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The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has decided to extend the Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for El Salvador for 18 months, starting March 10, 2025, and ending September 9, 2026. This extension allows eligible Salvadorans to stay in the U.S. safely due to ongoing environmental challenges in El Salvador, such as natural disasters and a lack of clean water. Existing TPS beneficiaries must re-register between January 17, 2025, and March 18, 2025, to maintain their status and, if desired, renew their Employment Authorization Documents. DHS has recognized 232,000 Salvadoran beneficiaries eligible for re-registration under this extension.

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is extending Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for Sudanese nationals for 18 months, from April 20, 2025, to October 19, 2026. This extension allows current TPS beneficiaries to continue living and working in the U.S. by re-registering during the specified period. The decision is based on the ongoing armed conflict and humanitarian crisis in Sudan, making it unsafe for people to return. Sudanese TPS beneficiaries must timely re-register to maintain their status and may also renew their employment authorization documents.

Mazda North American Operations submitted a petition to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) claiming that a defect in Takata airbag inflators in some Mazda vehicles was inconsequential to safety. The defect involves propellant degradation that could lead to inflator ruptures and potentially cause injury. After reviewing the evidence and arguments presented, NHTSA denied Mazda's petition, stating that Mazda had not adequately demonstrated that the defect posed no significant risk to motor vehicle safety. Consequently, Mazda is required to notify vehicle owners and provide a remedy for the defect.

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) has denied Ford Motor Company's petition to deem a defect in Takata-supplied airbag inflators as insignificant regarding vehicle safety. Takata identified a safety defect in its driver-side airbag inflators that Ford argued was inconsequential and requested exemption from recall obligations. However, NHTSA concluded that Ford did not sufficiently prove that the defect posed an insignificant risk, given the potential for the inflator to rupture and cause serious injury or death due to degradation over time. As a result, Ford is required to notify vehicle owners and provide a remedy for this defect.

On October 3, 2023, Venezuela was designated for Temporary Protected Status (TPS) due to conditions in the country that made it unsafe for Venezuelans to return home. This status was set to expire on April 2, 2025. However, after reviewing the situation in Venezuela, the U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security decided that it's against the U.S. national interest for Venezuelans to remain in the U.S. under the 2023 TPS designation. As a result, this designation is being terminated, effective April 7, 2025. The termination doesn't affect the 2021 TPS designation for Venezuela, which remains active until September 10, 2025.

The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) is making changes to its Crash Preventability Determination Program (CPDP) that allows carriers and drivers to request reviews of commercial motor vehicle crashes to determine if they were preventable. These updates include new crash types eligible for review, such as crashes with video evidence, and changes to existing categories. While public comments largely supported these updates, some commenters expressed concerns about process fairness, video privacy, and the time taken for determinations, which FMCSA addressed by maintaining certain program requirements and emphasizing the voluntary nature of CPDP. The new changes and crash types will be effective for incidents occurring on or after December 1, 2024.

The Department of Homeland Security is extending Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for Venezuelans. This extension will allow Venezuelans who are already on TPS to continue living and working in the U.S. from April 3, 2025, to October 2, 2026. Venezuelans must re-register between January 17, 2025, and September 10, 2025, to maintain their status. This decision is based on the ongoing humanitarian and political crisis in Venezuela, making it unsafe for nationals to return.

The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has proposed new rules to revise health insurance standards under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. These changes focus on improving the integrity of insurance marketplaces, especially concerning eligibility and enrollment systems. Key revisions include stricter policies on past-due premium payments and a proposal to exclude Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) recipients from health coverage through marketplaces. Additionally, the proposal aims to strengthen oversight on agents and brokers to prevent improper enrollments, which are believed to have cost taxpayers billions of dollars in recent years.

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration and the Department of Transportation issued a correction notice related to a previous document published on December 21, 2020. The correction changes the date in the document from "January 20, 2021" to "January 21, 2021," which was originally on page 83143 in the DATES section. This correction ensures the information about applicability of safety test procedures for certifying manufacturers is accurate.

The Department of Energy (DOE) has received and published a petition from Hercules, a Senneca Holdings company, requesting a waiver for certain models of walk-in cooler and freezer doors from DOE's standard test procedure for determining energy consumption. Hercules argues that the current procedure assumes an excessive motor operation time, which does not reflect actual usage, and proposes an alternate test procedure with more realistic values. DOE has issued an Interim Waiver Order allowing Hercules to use this alternate procedure while seeking public comments before making a final decision. This move aims to ensure accurate energy consumption representation and maintain market competitiveness for Hercules's products.