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Remove Regulations for Sulphur Operations
The Safety and Environmental Enforcement Bureau published this final rule in the Federal Register on August 1, 2025. It took effect on September 30, 2025. Comments closed on September 2, 2025.
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What the agency says
The Department of the Interior (DOI or Department), through the Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement (BSEE), is rescinding the majority of the provisions in its sulphur operations subpart and revising the subpart by applying other available regulatory requirements for similar operations to sulphur operations in the Outer Continental Shelf (OCS). The existing regulations are outdated, duplicative of, or inconsistent with, other Department regulations. This direct final rule provides consistency and clarity to industry regarding regulatory requirements for sulphur operations by aligning the requirements with the Department's other BSEE-administered regulations.
Key facts
- Document number
- 2025-14618
- Type
- Final rule
- Action
- Direct final rule; request for comments
- Agency
- Interior Department; Safety and Environmental Enforcement Bureau
- Published
- August 1, 2025
- Takes effect
- September 30, 2025
- Comments due
- September 2, 2025
- Dates
- The final rule is effective September 30, 2025, unless significant adverse comments are received by September 2, 2025. If significant adverse comments are received, notice will be published in the Federal Register before the effective date either withdrawing the rule or issuing a new final rule that responds to significant adverse comments.
- Docket
- Docket ID: BSEE-2025-0003; EEEE500000 256E1700D2 ET1SF0000.EAQ000
- Regulation ID (RIN)
- 1014-AA64
- Code of Federal Regulations
- 30 CFR 250
- Topics
- Administrative practice and procedure; Continental shelf; Environmental impact statements; Environmental protection; Government contracts; Investigations; Mineral resources; Oil and gas exploration; Penalties; Pipelines; Reporting and recordkeeping requirements
- Pages
- 4
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