The Office of Procurement and Property Management (OPPM) of the Department of Agriculture (USDA) is amending the Agriculture Acquisition Regulation (the ``AGAR'') to add a new clause at subpart 422.70 entitled ``Labor Law Violations.'' The rule is issued as a direct final rule. Elsewhere in this issue of the Federal Register, we are publishing a companion proposed rule under USDA's usual procedure for notice and comment to provide a procedural framework to finalize the rule. In the event that any significant adverse comments are received, this direct final rule will be withdrawn.
The Office of Procurement and Property Management (OPPM) of the Department of Agriculture (USDA) proposes to amend the Agriculture Acquisition Regulation (the ``AGAR'') to add a new clause at subpart 422.70 entitled ``Labor Law Violations.'' In the final rule section of the Federal Register, the Agency is publishing this action as a direct final rule without prior proposal because OPPM views this as a non- controversial action and expects no adverse comments. If no adverse comments are received in response to the direct final rule, no further action will be taken on this proposed rule, and the action will become effective at the time specified in the direct final rule. If the Agency receives adverse comments, a timely document will be published withdrawing the direct final rule, and all...
Knowledgeable officials are expecting a regulatory tsunami after the election. By law, the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) is required to publish a report each April and October about new regulations that government agencies are considering. OMB failed to publish the April report. The question is why - what is it hiding? House Education and the Workforce Committee Chairman John Kline, Minnesota Republican, has called the OMB's actions a "flagrant violation" of the law. Susan Dudley, director of the George Washington University Regulatory Studies Center, has studied the pattern of "economically significant" regulations (those with impacts of $100 million or more per year) from 1982 through the first half of 2012. Ms. Dudley has observed that President Obama has had a different patt...
For most lawyers, travel time can be a productive time to get some work done. But it's important to remember the need to maintain the attorney-client privilege on a plane, a subway or a train. Working while traveling or commuting "is a fact of modern life and practice," said Jared Correia, a practice advisor at the Law Office Management Assistance Program in Boston.
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