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Horse Protection Amendments; Further Postponement of Regulations
The Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service published this final rule in the Federal Register on January 28, 2026. It takes effect on December 31, 2026.
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What the agency says
On May 8, 2024, we published a final rule amending the horse protection regulations. The provisions of the final rule, initially scheduled to go into effect on February 1, 2025, were delayed until April 2, 2025. On March 21, 2025, we published a further delay of the effective date to February 1, 2026, and a request for comment on whether the length of the postponement should be extended. In this document, based on intervening developments since the issuance of the March 21, 2025 delay of effective date, we are further delaying the effective date of the provisions effective February 1, 2026, to December 31, 2026.
Key facts
- Document number
- 2026-01648
- Type
- Final rule
- Action
- Final rule; further delay of effective date
- Agency
- Agriculture Department; Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service
- Published
- January 28, 2026
- Takes effect
- December 31, 2026
- Dates
- As of January 28, 2026, the amendments to 9 CFR 11.1 through 11.18 effective February 1, 2025, (89 FR 39194), delayed until April 2, 2025, (90 FR 8253), and further delayed until February 1, 2026 (90 FR 13273), are further delayed until December 31, 2026.
- Docket
- Docket No. APHIS-2022-0004
- Regulation ID (RIN)
- 0579-AE70
- Code of Federal Regulations
- 9 CFR 11
- Significant
- Yes, under Executive Order 12866
- Pages
- 3
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