Documents › Agency rules › 2025-17429
Energy Department
Rescinding Regulations for Loans for Minority Business Enterprises Seeking DOE Contracts and Assistance
Published September 10, 2025. Takes effect December 9, 2025. printed at 90 FR 43539. amending 10 CFR 800.
The energy agency is dropping a loan program rule. This pushes back the start date.
What the Rule Says It Does
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) is extending the effective date of the direct final rule "Rescinding Regulations for Loans for Minority Business Enterprises Seeking DOE Contracts and Assistance," published on May 16, 2025.
This is the rule's own summary, as the Federal Register prints it.
The Order It Names
The rule names this order itself. What it does about it is a reading, and none is recorded here.
- The rule itself
Energy Department, “Rescinding Regulations for Loans for Minority Business Enterprises Seeking DOE Contracts and Assistance,” 90 FR 43539 (September 10, 2025). Effective December 9, 2025.
https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2025/09/10/2025-17429/rescinding-regulations-for-loans-for-minority-business-enterprises-seeking-doe-contracts-and - This page
“Rescinding Regulations for Loans for Minority Business Enterprises Seeking DOE Contracts and Assistance,” a final rule naming an order indexed here. Read the Mandate, https://readthemandate.org/rules/rule-2025-17429/ (retrieved August 26, 2026).
Cite the document when the claim is about what the document says. Cite this page when the indexing, the wording or the record of what has happened is what is being relied on.
How This Rule Is Quoted
Federal Register documents are United States government works and are not under copyright. The summary is quoted as printed and the rule itself is one click away, because an index is not a mirror.