Compliance Regulations and Guidance Affecting your Industry

This article describes the criteria for identifying and designating an agency as a lead agency as required by CEQA.

This article describes the authorities granted to public agencies by CEQA.

Describes the general responsibilities of various agencies under CEQA.

The regulations contained in this chapter are prescribed by the Secretary for Resources to be followed by all state and local agencies in California in the implementation of the California Environmental Quality Act. These Guidelines have been developed by the Office of Planning and Research for adoption by the Secretary for Resources in accordance with Section 21083.

14 CFR Part 29 contains airworthiness standards for rotorcraft in the transport category. Rotorcraft with more than 20,000 lb Maximum Takeoff Weight and 10 or more passengers must be certified to Category A standards.

Part 27 contains airworthiness standards for rotorcraft in the normal category. Rotorcraft up to 7,000 lb Maximum Takeoff Weight and 9 or fewer passengers are type certified in this Part.

This Airworthiness Standard covers transport category planes such as:

-    Jets with 10 or more seats or a maximum takeoff weight (MTOW) greater than 12,500 pounds (5,670 kg); or
-    Propeller-driven airplanes with greater than 19 seats or a MTOW greater than 19,000 pounds (8,618 kg).

This Airworthiness Standard describes the standards required for the issuance and change of type certificate for airplanes in the normal, utility, aerobatic, and commuter categories.

The Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA) gives EPA the authority to control hazardous waste from the "cradle-to-grave." This includes the generation, transportation, treatment, storage, and disposal of hazardous waste. RCRA also set forth a framework for the management of non-hazardous solid wastes. The 1986 amendments to RCRA enabled EPA to address environmental problems that could result from underground tanks storing petroleum and other hazardous substances.

HSWA - the Federal Hazardous and Solid Waste Amendments - are the 1984 amendments to RCRA that focused on waste minimization and phasing out land disposal of hazardous waste as well as corrective action for releases. Some of the other mandates of this law include increased enforcement authority for EPA, more stringent hazardous waste management standards, and a comprehensive underground storage tank program.

To know more about: - The Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA)

The International Financial Reporting Standards or IFRS are a set of financial reporting standards, interpretations and framework issued by the International Accounting Standards Board (IASB). The accounting standards that comprise part of the IFRS are known as the International Accounting Standards (IAS) that were issued by the board of the International Accounting Standards Committee (IASC).

IFRS 7 sets out the requirements for disclosures in financial instruments.

The International Financial Reporting Standards or IFRS are a set of financial reporting standards, interpretations and framework issued by the International Accounting Standards Board (IASB). The accounting standards that comprise part of the IFRS are known as the International Accounting Standards (IAS) that were issued by the board of the International Accounting Standards Committee (IASC).

IAS 8 sets out the requirements for accounting policies, changes in accounting estimates and errors.

The International Financial Reporting Standards or IFRS are a set of financial reporting standards, interpretations and framework issued by the International Accounting Standards Board (IASB). The accounting standards that comprise part of the IFRS are known as the International Accounting Standards (IAS) that were issued by the board of the International Accounting Standards Committee (IASC).

IAS 7 sets out the requirements for statement of cash flows.

The International Financial Reporting Standards or IFRS are a set of financial reporting standards, interpretations and framework issued by the International Accounting Standards Board (IASB). The accounting standards that comprise part of the IFRS are known as the International Accounting Standards (IAS) that were issued by the board of the International Accounting Standards Committee (IASC).

IAS 1 sets out the requirements for presenting financial statements.

The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) was signed into law by President George H.W. Bush in 1990. The ADA is a landmark civil rights legislation that made it possible for around 43 million Americans with disabilities the right to public services and to apply and be considered for employment opportunities. The ADA was amended in 2008 to give broader protections to disabled workers.

Since each chemical facility faces different security challenges, Congress explicitly directed the Department to issue regulations "establishing risk-based performance standards for security chemical facilities." 

Performance standards are particularly appropriate in a security context because they provide individual facilities the flexibility to address their unique security challenges. Using performance standards rather than prescriptive standards also helps to increase the overall security of the sector by varying the security practices used by different chemical facilities.  Security measures that differ from facility to facility mean that each presents a new and unique problem for an adversary to solve.

This rule establishes risk-based performance standards for the security of the nation’s chemical facilities. It requires covered chemical facilities to prepare Security Vulnerability Assessments, which identify facility security vulnerabilities, and to develop and implement Site Security Plans, which include measures that satisfy the identified risk-based performance standards.

It also allows certain covered chemical facilities, in specified circumstances, to submit Alternate Security Programs in lieu of a Security Vulnerability Assessment, Site Security Plan, or both.

The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) provides a COBRA premium reduction for eligible individuals who are involuntarily terminated from employment through the end of May 2010. The COBRA premium reduction under ARRA is not available for individuals who experience involuntary terminations after May 31, 2010. However, individuals who qualified on or before May 31, 2010 may continue to pay reduced premiums for up to 15 months, as long as they are not eligible for another group health plan or Medicare.

The Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act (COBRA) gives workers and their families who lose their health benefits the right to choose to continue group health benefits provided by their group health plan for limited periods of time under certain circumstances such as voluntary or involuntary job loss, reduction in the hours worked, transition between jobs, death, divorce, and other life events.

COBRA generally requires that group health plans sponsored by employers with 20 or more employees in the prior year offer employees and their families the opportunity for a temporary extension of health coverage (called continuation coverage) in certain instances where coverage under the plan would otherwise end.

COBRA outlines how employees and family members may elect continuation coverage. It also requires employers and plans to provide notice.

The Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) is a US law that requires larger employers to provide employees job-protected unpaid leave due to a serious health condition that makes the employee unable to perform his or her job, or to care for a sick family member, or to care for a new child.

This UK Ministry of Justice issued guidance document describes the procedures which relevant commercial organisations can put into place to prevent persons associated with them from bribing (section 9 of the UK Bribery Act 2010).