled "Construction Standards - Advisory Committee on Construction Safety and Health." This action streamlines procedures related to the Advisory Committee on Construction Safety and Health by revoking specific regulatory requirements and making corresponding adjustments to other sections of the Code of Federal Regulations (29 CFR Parts  more

WASHINGTON, July 12 (TNSFR) -- The U.S. Department of Commerce Patent and Trademark Office has issued a rule (Docket No. PTO-P-2025-0009) entitled "2025 Increase of the Annual Limit on Accepted Requests for Prioritized Examination." This action amends its regulations to expand the number of prioritized examination requests accepted each fiscal year. This rule increases the yearly limit for prioritized patent examination requests from 15,000 to 20,000. This change applies starting with fiscal ye  more

WASHINGTON, July 13 (TNSFR) -- The U.S. Department of Agriculture has issued a rule (Docket No. USDA-2024-0002) entitled "Removal of Unconstitutional Preferences Based on Race and Sex in Response to Court Ruling." This rule eliminates the use of race- and sex-based classifications in the department's programs and policies. It removes the "socially disadvantaged" designation previously applied to farmers and ranchers based on race or sex, a classification established in the 1990 farm bill and ex  more