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2025-18325 — Spring 2025 Semiannual Agenda of Regulations

In compliance with Executive Order 12866, entitled "Regulatory Planning and Review," and the Regulatory Flexibility Act, as amended, the Department of Commerce (Commerce), in the spring and fall of each year, publishes in the Federal Register an agenda of regulations under development or review over the next 12 months. Rulemaking actions are grouped according to pre-rulemaking, proposed rules, final rules, long-term actions, and rulemaking actions completed since the publication of the Fall 2024 Unified Agenda. Th…

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Legal stateAgency noticeA notice may request information or announce an agency action. It does not by itself establish a new legal requirement or an open comment period.
JurisdictionUnited StatesFederal-source record
Latest recorded action2025-09-22Semiannual Regulatory Agenda.
Primary sourceFed. RegisterOriginal public record linked

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Disclosure & reporting

Forces a data center’s energy, water, and impact data into public view, so regulators, ratepayers, and communities can see figures operators would otherwise keep private.

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Selected by shared tracked mechanisms or themes, with cross jurisdiction examples prioritized. Similarity is not legal equivalence.

PA-HB1667Pennsylvania · Introduced / in committeeAn Act amending the act of March 4, 1971 (P.L.6, No.2), known as the Tax Reform Code of 1971, in sales and use tax, further providing for exclusions from tax; in corporate net income tax, further providing for definitions, for determination of net loss deduction, for imposition of tax, for reports and payment of tax, for timely mailing treated as timely filing and payment and for additional withholding requirements, repealing provisions relating to consolidated reports, further providing for extension of time to file reports, for changes made by Federal Government, for limitations on assessments, for definitions, for manufacturing innovation and reinvestment deduction, for enforcement, rules and regulations and inquisitorial powers of the department, for retention of records and for penalties; in gross receipts tax, further providing for imposition of tax and providing for definitions; in tax credit and tax benefit administration, providing for application of tax credits or tax benefits to a unitary business; providing for educational tax credits and for education options tax credits; in manufacturing and investment tax credit, further providing for business firms and for tax credit certificates; providing for return on equity and for service and facilities; repealing provisions relating to Computer Data Center Equipment Incentive Program; providing for additional property tax rebate; in general provisions, providing for data centers; and, in general provisions, further providing for estimated tax, for underpayment of estimated tax and for restatement of tax liability under treaties and providing for data centers.Disclosure & reportingPA-SB 1408Pennsylvania · Introduced / in committeeAn Act providing for data center transparency; prohibiting certain nondisclosure agreements between public agencies and data centers; providing for data centers and public input; prohibiting data centers from being developed or operated by certain foreign entities; and providing for enforcement by Attorney General and for energy and water reporting.Disclosure & reportingNJ-S4304New Jersey · Introduced / in committeeProhibits agreements intended to conceal certain information concerning development of data centers under MLUL.Disclosure & reportingNJ-S4658New Jersey · Introduced / in committeeRequires data centers to submit annual report to DEP; requires DEP to establish Data Center Transparency Dashboard.Disclosure & reporting
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2025-18325 evidence graph

Spring 2025 Semiannual Agenda of Regulations

6 nodes · 5 evidenced edges
Policy record 1Policy mechanism 1Documented actor 1Policy family 1Jurisdiction 1Original source 1
signals mechanism: Mechanism signal derived from the tracked record textapplies in: Jurisdiction recorded for this source typedocumented by: Original source URL stored with the policy recordissued by: Issuing agency named in the tracked public recordmember of family: standalonePolicy record2025-18325Spring 2025 Semiannual Agen…2025-18325: Spring 2025 Semiannual Agenda of RegulationsPolicy mechanismDisclosure & reportingText-derived policy signalDisclosure & reporting: Text-derived policy signalJurisdictionUnited StatesFederal policy jurisdictionUnited States: Federal policy jurisdictionOriginal sourceFed. RegisterOriginal public sourceFed. Register: Original public sourceDocumented actorCommerce DepartmentagencyCommerce Department: agencyPolicy familySpring 2025 Semiannual…USSpring 2025 Semiannual Agenda of Regulations: US

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