Recission of Procedures for Implementing the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA)

Document 2025-12305 is a Final Rule published by the Department of Defense in the Federal Register on July 3, 2025, with an effective date of July 3, 2025. This interim final rule rescinds DON's regulations implementing the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), because the Council on Environmental Quality's (CEQ) NEPA regulations, which they were meant to supplement, have been rescinded, and because the DoD is promulgating Department-wide NEPA procedures that will guide the Navy's NEPA process. In addition, this interim final rule requests comments on this action. View the original at https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2025/07/03/2025-12305/recission-of-procedures-for-implementing-the-national-environmental-policy-act-nepa.

No. Document 2025-12305 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.