National Environmental Policy Act Implementing Regulations

What the Rule Says It Does

The Department of the Interior (Department or DOI) is adopting the interim final rule (IFR) published on July 3, 2025, with minor changes, as final. In the IFR, DOI 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. The IFR partially rescinded DOI's regulations implementing the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) and made necessary targeted updates to those provisions that were not repealed. DOI will henceforth maintain the majority of its NEPA procedures--which apply only to DOI's internal processes--in a Departmental Handbook separate from the Code of Federal Regulations (CFR).

This is the rule's own summary, as the Federal Register prints it.

The Orders It Names

• Executive Order 14154: Unleashing American Energy
• Executive Order 14173: Ending Illegal Discrimination and Restoring Merit-Based Opportunity
• Executive Order 14303: Restoring Gold Standard Science

The rule names these orders itself. What it does about them is a reading, and none is recorded here.