{"database": "openregs", "table": "comment_texts", "is_view": false, "human_description_en": "", "rows": [["000002725696ff3a6106e610b1ac46ae9d8e9e14ac1a9027e320feb23759dcf6", "Dear Council on Environmental Quality,\n\nThank you for the opportunity to submit a comment on the state of Columbia River salmon and other native fish. The science is clear: the impacts of the federal hydroelectric dams, compounded by climate change, are accelerating the risk of extinction for salmon (and orcas that feed on them) by killing juvenile and adult salmon and steelhead and raising river temperatures well above lethal levels.   \n\nThe Biden administration must build off of the strong foundation laid by Senator Patty Murray, Governor Jay Inslee, Representative Mike Simpson and others. We urgently call for a comprehensive plan and action for Columbia Basin salmon restoration that:  \n\n*Acknowledges the urgent need to recover abundant and healthy salmon populations as stated by the Columbia Basin Partnership and NOAA\u2019s Rebuilding Report and commits to an expedited timeline.    \n\n*Clearly outlines a path that can lead to breaching the lower Snake River dams as soon as possible, provide fish passage into blocked areas, reintroduce salmon in the upper Columbia River, and fund  habitat restoration work throughout the Columbia River Basin.   \n\n*Commits to immediate actions to replace the services the dams currently provide with salmon-friendly options (energy, transportation, irrigation). \n\n*Commits to producing by Fall 2024 a supplemental EIS, BiOp and final decision to meet the Biden Administration\u2019s commitments and restore healthy, abundant salmon.   \n\n*Upholds the federal government\u2019s legally-binding commitments to Northwest Tribal Nations and honors the promises made to them in treaties, trusts, and other responsibilities.  \n\nWe must act quickly and decisively, before Northwest salmon and steelhead are lost forever.\n\nSincerely,\ndeborah regele\n4139 Corbin Dr  Billings, MT 59106-1543", 1, "e3a2d392a6d7ff50562e23c9b654a618f033ef3c35af9fdd2f59dae48e0e4ed0"], ["0000036ee800a7e79a55c75450c418768744ba64e069816cd89f4b0b6d06dd13", "The USDA is seeking public input on the \"free range\" label claim and I think this is amazing.\n\nThe public is being confused by labels that are misrepresenting conditions and suggesing that animals are being treated better than they really are being treated. \n\nThis is a MAJOR problem, and it is critically important that the public be provided with accurate information in order to make informed food choices. \n\n\nLabels claiming that animals are treated humanely should require meaningful standards and transparency in order to prevent consumers from being mislead as to what they are eating. \n\nThere is a moral obligation on the part of the USDA to make sure that labels are 100% truthful.", 1, "6dc53bb553b5225d9cd8a5f9a9ea4f237fa0ce02fd14ff4b5395f720169822ed"], ["00000490d67ce03332c5e939297c2574852858d51fd46b6b0ca2611384ce7676", "USDA Forest  Service,I am writing to strongly oppose the Trump Administration\u2019s attempt to repeal the Roadless Rule, which for more than two decades has safeguarded over 45 million acres of national forests across the United States. These protections are essential to the health of our climate, our communities, and our wildlife, and repealing them would be a grave mistake.Roadless forests are some of the most intact and ecologically valuable landscapes left in our country. They filter and store clean drinking water for millions of people, provide critical habitat for grizzly bears, wolves, elk, and countless other species, and support a thriving outdoor recreation economy. Just as importantly, they serve as powerful natural carbon sinks, absorbing and storing enormous amounts of carbon pollution, which helps slow the devastating impacts of climate change.Eliminating the Roadless Rule would sacrifice these irreplaceable benefits for short-term industrial exploitation. New roads and logging would fragment wildlife habitat, pollute waterways, and increase wildfire risks\u2014burdens that taxpayers would be forced to shoulder. Americans overwhelmingly support protecting public lands, and the Roadless Rule has proven itself to be a fair, effective, and popular safeguard for over a decade.I urge the administration to abandon this reckless effort and maintain the Roadless Rule in its current state. Our forests are not just lines on a map\u2014they are living systems vital to our survival and future. We cannot afford to lose them.Thank you for considering my perspective.ILEANA MORROWilly@illymorrow.com6424 SYLVAN ROADCitrus Heights, California 95610", 1, "59bac4e6db8360fe7a47f24a750a9de0cd343ed32c83b53355cb40a5963c480e"], ["0000050bd9f6f712e4b8419cb0cc89753531e0dcfbafff3d9e7bebcb2b1ecffe", "Dear President Trump,\n\nPlease don't rescind or alter Bears Ears National Monument. This culturally rich and recreationally spectacular place is part of our national legacy and the legacy of future generations. It's one of the important wild places where we go to run, hike, camp, ski, fish, climb and spend time with our friends and families. These public lands are not just beautiful but economically beneficial to our local communities and our nation as a whole. Because the land belongs to ALL of us and was set aside for the future so that there would always be wild places for people and animals.", 1, "e843ed263bdb63628bf74301183fddb0f3e9e61b632870ca40ae2482fc37fd3c"], ["000005327506afbbe6748391d39c1832f1f3466e81e86ba0d726c421c35aba68", "I would like to see flexibility in how off duty hours are accumulated. Off duty time is more beneficial if a driver can take it at home or at a safe quiet parking area or when he is actually tired, ie in the afternoon instead of early evening. Watching a ticking time clock with no way to stop it is one of the most stressful parts of driving a truck. One traffic backup or slow shipper /receiver can potentially keep you from eating supper at home that evening,under current regulations. Very few people actually want to be able to work longer, we just want to work when we are the most efficient and the conditions are the safest. Thank you for taking our comments. ", 1, "d9a4d301d1847f2ac27c31bb373b41daabca6798a414fd3864a49093d20506be"], ["0000055ff7b3ef6672e36bca64cc81315d3780ba03ac94e6b6a8df73962de760", "Please accept my comments on the Proposed Rule, \"National Wildlife Refuge System: Biological Integrity, Diversity, and Environmental Health.\"\nMy husband and I have studied wolves in Yellowstone for many years and understand the importance of large native carnivores. The story of the wolf population comeback completely proves this. To save ourselves we must work harder to save the species that balance our world.\n\nI fully support the protection of native carnivores on national refuge system lands. The FWS needs to strengthen the rule by explicitly prohibiting the killing of all native carnivores under the rule\u2019s \u201cpredator control\u201d provision. Currently the provision prohibits carnivore killing that would \u201calter predator-prey population dynamics,\u201d leaving it unclear if individual animals could still be targeted, including at the behest of livestock interests. The rule should also remove loopholes (e.g. fulfilling refuge purposes and pursuing biological goals), particularly in Wilderness.  \n\nThe rule contemplates a range of trammeling activities (e.g. interventions, active adaptation and manipulation measures, and species \u201ctranslocations\u201d) that fundamentally undermine wilderness protection, threaten the future of the National Wilderness Preservation System, and come with a host of potential unintended consequences. The rule should make clear that these trammeling actions and their associated activities\u2014helicopter intrusions, structures, installations, motorized travel and equipment\u2014are not appropriate in Wilderness.  \n\nThank you.", 1, "a7bbca98ce6b3bd397332ca5d4d73215e461ddc72a69207a28aed4a118baa794"], ["000007daacff0d263759e6253d8b09332595c02336511bd3055d22a50536ad14", "As a United Association (UA) member for over 23 years, I know the training I received from the UA provided me the highest level of skill to do my job as a Sprinkler Fitter safely. The UA's training program helped me get a good paying job and provided the benefits needed for health and retirement. I support the proposed construction exclusion from Industry Programs so that the next generation of construction workers will also have the benefit of training in a registered program keeping people safe and making certain that jobs are done right.\n\nWhile rewarding in many ways, these job can be dangerous at times often working around heavy materials, in tight spaces and sometimes even around toxic substances. My registered apprenticeship program taught me the skills and safety training needed to keep me and my coworkers safe at work and the public safe from mistakes. Industry Programs could be dangerous in the construction industry, as there is nothing in the proposed rule that will require them to be held to the high set of standards my registered program required.\n\nThe current rules for registered apprenticeship make it possible for people like me to earn a good living and achieve the American Dream, while getting the best possible training available. As I understand the proposed rules for Industry Programs, the standards for training won't be as rigorous and apprentices could be paid the minimum wage. If this system is permitted in the construction industry, highly trained American workers will be replaced with poorly trained, underpaid workers, who could be easily exploited by unscrupulous contractors. These Industry Programs have no place in the construction industry.\n\nThe Department of Labor is right to exclude the construction industry from the Industry Program proposal. Existing registered apprenticeship programs ensure that apprentices receive excellent skills and safety training, which keep construction sites running efficiently and safely. Don't let an experimental system erode these standards and jeopardize safe jobsites and projects in our nation.\n\nKris Smith", 1, "cfdbba97c106ab37bbcbc38b3cd5dfa7510cbb318dd5b4c94ddb4a71d18add27"], ["0000082c760dfd203aea9e38a5eaa0549c84e93a4fe220a6d63f97dd5386914c", "See attached comments from the Council of State Governments' Midwestern Radioactive Materials Transportation Committee.  ", 1, "26ea165f3a5681d9c8d806d4d173788d179eb3ee83dc0012ef2f80b87e798abc"], ["00000a14d571964250e4011fba989293fc543a01c5f9e62a6cac0ecc1fa0f746", " ,\n\nI oppose the proposed rule (RIN: 1235-AA21). It would go against decades of federal and state law and precedent safeguarding tips as the property of the workers who receive them, by allowing employers to take control of their employees tips. \n\n\n\nThe Fair Labor Standards Act was amended in 1974 to clarify that tips are to be retained by the employee except when a valid tip pooling arrangement is in place. \n\n\n\nIn 2011, the DOL issued new regulations to reinforce the FLSA and over 40 years of custom and practice by the DOL and state agencies, affirming that tips are always the property of the employee (29 C.F.R.  531.52).\n\n\n\nIf adopted, this regulation would force a vulnerable workforce further into poverty, economic instability, and vulnerability to harassment and assault. \n\n\n\nI urge the Department of Labor to withdraw this proposed rule.\n\nElizabeth Siarny\nelizabeth.siarny@gmail.com\n320 W Harris St.\nCharlotte., Michigan 48813", 1, "1c8ba3a599162ab912c4882a8d5e8e25624508f7cc8ee0aaa9e8896f494ee3a2"], ["00000af9df7207f1b7787ccf9fbce90593099e45e20c1387fa77fd4b8a4f183f", "For Heavens sake, they just got back. Wolves are a vital part of the ecosystem. They do not kill for fun like humans. They do not kill for trophies. They killed for food. And there is a lot of little rodents that would otherwise infest the areas in which they live. Do not illuminate them from the endangered species list. They will just go right back on because ranchers will begin to kill them.", 1, "00000af9df7207f1b7787ccf9fbce90593099e45e20c1387fa77fd4b8a4f183f"], ["000011adb97027a67af8069afa8b805ce10ae787fe671957b710ef69142e4e25", "As a Volunteer Firefighter in New York State, I'm very concerned about the OSHA proposed revisions of the Fire Brigade Rule to convert it to the Emergency Response Rule. I recognize that the health and safety of first responders is a paramount concern. However, the New York State Volunteer Fire Service needs time to review the changes proposed, the tasks created, and the costs associated with the revisions of this rule.\n\nI would respectfully request a ninety (90) day extension of the comment period and further request that OSHA provide a public hearing scheduled with sufficient notice to enable our leadership to make arrangements to appear to provide live comment at such hearing.", 1, "9eb2c62a4dc7e08b4b4b0e3687122cbf601155a5029d726cb35862f096155437"], ["00001251727a9c8e94afdded4519ad6eac61e00cd138883b5c2b9cf44a3cc0f9", "Booster vaccines are necessary for society to function ", 1, "327734c4c88c51984b0bdad1591f3841ccd0ea042435c14ddf4c8a34bb26b2c6"], ["0000131db049ecbd04ad6b9691ae522ad016a1f26d457f93737eb31535605d56", "The regulation will only cause unnecessary troubles to international students. ", 1, "dbd7f9cea1f7dbcc195d234a8657c3aa93142d95464c132e105a8cd690527a43"], ["00001368dc53f7b53d35edf4813fffaee0e1d0fbd99b97aa93210840ef667111", "I am writing in support of the Administration\u2019s efforts to reform the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA). For nearly four decades, NEPA\u2019s burdensome and overbearing regulations have held back American agricultural infrastructure and hurt farmers across the country. \n\nIt\u2019s time for that to change. We must take advantage of the opportunity we have to modernize NEPA. Reforming NEPA would unleash American investment and provide our farmers with the infrastructure they need to compete in the 21st century. \n\nRight now, the United States ranks near the bottom in permitting among industrialized countries \u2014 26 out of 33 \u2014 according to the World Bank\u2019s most recent \u2018Doing Business\u2019 study. \n\nThis is unacceptable. The proposed reform from the Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ) would immediately solve this problem and be a huge win for American farmers in all 50 states. \n\nThe benefits of reforming NEPA are incalculable and we must act now. I strongly support the Council on Environmental Quality\u2019s proposed reforms. \n\nRegards, \nTaylor White\n99 W Cedar Bayou Lynchburg Rd\nBaytown, TX, 77521 \n", 1, "d47f896ae52ae62db2f987d9682ecd688221054814dddf98f13983e317fc9423"], ["0000172bb97cf47f0d99568cc3db67c5f49e4d38e9583ee50df9e2a98ab3996b", "Please Write Your Comment HereStop pay raise.", 1, "0000172bb97cf47f0d99568cc3db67c5f49e4d38e9583ee50df9e2a98ab3996b"], ["00001983aa0af0d8f1d069b95fbb2080b6db8f098832b6721515309cadeb6fd3", "Science is not science without the scientific method. Testing and re-testing ideas is a crucial piece of that method. It isn't science if you prejudge results, and that is what political interference will do. Decisions on scientific grants must be made based only on expert input on the worthiness of the test, not whether they fit a political agenda. It should not matter, for example, if the test is seen as being pro-woke or anti-woke. Both are unscientific. If the experts say the test is neutral and could achieve either result, it cannot matter what result politicians expect or fear. By specifically citing pro-woke results as undesirable, this proposal is extremely unscientific and must be rejected.", 1, "00001983aa0af0d8f1d069b95fbb2080b6db8f098832b6721515309cadeb6fd3"], ["000019aad1d16060f4ffed07cdb5286d05756185cd34fe20bf272f2ae3723c66", "The contemplated 25% - 100% import tariff on European wines will have a devastating impact on small businesses enagaged in importing and distributing wines. Uncertainty over the issue is causing small businesses to cancel orders, potentially lay off employees, and re-structure their business model. \n\nLinking these contemplated tariff increases to the Boeing/Airbus controversy, and to European taxing of internet companies, is unfortunate and inappropriate. Metaphorically speaking, it's crushing Samson in response to Goliath's having been swatted.   ", 1, "926470f79efc677d290a9f49a63b1e2baf92abbccaed6799dfa49dd2db377a2d"], ["00001a0720ca3e3114541411ee4f9ec4b35e712384441397c92bbae3ec909202", "Dear Secretary Alex Azar,\n\nI urge you to stop the Trump-Pence administrations new rule and stop trying to restrict health care coverage for abortion care.  Lets not go back to the dark ages.  Women must be respected now and take care of their own decisions regarding reproductive care and abortion.  If you have reliable contraceptives, abortion will be a thing of the past.\n\nThe Trump-Pence administration's new rule will change coverage for abortion care for 1.3 million people under their current health insurance plans. These onerous restrictions could cause patients to lose their coverage for abortion care and stigmatize a basic form of reproductive health care. That's unacceptable.\n\nSincerely,\nLillian Umphres\nDenver, CO 80215", 1, "2f94d6f94706109325423b00fff5d00b4fa2e7d0da2270638c220ef3e2d11737"], ["00001a444d29973eb93ca147bb75f10e4845ed85ffdff39d2074cc5b076093b3", "Thank you for issuing this strong guidance that recognizes the real impacts of producing hydrogen and clarifies which hydrogen projects will be eligible for the 45V tax credit established by the Inflation Reduction Act. The draft guidance avoids wasting billions of tax dollars on subsidies for dirty hydrogen production projects that would spike climate and health-harming pollution.  \n\nHydrogen produced by fossil fuels is never a climate solution and tax credits should only go to hydrogen projects that are truly clean. Clean hydrogen production must meet three key requirements: Electrolysis must be powered by clean electricity that is 1) drawn from newly built carbon-free sources, 2) physically deliverable to the electrolysis facility, and 3) matched hourly with the electrolyzer\u2019s power consumption. \n\nThe Biden administration must account for the full harms of producing hydrogen from methane, but its current modeling assumptions undercount climate pollution from the methane gas industry. The administration must also reject schemes that would reward polluters for creating more methane or allow the fossil fuel industry to greenwash its methane with biogas credits.  \n\nThe Inflation Reduction Act represents the single biggest federal effort to combat the global climate crisis, but its success greatly depends on how this administration implements it. We urge your agency to finalize strong guidance that will drive taxpayer dollars towards projects that do not exacerbate climate pollution from power plants or spur more fossil gas drilling.\n\nSincerely,\nBen Gorman\nRedmond, OR", 1, "9a8d7c54c06f05cbdae162a552f3673aea177fff9ccca68218172478a26b5586"], ["00001af40ef03a2ff6217ce0a569d90a20aafa23caef6ce25eacff0a978cb17e", "The following comment was transmitted to Equality California by TB, a concerned person on January 8, 2026 to be submitted on their behalf:\n\n\nI am writing to strongly oppose the government's proposed rule that would restrict access to essential, medically necessary health care for transgender youth. Transgender health care is legitimate health care. It is safe, effective, and supported by every major medical organization in the United States. Health care providers across the country deliver this care using well-established, evidence-based standards \u2014 the same approach used for other treatments long covered by federal health programs. Research consistently shows that transgender youth who are able to access appropriate medical care, including hormone-related treatments when clinically indicated, experience improved well-being and lower rates of depression. Decisions about a child's medical care should be guided by qualified medical professionals, not federal agencies. Providers already work closely with parents, patients, and mental health professionals to ensure care is delivered thoughtfully and in age-appropriate ways. Removing access to this care would put vulnerable young people at serious risk. This proposal would cause real and lasting harm, including increased rates of depression and suicide risk \u2014 outcomes no child should face. The federal government should not punish states, hospitals, or medical providers for delivering medically necessary care to transgender youth. No provider should be forced to choose between following medical best practices and maintaining access to federal funding. Many families \u2014 particularly those with low incomes \u2014 rely on Medicaid and CHIP to access this care. Cutting off these programs would deny children critical support they need to grow, thrive, and stay healthy. I urge the government to withdraw this proposal and take meaningful steps to protect \u2014 not undermine \u2014 access to transgender health care for young people. Thank you.\n\n", 1, "fddc209eaee773ee66afcb06b4097dfbaee6e6cc200dea7f6c3b1c76890e6a0c"], ["00001b39232dcc30c600ed3662466e15a337b93266d01a4ec2acf7865033ced2", "Dear Acting Director Souza, \n\nI oppose the redefinition of \u201charm\u201d under the Endangered Species Act. For more than 40 years, the harm definition has protected endangered species by prohibiting acts that result in significant habitat modification or degradation that results in actual death or injury to a species.  \n\nThis prohibition has been absolutely critical to saving species from extinction. It has prevented cutting of old-growth forests where spotted owls nest, stopped development in Florida panther habitat, and so much more.  \n\nStripping the definition of harm to leave out habitat destruction will open the floodgates to developers, loggers, miners, oil and gas drillers, and others to destroy endangered species habitat, driving species to extinction in the process. \n\nThe harm definition has underpinned conservation of endangered species in biological opinions and habitat conservation plans for decades, requiring reasonable measures to avoid habitat destruction in exchange for incidental take permits. Rescinding the definition will upend this sensible approach and undermine existing protections that have prevented the extinction of more than 99 percent of species protected by the Endangered Species Act. \n\nI strongly urge you *not* to finalize rescission of this definition and uphold our commitment to saving endangered species and the natural world.\n\nSincerely,\nDavid Strickland\nGA 31088", 1, "f2f42f73d2ec18bc0c68943784280b345c85006cf4df0236dcb32ab88570862e"], ["00001c3bb04a9de25dd0583d88154d79df3e69390190ae6bbcc592a6027babf8", "I do not believe the Covid-19 vaccine should be mandatory. \nWe have no idea whats in this vaccine \nOr if it will fully prevent anyone from getting this virus. \nIt is my right and every one else's right to choose not to take\nthis vaccine. I will not take this vaccine!", 1, "54f200e1f951b97d8ca4de9ee7b03e62a10e0fea0abcb9b4dec8319824c60b84"], ["00001e2e682bbac6cd343ca3aafc4a5a118c2cf657bfa2ba67fa313063b41cd8", "There is insufficient data to show the biopesticide, Ledprona, is safe.\n\nAndr\u00e9 Leu, author of \u201cThe Myths of Safe Pesticides\u201d and \u201cPoisoning Our Children,\u201d said there is a \u201cmassive lack of evidence-based data\u201d showing RNAi pesticides are safe for human newborns, fetuses, young children and children going through puberty. These are times when people are the most vulnerable to toxins, hormones, and changes to gene expression.\u201d\nPlease hold off on registering ledprona for commercial use until all the data from the EUP timeframe is \u201cthoroughly analyzed and the product is found safe to use.\u201d", 1, "62bca31eb34cd7673ea3d96b3e036f71f7776061b3d898a7d689d1d8b977814e"], ["00002124290ace8e911045b0ca74d9fe14d88001ac8b8ba4bd33d0e35abdb2a5", "I am writing to respectfully encourage you not to move forward with this proposed rule (RIN 1024-AE38). \n\nIt would repeal a scientifically sound rule from 2015 prohibiting the use of some of the cruelest hunting tactics against predators on national preserves in Alaska. Such tactics include killing mother bears and cubs at den sites with the aid of artificial light, baiting brown and black bears, killing wolves and coyotes with pups during their denning season, killing swimming caribou or killing caribou from a motorboat, and using dogs to hunt black bears.\n\nIn what sane persons mind is it okay to use these tactics on anything that is living? Shooting a swimming animal so it drowns? Killing a mother with its cubs jeopardizing the next generation.  Shooting sleeping animals in a safe haven or baiting them with artificial food is not hunting. Its cowardice.  I will never give any of my money or time to your joke of a state and will continue to encourage my elected officials to stop assisting you in any way shape or form. When you ignore other people from other states don't come to us for help when you fall flat.  Tax money from other states should not go to states that are more third world country than first.\n\nAllowing the use of brutal hunting tactics on highly vulnerable wildlife, such as denning mothers and cubs, is not only unconscionable, but also unlawful. Congress provided a clear directive to the National Park Service to \"provide for the maintenance of sound populations of, and habitat for, wildlife species of inestimable value to the citizens of Alaska and the Nation\" for the \"benefit, use, education, and inspiration of present and future generations\" (16 U.S.C. 3101(a)). These extreme hunting methods, which are neither used nor endorsed by the majority of sport hunters, violate this directive.\n\nThese barbaric, scientifically baseless, and unnecessary tactics decimate predators on public lands and undermine protection of natural diversity solely to boost numbers of prey species and cater to trophy hunters. Predators play a critically important role in an ecosystem, ensuring both diversity and proper ecosystem function. Brutal hunting methods such as baiting, hounding, killing young animals, and killing animals at their den sites should have no place on national preserve lands.\n\nThe 2015 NPS rule is consistent with federal law and the best available science, was subject to public review and comment, and outlaws only the most extreme hunting tactics in Alaska. I strongly encourage NPS to reject this deeply troubling proposal, and urge the agency to keep the 2015 prohibitions in place.", 1, "c974db096ab51db15b71d1113017495ebb043083fb316b548f4383a0971867c9"], ["00002182c6df32bfed0efbd77bef27255609860e1973b5c38c9cdfb12e0b6ced", "March 21, 2015\n\nDocket Management Facility\nU.S. Department of Transportation\n1200 New Jersey Avenue SE\nWest Building Ground Floor, Room W12-140 Washington, DC 20590 \n\nSubject: Comments to FAA Docket Number FAA 2015-0150\n\nTo whom it may concern, \n\nI truly believes that very-light Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) represent the future of this industry. Therefore I fully support the creation of a micro UAS class that would be ruled with specific standards, and encourage the FAA to create that category. \n\nIt would allow operations of UAS weighing less than 4.4 pounds in Class G airspace, over people not directly involved in the operation, and would require airmen to self-certify that they are familiar with the aeronautical knowledge testing areas.  That approach seems very reasonable since a very light (micro) UAS operating at lower altitudes and at lower speeds, that is made up of materials that break or yield easily upon impact, may pose a much lower risk to persons, property, and other NAS users than a UAS that does not operate within these parameters. Additionally, limiting the micro UAS operation entirely to Class G airspace, far away from an airport, and in close proximity to the operator (as well as limiting the unmanned aircrafts flight path to the operators constant manual control) would significantly reduce the risk of collision with another aircraft. \n\t\nI believe that UAS weighting less than 4.4 pounds and operated within these constraints will meet our business needs and would allow a fast, safe and cost-effective integration of this technology into our workflow. \n\t\nThe FAA is considering the following provisions for the micro UAS classification and I approve these provisions: \n     \n     \tThe unmanned aircraft used in the operation would weigh no more than 4.4 pounds (2 kilograms). This provision would be based on the ARCs recommendations and on how other countries, such as Canada, subdivide their UAS into micro or lightweight UAS; \n\n     \tThe unmanned aircraft would be made out of frangible materials that break, distort, or yield on impact so as to present a minimal hazard to any person or object that the unmanned aircraft collides with. Examples of such materials are breakable plastic, paper, wood, and foam. This provision would be based on the ARCs recommendations; \n\n     \tDuring the course of the operation, the unmanned aircraft would not exceed an airspeed of 30 knots. This provision would be based on the ARCs recommendation, which was concerned with damage that could be done by unmanned aircraft flying at higher speeds; \n\n     \tDuring the course of the operation, the unmanned aircraft would not travel higher than 400 feet above ground level (AGL). This provision would be based on the ARCs recommendations; \n\n     \tThe operation would be limited entirely to Class G airspace. This provision would be based on Canadas requirements for micro UAS;\n\n     \tThe unmanned aircraft would maintain a distance of at least 3 nautical miles from any airport. This provision would be based on Canadas requirements for micro UAS.\nHowever I would suggest adapting the following provision:\n     \n     \tThe operator would maintain manual control of the flight path of the unmanned aircraft at all times, and the operator would not use automation to control the flight path of the unmanned aircraft. This provision would be based on ARC recommendations and Canadas requirements for micro UAS; \n\nI propose instead the following:\n\n     \tThe operator would have the ability to immediately change the trajectory of the aircraft in real-time, either by using a remote controller or taking manual actions in the related flight management software (Hold position, Return to Home, modify in real-time the trajectory of the aircraft).\n\nI understand that the FAAs motivation is to ensure an operator can react immediately to potential dangers, so the ability to change the trajectory of a UAS is crucial, for example in order to avoid a collision. However I believe that flight management software is now advanced enough to reliably meet this need and can be complemented by the use of remote control. Even if using a remote control alone, wording that suggests no use of automation is inaccurate, since from a technical standpoint such unmanned vehicles use automation at some level to control the aircrafts flight path. \n\nRespectfully,\nRobert Farley\nJacksonville, FL\n", 1, "7d20fcdf03d35e8b2513f9763559fdf3e84fc695857aa44dcc0a17db8e530dd4"], ["000022b2470eef1892ca31532e2b2291fc4af6ea92967dc9dec5465dd2c29eff", "To Whom It May Concern:\n\nI am an HIV clinician who cares for Medicare patients with HIV and am writing to share my concerns regarding the proposed rule Modernizing Part D and Medicare Advantage to Lower Drug Prices and Reduce Out of Pocket Costs.\n\nThe standard for HIV treatment today in the U.S. is to initiate treatment early to achieve and sustain suppression of the virus. Patients who are virally suppressed can stay healthy, require less intensive and less costly healthcare services and treatment, and they do not transmit the virus.\n\nWhile I support the need to lower drug prices, efforts to control cost should not come at the expense of the health of my patients. Medicare patients by virtue of qualifying for the program are either disabled or older and are likely to have been living with HIV for many years.  For many of them, their treatment options are limited because of co-morbid conditions and due to the development of resistance to some antiretrovirals. In addition, because of drug interactions between HIV medications and drugs used to treat these conditions common in older people with HIV as well as the impact of specific HIV medicines on these co-morbidities, e.g., cardiovascular, renal, bone disease, individualized treatment is especially important when selecting an antiretroviral regimen.\n\nPrior authorization can result in dangerous delays in access to treatment and increases administrative burden and costs for HIV providers and clinics. Applying prior authorization is counterproductive to efforts to start treatment early and to support treatment adherence and can threaten patients achieving and sustaining viral suppression. If applied, prior authorization must be based on the HHS Guidelines for the Use of Antiretroviral Agents in Adults and Adolescents Living with HIV. Regimens recommended in the HIV Treatment Guidelines should not be subject to prior authorization.\n\nStep therapy is never an appropriate practice or approach to HIV treatment. The consensus strongly supported by the published clinical trial and study data is that starting patients on the most effective, best-tolerated regimen is the best approach to optimizing outcomes.\n\nPlease do not compromise the health of Medicare beneficiaries with HIV and reconsider restricting access to antiretrovirals under Part D.  Please feel free to contact me with questions regarding my comments.\n\nSincerely,\n\nDr. Leonard Sowah", 1, "63b93fbe24a8aa6431fc0a87244849af6b5bdc89e031466819fc5e8712d9674d"], ["0000234f283cf17e6c662255f985a9f583ee71f783e1abfae35bf0b0277591aa", "I oppose this proposal to rewrite Endangered Species Act rules, and I urge you to withdraw it. This proposal would reverse a longstanding rule prohibiting consideration of economic impacts when deciding whether to list a species as endangered or threatened.\n\nMore than 99% of species under the ESA's care have been saved or are on the path to recovery. The ESA has protected millions of acres of natural habitat, including forests, mountains, rivers, deserts, beaches, and oceans. To achieve this success, ESA listings must be guided by science and be free of economic considerations, and projects must be held accountable for taxpayer-funded actions that would harm listed species.\n\nI am also concerned that the administration's proposal is opposed by the majority of Americans. A recent peer-reviewed paper, \"Support for the US Endangered Species Act Is High and Steady Over the Past Three Decades,\" authored by Professor Vucetich, shows that 84% of Americans support the Endangered Species Act. This support for the ESA is consistent among people living in urban, suburban, and rural environments.\n\nWe should strengthen the ESA to protect manatees, monarch butterflies, red knots, wolverines, and other species that need to be recovered. This proposal puts our wildlife at even greater risk of extinction.\nGail Matthews", 1, "a2c5145c741d53807023961e95549af96f414e3224e7059d568e3230aa47e14d"], ["000027863f5230932fdb3de110c6b8b47c872f871a2879524136967c28ac7b98", "Dear Deputy General Counsel Amy B. Coyle,\n\nI am writing to urge you to strengthen the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) today. It\u2019s one of the most effective tools communities possess to prevent polluting projects from impacting the health and environment of their neighborhoods. \n\nThe final NEPA regulations must:  \n\n1. Require agencies to consider project alternatives that would decrease impacts on air, water, and land while also looking at cumulative impacts' communities face from exposure to numerous pollutants. \n\n2. Reaffirm NEPA as a tool for environmental justice that gives communities the ability to have meaningful input in the project development process while helping avoid disproportionate impacts on frontline communities. \n\n3. Require agencies to include future climate impacts when considering new projects. Analyzing these risks will result in safer, more resilient infrastructure for communities. \n\n4. Mandate more transparency in the project development process by requiring a timely release of documents and a minimum 30-day comment period for community review \n\n5. Enshrine tribal consultation and respect for tribal sovereignty throughout the project development process. \n\n 6. Ensure a strong NEPA process that addresses the need to build out the clean energy transition in close consultation with communities most impacted by energy development.\n\nSincerely,\nLansing Shepard\nSaint Paul, MN 55110", 2, "28a479cb6ac2dd1c4679a75371e9751a328f3999c89abdaf1fd814446b2cf26c"], ["000029269ec29d7bfb0fef0a6a3031e80a613bbffe6c0d416fd06391fa3dedde", "It's my understanding that the census is supposed to count EACH individual living  in the country, regardless of citizenship.\n\nKEEP IT THAT WAY PLEASE.", 1, "a6b394eecf0d5eac26ab4a859b88e5cb471c0f8a5a937467ff52ce716f683fc0"], ["000029f3ab7b1392f73ceee0fc5ae047f213e71dbfc25f7e0d53848dd1f7201f", "It is my strong belief that any individual who is qualified to provide custom-fitted orthotics under his or her state license, or a trained individual operating under the supervision of a physician should be reimbursed for this service. This means that the state licensing board should be entity that decides who is qualified to perform services within that state.", 1, "000029f3ab7b1392f73ceee0fc5ae047f213e71dbfc25f7e0d53848dd1f7201f"], ["00002ae5a51000881fbebbf2ce394143366bad2fc2b6d3debd604a49a4a20a8a", "Dear Health & Human Services, \nFrom STI tests to cancer screenings, from wellness exams to birth control, sexual and reproductive health care is essential health care.\nAnd no one should be denied it just because of how much money they make, what they look like, or where they live.\nThe Title X program has helped low-income and uninsured families access sexual and reproductive health care for decades. The previous administrations gag rule not only pushed health centers out of the Title X program and stopped providers from having honest and open conversations with patients, but it also slashed the Title X networks capacity in half and pushed essential health care out of reach. \nThe gag rule stopped providers from being able to talk to their patients about their full range of options and reduced the Title X networks capacity to deliver contraceptive care by roughly 1.6 million patients. For many patients, Title X sites are the sole point of access to these services.\nI stand in strong support of repealing the Title X gag rule so that EVERYONE has access to the sexual and reproductive health care they need.\nRepealing the gag rule cant wait.\n\nYours sincerely,\n\nJulie \n\nTucson", 1, "4c62c36c4c111aac02d297321483efe067b4bb763fa0c061611c2c605612c662"], ["00002b7ea55cf2fcfdc7dff90aa98f61866717e7fcef7f4baa385943e167d779", "Dear Secretary Burgum, \n\nI\u2019m writing to urge you to uphold the 2024 NPR-A Rule. \n\nThe National Petroleum Reserve Alaska, or NPR-A, encompasses 23 million acres of public land (the largest tract in the country) that are vital to wildlife, the climate and the subsistence lifestyles of Indigenous and local communities. The 1976 National Petroleum Reserves Production Act specifically directs the Secretary of the Interior to mitigate significant adverse impacts across the NPR-A and to designate \u201cspecial areas\u201d with \u201csignificant subsistence, recreational, fish and wildlife, or historical or scenic value\u201d and provide these special areas with \u201cmaximum protections.\u201d Designated Special Areas within the NPR-A \u2013 Teshekpuk Lake, Utukok River Uplands, Colville River, Kasegaluk Lagoon and Peard Bay \u2013 received legally required protections under the 2024 Rule, while still allowing for oil and gas development elsewhere in the NPR-A.\n\nThese areas provide critical habitat for caribou, migratory birds, polar bears, fish and other wildlife, and support the traditional practices of local populations. Rolling back protections to promote drilling and mining would threaten these irreplaceable ecosystems and the communities that depend on them. \n\nThe rapid pace of warming in the Arctic (as much as four times faster than the rest of the world) amplifies the urgency of protecting its delicate landscape from that fossil fuel development. Melting sea ice, habitat degradation and the disruption of migratory patterns are just some of the consequences. \n\nI urge you to preserve the rule\u2019s safeguards, including for Special Areas, to ensure the long-term health of the Western Arctic's environment and cultures. \n\nThank you.\n\nSincerely,\nRonald Stahl\n4041 Northpark Cir  Irvine, CA 92604-2228\nstahl-ronald@cox.net", 1, "c37b65d7ba54e0030d2df93b6f98b359410f09ea534c3ec5c47cf7309220c5f3"], ["00002d6434433d6c98e87053b266e569c69c936934cccb4fe09f9ce46d745aeb", "Dear  Drug Administration:\n\nI am writing to express my support for this petition calling on the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to issue regulations establishing a mandatory front-of-package nutrition labeling (FOPNL) system for foods sold in the United States. I concur that this system must be mandatory and nutrient-specific, include calories, and call attention to high levels of added sugars, sodium, and saturated fat. These nutrients are over-consumed by Americans and contribute to chronic disease. \n\nAn expansive body of scientific evidence supports the adoption of a FOPNL system that meets these criteria in order to improve the nutritional quality of consumers food choices, promote understanding of the nutritional contents of foods, and prompt food manufacturers to make healthy reformulations of packaged foods. \n\nI am dismayed that the United States has become one of the nations with the greatest need for, but scantest action on, such public health nutrition interventions. The average American adult consumes 50% more sodium, 40% more added sugars, and 40% more saturated fat than recommended daily. Meanwhile, approximately 116 million U.S. adults (47% of the adult population) have hypertension, 37 million Americans (11% of the population) have diabetes (and approximately 90-95% of these cases are Type 2 diabetes), and 20 million U.S. adults (7% of adults) have coronary artery disease. Each of these conditions is strongly linked to excess intake of added sugar, salt, or saturated fat.\n\nThe time has come for FDA to take bold action to improve our nations diet and health. Please prioritize this evidence-based policy and develop a mandatory FOPNL system for the United States. \n\nSincerely,\n\nMichele Villeneuve\nKingsport, TN", 1, "42308722777dddb811507aba7d9532c3ae8d84efc5f6579a977006512e26cfb9"], ["00002e44999fb038ec5753c06cc14b88a4f728dfb1f3cee6397bd5a88f698fa5", "I am a resident of COOPER CITY, Florida and I am concerned about your proposal to expand apprenticeship programs. Thank you for allowing time for the public to comment on something that will end up impacting everyone.\n\nI am writing concerning the Department of Labor's plan to expand apprenticeship programs. My family member completed an apprenticeship program. I know first-hand from them that the program was not easy, and as a result individuals were weeded out that I believe would not have completed a less rigorous program. I know there are always going to be accidents and people not perfect and make mistakes. But, I think the way to make sure the least amount of accidents happen is through DOL and/or state registered apprenticeship training programs.\n\nThank you for this opportunity to give my opinion on your proposal. It is clear their needs to be a push so that more kids enter building trades professions (and other blue-collar jobs). I think the best way to do this is encourage participation in registered apprenticeship programs - programs already registered with the DOL - is by encouraging early exposure to the trades by guidance counselors. Developing a different track of programs that are self-recognized may increase the quantity of programs but I think it will diminish the quality. IRAPs and SREs should be kept out of the construction industry forever.\n\nnancy HAAGE\nCOOPER CITY, Florida", 1, "10b74dbe1889d748f486e9295342ceb09d466e55dd66fd4df12d76986cf097e2"], ["00002e760fc326cebc37b6919e634499f162813fb6cbe90deee47f15bd99d455", "Dear Food & Drug Administration,\n\nI am writing because I am concerned about your proposed rule regarding printed prescription drug information for patients. I appreciate that the FDA recognizes the importance of printed drug information for patients, but I believe the proposed rule lacks important patient protections. I don't believe the drafted rule achieves the FDA's stated goal of improving health because it does not require clear and useful printed prescription drug product information provided in the right manner.\n\nLike most Americans, my family and I take prescription medication, and we struggle to understand the printed medication information that accompanies our medications. We need to improve our understanding of the drugs we are taking and need improved printed copy to help us.\n\nI need clear, always accessible and useful written prescription drug product information. Patients need a standardized layout researched to improve patient understanding and retention of information. Standardization principles should include use of color, consistent headings and MINIMUM FONT SIZES to increase understanding. Patient understanding and retention of information should be rigorously tested with REAL patient populations taking REAL prescription medication before adoption. Why would the FDA consider a change in prescription information for patients without first researching a format that improves patient understanding? I also believe the FDA should require standards for high quality printing and inspection so that ALL required information is present.\n\nThe FDA rule, as it currently stands, could force the elderly and other patients to access life-saving information by only electronic means. This goes against common sense and can put Americans' lives at risk. People deserve full access to their prescription drug information at all times, no matter their age, income, or geographic location.\n\nI urge you to revise your proposed rule for patient medication information in two ways:\n\n1. Require a standardized printed format that has been scientifically researched and proven to improve patient understanding.\n\n2. Require the drug manufacturer to supply the printed information and have it accompany the drug product and not printed in a retail pharmacy.\n\nDoing so will help save lives and improve medication outcomes.\n\nThank you for your time and consideration.\n\nSincerely,\nMs Anne Williams\nNY", 1, "97bf3bd7335be54b8247958b0e76cca113c378122d1b3f0162a949894e8c5170"], ["00002e7c97f337e3d2d6a22c6c1e50eb622dc17db16f6a2d10350530ccf66472", "Please stop the use of M-44 cyanide bombs across the country. Poisons have no place in the West or in our country in general!\n\nAcross the country, M-44s body count is rising. In 2017 (the most recent data available), Wildlife Services reports that it killed 13,232 animals with M-44s, including 21 dogs, 12,119 coyotes, 1,013 foxes, 48 raccoons, 21 opossums, 5 skunks, 2 swine, 2 ravens and one gray wolf. Of these deaths, more than 200 were nontarget animals.\n\nThough M-44s intended purpose is to protect livestock from predators, there is no scientific evidence that lethal control actually works; one study even found that it increased livestock losses. Non-lethal alternatives to sodium cyanide bombs are scientifically proven to be more effective at protecting livestockand without the catastrophic loss of life.\n\nPlease stop the use of M-44 cyanide bombs across the country.\n\nThank you for your attention to our comments.\n\n", 1, "df82de0eaf94415c2707822c0b8c6a0bb890e6f4a69f13ebe54e3381b8ce9090"], ["00002e86d6707f4ff9333a83b6427f4f571cbf782dc64d48b0d6af237a2f6f0d", "As a duck hunter, I strongly support the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service's current wetland easement drain tile setback rule in the Prairie Pothole Region and urge the US Fish and Wildlife Service to keep this rule in place.\n\nWaterfowl hunting is one of the highlight of my year every year and something that I'm always looking forward to. It something I hope i can pass down to my kids. But that cant happen if there aren't birds in the skies. \n\nI understand that there are competing priorities,but there's only so many places these birds can nest and protecting the best breeding areas has to be a top priority.\n\nThe Prairie Pothole Region of North America is known as the \"Duck Factory\" because it produces more than half of the continent's migratory waterfowl. These wetlands provide essential breeding and feeding habitat for ducks and countless other wildlife species. The current rule helps ensure that nearby drain tile installations do not drain or degrade voluntary National Wildlife Refuge System wetland easements that Americans have already paid to conserve.\n\nFor more than 60 years, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has upheld the terms of voluntary conservation easements that prohibit wetland drainage. The current rule simply reinforces that long-standing commitment. It protects critical habitat, honors the original easement contracts, and continues a conservation approach that has been supported by Republican and Democratic administrations alike.\n\nHunters, anglers, and conservationists have invested billions of dollars in these wetlands through Duck Stamp purchases, hunting licenses, and Pittman-Robertson funding. Since 1937, Pittman-Robertson excise taxes on firearms and ammunition have generated more than $31 billion for wildlife conservation, while Duck Stamp sales have generated more than $1.3 billion for wetland conservation since 1934. These funds represent a voluntary investment by sportsmen and women in the future of waterfowl, wildlife habitat, and America's outdoor traditions.\n\nThe current rule is also fair to landowners. It provides individualized, science-based setback determinations and regulatory certainty through safe harbor protections for those who follow them. Weakening these standards would result in the widespread drainage of voluntarily protected wetlands and the loss of habitat that supports waterfowl populations across the Prairie Pothole Region.\n\nAt a time when waterfowl populations are under pressure and hunting seasons could face increased restrictions, we should be protecting and expanding conservation investmentsnot weakening them. Without the habitat protected by these voluntary easements, recent drought conditions could have had even greater impacts on waterfowl populations and hunting opportunities, possibly resulting in restrictive waterfowl seasons.\n\nI respectfully urge the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to maintain the current drain tile setback rule, uphold more than six decades of precedent, protect hunters investments in voluntary conservation easements, and ensure that future generations of Americans can enjoy healthy waterfowl populations and our nation's hunting traditions.\n\nThank you for your consideration.\n\nSincerely,\n\nIsaiah Birkel\n", 1, "851fca37905743f75b9c27407cafaea6175165b607a8df9b7a90b23c4700a221"], ["000030d8451baa3636e57fea3be661dd1891111f0bc1589d9c9634f6d55c8e16", "Dear Secretary Debra Haaland,\n\nI am writing to you today to express my opposition to Gulf-wide leasing in the oil and gas lease sales 259 and 261. \n\nThe Inflation Reduction Act does not require the administration to lease the entire Western and Central Gulf. Nor does it mandate any particular results from those sales. Rather, Congress, through both the IRA and the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act, empowered Interior to determine the size, location, and conditions for offshore leasing sales and preserved Interior\u2019s authority to decide whether to issue a lease. And BOEM has the obligation to make those decisions based on a full evaluation of the environmental effects that leasing will cause \u2013 including climate pollution, oil spills, and harms to the critically endangered Rice\u2019s whale. \n\nThere is simply no need for BOEM to continue with the large-scale lease sales we saw for four years under the Trump administration. Oil companies currently hold close to 1,900 leases covering more than 10 million acres of the Gulf of Mexico. Only about 500 of those leases are currently in production, meeting the current demand for offshore oil and gas and leaving more than 7.4 million leased acres (or 75% of current lease holdings) remaining to be developed to meet any near or mid-term national energy needs. \n\nMoreover, massive area-wide lease sales are fundamentally incompatible with the Biden administration\u2019s commitments to fight climate change. Decisions we make now about additional leases have no effect on current or even near-term energy needs because new leases typically take a decade to produce any oil. And because of the long-term nature of oil and gas development, leasing now locks in investments in fossil fuels for decades to come, long after the time when the United States and the world must transition to a clean energy economy if we are to avoid the more catastrophic impacts of climate change.   \n\nFinally, continuing with massive leases sales increases the already dire harm to Gulf wildlife \u2013 like the 50 remaining critically endangered Rice\u2019s whale \u2013 and to Gulf communities, which have disproportionately borne the brunt of the country\u2019s fossil fuel addiction for far too long. Locking in new leases means locking in continued harm for decades to come and will only slow the needed rapid phase-out of fossil fuel from the nation\u2019s energy portfolio.   \n\nI urge you to not sell off millions of acres of Gulf leases and to use your authority and ample discretion to instead accelerate the rapid transition to the clean energy future the country needs!\n\nSincerely,\nJohn Rhoades\nDallas, TX 75248", 1, "1ddee74deb62ad975c4d193d2172104362adb22b6a77cc44adfff5c76d9656fd"], ["00003187b5b75bbdca3e8e9107236f6f8e77dcc37376b43ae7ff9aa043d6fdb3", "Dear Food and Drug Administration,\n\nI am writing to express my support for this petition requesting that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) ban use of FD&C Red No. 3 in foods, drugs, and dietary supplements. I strongly agree with the decision Congress made in 1960 that cancer-causing color additives have no place in our foods, drugs, supplements, or cosmetics. I am appalled that FDA has known for more than 30 years that Red 3 can cause cancer and yet still approves the dye to be used in foods, drugs, and supplements. \n\nIn 1990, FDA concluded that Red 3 causes cancer when ingested by animals after reviewing studies it received in the early 1980s. From this conclusion, FDA revoked the provisionally allowed uses for Red 3, which at the time included use in cosmetics and externally applied drugs, claiming it would separately take steps to revoke the permanently approved uses, namely drugs and foods, including supplements. Three decades have elapsed, and yet Red 3 remains approved for use in foods, drugs, and supplements and is, in fact, still widely used. FDA estimated in 2016 that 84 percent of the U.S. population two years of age and older is exposed to Red 3. Red 3 is found in thousands of food and drug products currently on the market, including many marketed to children.  \n\nA full ban on Red 3 is long past due. I ask that FDA act quickly and decisively to prohibit all uses of Red 3 to protect consumers, especially children, from this cancer-causing chemical.\n\nSincerely,\nRen\u00e9e Umstattd Meyer\nTX", 1, "b7e7b887441015e47170a0e3ab4ed7b6604c95dd0a2d43fec784384598600c13"], ["0000319d6a507992c65e1d7c4ffa6631f39171ea351b864fc96b2fa61944c3d7", "There is absolutely no reason why these tests need to be conducted. Please stop this inhumane treatment of innocent animals and utilize alternative technologies which are  economical, readily available, and respectful of health, life and science instead. There are way more ethical ways to market your products to the general public than by testing these rats in this horrible manner. When designing animal tests, please be aware that animals need to be treated with dignity and respect and in no case should be subjected to pain and suffering, especially for prolonged amounts of time. There are other ways to produce viable testing and you know it. ", 1, "c29ba45ce7711ad8e205f46adf2eedfcb867c9021a1ac1445a8f38932ce2468e"], ["000033903872843fc5838dcfe229cd38bd004608d63410bab98a0308647bfde2", "I urge USDA to reconsider its denial of the petitions and to reclassify LBAM as nonquarantinable in order to:\n\n\u00b7   end LBAM quarantines that cause economic harm to farmers and unfairly benefit foreign growers\n\n\u00b7   end the unnecessary, ineffective, unsafe, and wasteful LBAM eradication program\n\nUSDA\u2019s response to the petitions is inadequate and does not justify LBAM\u2019s quarantinable status because:\n\n\u00b7   USDA proposes to continue LBAM\u2019s classification as quarantinable even though there is no evidence LBAM poses a threat to crops or wild/native plants\n\n\u00b7   USDA\u2019s response to the petitions does not address significant flaws in the scientific and factual basis for the program that were identified by the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) in its Sept. 2009 evaluation of USDA\u2019s responses to the petitions including:\n\n-       USDA\u2019s response to the petitions says LBAM is \u201cnewly introduced\u201d even though NAS concludes that LBAM surveys/trapping for LBAM prior to 2005 are inadequate to determine whether LBAM was present in the U.S., and independent scientists tell us LBAM has been here for up to 30 years\n\n-       USDA\u2019s response to the petitions relies on the NAPPFAST model of LBAM population expansion even though NAS concluded this model is poorly documented and was not used in a technically correct manner\n\n-       USDA continues to overestimate potential economic damage from LBAM by including high-cost crops such as almonds for which NAS says there is no evidence that LBAM will be a pest\n\n-       USDA relies on outdated sources and information about the effects of LBAM and the effectiveness of natural controls for LBAM and ignores current experience in Hawaii, New Zealand, and elsewhere that LBAM is not a threat\n\n-       USDA exaggerates alleged damage done by LBAM to two organic berry fields in 2009, which is the only example of possible LBAM damage since LBAM was began to be detected at entry ports in 1984\n\nGail Stewart", 1, "165db8a14951b204d1b367d4761c8b50b90ebd68f1532a6bb83ca64668ec7982"], ["000035a8268c276799a1c01cca960f3938527d749a735ffcfda7508fa9da9e00", "My name is Jeannie Rumple and I live in Post Falls, Idaho.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nI am writing to express strong opposition to efforts to roll back the Roadless Area Conservation Rule (Roadless Rule) in Alaska or elsewhere. The Roadless Rule was implemented with unprecedented public support to protect some of our nations most pristine public lands, including large parts of the Tongass National Forest. You must choose the No Action alternative. Any other choice would ignore overwhelming public support and harm Alaskans, including Alaska Natives, and taxpayers across the nation. \n\n\n\nIn Southeast Alaska, tourism accounts for 28% of employment and generate an annual $1 billion in economic benefit, making it far more of an economic driver than the timber industry, which is less than 1% of the regional economy. \n\n\n\nAny choice but the No Action alternative would also put wildlife and critical habitat at risk, threaten access to clean water, and be a step in the wrong direction on climate change  jeopardizing Alaskans at a time when the state already faces severe challenges related to rising temperatures. I urge you not to abandon the Roadless Rule in Alaska and instead to put the public interest above corporate profits by choosing to keep the rule in place unchanged.   \n\n\n\nThank you for considering my comments. \n\nRegards, \nJeannie Rumple", 1, "9a48a8b9072730e3c81946bbc05c48b5e610fb0d2d51151118a4eb65bbe34d20"], ["0000375c1160e0d46cde616c84e828e00408bb4b5150c30f2e744337de2de67d", "Dear U.S.  Forest Service,\n\nThank you for taking this initial step to protect, conserve, and manage our public lands. We are calling on you to urgently create a strong, lasting national rule that protects mature and old-growth trees and forests across federal lands from the threat of logging. Protecting and recovering these natural climate solutions would be a crucial piece of U.S. climate policy.\n\nSafeguarding and expanding carbon-rich forests on Forest Service and Bureau of Land Management lands is one of the most important, cost-effective, and timely approaches to fighting the climate crisis. Mature trees store and continue to absorb large amounts of carbon in addition to providing the public with clean drinking water, habitat for imperiled wildlife, and world-class recreational opportunities. Larger, older trees are also far more fire resistant, and a well-constructed rule would not preclude necessary science-based efforts to address the risk of fire.\n\nUnfortunately, vital mature forests and trees on federal lands are currently threatened by numerous proposed and ongoing logging projects, in spite of President Biden's executive order to conserve them. We need to ensure America's mature and old-growth trees and forests remain in place to mitigate climate change, and to maintain their natural benefits for future generations. Thank you for your leadership on these important issues.\n\nSincerely,\nMs Waralene Hopkins\nGA", 1, "f3452d453053cccee089cee2e2554ba3f80804acc288099f523b9d2fdada0a83"], ["000037a58c235c3ea2dfada347562bbed38f9ec89d34206352cf19062507d8d2", "Dear Secretary Alex Azar,\n\nI urge you to reject the proposed changes to HHS grant regulations that would allow HHS grants to recipients who discriminate against members of the LGBTQ community, women, and religious minorities.\n\nThese communities already experience greater obstacles to obtaining health services. They could risk losing access to crucial health care services altogether if federally-funded health care providers choose to discriminate against them for their gender identity, gender expression, or sexual orientation.\n\nEveryone, regardless of their background, deserves to be able to access health care that is safe and nonjudgmental. These proposed changes make it impossible for LGBTQ people and other marginalized communities to do just that.\n\nSincerely,\nJadyn Christiansen\nEnid, OK 73701", 1, "df36af57363041779b70537d5b6b75e298d0e6b3528bb6eb254ae0484686a003"], ["000038a79332abea3a0f36c2db4716752e708908d2878ff812ea3b398bcc1aa4", "That's ridiculous.  I wouldn't buy it nor would anyone I know.  Stop messing with nature!  You are destroying a perfect thing.", 1, "96ad84d7ee7196795ef9c49e27076323819dad95a42bc1acbbeaa0980a0452ab"], ["000038cdbd1621f861cd9553f62f7effc7f0cbc115ea08e4fd7f5eb6fadc80a4", "I would like to see the west indian manatee remain listed as endangered.\n\nThere are still too many manatees dying each year from red tide/brown algae and this will continue until we stop fertilizing and polluting our waterways.  Last year was a record year for deaths of manatees due to red tide/brown algae.  A record year of deaths of an endangered species is NOT the time to downlist them.  \n\nThere are still too many manatees being hurt and killed by motor boats.  Until the manatees are no longer in danger of being hurt and/or killed by motor boats they should remain as endangered species.\n\nPlease continue to protect our manatees by keeping them on the endangered species list!", 1, "90a8312d39cf569add15797633d93391099b35fcf8529854a15acb9fbd356c6f"], ["0000395b7663394f5a481b783398e28fadebe5880a579c1ec3476402a9c1f551", "I oppose the proposed rule because it's important that people can trust their providers to tell them accurate and complete information concerning their health.\n\nMillions of families will lose their access to birth control and that is not something I support. I hope we can support families by keeping their access open.", 1, "02ec7b86405cae3ca3a81e598f69d99580b8449675b1bd83a749e504acea6fb6"], ["00003a66709712ced1799107740dce5a4dea88e2707ead0d3f6ba8b2f014557d", "No national parks, monuments, wilderness areas or other protected natural areas should be opened up to drilling, mining, logging or other short-term or possibly damaging uses. I am appalled at the idea that this great country could be sold out from under the feet of our people and our future. ", 1, "485448b3223b9c3d1cdf08956e190acac6ff62da09d94f40b6a8199772774c81"], ["00003c1de4cb7aeea44edeb19b8eb1739ef2fd026d729741f93a5cb247fed20c", "All of these public areas need to be preserved as natural areas with no resource extraction activity.  Keep them as they are.  They should be kept in trust for all citizens to enjoy.", 1, "2b6f5ae6397743516ce51c53d578e6e179a99908e310bf2920ca6c8a60c8591c"], ["00003c73016c64d127a9da09d14f05e308047b21440943147eadf1191afa38b6", "Attached please find the joint statement submitted by the Corn Refiners Association, National Grain and Feed Association, National Oilseed Processors Association, North American Export Grain Association and North American Millers' Association on this Food and Drug Administration request for comments.", 1, "00003c73016c64d127a9da09d14f05e308047b21440943147eadf1191afa38b6"], ["00003d2e05440b7bd5f42f4293576cdb2ae5f8dc358d40df7bfc6f961f5b4c5f", "Good evening, \nI am submitting these comments on behalf of the United Way of Southwestern Pennsylvania.\n\nFor over 100 years, people have turned to United Wayto problem solve, to learn, for help, to give back. People turn to United Way because no one is better at bringing entire communities together to create long-lasting change that improves lives for our families, friends and neighbors. \n\nWe are the go-to, the organization that brings together the regions best and brightest thought leaders across corporations, foundations, government, academia, and human services to solve the most pressing problems. And together, we innovate, we pilot, we scalebut most important, we help people. With so much growth and prosperity in the region, there is no need for so many to struggle. \n\nUnited Ways Impact Fund is our most effective vehicle to lead, innovate, partner and problem solve in response to the needs of our region. We have four primary focus areas:\n\n1.\tHelp children succeed in school and life \n2.\tPrevent hunger and homelessness for financially struggling families \n3.\tHelp people with disabilities live with greater independence \n4.\tHelp seniors living independently avoid hardships and hunger \n\n\nThis proposed rule change impacts the people we work to serve in these impact areas:\n-69 percent of all SNAP households will no longer be certified for SNAP using streamlined procedures and will face SNAP income and resource tests.\n \nIf it goes into effect, this rule change will result in:\n\n-Hurt Pennsylvanians: More than 200,000 Pennsylvanians losing their SNAP benefits.\n\n-Harm Seniors: 13.2% of all SNAP households with elderly members will lose benefits. Many seniors own their home, have built a savings for retirement through their career, or have high medical costs. This rule change will take SNAP benefits away from them, causing them to spend down their savings, and put them in financial danger when unexpected costs occur, such as unexpected medical procedures.\n\n-Disincentivize working: A person earning $16,237 per year ($7.80 per hour) qualifies for SNAP. If that person were to get a 20 cent raise to $8.00 per hour, they would no longer qualify for SNAP because their yearly total would increase to $16,640. \n\n-Harm Children: 7.4% of households with children will lose benefits and 500,000 low-income students will lose free lunches at school because their family no longer receives SNAP benefits.\n\nThank you for the opportunity to submit comments regarding this proposed rule change. \n", 1, "a7f650e87a06f7c6eda338f5a1b3407b8172eb4713c22559a8bf7e849e498ada"], ["00003fd71b5ea22b2b62affc6967ab9ef59ec334c923e0ade951888d98811a20", "The Biden Administration,\n\nI\u2019m writing to urge the Federal Government to minimizing the risk of climate change in its federal acquisitions.\n\n\n\nEnvironmental degradation (including, but far from limited to climate change) is the most pressing issue humanity faces this century.  If not addressed properly it will lead to profound shortages in food and clean water, greatly reducing the world's population.\n\n\n\nClimate experts say that we must reduce our carbon emissions dramatically to avoid the worst ravages of the climate crisis. The Federal Government has a unique ability to create market standards through its procurement process. It has a responsibility to make those standards as strong as possible. By making sure that federal purchasing dollars go to greener buildings and materials, lower- and zero-emission vehicles, and other more sustainable purchases, President Biden and his administration can provide a needed boost in the transition to a clean energy economy and incentivize the private sector to move in a more sustainable direction.\n\n\n\nThe 2018 National Climate Assessment found that the climate crisis could slash about a tenth of our economy by the end of the century. That economic contraction dwarfs any negative impact that strong climate procurement standards could have on an individual firm.\n\n\n\nWe must use every tool in the toolbox to fight the climate crisis. I support President Biden\u2019s rule.\n\nDaniel Shriver\ntabbydan@gmail.com\n13624 Hobart\nSilver Spring, Maryland 20904", 1, "677123f41933bc7596fd4894a9c1f520d03d6b471b6b300a5b90b2b6431ed575"], ["000040bdb57195e17a9268275414af774591f781e02be8c4f6c91b1de9a2da61", "I support all efforts to dramatically improve conditions for captive elephants \nthroughout our country, including enforcing existing adequate space requirements \nunder the Animal Welfare Act and and creating new, more humane standards.\n \nAfter Thanksgiving, I accompanied family members to a pitiful \"zoo\" in Syracuse, \nN.Y.  An elephant there was displaying the neurotic behavior of swaying and head \nbobbing.  Obviously, these elephants do not have the necessary conditions they \nrequire for their basic health and well-being.  It is a sad thing to witness and have \ncountless children observe. \n\nBecause of their intelligence and unique social and physical needs, elephants \nsuffer in zoo environments.  Elephants deserve much, much higher standards than \nthe ones that currently exist.  Please help.\n\nThank you,\nCandee Hett\n \n", 1, "debf571421645cb38008389584c645665ea415478ee1634cb4d1edf9b7bcd034"], ["000041c335643a7076b5d665acecc79a83ef9ee15b0a2d8b75b1bf2a4dd7e749", "Dear Melanie Fontes Rainer,\n\nI am writing in support of the Department of Health and Human Services\u2019  proposed rule \u201cNondiscrimination in Health Programs and Activities\u201d implementing Section 1557 of the Affordable Care Act.   \n \nDiscrimination in health care is far too common in the United States. I can think of numerous people in my life who have faced discrimination in health care. \n\nThe United States has a long history of structural racism and discrimination within our health care system and programs. This has systematically targeted and disparately impacted Black families, Black women, women of color, indigenous communities, low-income individuals, LGBTQI+ folks, and people with fewer resources. One in five women\u2014and greater numbers of women of color\u2014report they have felt that a health care provider has ignored or dismissed their symptoms. 18% of transgender people\u2014and 28% of transgender people of color\u2014report that in the previous year a provider refused to see them at all because of their actual or perceived gender identity.  And 25% of trans people, including 34% of trans people of color, were denied gender-affirming care by a doctor in the previous year. \n\nDiscrimination in health care has devastating impacts on people\u2019s health, lives, and futures, and on patient\u2019s trust in the medical system. One study found that U.S. older adults who have experienced discrimination in a health care setting were more likely to have worse health status, face economic hardships, and be more dissatisfied with their care. Black and non-Black people of color have experienced disparate health outcomes, leading to the lowest health outcomes and life expectancies in the country. \n\nProhibiting discrimination is critical to making sure people can get the care they need, and helping to restore trust in the medical system.  This is important at any time, but especially now, as state legislators across the country take care away from transgender people , and those seeking abortions. It is essential that you do everything in your power to ensure access to health care for everyone, free from discrimination.  \n \n\nThank you for the opportunity to comment on this regulation.\n\nSincerely,\nChas Griffin\n1275 7 Lks N  West End, NC 27376-9759", 1, "3f30050811c8dfc8dec53bdf4a43b75335578e35ac893ae79573bf12bd788d90"], ["000042b217357819a661209402742a7702202e1ef3896d8666ee0efe6b6d327f", "The proposed rules by the IRS raise serious concerns about privacy and go beyond the intended scope of Congressional oversight. Requiring the reporting of every digital asset transaction, including those of average consumers, is an invasion of privacy. The vast amount of data that would be collected is disproportionate to the goal of pursuing tax cheats. Additionally, the practicality of enforcing such detailed reporting on taxpayer data is highly questionable. It is discouraging to see the IRS prioritize this level of minutia over more effective measures to target bad actors and tax cheats. Furthermore, the inclusion of stablecoin transactions in the reporting requirements adds an unnecessary burden on taxpayers and further erodes privacy. It is important for the IRS to reconsider these rules and focus on solutions that strike a balance between transparency and protecting individual privacy rights.", 1, "000042b217357819a661209402742a7702202e1ef3896d8666ee0efe6b6d327f"], ["000043029be130f0a1c0d7cca9fe38127e1fa2cddc7a4340e26c0b14ab78922f", "Dear Sir or Madam,\n\nI am writing to oppose the efforts of the FDA to further lift restrictions on blood donors. \n\nThe FDA should not bow to pressure from the radical Homosexual Lobby to ignore scientific evidence on the rate of HIV transmission among sexually active homosexual males.\n\nWeakening the protections of America's blood supply for political ideology puts the safety of Americans at great risk.\n\nDale Kretz", 1, "df65e7d486b0550fd34b5922f670cf93ee0140691420e1235f860f5d985051bd"], ["0000444b4d055598d7b0aef349b4e0f0335e3a0e75c2944fb6855bbe6a394517", "As responsible and ethical humans it is unacceptable to conduct experiments on monkeys, baby monkeys, or (with an unimaginable exception) all animals. Monkeys have the same feelings as any pet dog or cat. How can any organization justify the cruelty and deprivation? This needs to stop. Please adopt appropriate standards for primates.\n", 1, "7ab92123bac1a15d9f250a7468fa76123691c8014ce66dde7941196086c6f023"], ["000045c44e690beee6e30aa08dc078486cf52d1d1cda4d06ccdcdbf7a306af6d", "My name is Naomi, and I am writing to you from Massachusetts.\n\nI oppose the Trump Administrations proposal to gut the Flores Settlement Agreement, which protects refugee children from growing up behind bars. Jailing children indefinitely and holding them in facilities that have not been licensed by state child welfare agencies is inhumane and dangerous. It has deeply harmful effects on children's mental and emotional health and is immoral, going against the family values the Republican Party and America as a whole stands for.\n\nChildren should be released from detention with their families, not torn from their parents and or transferred to shelters. The American Academy of Pediatrics has warned that even a few days in detention has long-lasting impacts on childrens mental and physical health.\n\nDetaining and separating children is traumatizing and unnecessary.", 1, "4cc489aa82d813e4cd4c57e35045d1ddd2cfe092d73b8462be3c07f59731c9f4"], ["0000476988c43cec5b78ad689b3a9da8f0311e74279b4d18a373c4ccf0b80991", "When I read about the proposal for the speed to be added to smaller personal vessels with comercial not to exceed 10 knots off our costs. It made me think about the benefits and problems as well the benefits and consequences of such a proposal. My conclusions are in short, a hardship on comercial fisherman and women. Reason if a vessel is ingaged in bluefin fishing off our coast of North Carolina With  One Per Day trip limit the vessel would not have time to make it back and forth from fishing grounds to dock in a Day period. With with such a law coming into effect it would take many possible fishing opportunities away from the comercial fishing industry. I personally think there isn't a real problem for the need of such a law or over reach from such a organization as NOAA. ", 1, "d6f4b8958490668749eedfe8ed8e265a8cb07d46cf67e1eb01a57f75b80565ba"], ["0000498a5cd3de335682074c2ab7351381e6c940684c0e5ec3a4014a4f640617", "server\n\nshortfall in check\n\nno other options", 1, "f11e4eb9557cf1674c438acdd3c8dcf655984a2ba5a9f143ab6cacdc774fe397"], ["000049a84942879d2599f4c69fabb351cd82aa88856c5698587d3b2dddcf40ee", "DENIKE ED, STEVEDORING SVCS OF AM, SEATTLE, WA, 98134; DENIKE ED, STEVEDORING SVCS OF AM, SEATTLE, WA, 98134", 1, "000049a84942879d2599f4c69fabb351cd82aa88856c5698587d3b2dddcf40ee"], ["00004a1c2fd3cd03478a1cfa0c9dd140e8fe4a0cc76a834b9fcda072f4eed89b", "When is the FDA allows the ITBRA to be marketed in the U.S.? The ITBRA is already marketed in Asia! What is holding it ??? Appreciate it if you could let me know! My wife is a Breast Cancer Survivor!!", 1, "00004a1c2fd3cd03478a1cfa0c9dd140e8fe4a0cc76a834b9fcda072f4eed89b"], ["00004b0cff28891f528ae3c7c93d7bdbb96df08b2955fb901b844da18a724014", "Currently any and all automation and artificial intelligence regarding content is flawed and is detrimental to copyright law. For automation and artificial intelligence focused on copyright is prone to give false positives and hurt content creators, businesses, and companies. The tightening of copyright enforcement on the internet is counterintuitive to the nature of the internet itself. If copyright enforcement were to be done via flawed automation even a simple tweet that has 90% of the same words as any other tweet regardless of its order can be mistakenly flagged and the only outcome is the successful gagging of free speech", 1, "00004b0cff28891f528ae3c7c93d7bdbb96df08b2955fb901b844da18a724014"], ["00004cb26df4e64557e8c5f6f7163135cd705d4aa6e14b4d0124eeebcb00016a", "What are you doing? These animals need protection. Think of future generations who will benefit from a diverse ecosystem- not short term profits which is what is the obvious reason for not protecting the species. \n\nThe Rices whale is a unique species of whale that lives in the Gulf of Mexico and warrants continued protection under the Endangered Species Act because of its extremely small population, restricted habitat, and ongoing exposure to human-caused threats. Scientific data indicates that only 51 individuals are alive today, making this one of the most endangered whales in the world. The best available science has confirmed that Rices whales are genetically, morphologically, and behaviorally distinct, supporting their recognition as a unique species requiring specific conservation measures. [References: A new species of baleen whale (Balaenoptera) from the Gulf of Mexico, with a review of its geographic distribution (2021), doi:10.1111/mms.12776; Critically endangered Rices whales (Balaenoptera ricei) selectively feed on high-quality prey in the Gulf of Mexico (2023), doi:10.1038/s41598-023-33905-6; Rice's whale occurrence in the western Gulf of Mexico from passive acoustic recordings (2024), doi:10.1111/mms.13109; A density surface model describing the habitat of the Critically Endangered Rices whale Balaenoptera ricei in the Gulf of Mexico (2024), doi:10.3354/esr01324; Biological findings from a newly developed photo-identification catalog for the critically endangered Rices whale (Balaenoptera ricei) (2025), doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0331010]\n\nRices whales live in marine areas that, while once were safe and quiet, now overlap extensively with major shipping lanes, offshore energy development, seismic surveying, and other industrial activities, exposing them to vessel strikes, pollution, and chronic acoustic disturbance. Vessel strikes are a documented threat, as illustrated by the whale known as Lucky, an individual bearing a prominent vessel-strike scar. Underwater noise is particularly concerning because Rices whales rely on low-frequency sound for communication, navigation, and foraging, yet industrial noise can mask these signals and disrupt essential behaviors. Although quieter technologies have been available for years and are considered technically feasible, they have not been widely adopted by the offshore oil and gas industry despite their potential to substantially reduce harmful noise exposure. The 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill further underscored the vulnerability of Gulf whale populations to industrial disasters, with scientists concluding that oil exposure, prey loss, and ecosystem disruption likely caused long-term population-level impacts. [References: NPR Investigations - Only 51 of these U.S. whales remain. Little has been done to prevent their extinction (2023); Effects of marine seismic surveys on free-ranging fauna: a systematic literature review (2023) doi:10.3389/fmars.2023.1222523; Sound characterization and marine mammal impact assessment of a marine vibroseis source in a shallow, near-shore environment (2026), doi:10.1121/10.0043144; A decade of declines in toothed whale densities following the Deepwater Horizon oil spill (2024), doi:10.1038/s43247-024-01920-8]\n\nIn 2016, NOAA scientists conducted a formal Status Review of these very whales (Status review of Bryde's whales (Balaenoptera edeni) in the Gulf of Mexico under the Endangered Species Act (2016), doi:10.7289/V5/TM-SEFSC-692). With the limited data at the time, they were classified as a subspecies of Brydes whale. Nonetheless, even ten years ago, marine biology experts determined this group of whales was unique and at such risk of extinction that they deserved full protections under the Endangered Species Act. With the additional robust data available in 2026, there is no justifiable reason to remove status and protections from this uniquely Gulf species. \n\nThe best available science strongly supports maintaining and strengthening ESA protections, along with precautionary management of industrial activities and expanded research and monitoring efforts to prevent extinction and support recovery of this unique Gulf whale. ", 1, "0408c109cede5767d69e644d1e3305dc3d51f3766a5daf1d727baecce6f15b59"], ["000051c4e8302879199d90f2428c33718aa772938ccb55674641fd98a679033a", "I am writing in regard to, Proposed 42 C.F.R.  483.80(a)(1) would provide that the facility must establish an infection prevention and control program (IPCP) that must include, at a minimum, a system for preventing, identifying, reporting, investigating and controlling infections and communicable diseases for all patients, staff, volunteers, visitors and other individuals providing services under a contractual arrangement.  I am an Administrator in a long term care facility and have significant concern about the burden this will place on my facility with regard to meeting this expectation.  Although we do have an infection control program, it is unreasonable to believe we can manage infection control for any individual who comes into our facility.  \n\nThese proposal add additional pressure to our facilities that are already burdened by a multitude of regulations.  They would only serve to add to those burdens and take us further away from the true nature of our business which is tacking care of our patients.  ", 1, "8dd2102f6558f28fbe308d8dafb570b3a5fce40e0071a3dc46f0ae9dfd0d180d"], ["000051d6fc9924fa6a9e5396c403a5364bb46137f79ae6c02917d192fd077909", "If it wasn't for the flavorings in the juice I would have never stopped smoking actual cigarettes! I was a smoker for for close to 15 years and 10 of those years I smoked 2 packs a day sometimes more! Since making the decision to quit smoking cigarettes and switching to an electronic cigarette, I've noticed drastic increases in my health and being able to breath! I now smell better than an ashtray as well! But this all comes down to if it wasnt for the flavors that are provided by all the juice companies, I would still be smoking! If it wasn't for a strawberry kiwi candy flavored ejuice I would still be smoking. Don't eliminate the flavors in tabacco products", 1, "000051d6fc9924fa6a9e5396c403a5364bb46137f79ae6c02917d192fd077909"], ["000052a78f4e29f6653f029e950ac417467ed6a43e8108004f3e7911bf76279d", "Director (USFWS) Martha Williams,\n\nI am writing to support restoring grizzly bears to the Northern Cascades Ecosystem. \n\n We have the opportunity to bring back these magnificent animals which were hunted and trapped into extinction during the 19th and 20th Century.\n\n\n\nThe North Cascades Ecosystem is one of the remaining six areas in the lower 48 that has enough remaining habitat to support a viable population of grizzly bears.\n\nWe have seen that grizzly bears and humans can coexist in the lower 48. Currently there are over 1,000 grizzly bears in each of the Greater Yellowstone and Northern Continental Divide Ecosystems. \n\n\n\nI support the National Park Service and US Fish and Wildlife Service\u2019s alternative C option: Restoration with Section 10 (j) designation in the Draft Grizzly Bear Restoration Plan / Environmental Impact Statement, North Cascades Ecosystem. \n\n\n\nThe proposal brings up to 25 non-problem grizzly bears into remote areas of the North Cascades over the next decade and manage them as an experimental population.\n\nThis  allows the management tools needed to reduce, prevent, and sometimes respond to human-bear conflict.\n\n\n\nWe live in the time of biodiversity extinction and crisis, now is the time to return these iconic animals to the North Cascades.\n\n\n\nNadia Vansill\nnadias0311@gmail.com\n405 N C\nDuncan, Oklahoma 73533", 1, "90026ae3a6772768625bedd242d955d9ed5b6bbef28bf9c2f023f8a43172011b"], ["0000537da8f7e6b21dbf1ec71b1eb5936b6ab3862063372d56b28fb96530dd7e", "Using the term \"Natural\" on product is vague and misleading.  It's better to remove it from labels so the consumer can have a better understanding of what they are purchasing.  Or at the very least a clear definition of what the word \"Natural\" represents.", 1, "b3da4cc0be4f93b9f6905c74143b58917647ac3913ca07c0586dc1c30fd47688"], ["0000541ddc893ea3262f38d0e1b36d90bf797a643a9aae861cade7ca0689186a", "Andrew Saul,\n\nMost people with disabilities will not be able to replace the income that they would lose under this rule.  \n\n\n\nI personally am supporting in part such a person, a well-educated and intelligent individual whose disability prevents him from working. \n\nHe is already forced to choose daily between eating and paying his bills, such as rent.  \n\n\n\nThis rule would _kill_ him, along with tens of thousands of people, just as a similar bill introduced by the Reagan administration killed tens of thousands of other people.\n\n\n\nI urge the Social Security Administration to reject to this unjust and cruel proposed rule.\n\nAlexandra Baehr\nabaehr@ameritech.net\n5555 S. Everett Ave.\nChicago, Illinois 60637", 1, "9aef6054cdc463d38d34993e9455b8c4a13e5c2813d8fd1f0de8697bb89334ca"], ["00005568c3937cdf912c620f70d69bdd1893ee28d90f7fc8ee7f64ee57a5b820", "Dear US Fish and Wildlife Service,\n\nThe Migratory Bird Treaty Act (MBTA) is a critical environmental tool for reducing avoidable harm to birds. I was overjoyed when the Biden Administration announced it will reverse a harmful rule change that undermined the MBTA, as well as undertake a new initiative to reduce accidental but preventable bird deaths. Thank you very much.\n\nAs you know, recent research revealed that North America's bird populations have declined by 3 billion birds since 1970. To respond to this loss, federal protections must be restored and go even further to strengthen protections for migratory birds. \n\nI support the Service\u2019s proposed rulemaking, which will ultimately protect birds by requiring industry to utilize best management practices, such as screens preventing birds from falling into oil pits and turning off tower lights to reduce collisions. \n\nI also support the development of a permitting program under the MBTA, which has the potential to enhance bird conservation by expanding the use of practices that limit harm to birds. It could also fund future bird conservation activities by imposing a fee for unavoidable impacts. I believe this is a reasonable way to provide certainty to industry on the regulation while encouraging use of best practices that help to manage, and prevent, bird deaths.\n\nThank you for your leadership and considering this request to further protect migratory birds.\n\nSincerely,\nAllison Perrett", 1, "db4312663b41bfe18172ff7739bd752dcf5ea4225c5c199eda95f4f9b8ccf483"], ["0000560cb51057fafd8d11ecd8ccd98cea4e38e861e186ebfa4dca0d05fcbc72", "My son (14) and I fly FPV quad copters together. The nearest registered flying field is approximately 30 miles away and is often congested with faith fixed wing aircraft and is not safe for our small 1.5\" & 3\" quads that we fly. We normally fly at a local dog park or school and have not had any problems with other people or their pets. \n     The proposed regulations would severely impact our flying do to cost, and limitations on flying locations. With the regulations I'm sure the cost of our hobby will also increase substantially or possibly be eliminated all together dur to the excessive requirements that would be placed on the industry itself. A large portion of the manufacturers are small homegrown companies that would not be able to continue making products under the new regulations.\n      Not only will these regulations effect a fun and rewarding hobby they will potentially be putting people out of work. I don't think that the proposed regulations will add any more safety to the hobby and will negatively impact way more than just the people who fly for fun. I disagree with the proposed regulations and hope you won't be selfish enough to think that it is going to make anything or anyone safer in the long run. ", 1, "232330a64c8a94ad85b92a4eca427ae07a55fe7202ea98e5cb338dbf13ea456d"], ["000057bf478928c71f406df678a968ad05b278a13dc498acc9eef4b91cf72199", "I both live and work in Greenpoint near the 'border' of the Site Examination Area of the Meeker Ave Plumes. The area covered in this investigation contains not only both residences and places of work but also many residences and work places that are in or extend to basements - making inhabitants even more susceptible to the effects of soil gas contamination. Most community members are not aware of the conditions and the potential danger they may be facing. \n\nAs such, I strongly support the proposed rule to add the Meeker Avenue Plume site (EPA\u2013HQ\u2013OLEM\u20132021\u20130461) to the National Priorities List. As a nearby worker and resident, I am deeply concerned by the dangerous toxic plumes in the community's soil and groundwater.\n\nThe chlorinated solvent chemicals in the plume, including TCE (trichloroethylene) and PCE (tetrachloroethylene), are deadly. Testing has shown that their concentrations are a direct threat to human health, causing both acute and chronic harms. Extended exposures to these toxins are known to cause a number of cancers and heart ailments.\n\nNew York State Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) discovered the plume more than a decade ago and is requesting an Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) takeover because the scope of the soil and groundwater contamination is too large and too complex for the state to manage. \nThe investigation area includes a large section of residential properties, is near a school and several parks. Given the potential exposures to many thousands of families, only a federal investment can ensure that the cleanup is thorough and comprehensive. \n\nCooper Park Houses, the area\u2019s only public housing complex, abuts the investigation area. Cleaning up this site is an issue of environmental justice because some of our community\u2019s most vulnerable residents are at the highest risk of exposure.\n  ", 1, "d9da96c4245fc7ac2238d7c3d25a563b9db045f62d2a0b4e3b83d78aa851a776"], ["000058e555f68d5d8858e9bb39939c52792e3702eb797ea11c1fd80d5e7aad23", "I am writing in support of the Administration\u2019s efforts to reform the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA). For nearly four decades, NEPA\u2019s burdensome and overbearing regulations have held back American infrastructure \u2014 including the expansion of high-speed broadband to communities across America. \n\nIt\u2019s time for that to change. We must take advantage of the opportunity we have to modernize NEPA and close the digital divide between rural and urban communities.\n\nRight now, the United States ranks near the bottom in permitting among industrialized countries \u2014 26 out of 33 \u2014 according to the World Bank\u2019s most recent \u2018Doing Business\u2019 study. \n\nThe proposed reform from the Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ) is a huge step to modernizing our permitting process and spreading broadband to those who need it. Expanding broadband is crucial in order to make sure the prosperity of the future reaches every corner of America.\n\nThe benefits of reforming NEPA are incalculable and we must act now. I strongly support the Council on Environmental Quality\u2019s proposed reforms.\n\nRegards, \nJanelle Mitchell\n1608 Smith rd\nColumbus, OH, 43207\n", 1, "ac609e4636604759961dca409446dc22f5184d137752f4d36d1b6166e7d6f590"], ["00005b0ae944ae16e1c0de2a031f30c21b9127763330057580d5b6c2d09f4099", "My name is Paul Brooks and I live in Indiana. I write to ask you to withdraw your dangerous, misguided proposal to weaken the public protections of our nations first environmental law, the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA).\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBefore NEPAs protections were implemented, federal infrastructure dollars were used to raze homes, trample over the natural environment, and build smog-filled highways in the middle of communities across the country, particularly communities of color. NEPA created a system for the federal government to carefully consider its actions and take communities input into account before authorizing projects that could harm the natural environment and the people living in it. Unfortunately, this administrations latest proposal would eviscerate NEPAs protections by exempting certain project categories from review, sidelining climate change as a consideration during environmental reviews, and allowing polluters to write their own reviews. Its a shameful proposal, and worse yet, the public has only 60 days to comment on it. \n\n\n\nPlease withdraw this dangerous decision immediately and strengthen NEPAs protections for future generations.", 1, "fb677e639a9acb0bbb82bb5f0bc0fe4909f3aaf53223bcbd82ade0768e74e97e"], ["0000603bb44de36680181db6a17623057e9c1831c3cc8e0dc4bff95c3d00af0d", "Adding these requirements on loan applications will be harmful for those of us that use payday loans.  If people like me cannot get a loan from a payday store, where else can we go for some help?  Don't make these loans harder to use.\n \nI am nervous about the new rule on pay day advances because these loans have helped me before and I don't know what I would do without them.", 1, "1fb1956b41ff1343591a5491857a4370228e4093c46d0a475f778817fc8efabf"], ["0000613b62060f377b95cf155ded47bb0c3426487219d09adb68b27a633ef184", " ACF-2023-0007-0001 Safe and Appropriate F... ,\n\n\nHello,\n\nMy name is Winfred March and I\u2019m from Cleburne, TX.  I\u2019m writing in support of the Administration for Children and Families\u2019 amended regulations on safe and appropriate placements for foster children issued through its Notice of Proposed Rulemaking. \n\nLGBTQ+ youth are overrepresented in foster care and are often denied their right to safe homes that affirm who they are. I applaud ACF for requiring that, moving forward, state and tribal agencies maintain case plans that include a sufficient number of safe and appropriate placements for LGBTQ+ youth in their care. LGBTQ+ foster youth should not be subjected to abuse or discrimination, including by placements that practice so-called \u201cconversion therapy,\u201d and this rule will be an important safeguard for ensuring they can receive safe and proper care. \n\nI agree with ACF that to be considered safe and appropriate, placements should have to guarantee that LGBTQ+ youth in their care will have access to evidence-based behavioral and mental health care, if needed, that is supportive of their sexual orientation and gender identity and expression. I believe that this should include requiring access to gender-affirming care and other best practices shown to advance the health and well-being of LGBTQ+ youth. \n\nACF should ensure that all LGBTQ+ foster youth can receive information on this important rule. Likewise, ACF should provide all necessary safeguards in its final rule so LGBTQ+ youth can continue to access their existing sources of support and can be kept free from retaliation if they do request a new and safer placement. \n\nLGBTQ+ youth are overrepresented in foster care and are often denied their right to safe homes that affirm who they are. LGBTQ+ foster youth should not be subjected to abuse or discrimination, including by placements that practice so called \u201cconversion therapy.\u201d Placements for LGBTQ+ foster youth should have access to evidence-based behavioral and mental health care, if needed, that is supportive of their sexual orientation and gender identity and expression.\n\nLGBTQ+ foster youth should be kept free from retaliation if they request a new and safer placement. \n\nSincerely,\n\nWinfred March\n929 Sanders Rd\nCleburne, TX 760317843", 1, "54d74bf43be3860bd8ac0565e33e77398c4a3622135d372e208a31d7c60dd1a0"], ["000061423f6959ea5a34b21fd5bc0d1596e861c6d350f3372fa7f8ab7d58bb3a", "As a deeply concerned American, I believe we should require documented proof of citizenship for voter registration to make sure only those legally eligible can vote in federal elections. This safeguards our democratic process from potential fraud.", 1, "000061423f6959ea5a34b21fd5bc0d1596e861c6d350f3372fa7f8ab7d58bb3a"], ["0000637796a345358db094136347ea045a64565ffbe998e986f5a97dc475139f", "See attached file - These proposed rules to decimate asylum is un-American & inhumane. ", 1, "6edd17cf65a4dd690c8d8131418ff80059c9ea3f47ffaf35041ba07ece23de6e"], ["0000642bc346f0372251cbdbe16cf824769cae0bb2b813bfe9b9736f296f6d90", "To the Environmental Protection Agency,\n\nI oppose the proposed rollback of ethylene oxide emission standards.\n\nEthylene oxide is a known human carcinogen linked to cancers such as lymphoma, leukemia, and breast cancer. It is widely used in sterilizing medical equipment and in industrial manufacturing, putting workers and nearby communities at risk of exposure.\n\nThe current rule requiring strict emission limits and mandatory monitoring is essential for public health. Making these safeguards voluntary would weaken protections and increase preventable health risks.\n\nI urge the EPA to maintain strong, enforceable standards and not weaken existing protections.\n\nSincerely,\nLindsay Teeples-Mitchell", 1, "a0b0b5cf259442f5d4c90f7070868f80579d6e8016e839bcb4bbc3523e694f2d"], ["000064ea423338013f48a117eb43d1b03dcb66f2870f2d5356c4eab961890531", "8/24/2025\nCynthia Megill\n6950 Hawai\u2018i Kai Dr. #303\nHonolulu, HI. 96825\ngarden.embroidery@hotmail.com\n\nTO: The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS)\n        Department of Health and Human Services\nAttention:    The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS): Competitive Bidding Program\nSubject:     Opposition to Inclusion of Urological Supplies in the DMEPOS Competitive Bidding Program\n\nDear CMS Administrator,\nMy name is Cynthia Megill. I am living with a colostomy for the past 05 years. I am writing not as a policy expert, but as someone who lives and understands the real-life impact of the supplies you are considering placing under the Durable Medical Equipment, Prosthetics, orthotics, and Suppliers (DMEPOS) Competitive Bidding Program as proposed for CY2025.\n\nI am formally opposing the inclusion of ostomy, tracheostomy, and urological supplies, including intermittent catheters, in the DMEPOS Competitive Bidding Program as proposed for CY2025.\n\nIf you are fortunate enough to not need these ostomy supplies, I understand that it can be very difficult to understand my position. I can only describe some of the difficulties of this DMEPOS Competitive Bidding Program, how it will significantly impact my safety, independence, functional everyday living activities and possible long-term effects. Currently it is estimated that 725,000 to 1 million people in the United States are living with an ostomy. I hope that even as a single person, I can make an impact on your decision.\n\nThere are many pieces that go into having a successful ostomy system. Each of these supplies are unique to each person. Imagine having to use an ostomy bag that leaks, a seal that does not seal, or an adhesive that causes constant irritation and infection of your skin because that is all that is available to you.  This is what the DMEPOS Competitive Bidding Program will cause. What fits one person doesn\u2019t mean it will fit another. The wrong fit can lead to serious infections and hospital admissions, along with other secondary medical complications. In addition, our bodies are constantly changing as we age and deal with our medical issues. What works this time will most likely not work next year. It is a constant battle that we struggle with. A variety of supplies and suppliers is essential for me and my community to function and survive in our daily lives.\n\nI am deeply concerned that this policy will endanger patient safety, reduce access to medically necessary products and worsen health disparities for an already vulnerable population. The following are my significant concerns.\n\nPatient Safety Risks \u2013 Competitive bidding often results in only the lowest-cost products remaining on the market. This means infection reducing devices could become unavailable leading to increased rates of infections, trauma and hospital admissions.\nLoss of Individualized Care \u2013 Supply selection is a highly individualized process based on a patient\u2019s anatomy, diagnosis, and lifestyle. Forcing patients to switch to \u201cone-size-fits-all\u201d low-cost devices risks complications, pain, and loss of independence.\nWorsening Health Disparities \u2013 Low-income, disabled, and minority patients, who are disproportionately affected by ostomy conditions would be the hardest hit. This proposal runs counter to CMS\u2019s stated commitment to health equity.\nIn addition, Hawai\u2018i is a very unique place. Although it is very beautiful, we already experience many difficulties with accessing our current supplies and suppliers. The DMEPOS Competitive Bidding Program will place additional limitations that we are already facing.\n\nI respectfully urge CMS to remove urological, ostomy, and tracheostomy supplies from inclusion in the DMEPOS Competitive Bidding Program. Protect our access to the products that are clinically appropriate and keep people healthy, independent, and able to participate in every day living activities without constant fear of complications.\n\nYou have the ability to help us by rejecting the DMEPOS Competitive Bidding Program. Please support our community. Thank you for listening and thinking of the people whose lives depend on this decision. They may be your neighbor, your relative, or unthinkable, yourself one day. I ask that my concerns be included in the public record and welcome the opportunity to provide further data or patient examples to support this position.\n\nRespectfully,\nCynthia Megill", 1, "39326e32dea64ac917591d5d843487144826f328a5268b54048f79391b007f44"], ["00006584fec7de2827bcdd6cad4f8d37a621b72c8b2b75a51178e63a013b62ad", "To Whom It May Concern:\nAs a therapist in long term care, I see where more and more regulations have taken away from the care of the elderly. I found my calling in providing services to the geriatric population but it seems that CMS wants more paperwork than care. Regulations that make it more difficult for the elderly to get treatment by qualified professionals are not what is needed. Focus should be on improving the quality of the lives of the elderly. Surely you had a mother or father. I would like to believe that you would want them to receive the care needed if they had a stroke, broken hip, etc. Regulations being considered just make it more difficult for us to provide services we have been trained to give.\n\nSincerely, \nDebra Thacker", 1, "fc52050ef57ab19d8b573f3f1af3391af31679c7959561e40cf4f8d1cac60bf1"], ["000065cae94098b0a4707fa41fa1524a50f5ce16f0820bba3ab56e0dff0ef58b", "Equal Employment  Opportunity  Commission,\n\nDear Biden administration, \n\n\n\n\n\nThank you for protecting pregnant workers from discrimination regardless of how their pregnancy ends.\n\n\n\n\n\nNo employer should come between an individual and their access to health care.\n\n\n\n\n\nI support the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission\u2019s proposed rule to implement the Pregnant Workers Fairness Act, and the right of all workers to maintain their employment and financial security while getting the reproductive health care and accommodations they need, regardless of how their pregnancy ends. Recognizing that workers need reasonable accommodations related to abortion care is a crucial step for advancing nondiscrimination protections for pregnant people in the workplace.\n\n\n\n\n\nJoseph Cox,\njhccox@sbcglobal.net\n8351 Brewster Lane\nCANTON, Michigan 48187", 1, "24986fe00228f7fd4dc4774567f417f033fe43c6fd7aabf289df531cf9486ee0"], ["0000663797c74de9e2ffeb0e23807f8280677621bd73b31de22d26e3417ef0dc", "Coughlin\n411 Dunham Place Commons\nSt Charles, Il. 60174\n\nMy name is Bob Coughlin and I have been working in the convenience store distribution business for the past 43 years. It is an industry consisting of the finest, hardest working, law abiding people that I have had the privilege to know.\nI am writing this letter because I have serious concerns about the proposed FDA regulations pertaining to the banning of menthol cigarettes and flavored cigars. I am concerned of unintended consequences anytime that the government meddles in the citizens personal freedoms. \nProhibition does not work. Education is the answer. Underage use of cigarettes and cigars is declining and is at a historical low level. In addition, adult cigarette smoking rates have also decreased. It has been declining for years. The trend looking back to 2005 through 2020 has adults smoking less per day than ever before. \nA ban on menthol cigarettes and flavor cigars is prejudicial, as it affects persons of color at a far greater rate than their non color brethren. I could not tell you why persons of color choose menthol, nor Asians prefer rice or Hispanics hot sauce, but it is a fact. It is wrong to impose any law that targets and specific minority.\nThere is also the economic impact to considered. Menthol cigarettes represent 37% of the entire US cigarette market. Based on a 2022 report from the Tax Foundation, a ban on the use of menthol cigarettes could result in a decline in federal cigarette excise tax revenue by $1,877,312,548 in the first full year after the prohibition goes into effect. A decrease in state excise tax of $2.6 billion dollars. A decrease in state sales tax revenue of $892 million dollars. A decrease in Master Settle payments to the states on $1.2 billion dollars.\n\nThe US Bureau of Labor Statistics reports that in 2021 convenience stores/gas stations employed a total of 765,000 individuals. With billions of dollars in potential lost sales of menthol cigarettes, menthol roll your own tobacco, and flavor cigars, retailers will be forced to reduce employee hours and layoff workers. This will result in additional lost income tax to the federal government and states. In addition, states could be looking at additional costs for unemployment.\nAll that lost revenue will go to the illicit market of menthol cigarettes and flavored cigars. There is already a large illicit cigarette market in the US. The Institutes of Medicine estimates that between 8.5% to 21% of the current cigarette market consists of smuggled cigarettes. These people do not pay taxes or check ID\u2019s.\nLooking at the estimated impact at the local, state and federal level on individual smokers, retailers, and governments if the menthol cigarette and flavor cigar prohibition become effective and in conjunction with the historically low youth and adult tobacco rate and the reality of the illicit trade and increased crime, the FDA\u2019s proposal is not necessary but it will cause more harm than good.\nI implore you to reconsider this devastating course of action. Allow the adult smokers of America to make their choice and exercise the freedoms from tyranny granted to them in the constitution. \nSincerely\nBob Coughlin\n411 Dunham Place Commons\nSt Charles IL 60174\n", 1, "f0e4f84a420483b0d82b93c5e6e1a2d99cbbabe38851360cf8407f03ed383acb"], ["0000674be474613db768ead7d9195e733c2898d3bcc27d52993cc78d2c27191e", "Personally I thought we'd learned from the past. I'd rather not deal with another modern day dust bowl. But if you continue and allow more forest to be taken down, we will have soil erosion and more wildfires. And personally I'd like my children to be able to enjoy the same natural world I was able to growing up. ", 1, "2e2e235abc14960f6dd8288201cf4a947da842ce82716d7ab7e9972719ae8656"], ["00006771c390d4c253e1adc028f8aa25e61ca6265a95e02ff2c0ebceefe9f130", "As a duck hunter, I strongly support the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service's current wetland easement drain tile setback rule in the Prairie Pothole Region and urge the US Fish and Wildlife Service to keep this rule in place.\n\n[PERSONALIZE HERE: Explain why wetlands, waterfowl, hunting, or conservation are important to you.]\n\nThe Prairie Pothole Region of North America is known as the \"Duck Factory\" because it produces more than half of the continent's migratory waterfowl. These wetlands provide essential breeding and feeding habitat for ducks and countless other wildlife species. The current rule helps ensure that nearby drain tile installations do not drain or degrade voluntary National Wildlife Refuge System wetland easements that Americans have already paid to conserve.\n\nFor more than 60 years, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has upheld the terms of voluntary conservation easements that prohibit wetland drainage. The current rule simply reinforces that long-standing commitment. It protects critical habitat, honors the original easement contracts, and continues a conservation approach that has been supported by Republican and Democratic administrations alike.\n\nHunters, anglers, and conservationists have invested billions of dollars in these wetlands through Duck Stamp purchases, hunting licenses, and Pittman-Robertson funding. Since 1937, Pittman-Robertson excise taxes on firearms and ammunition have generated more than $31 billion for wildlife conservation, while Duck Stamp sales have generated more than $1.3 billion for wetland conservation since 1934. These funds represent a voluntary investment by sportsmen and women in the future of waterfowl, wildlife habitat, and America's outdoor traditions.\n\nThe current rule is also fair to landowners. It provides individualized, science-based setback determinations and regulatory certainty through safe harbor protections for those who follow them. Weakening these standards would result in the widespread drainage of voluntarily protected wetlands and the loss of habitat that supports waterfowl populations across the Prairie Pothole Region.\n\nAt a time when waterfowl populations are under pressure and hunting seasons could face increased restrictions, we should be protecting and expanding conservation investmentsnot weakening them. Without the habitat protected by these voluntary easements, recent drought conditions could have had even greater impacts on waterfowl populations and hunting opportunities, possibly resulting in restrictive waterfowl seasons.\n\nI respectfully urge the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to maintain the current drain tile setback rule, uphold more than six decades of precedent, protect hunters investments in voluntary conservation easements, and ensure that future generations of Americans can enjoy healthy waterfowl populations and our nation's hunting traditions.\n\nThank you for your consideration.\n\nSincerely,\n\nDan Nagel\n", 1, "e36fc504fd440d8f1d9d4a3941bf9b9e77807f0963ea23efc04e19e41796fbbd"], ["0000693a35f8210eb13f3b231a85b56073ca4dc42720cc952b49af9a9d6eb699", "Thank you for denying state petitions that would have removed federal protection from grizzly bears. I\u2019m relieved that grizzlies remain safe from aggressive state management policies. \n\nHowever, I\u2019m concerned about the proposed rules that would give state agencies and individuals more leeway to kill grizzlies. I\u2019m especially worried about giving individuals permission to kill these bears to protect livestock, including potentially by granting permits to kill grizzlies on public lands. \n\nI also urge you to keep grizzly protections in place within recovery zones and connectivity corridors, as these lands are essential to the great bears\u2019 recovery. \n\nFinally, I oppose any rule that would permit hunting of grizzly bears.\n\nSincerely,\nBinh Tang\nCA 91311", 2, "51ebe9bf13d423e76e4347b57da3a5010d37d329d22be03a35dc25c94b8825eb"], ["00006a1c1ce9c51de073a7b90eb3b107d511565162304e2494971a50b9569fd9", "I am writing in support of the Administration\u2019s efforts to reform the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA). For nearly four decades, NEPA\u2019s burdensome and overbearing regulations have held back American infrastructure \u2014 preventing us from building the clean and modern infrastructure we need. \n\nIt\u2019s time for that to change. We must take advantage of the opportunity we have to modernize NEPA. Reforming NEPA would allow us to build the infrastructure of the future. \n\nRight now, the United States ranks near the bottom in permitting among industrialized countries \u2014 26 out of 33 \u2014 according to the World Bank\u2019s most recent \u2018Doing Business\u2019 study. \n\nThe proposed reform from the Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ) would be a huge win for Americans across the country. Our cities and towns would be given a chance to build the vital infrastructure they need to succeed in the 21st century. \n\nThe benefits of reforming NEPA are incalculable and we must act now.  I strongly support the Council on Environmental Quality\u2019s proposed reforms. \n\nRegards, \nTiarra Dennis\n8445 Newby street 1st floor\nSaint Louis, MO, 63147\n", 1, "0a4d700fd0ae5db9b81147d1ac1c84b832e1c88a1e5a69368187880c253590d7"], ["00006ba4ed77bbca8cad03b428a2449d7420b7bf62ac4584668f01ff6bcc5858", "Dear Bureau of Land Management, \n\nI am writing to strongly oppose the proposed repeal of the 2024 final rule, \u201cManagement and Protection of the National Petroleum Reserve in Alaska.\u201d \n\nRolling back these science-based protections would pave the way for expanded oil and gas drilling in one of the most ecologically important landscapes in the country. The Western Arctic is already under immense strain from the climate crisis. Removing safeguards from these lands, including in designated Special Areas like Teshekpuk Lake and other critical ecosystems, would further jeopardize wildlife habitats, accelerate climate impacts, and undermine the subsistence rights and traditions of Alaska Native communities. \n\nThese Special Areas were established after extensive public input and reflect decades of legal and ecological consensus around the need for strong, permanent protections. Opening them to industrial development would go against the federal government\u2019s obligation to provide \u201cmaximum protection\u201d for fish, wildlife, and subsistence values as directed by Congress. \n\nThe 2024 rule was the result of a thorough, years-long process where more than 250,000 people called for increased protections. This proposal ignores that public mandate in favor of short-term industry gains. \n\nInstead of reversing progress, the BLM should be charting a course toward a post-oil future for the region, one that respects Indigenous sovereignty, protects globally significant ecosystems, and addresses the urgent demands of the climate crisis. \n\nPlease reject this harmful proposal and uphold the 2024 protections for the Western Arctic.\n\nSincerely,\nSamuel Durkin\nFairfield, CA", 2, "1b33f1377a78fc8b879fa66ea1dfedab0acadcb8989274431c6b05344407e797"], ["00006d58534f67b1f681c9109f68249a166404c17a482d97f69062d6d74c11be", " ,\n\nTo the Department of Labor: \n\nWhatever you do, get rid of Trump ASAP!!!!!!!!\n\nIn America today, the current overtime salary threshold of $23,660 per year is below the poverty line for a family of four. We know that a robust economy and shared prosperity depend on policies that increase workers wages and rebuild our middle class.\n\n\n\nSadly, this new proposed rule change does not do enough to increase the wage earning potential of millions of working people. We call on the DOL to reject the current proposed rule change of a $35,308 overtime salary threshold and instead defend the 2016 rule.\n\n\n\nIn 1975, when the salary threshold was at its peak, the overtime salary threshold was high enough that more than 60 percent of full-time salaried workers were automatically eligible to receive overtime pay. Today that number has shrunk to just 6 percent.\n\n\n\nEarning overtime pay has historically been an important factor in how working families support themselves and move into the middle-class.\n\n \n\nThe 2016 rule change to $47,476, which was unfortunately not defended by the current administration, would have benefited 8.2 million more workers than this proposal.\n\n\n\nWe call on the Department of Labor to reject the new proposed rule change, which is based on the notion that someone struggling by on $35,000 a year is a highly paid executive who doesnt need or deserve overtime protections. Any discussion of an increase in the overtime salary threshold must begin at no less than a basic national standard of $51,000 in 2020 (the updated value of the 2016 rule), which today would cover approximately 33 percent of full-time salaried workersstill below the 1975 level, but a marked improvement that would increase wages of millions of families.\n\n\n\nThank you,\n\n\n\n\n\nJudy Bean\nearthspirit2@hotmail.com\n155th St\nPleasant Hill, Missouri 64080", 1, "037daa79e6ef55c2aef1213dfdb85eafadb8bb825c1e83780231072bb8c65dc2"], ["00006db9715e4ece9b05e36d7b119e869b65fe6d2da29c2cac0c60a497b5b57f", "To Whom it May Concern,\n\nToday I write in strong support of the proposed rule titled: Compliance With Statutory Program Integrity Requirements (HHS-OS-2018-0008), also known as the Protect Life Rule.\n\nThe proposed rule seeks to reinstate Reagan-era prohibitions on Title X funding for abortion centers. Similar regulations were upheld by the Supreme Court in 1991 in Rust v. Sullivan (500 U.S. 173).\n\nAbortion is not family planning. This rule would draw a bright line between abortion and family planning, as was clearly intended in the statute.\n\nCurrently 266 Planned Parenthood abortion centers are also federal Title X locations. Planned Parenthood is the nations largest abortion business and receives $50-$60 million a year from Title X. They should not be entitled to treat Title X as their personal slush fund. Research released by the Charlotte Lozier Institute in 2018 shows Planned Parenthood has inflated the U.S. abortion rate, controlling more than 35% of the abortion industry and resulting in more than three million extra abortions that could have been avoided.\n\nAmerican taxpayers do not want to be complicit in abortions through their taxpayer dollars. According to a January 2018 Marist poll, six in ten Americans oppose taxpayer funding of abortion. Money is fungible and tax dollars should be invested in comprehensive health care alternatives, not used as a slush fund to prop up the abortion industry.\n\nIt's important to note that the proposed rule will not reduce family planning funding by a single dollar. This rule would simply direct taxpayer funds to family planning providers who stay out of the abortion business. Women and girls are best served at alternative health care centers including community and rural health care centers that outnumber Planned Parenthood abortion facilities by more than 20 to 1 nationwide.\n\nI strongly urge adoption of the rule.\n\nSincerely,\n\nRita Forster\nIllinois", 1, "a6c2c0f4e3bd3a612f92dbc58c81cff9252d5cd2a50192b9107dd34e913db7a8"], ["00006ee041a1ca6bbe117cf50e3604de8fa0397891f056bedc85f47832d95416", "Dear Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms,\n\nI am writing in support of the ATF's proposed rule (Docket No ATF 2022R-17), which would dramatically reduce the number of guns sold without a background check.\n\nOur background check system was created to keep firearms out of the hands of individuals who are not allowed to purchase or possess them in the first place. But loopholes in the system\u2014like the ones that allow unlicensed gun sellers to sell guns online and at gun shows without running background checks on their buyers\u2014undermine it.\n\nThat\u2019s why ATF\u2019s proposed rule is so important and should be finalized. It will help close loopholes in our background check system that have, for decades, been exploited by bad actors like gun traffickers, straw purchasers, and other prohibited persons, including domestic abusers and convicted felons.\n\nI support the proposed rule because it makes clear that firearms dealing can take place wherever and through whatever medium guns are bought and sold\u2014whether that\u2019s at a gun show or an online marketplace\u2014and that certain conduct, like selling guns of the same or similar kind and type, constitutes firearms dealing. That means that these gun sellers will need to become licensed dealers and, as licensed dealers, run background checks.\n\nThe proposed rule won't just expand background checks and strengthen our background check system, but it will also save lives. That\u2019s why I support the proposed rule and why I encourage ATF to finalize it.\n\nSincerely,\nMaureen Brett", 4, "c21419451072e32dae3af2cf6a35127f9829979a596b1cc4b994eeced88e0ee6"], ["0000739bcbd314cf9f08317792825330036baa5fbc6a1ecea0b5b556650a7962", "Secretary Kennedy must restore the widely-esteemed previous members of CDC\u2019s ACIP.\nACIP must acknowledge that available COVID vaccines are safe and effective, and are vital for children, adults, and pregnant people, all of whom rely on CDC ACIP vaccine recommendations for access to vaccines and insurance coverage.\nACIP must continue to recommend widespread and unhindered access to a wide range of vaccines to protect people of all ages in the US.\nACIP must preserve a universal recommendation for COVID vaccines for people of all ages , including children and pregnant people", 1, "7819495dd77dcffa308cd2de45b8e8b5bbce8817de164b1dad6b511d38bda1ad"], ["000073d8891df611da649f6d9c214b4471eba58f009d60abdecc965f86368704", "Dear Secretary Alex Azar,\n\nI urge you to stop the Trump-Pence administrations new rule and stop trying to restrict health care coverage for abortion care.\n\nThe Trump-Pence administration's new rule will change coverage for abortion care for 1.3 million people under their current health insurance plans. These onerous restrictions could cause patients to lose their coverage for abortion care and stigmatize a basic form of reproductive health care. That's unacceptable.\n\nSincerely,\nAshley Ray\nNashville, TN 37216", 1, "5827e9ee9c733d0e1c07e5f884dc4c0d1e7155f9edba4d29b9dfc0355fa82fe4"], ["000074caa60e8814c543054cded91aed450cd4f84dadf092c91336b697519ed0", "Please do not roll back or terminate any of the EPA regulations on clean air and clean water,  as well as other important regulations that control the chemicals businesses use that affect our lives.  From harmful pesticide chemicals on crops to emissions form power plants all these regulations are there for the highly important reasons of keeping our lives and our planet free from dangerous gases, chemicals and other things that are destroying our home and can make us ill, sometimes to the point of dying. \n\nWe only have one planet and we must be good stewards of our home for all our future generations.\n\nThank you, Margaret Landry ", 1, "f8c4688a1d1ef5caab50d60703d7dc9dbea1bbfe700dd8e526217e2f69988079"], ["0000762cbf652df5444f1d4092c3507ddf2f8220ee325716bd5006518e566669", "I am Jeff Hazaleus and I own the Durant Stockyards in Durant, OK. We sell approximately 50,000 cattle per year and 10,000 sheep and goats. We are located on the Oklahoma Texas border. More than 60% of our customers come from Texas every week. The proposed rule changes for Approved Livestock Facilities and ADT would be very detrimental to our business if not put us out of business. \n       USDAs proposal to require a health certificate for adult cattle coming to a livestock market across state lines if not coming from a farm of origin will hinder my business and does not increase traceability. Once at my market, necessary information about these cattle is recorded and they are inspected by my market veterinarian. Requiring a health certificate before coming to market is an unnecessary expense for livestock producers.\n       Defining farm of origin as any farm where livestock are produced or maintained for at least four months prior to movement does not work in the real world. This puts an unreasonable duty on me as a market owner to determine how long cattle have been at a specific location. Also, there is no benefit to the four month time frame and it is so long that it includes far more cattle than USDA claims to be targeting.\n       The Livestock Marketing Facility agreement should remain in the regulations rather than a separate document. This agreement outlines my requirements and the formal process for submitting feedback should stay in place if USDA would like to make changes to these requirements. ", 1, "6463dfa7e74fb211629e53327aac3c68ac000cb829363546a069094779211d5c"], ["000079c8ca841c8d22c7339ab655ddcec3d1fb43347af410800f67f3dddac999", "Soil scientists should be involved in doing research regarding this topic, as time from \"production\" of manure and time either composted or used in fields for non-food crops (i.e. cover crops) should be a part of this.  Also \"organic\" farms should, potentially, have a different standard, as the manure used in their fields would be from cows with an undisturbed microbiome.  In addition, while research is being done, the affects of non-organic animal feed, potentially sprayed with persistent herbicides, should be considered when evaluating potential bacterial effects (possibly abnormal microbiomes?).  It is generally accepted by home gardeners that all compost needs to be tested with legume test plantings before applying to our gardens to see if the persistent herbicides are still active and will stunt our crops, this needs to be a part of all scientific studies as well!", 1, "ebd85de39c9ff1cb77e0128dedf2f3d4ba4490a1359130b9d692da1fbf9a143c"], ["00007b81f42553a9d646b1f335c9b779d7a581facd429432d2f2df061c8f58d2", "Dear Secretary Rollins,\n\nI urge you not to rescind the 2001 Roadless Area Conservation Rule (\"Roadless Rule\"). The 45 million acres of intact, roadless forests across our country, including 4 million acres in Utah, provide myriad benefits to all Americans.\n\nRoadless areas are vital for the long-term protection of cultural sites important to Native American tribes, watersheds that provide clean drinking water to local communities, and habitat for native fish and wildlife. They provide outdoor recreation opportunities for hiking, camping, hunting, fishing, climbing, mountain biking, bird watching and more. And they mitigate climate change by storing carbon.\n\nI believe that protecting roadless areas for these purposes is vastly more valuable than opening them to logging, road building, mining, and other development.  \n\nYour arguments for rescinding the Roadless Rule are not based on sound science. For example, removing roadless protection will not safeguard communities from wildfires. In fact, the opposite is true. Research shows that wildfires are four times more likely to start in areas with roads than in roadless forests, and 90% of all wildfires nationwide started within half a mile of a road. \n\nAgain, I urge you to protect America's forests by not rescinding the Roadless Area Conservation Rule. \n\nSincerely,\nMrs. Nancy Takacs", 1, "bf913bc580f927691b9cd52e08c6991c98f6183a1b480ee3b50b72210be78d6b"], ["00007be86cbcbbb49a0ac203b40b4ae38696dded0eb52dc1abb0e1599a68210b", "Dear Secretary Zinke and the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management,\n\nI stand in opposition to the proposed 2019 offshore oil and gas lease sales in the U.S. Arctic?s Beaufort Sea. Under the current 2017-2022 OCS Oil and Gas Leasing Program, lease sales in the Beaufort Sea are prohibited. Initiating the leasing process prior to the finalization and approval of a new 5-year program is reckless and premature. BOEM?s action to solicit industry nominations for new lease areas indicates that a decision to offer leases in the Beaufort Sea has already been made, rendering the public process that allows for stakeholder input meaningless. \n\nThe Arctic is one of the most diverse and environmentally significant regions on the planet. The region is home to many important marine animals, including beluga whales, polar bears, seals, walrus, migratory birds, and fish. Offshore drilling in this pristine environment would not only jeopardize sensitive marine ecosystems, but also the communities and species that rely on its continued abundance. There is no proven way to clean up oil spilled in sea ice. Unless and until we can prove that drilling in the Arctic Ocean can be done safely, it is a risk we simply cannot afford to take.\n\nWe urge the immediate reconsideration of the irresponsible 2019 Beaufort Sea Lease Sale.\n\nSincerely,\nDave Taylor", 1, "c272f5abd45e5ded9797d8473b4ef36140e2bad447b0a6e942807c69867eda82"], ["00007d9a221b4f2a934e74d43b1f5717197f27758370e88a658dfc6452678dbe", "I do not support the revision of eligibility for SNAP. ", 1, "fb6f38fba7752015b44ee4225cc6d75b478ec13c34c3a6c25a0ca593e774e136"], ["00007f5115d2dfe965a0b51c672ce10161bb6ef9ae60abea2ba087da487fc401", " ,\n\nI object to this rule. It'd go against decades of federal and state law and precedent, which has safeguarded tips as the property of the workers who receive them. \n\n\n\nI'm calling on the DOL to withdraw the rule, not only because it's bad, but because of the compromised promise and cover-up. 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