...Electronic Cigarettes on Aircrafts | | | | | | 1. This proposed regulation interests me since I have started flying more often and I wouldn’t want to sit next to someone smoking an electronic cigarette on an airplane. The seating on airplanes are so close together that you wouldn’t want to be able to smell the vapor from someone smoking an electronic cigarette even though it is barely noticeable. This proposed regulation is banning electronic cigarettes from commercial and international aircraft flights. I guess it would affect me and the company I work for since there are hundreds of people in our company that have to fly for business. The discomfort of having to smell an unusual odor even if it was a flavor odor from someone sitting so close to during a 2 -6 hour flight would not be enjoyable. 2. The proposal is intended to change any existing smoking regulations for airlines to ban the use of electronic cigarettes on any passenger flights both domestic and international. The DOT is implementing this change due to the marketing and promotional advertising to increase the popularity of the electronic cigarettes and they are concerned about any safety, health and discomfort concerns that may be imposed on the other passengers on the aircraft. 3. November 13, 2011 Subject: Docket # DOT-OST-2011-0044 – Office of the Secretary (OST) and Department of Transportation (DOT) - Proposed Rule: Ban Smoking of Electronic Cigarettes on Aircrafts Dear Sir or...
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...SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION 17 CFR Parts 210, 229, 230, 240, 244 and 249 [RELEASE NOS. 33-8982; 34-58960; File No. S7-27-08] RIN 3235-AJ93 ROADMAP FOR THE POTENTIAL USE OF FINANCIAL STATEMENTS PREPARED IN ACCORDANCE WITH INTERNATIONAL FINANCIAL REPORTING STANDARDS BY U.S. ISSUERS AGENCY: ACTION: Securities and Exchange Commission. Proposed rule. SUMMARY: The Securities and Exchange Commission (“Commission”) is proposing a Roadmap for the potential use of financial statements prepared in accordance with International Financial Reporting Standards (“IFRS”) as issued by the International Accounting Standards Board by U.S. issuers for purposes of their filings with the Commission. This Roadmap sets forth several milestones that, if achieved, could lead to the required use of IFRS by U.S. issuers in 2014 if the Commission believes it to be in the public interest and for the protection of investors. This Roadmap also includes discussion of various areas of consideration for market participants related to the eventual use of IFRS in the United States. As part of the Roadmap, the Commission is proposing amendments to various regulations, rules and forms that would permit early use of IFRS by a limited number of U.S. issuers where this would enhance the comparability of financial information to investors. Only an issuer whose industry uses IFRS as the basis of financial reporting more than any other set of standards would be eligible to elect to use IFRS, beginning with filings...
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...Week 2 Homework Help – GM520. Professor Dan Speckenzy Student Name: ECPECO Date: 1 November 2009 1. Administrative Agency: Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC), of the Department of Energy (DOE) I chose FERC because it is the federal administration agency that ultimately my employer being a utility and a member of the non-government North American Reliability Commission (NERC) through which FERC imposes energy or electrical power jurisdictional and regulatory control. I chose the 60-day regulation on the books “Reliability Standards for Geomagnetic Disturbances” or RSGD regulation as it will eventually translate into physical, electronic, and IT infrastructure changes that I may be called upon to implement or collaborate implementation as an IT system integrator and/or systems engineer/administrator. This proposed RSGD regulation deals with developing and establishing reliability standards for mitigating the potential power interruption of our nation’s power-grid resulting from our planet earth’s geomagnetic field configuration disturbances (GMDs) caused by solar winds/flares generated by sunspots coronal mass ejection hurled at earth’s on a more frequent basis than experienced in the past, and the continued operation of the BULK-Power System. 2. The proposal is two-fold. First part or stage of the proposal is to require its FERC-certified Electric Reliability Organization (ERO) NERC to file reliability standard(s) within 90 days of the final rule effective...
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...How to Find a Proposed Regulation: ASSIGNMENT QUESTIONS: 1a. Make sure you submit a copy of your proposed regulation as an attachment to the Dropbox with this template. The Dropbox allows you to attach multiple documents in the same submission. (5 points) 1b. Identify the administrative agency (full name, not just the acronym) which controls the regulation. Briefly explain why this agency and your proposed regulation interests you. If this proposed regulation will affect you or the business in which you are working, please explain how. It is not required that the proposed regulation affect you professionally or personally. You can use any regulation for this assignment so long as you are able to answer the questions posed here (Questions 1-5). (10 points) Answer: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) - This specific agency, and proposed regulation, is of particular interest to me because of my past and future courses of study. My MPH degree was in public health with a concentration in disaster/emergency management so I want to ultimately aide in the education of my community to prevent communicable diseases. In the meantime, while working with medical students and clinical training sites, I am partially responsible for the health clearance of all of the students to ensure that they are able to do their clinical without risk of unnecessary exposure to harmful contagions. 2. Describe the proposal/change in your own words. (10 points) Answer: Influenza...
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...agency that controls the regulation. Explain why this agency and your proposed regulation interest you (briefly). Will this proposed regulation affect you, or the business in which you are working? If so, how? Submit a copy of the proposed regulation along with your responses to these five questions. The proposed regulation can be submitted as either a separate Word document (.doc) or Adobe file (.pdf). This means you will submit two attachments to the Week 2 Dropbox: (a) a Word document with the questions and your answers, and (b) a copy of the proposed regulation you used for this assignment. (10 points) The administrative agency that controls the specific regulation that I select is, “Office of the Secretary, Department of Defense (DoD).” Regulation: Child Development Programs (CDPs) ACTION: Interim final rule. This agency and the proposed regulation interest me because of my time spent in the military. While serving my country for I had seen many different changes take place due to new regulations imposed to the military by the DOD. In this case, the regulation is one that would have affected me if I was still in. CDP’s are of critical importance to the men and women that serve our country. Knowing that are government is attempting to increase the current level of assistance is gives CDP’s would be a big win for the government and the children and parents that will be impacted. 2. Describe the proposal/change. (10 points) The proposed change is an Interim final...
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...How to find current and/or proposed regulatory changes in the U. S. Federal government: Please note that the OTA is assisting the student with the "how to find" assignment, providing the student with the know-how to answer the specific questions in the assignment. To research current and/or proposed U. S. Federal regulations, a good site to begin with is www.regulations.gov. Once you enter the site, however, you will have to decide what government agency and its current or proposed regulations interest you most. For the sake of example, I will use the Social Security Administration to research a proposed regulatory change because that is one agency that will eventually impact most Americans. When you are at www.regulations.gov begin your search by choosing "search for a proposed rule" tab. Under the section titled "Select Document Type," go to proposed rules. To narrow you search in the home page, type in Social Security. This will bring you to a new page where you can narrow your research even more. Under the "Agency" box you can type the agency you are interested in, in this case, Social Security. Once you do this, the SSA (which stands for Social Security Administration) with a box next to it will appear. Check the box next to SSA. A series of proposed rules will appear pertaining to Social Security regulations. For the sake of this example, I will choose the latest proposed regulation titled, "Revised Medical Criteria for Evaluating Mental Disorders." As you will see below...
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... 2: Administrative Regulations - Assignments | | | | Help | | | | | | Print Assignments | Reading: Chapter 5: Business and the Constitution Chapter 6: Administrative Law Chapter 7: International Law (pp. 221-238) Assignment:Pick an administrative agency of either the Federal or a State government. Find where the current and proposed regulation changes for that agency are located on the internet. (i.e. the Federal Register or the State Administrative Agency website.) Regulations.gov is a good place to begin your research. Pick one proposed regulation change currently under consideration (if you find one which has already closed out, but interests you, you can use that, instead) and write the following regarding it:1. State the administrative agency which controls the regulation. Explain why this agency and your proposed regulation interests you (briefly). Will this proposed regulation affect you or the business in which you are working? If so, how? Submit a copy of the proposed regulation along with your responses to these five questions. The proposed regulation can be submitted as either a separate Word document (.doc) or Adobe file (.pdf). This means you will submit two attachments to the Week 2 Dropbox: (1) a Word doc with the questions and your answers and (2) a copy of the proposed regulation you used for this assignment. (10 points)2. Describe the proposal/change. (10 points)3. Write the public comment which you would submit to this proposal. If the proposed regulation...
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...Pick an administrative agency of either the federal or a state government. Find where the current and proposed regulation changes for that agency are located on the Internet. (i.e., the Federal Register or the State Administrative Agency website.) Regulations.gov is a good place to begin your research. Pick one proposed regulation change currently under consideration (if you find one that has already closed out but interests you, you can use that instead) and write the following regarding it: 1. State the administrative agency which controls the regulation. Explain why this agency and your proposed regulation interest you (briefly). Will this proposed regulation affect you or the business in which you are working? If so, how? Submit a copy of the proposed regulation along with your responses to these five questions. The proposed regulation can be submitted as either a separate Word document (.doc) or Adobe file (.pdf). This means you will submit two attachments to the Week 2 Dropbox: (a) a Word document with the questions and your answers and (b) a copy of the proposed regulation you used for this assignment. (10 points) U.S. Department of Education- This regulation really interests me because this regulation will make it harder for students to receive educations and the percent of college graduate will be lower. I am a fan of college graduates actually graduating and obtaining their degree. With that being said, this topic has my interest 100%. 2. Describe the proposal/change...
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...Week 2 Homework GM520. 1. State the administrative agency which controls the regulation. Explain why this agency and your proposed regulation interests you (briefly). Will this proposed regulation affect you or the business in which you are working? If so, how? Submit a copy of the proposed regulation along with your responses to these five questions. The proposed regulation can be submitted as either a separate Word document (.doc) or Adobe file (.pdf). This means you will submit two attachments to the Week 2 Dropbox: (1) a Word doc with the questions and your answers and (2) a copy of the proposed regulation you used for this assignment. (10 points) Federal Register Volume 77, Number 205 (Tuesday, October 23, 2012). International Mailing Services: Proposed Product and Price Changes. My business utilizes The United States Postal Service for small shipments and packages.. The price increase in product and service for international mailing could heavily affect our business. Thirty percent of our products are ordered by foreign customers. For the whole online selling industry, we will lose a large revenue if the new regulation is passed and applied to both individual and business. 2. Describe the proposal/change. (10 points) The proposal will increase the cost of USPS mailing services including First-Class Mail International and extra services. The Postal Service proposes to adjust the price of various sections of Mailing Standards of United Stated Post Service. The proposal...
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...1. State the administrative agency which controls the regulation. Explain why this agency and your proposed regulation interests you (briefly). Will this proposed regulation affect you or the business in which you are working? If so, how? Submit a copy of the proposed regulation along with your responses to these five questions. The proposed regulation can be submitted as either a separate Word document (.doc) or Adobe file (.pdf). This means you will submit two attachments to the Week 2 Dropbox: (1) a Word doc with the questions and your answers and (2) a copy of the proposed regulation you used for this assignment. (10 points) Federal Department of Energy – I have always been interested in the stock market and companies that are in secret trade deals. Also, understanding how trade secrets and “privileged” information is supposed to be kept from the public. 2. Describe the proposal/change. (10 points) The proposal proposes to standardize across its various programs procedures for the submission and protection of trade secrets and commercial or financial information that is privileged or confidential. These changes require at the time of submission, to identify and assert a claim of exemption regarding information it considers to be trade secrets or commercial or financial information that is privileged or confidential such that the information would be exempt from disclosure under the Freedom of Information Act. Also, on each page containing such data, there must...
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...controls the regulation. Explain why this agency and your proposed regulation interests you (briefly). Will this proposed regulation affect you or the business in which you are working? If so, how? Submit a copy of the proposed regulation along with your responses to these five questions. The proposed regulation can be submitted as either a separate Word document (.doc) or Adobe file (.pdf). This means you will submit two attachments to the Week 2 Dropbox: (a) a Word document with the questions and your answers and (b) a copy of the proposed regulation you used for this assignment. (10 points) Florida Agency for Health Care Administration The proposed regulation can and will affect me within the business that I currently work in, Human Resources. 2. Describe the proposal/change. (10 points) This proposed Rule Chapter would establish licensure requirements, application procedures and administrative proceedings for all AHCA-licensed health care facilities.It also refers what prohibited offenses are automatic disqualifiers and which are not. There are two types of screening: Level 1- means an assessment of criminal history record obatained form FDLE. Level 2- means an assessment of the criminal history record obtained through the FDLE and FBI. I work within the human resource department at the College of Medicine so this is something that I come in contact with daily. 3. Write the public comment that you would submit to this proposal. If the proposed regulation deadline has...
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...1. State the administrative agency which controls the regulation. Explain why this agency and your proposed regulation interests you (briefly). Will this proposed regulation affect you or the business in which you are working? If so, how? Submit a copy of the proposed regulation along with your responses to these five questions. The proposed regulation can be submitted as either a separate Word document (.doc) or Adobe file (.pdf). This means you will submit two attachments to the Week 2 Dropbox: (a) a Word document with the questions and your answers and (b) a copy of the proposed regulation you used for this assignment. (10 points) The legislation I chose to research is the “Protecting Academic Freedom in Higher Education Act” (H.R. 2117). This bill seeks to repeal a recent rule change by the U.S. Department of Education, which federally defines a credit hour as used by all institutes of Higher Education. It would also repeal the so-called state authorization regulation which significantly expands and complicates existing federal requirements for an institution to legally operate within a state I chose this legislation because as a leader in Higher Education the statute directly impacts my and all schools in the country; unduly burdening us and limiting the rights of our students. 2. Describe the proposal/change. (10 points) In October 2010, the U.S. Department of Education (DOE) released a package of regulations to purportedly improve the integrity of the student financial...
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...Pick an administrative agency of either the federal or a state government. Find where the current and proposed regulation changes for that agency are located on the Internet. (i.e., the Federal Register or the State Administrative Agency website.) Regulations.gov is a good place to begin your research. Pick one proposed regulation change currently under consideration (if you find one that has already closed out but interests you, you can use that instead) and write the following regarding it: 1. State the administrative agency which controls the regulation. Explain why this agency and your proposed regulation interests you (briefly). Will this proposed regulation affect you or the business in which you are working? If so, how? Submit a copy of the proposed regulation along with your responses to these five questions. The proposed regulation can be submitted as either a separate Word document (.doc) or Adobe file (.pdf). This means you will submit two attachments to the Week 2 Dropbox: (a) a Word document with the questions and your answers and (b) a copy of the proposed regulation you used for this assignment. (10 points) a. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA)– I plan on traveling for work and this could affect the safety of my airplane travel 2. Describe the proposal/change. (10 points) b. This AD was prompted by findings of chafed power wires due to flexing of the MDC rack panel. We are issuing this AD to prevent damage to power wires, which could cause...
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...Proposed regulation: Georgia Super Speeder Law 1. State the administrative agency which controls the regulation. Explain why this agency and your proposed regulation interest you. -Office of Highway Safety controls this Georgia Super Speeder regulation. This agency and regulation interests me because as a Georgia resident I have seen the damages that speeding on a Georgia highway can cause. I have had colleagues face bad accidents as a result to speeding and this regulation punishes those drivers that break the new regulation. -This law will directly affect me so much as if I was in violation of the law; I can face an additional $200 in the ticket fee just for being in violation. This fee does not include the actual speeding ticket. 2. Describe the proposal/change -The new law will increase the amount of money that an individual pays along with the speeding ticket fee. The proposal is in place to decrease the number of deaths and accidents from the result of driving above the given speed limit. 3. Write the public comment which you would submit to this proposal. Explain briefly what you wish to accomplish with your comment. -I am in favor of the new super speeder regulation. I believe this law will decrease the amount of ‘speeders’ on Georgia highways. Georgia has a high rate of motor vehicle accidents a day and with a new law that will punish these drivers with higher fines, I believe that more drivers will take caution and actually...
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...Week 2 Homework Help – GM520. 1. State the administrative agency which controls the regulation. Explain why this agency and your proposed regulation interests you (briefly). Will this proposed regulation affect you or the business in which you are working? If so, how? Submit a copy of the proposed regulation along with your responses to these five questions. The proposed regulation can be submitted as either a separate Word document (.doc) or Adobe file (.pdf). This means you will submit two attachments to the Week 2 Dropbox: (1) a Word doc with the questions and your answers and (2) a copy of the proposed regulation you used for this assignment. (10 points) Interstate Commerce Commission (ICC) regulated interstate surface transportation between 1887 and 1995. This interests me because of the changes of transportation. Yes, it does affect me because they are doing price controls and entry controls on the collective vendor’s price setting in the United States transportation. 2. Describe the proposal/change. (10 points) It is regulated through varies transportation modes starting with the railroad industry and later the trucking and airline industry. 3. Write the public comment which you would submit to this proposal. If the proposed regulation deadline has already passed, write the comment you would have submitted. Explain briefly what you wish to accomplish with your comment. (10 points) Deregulation—freeing up the trucking market to permit much more flexible pricing and...
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