Another clarification about Thom-Pontrjagin construction

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This is the second part of the following solved question.

[I'm following Bredon's Book]. After explaining the idea behind the "desired" bijection we want to build, Bredon start dealing with the well-definitedness of such association:

Now suppose we are given two fattened $k-$manifolds $g_0 \colon M^k_0\times E^n \to \mathbb{R}^{n+k}$ and $g_1\colon M^k_1 \times E^n \to \mathbb{R}^{n+k}$ and that the associated maps are homotopic: $\phi_{g_0} \simeq \phi_{g_1}$ via the homotopy $F \colon \mathbb{R}^{n+k} \times I \to \mathbb{R}^{n}_+$.

By composing $F$ with a map $\mathbb{R}^{n+k} \times I \to \mathbb{R}^{n+k}\times I$ of the form $1 \times \psi$ where $\psi(t)=0$ for $t$ near $0$ and $\psi(t)=1$ for $t$ near $1$, we can assume that $F$ is a constant homotopy near the two ends. Also, of course, $F$ can be assumed to be smooth away from $F^{-1}(\infty)$.

Let $q\in \mathbb{R}^n$ be a regular value of $F$ and put $V^{k+1}=F^{-1}(\{q\})$. Then there is an open disk $D^n$ about $q$ and an embedding $V^{k+1}\times D^n \to \mathbb{R}^{n+k}\times I$ onto a neighbourhood $W$ of $V$ and whose inverse is $r \times F \colon W \to V^{k+1} \times D^n$, $r$ being the normal retraction.

I don't understand how Bredon applies the theorem about the regular value because in the hypothesis he gave, it's required that the pre image of a regular point is compact. The last time he used this result it was clear that such pre-image is in fact compact (because we started with maps form the sphere-hence compact) but now the homotpy is defined on $\mathbb{R}^{n+k}\times I$ which is surely non-compact

Someone can explain why the result still holds here? (or why the highlighted part is true?) For notation please refer to my linked question above.

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The content of the regular value theorem is only a local statement (as being a submanifold is). Hence you don't need compactness at all to apply it.

Also note that the embedding $V^{k+1 }\times D^n \to R^{n+k}\times I$ exists by the regular neighborhood theorem and the fact that normal bundles pull back.

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At the top of the page 119 there is an assumption that maps and homotopies $\mathbb R^{n+k}\to S^n$ are constant to the base point outside some compact subset. This is expected, when we are interested in mappings between spheres.