Department of Energy Acquisition Regulation

Document 2025-12557 is a Final Rule published by the Department of Energy in the Federal Register on July 7, 2025, with an effective date of July 7, 2025. The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) is publishing this technical amendment to reinstate text that was deleted from the Department of Energy Acquisition Regulation (DEAR) in error when the DEAR was revised through a final rule in November 2024, and effective December 13, 2024. The deleted text was adopted through previous rulemakings, and because the text is still applicable to the DEAR, this technical amendment is necessary to ensure the regulation in its entirety is reported in the Code of Federal Regulations. By reinstating this text, the regulation on access to and ownership of records will clearly state which records are considered contractor-owned records. View the original at https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2025/07/07/2025-12557/department-of-energy-acquisition-regulation.

No. Document 2025-12557 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.