New rules and proposals in the Federal Register on Thursday will lay out education funding priorities, regulate chemicals and change the way the government repatriates Native American property. Here are the new regs:

Communications:
The U.S. Copyright Office, a division of the Library of Congress, is revising a proposal to allow owners of copyrights to audit some fees and statements from cable and satellite operators. 

The House Financial Committee approved half a dozen GOP-backed bills that would dial back certain restrictions on derivatives, the previously unregulated securities seen as one of the culprits that led to the Great Recession, The Washington Post reports.

One Democrat on the panel described the package of bills as “basically a wish-list of the financial industry,” according to The Hill’s On the Money blog.

A new AFL-CIO report concludes that occupational illness and job site accidents lead to 150 deaths a day, and links the toll to stalled regulations and lax enforcement from the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), RegWatch reports.

OSHA did, however, conduct a major crackdown at an Idaho assisted living center, issuing $19,000 in fines, according to The Associated Press.

A federal court dealt a major blow to the National Labor Relations Board, striking down regulations requiring employers to display posters promoting union rights, RegWatch reports. 

The oil and gas industry is accusing the Obama administration of side-stepping its procedural rules and rushing a regulation on auto emissions.

In the letter to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) sent on Tuesday, the American Petroleum Institute (API) accused the watchdog of violating portions of the Clean Air Act that require new rules to be published in the Federal Register, the government's official ledger for regulations and notices, before accepting comments from the public and holding public hearings. 

Security and Exchange Commission (SEC) Chairman Mary Jo White told lawmakers Tuesday that she would hire hundreds of new staffers and bolster economic analysis of forthcoming regulations if the agency’s proposed budget increase is approved.

The SEC is requesting $1.674 billion for the 2014 fiscal year, a roughly 27-percent increase from current levels. While the entire amount would be offset by transaction fees collected from regulated entities, White acknowledged that the request comes at a time when the government faces serious economic challenges. 

The Treasury Department on Tuesday said it has identified eight key members of a Mexican drug cartel after a yearlong investigation, setting off a chain reaction of enforcement measures.

Pinpointing and calling out plaza bosses of the Mexican Sinaloa Cartel is an “important” victory, federal officials said on Tuesday, but they say actions are only beginning.

The eight men are strategically located along a 375-mile stretch of the Arizona-Mexico border and act as gatekeepers for drugs and other illegal goods smuggled into or out of the United States.

Sen. Rockefeller wrote to executives of three major cruise lines asking about their standards and the industry's role in the economy.

A second Senate committee has expressed interest in the West, Texas, incident that killed 14 and injured 200.

Complying with President Obama's healthcare law will take nearly 190 million hours per year, according to a new tally released by House Republicans.

The GOP reached that total by adding together the compliance burden in each regulation implementing part of the healthcare law.

They said the annual burden to comply with ObamaCare is enough time to build Mount Rushmore more than 1,500 times over, or to build the Empire State Building 27 times.

Government agencies filed twin charges against debt-relief companies for fraud and deception on Tuesday, the first suit of its kind.

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) filed civil complaints against two firms that claimed to lower customers' overall debt by negotiating with banks and credit card companies for charging consumers illegal fees. Separately, the Department of Justice (DOJ) filed criminal charges against one of the companies for mail and wire fraud.

The Justice Department charged New York-based Mission Settlement Agency, its owner and three employees with defrauding more than 1,200 people for millions of dollars. The department claims that from 2009 through May 2013, the company lied about its fees and falsely claimed to be affiliated with the federal government to trick consumers into paying for its services, resulting in $2.2 million in fees for the company while ignoring its customers.

The agency's owner used the profits to run a Brooklyn nightclub, lease two luxury cars and pay for his mother's credit card bills, the Justice Department alleges.