WASHINGTON, May 28 -- The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has released the following public communication dated May 22, 2024: * * * To: Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Department of Health and Human Services Attention: CMS-1802-P P.O. Box 8016 Baltimore, MD 21244-8016 Re: Proposed Skilled Nursing Facility (SNF) Fiscal Year (FY) 2025 Prospective Payment System (PPS) Rule The Honorable Secretary Xavier Becerra: LeadingAge  more ST

WASHINGTON, May 27 -- The U.S. Department of Transportation has released the following public communication dated May 13, 2024: * * * New York City Mayor's Office for People with Disabilities 100 Gold Street, 2nd Floor New York, NY 10038 Voice: 212.788.2830 Fax: 212.312.0960 Website: www.nyc.gov/mopd * * * To: The Honorable Pete Buttigieg U.S. Department of Transportation 1200 New Jersey Ave., SE Washington, DC 20590 RE: NYC Mayor's Office for People with Disabilities' Comment Re more ST

WASHINGTON, May 28 -- The U.S. Department of Education has released the following public communication dated May 17, 2024: * * * To: Nasser H. Paydar, Ph.D. Assistant Secretary for Postsecondary Education U.S. Department of Education 400 Maryland Avenue SW Washington, DC, 20202 Re: Docket ID ED-2023-OPE-0123 Dear Assistant Secretary Paydar: We, the undersigned, are a coalition of organizations and individuals who are concerned with the well-being of justice-impacted borrowers, who we in more ST

WASHINGTON, May 28 -- The U.S. Department of Education has released the following public communication dated May 17, 2024. Here are excerpts: * * * To: Nasser H. Paydar, Ph.D Assistant Secretary for Postsecondary Education U.S. Department of Education 400 Maryland Avenue SW Washington, DC, 20202 RE: Docket ID ED-2023-OPE-0123 Dear Assistant Secretary, This comment is submitted on behalf of 22,337 student loan borrowers--American taxpayers from all walks of life--in response to the noti more ST

WASHINGTON, May 28 -- The U.S. Department of Labor Employment and Training Administration has released the following public communication dated May 13, 2024: * * * Anthropic 548 Market St., PMB 90375 San Francisco, CA 94104-5401 412-837-9797 anthropic.com * * * To: Brian Pasternak Administrator Office of Foreign Labor Certification Employment and Training Administration Department of Labor 200 Constitution Avenue NW, N-5311 Washington, D.C. 20210 RE: Request for Information, Labor  more ST

WASHINGTON, May 28 -- The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has released the following public communication dated May 16, 2024. Here are excerpts: * * * To: Michael S. Regan, Administrator US Environmental Protection Agency 1200 Pennsylvania Avenue NW Washington, DC 20460 Re: Updated Residential Soil Level Lead Guidance for CERCLA Sites and RCRA Corrective Action Facilities; Docket EPA-HQ-OLEM-2023-0644 Dear Administrator Regan: The undersigned organizations and individuals, who are  more ST

WASHINGTON, May 28 -- The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has released the following public communication dated May 14, 2024: * * * Comments from Scientists, Academics, and Clinicians on the Draft Risk Evaluation of Formaldehyde Under TSCA Docket EPA-HQ-OPPT-2023-0613-0009 These comments are submitted on behalf of the undersigned scientists, academics, and clinicians. We declare that we have no direct or indirect financial or fiduciary interests in the subjects of these comments. The co more ST

WASHINGTON, May 28 -- The U.S. Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service has released the following public communication dated May 21, 2024: * * * To: Public Comments Processing U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Headquarters MS: PRB (JAO/3W) 5275 Leesburg Pike Falls Church, VA 22041-3803 Submitted Via Internet: www.regulations.gov Docket Number: FWS-HQ-IA-2024-0033 Re: Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora, Conference of the Parties, Twe more ST

WASHINGTON, May 28 -- The U.S. Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service has released the following public communication dated May 21, 2024: * * * POTENTIAL PROPOSAL FROM CANADA FOR CITES CoP20 REGARDING THE PEREGRINE FALCON Summary At the 17th meeting of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) Conference of the Parties (CoP17), in 2016, Canada submitted CoP17 Prop. 17 (to transfer Falco peregrinus from Appendix I to Appendix II  more ST

WASHINGTON, May 28 -- The U.S. Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service has released the following public communication dated May 20, 2024: * * * To whom it may concern The EAZA Hornbill Taxon Advisory Group (TAG) coordinates all issues relating to hornbills in the member zoos of the European Association of Zoos and Aquariums (EAZA). This includes education, management, exhibit design, breeding, research and conservation. Through EAZA's Ex-situ Programs (EEPs) 16 Asian and African more ST

WASHINGTON, May 28 -- The U.S. Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service has released the following public communication dated May 20, 2024: * * * To whom it may concern, RE: Recommendations on Species Proposals for African hornbills Ceratogymna spp. And look-alike Bycanistes spp. We, as the IUCN SSC Hornbill Specialist Group, are looking for support to enable the addition of all Ceratogymna and Bycanistes species to CITES Appendix II. Specifically, these species meet the biologic more ST

WASHINGTON, May 27 -- The U.S. Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service has released the following public communication dated May 20, 2024: * * * To: Public Comments Processing Attn: FWS-HQ-IA-2024-0033 U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Headquarters MS: PRB (JAO/3W) 5275 Leesburg Pike Falls Church, VA 22041-3803 Dear Colleagues, Panthera appreciates the opportunity to provide this commentary for consideration by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service in response to its notice, "Con more ST

WASHINGTON, May 28 -- The U.S. Department of Agriculture Food and Nutrition Service has released the following public communication on May 23, 2024: * * * SD Proposed Rule Comments Serious Management Problem Questions What appeal option, if any, will a sponsor have to challenging a state's determination of a serious management problem (SMP)? Will SMPs, like serious deficiencies (SDs), not be something that can be challenged on appeal? The new SMP process, specifically the five categories, ap more ST

WASHINGTON, May 28 -- The U.S. Department of the Interior Bureau of Ocean Energy Management has released the following public communication dated May 20, 2024. Here are excerpts: * * * To: Director Liz Klein U.S. Bureau of Ocean Energy Management U.S. Department of the Interior 1849 C Street, N.W. Washington, D.C. 20240 Submitted Electronically Re: Gulf of Mexico Wind Lease Sale (GOMW-2) for Commercial Leasing for Wind Power on the Outer Continental Shelf Offshore in the Gulf of Mexico- more ST

WASHINGTON, May 27 -- The U.S. Department of the Interior Bureau of Ocean Energy Management has released the following public communication on May 23, 2024: * * * Good evening, My name is Jeff Brault, and I am the Vice President of Global Public Affairs at Hornblower Group and Hornblower Wind, a member of the WINDEA CTV, LLC joint venture. WINDEA CTV LLC is a leading US offshore windfarm crew transfer vessel (CTV) operator, building a fleet of next-generation CTVs for charter to offshore win more ST

WASHINGTON, May 28 -- The U.S. Department of the Interior Bureau of Ocean Energy Management has released the following public communication dated May 20, 2024: * * * To: Public Comments Processing ATTN: Renee Bigner Bureau of Ocean Energy Management Office of Leasing and Plans 1201 Elmwood Park Boulevard New Orleans, Louisiana 70123 RE: Comments on GOMW-2 Lease Sale PSN (Docket No. BOEM 2024-0017-0001) Dear Ms. Renee Bigner The purpose of this letter is to show support and provide com more ST

WASHINGTON, May 28 -- The U.S. Department of the Interior Bureau of Ocean Energy Management has released the following public communication dated May 15, 2024: * * * The Nature Conservancy WORLDWIDE OFFICE 4245 North Fairfax Drive, Suite 100 Arlington, VA 22203 Phone (703) 841-5300 Fax (703) 555-1111 nature.org * * * To: Bureau of Ocean Energy Management Office of Leasing and Plans 1201 Elmwood Park Boulevard New Orleans, Louisiana 70123 RE: Gulf of Mexico Wind Lease Sale (GOMW-2)  more ST

WASHINGTON, May 28 -- The U.S. Department of the Interior Bureau of Ocean Energy Management has released the following public communication dated May 9, 2024: * * * To: Heather Schultz NEPA Coordinator, Environment Branch for Renewable Energy Bureau of Ocean Energy Management 45600 Woodland Road VAM-OREP Sterling, Virginia 20166 RE: Notice of Intent To Prepare an Environmental Impact Statement for the Proposed Vineyard Northeast Project on the U.S. Outer Continental Shelf Offshore Massac more ST

WASHINGTON, May 28 -- The U.S. Department of the Interior Bureau of Ocean Energy Management has released the following public communication dated May 17, 2024. Here are excerpts: * * * UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration NATIONAL MARINE FISHERIES SERVICE Southeast Regional Office 263 13th Avenue South St. Petersburg, Florida 33701-5505 https://www.fisheries.noaa.gov/region/southeast * * * To: Dr. James Kendall Regional Director, Gulf o more ST

WASHINGTON, May 28 -- The U.S. Department of the Interior Bureau of Ocean Energy Management has released the following public communication on May 20, 2024: * * * To: Elizabeth Klein, Director, Bureau of Ocean Energy Management and Renee Bigner, Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Office of Leasing and Plans, 1201 Elmwood Park Boulevard, New Orleans, Louisiana 70123 Comments on GOMW-2 Lease Sale PSN (BOEM-2024-0017) from the Lone Star Chapter and the Delta Chapter of the Sierra Club The Lone  more ST

WASHINGTON, May 28 -- The U.S. Department of the Interior Bureau of Ocean Energy Management has released the following public communication dated May 19, 2024. Here are excerpts: * * * To: Renee Bigner, renee.bigner@boem.gov, (504) 736-7623 Bureau of Ocean Energy Management Office of Leasing and Plans 1201 Elmwood Park Boulevard, New Orleans, Louisiana 70123 RE: Gulf of Mexico Wind Lease Sale (GOMW-2) for Commercial Leasing for Wind Power on the Outer Continental Shelf Offshore in the Gul more ST

WASHINGTON, May 28 -- The U.S. Department of the Interior Bureau of Ocean Energy Management has released the following public communication dated May 20, 2024. Here are excerpts: * * * Texas Climate Jobs Project 1106 Lavaca Street Austin, Texas 78723 www.txclimatejobs.org info@txclimatejobs.org * * * To: Bureau of Ocean Energy Management Office of Leasing and Plans 1201 Elmwood Park Boulevard New Orleans, Louisiana 70123 Re: Comments on GOM Wind Lease Sale PSN, Docket No. BOEM-2024- more ST

WASHINGTON, May 28 -- The U.S. Department of the Interior Bureau of Ocean Energy Management has released the following public communication dated May 20, 2024: * * * United States Department of the Interior FISH AND WILDLIFE SERVICE Post Office Box 1306 Albuquerque, New Mexico 87103 * * * To: Ms. Renee Bigner Bureau of Ocean Energy Management Office of Leasing and Plans 1201 Elmwood Park Boulevard New Orleans, Louisiana 70123 Dear Ms. Bigner: The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFW more ST

WASHINGTON, May 28 -- The U.S. Department of the Treasury Internal Revenue Service has released the following public communication dated May 13, 2024: * * * To: Internal Revenue Service P.O. Box 7604 CC:PA:01:PR (REG-118499-23) Room 5203 Ben Franklin Station Washington, DC 20044 RE: Proposed Regulations - Excise Tax on Repurchase of Corporate Stock-Procedure and Administration (REG-118499-23) To Whom it May Concern: The Investment Company Institute (ICI)/1 and Nareit/2 appreciate the o more ST

WASHINGTON, May 27 -- The U.S. Department of the Treasury Internal Revenue Service has released the following public communication dated May 13, 2024: * * * Project Canary PBC 1200 17th St, Floor 23 Denver, CO 80202 * * * To: Douglas W. O'Donnell Deputy Commissioner for Services and Enforcement Office of the Associate Chief Counsel (Passthroughs and Special Industries) Internal Revenue Service U.S. Treasury Department 1500 Pennsylvania Ave, N.W. Washington, DC 20220 RE: Response to  more ST

WASHINGTON, May 28 -- The U.S. Department of Labor Occupational Safety and Health Administration has released the following public communication dated May 24, 2024: * * * To: The Honorable Douglas L. Parker Assistant Secretary of Labor for Occupational Safety and Health Occupational Safety and Health Administration U.S. Department of Labor 200 Constitution Avenue, NW Washington, DC 20210 RE: Recommend Additional Ninety Day Extension of Comment Period for Proposed "Emergency Response Standa more ST

WASHINGTON, May 28 -- The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services has released the following public communication dated May 17, 2024. Here are excerpts: * * * To: Samantha Deshommes Chief, Regulatory Coordinator Division Office of Policy and Strategy U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services Department of Homeland Security Re: Comment in Response to the DHS/USCIS Agency Information Collection Activities; Revision of a Currently Approved Collection: Petition for U Nonimmigrant Status, U more ST

WASHINGTON, May 27 -- The U.S. Department of Homeland Security Coast Guard has released the following public communication on May 24, 2024: * * * FROM: Gary D. Statler, Campbell Transportation Company, Inc., Senior Vice President - River Operations TO: Jason C. Aleksak, Captain, U.S. Coast Guard, Chief, Office of Boat Forces Marine Safety Unit Pittsburgh (USCG) is absolutely vital to the safety of the Pittsburgh region's waterways. Any change in water patrol service could pose detrimental is more ST

WASHINGTON, May 28 -- The U.S. Department of Homeland Security Coast Guard has released the following public communication dated May 21, 2024: * * * TO: Docket Management Facility RE: Docket No. USCG-2022-0802 Cybersecurity in the Marine Transportation System As published in Federal Register on February 22, 2024 * FROM: Cross Sound Ferry Services, Inc. 2 Ferry Street New London, Ct 06320 BACKGROUND Cross Sound Ferry Services, Inc. (CSF), a Connecticut Corporation with offices located  more ST

WASHINGTON, May 27 -- The U.S. Department of Homeland Security Coast Guard has released the following public communication dated May 22, 2024: * * * MAZZOLA MARDON, P.C. ATTORNEYS AT LAW 26 BROADWAY, 17TH FLOOR NEW YORK, NEW YORK 10004 JOHN P. SHERIDAN JSheridan@mmmpc.com TELEPHONE (212) 425-3240 FACSIMILE (212) 509-8952 * * * To: Commander Brandon Link Office of Port and Facility Compliance United States Coast Guard U.S. Department of Homeland Security 2703 Martin Luther King Jr. more ST

WASHINGTON, May 28 -- The U.S. Department of Agriculture Food and Nutrition Service has released the following public communication dated May 21, 2024: * * * To: Navneet Kaur Sandhu Program Integrity and Innovation Division USDA Food and Nutrition Service 1320 Braddock Place Alexandria, VA 22314 Dear Ms. Sandu: The USDA serious deficiency policy is important to the child care and Head Start communities. Ensuring equity in CACFP payment and accountability policies and practices is fundame more ST

WASHINGTON, May 28 -- The U.S. Department of Agriculture Food and Nutrition Service has released the following public communication dated May 20, 2024: * * * Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services P.O. Box 570, Jefferson City, MO 65102-0570 Phone: 573-751-6400 FAX: 573-751-6010 * * * To: Navneet Kaur Sandhu Program Integrity and Innovation Division USDA Food and Nutrition Service 1320 Braddock Place Alexandria, VA 22314 Dear Navneet Kaur Sandhu: The Missouri Department more ST

WASHINGTON, May 28 -- The U.S. Office of Trade Representative has released the following public communication dated May 17, 2024: * * * DOCKET NUMBER USTR-2024-0002 DM-COR-CAE-0331-2024 To: The Honorable Katherine Tai United States Trade Representative United States of America Dear Ambassador, On behalf of the Ministry of Foreign Trade of Costa Rica, I write in response to the U.S. Trade Representative (USTR) Federal Register notice USTR-2024-0002 published on March 7th, 2024, regarding  more ST