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National Environmental Policy Act
The Agriculture Department published this final rule in the Federal Register on April 3, 2026. It took effect on April 3, 2026.
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What the agency says
The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) is adopting the interim final rule (IFR) published on July 3, 2025, with minor changes, as final. The IFR revised departmental regulations implementing the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) and removed various USDA agency regulations for implementing NEPA. The IFR was in response to the Council on Environmental Quality's (CEQ) rescission of its NEPA implementing regulations (which USDA's NEPA regulations were designed to supplement), statutory changes to NEPA, executive orders, and case law. In the IFR, USDA provided a 30-day comment period for the public to review and make comments. This final rule addresses public comments and adopts as final the IFR, with certain substantive changes as explained herein.
Key facts
- Document number
- 2026-06537
- Type
- Final rule
- Action
- Final rule
- Agency
- Agriculture Department
- Published
- April 3, 2026
- Takes effect
- April 3, 2026
- Dates
- This final rule is effective April 3, 2026.
- Docket
- USDA-2025-0008
- Regulation ID (RIN)
- 0503-AA86
- Code of Federal Regulations
- 7 CFR 1
- Topics
- Environmental impact statements
- Significant
- Yes, under Executive Order 12866
- Pages
- 61
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