USDA Finalizes Historic Regulatory Reform in National Environmental Policy Act Final Rule
Today, U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Brooke L. Rollins announced the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has finalized a rule modernizing the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) regulations. This Final Rule adopts the changes introduced in the Interim Final Rule published on July 3, 2025, which consolidated seven agency-specific NEPA regulations into a single, department wide framework, reducing the overall volume of regulations by 66 percent. This major action is also a linchpin in Secretary Rollins’ broader Deregulatory Agenda for U.S. Agriculture and...
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