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Implementation of HAVANA Act of 2021
The Agriculture Department published this final rule in the Federal Register on November 20, 2024. It took effect on November 20, 2024. Comments closed on January 21, 2025.
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What the agency says
This rule implements the HAVANA Act of 2021 (the Act) for the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA). The Act provides the authority for the Secretary of Agriculture and other agency heads to provide payments to certain individuals who have incurred qualifying injuries to the brain. The rule covers current and former USDA employees and dependents of current or former employees.
Key facts
- Document number
- 2024-27112
- Type
- Final rule
- Action
- Interim final rule and request for comments
- Agency
- Agriculture Department
- Published
- November 20, 2024
- Takes effect
- November 20, 2024
- Comments due
- January 21, 2025
- Dates
- Effective November 20, 2024. We will consider all comments that we receive on or before January 21, 2025.
- Docket
- Docket No. USDA-2024-0007
- Regulation ID (RIN)
- 0503-AA80
- Code of Federal Regulations
- 7 CFR 1
- Topics
- Administrative practice and procedure; Antitrust; Claims; Cooperatives; Courts; Equal access to justice; Fraud; Freedom of information; Government employees; Indemnity payments; Lawyers; Motion pictures; Penalties; Privacy
- Pages
- 4
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