Special Supplemental Food Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) Overseas: Revision to Definition of Drafts

Document 2025-01127 is a Final Rule published by the Department of Defense in the Federal Register on January 17, 2025, with an effective date of January 17, 2025. The ASD(HA) is issuing this final rule to revise the definition of drafts, currently defined as paper instruments, within the regulation governing the WIC Overseas Program. This final rule modernizes the definition of drafts to include not only paper instruments but also other methods and processes, including electronic benefit transfers. The rule is being published as a final rule as the change to the definition of drafts involve only a minor, technical amendment to the existing regulation. The Department has determined that notice and comment would be unnecessary and contrary to public interest. View the original at https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2025/01/17/2025-01127/special-supplemental-food-program-for-women-infants-and-children-wic-overseas-revision-to-definition.

No. Document 2025-01127 is not classified as economically significant under Executive Order 12866. Economically significant rules require OIRA review and are estimated to have impacts of $100 million or more per year.