Rule2025-10623

Summer Electronic Benefits Transfer for Children: Rescission of Obsolete Regulatory Provisions

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Published
June 11, 2025
Effective
June 11, 2025

Issuing agencies

Agriculture DepartmentFood and Nutrition Service

Abstract

This rule eliminates two time-limited state options in the Summer Electronic Benefits Transfer for Children (Summer EBT) program regulations that are now obsolete.

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[Federal Register Volume 90, Number 111 (Wednesday, June 11, 2025)]
[Rules and Regulations]
[Pages 24507-24508]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2025-10623]



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Federal Register / Vol. 90, No. 111 / Wednesday, June 11, 2025 / 
Rules and Regulations

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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE

Food and Nutrition Service

7 CFR Part 292

[Docket No. FNS-2025-0023]
RIN 0584-AF20


Summer Electronic Benefits Transfer for Children: Rescission of 
Obsolete Regulatory Provisions

AGENCY: Food and Nutrition Service (FNS), Department of Agriculture.

ACTION: Final rule.

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SUMMARY: This rule eliminates two time-limited state options in the 
Summer Electronic Benefits Transfer for Children (Summer EBT) program 
regulations that are now obsolete.

DATES: This rule is effective June 11, 2025.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: James C. Miller, Administrator, Food 
and Nutrition Service, at (703) 305-2060, or <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#99d3f8f4fceab7d4f0f5f5fcebd9eceafdf8b7fef6ef"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="9bd1faf6fee8b5d6f2f7f7fee9dbeee8fffab5fcf4ed">[email&#160;protected]</span></a> with 
a subject line of ``RIN 0584-AF20''.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Background

    The President's Executive Order 14219 of February 19, 2025, 
Ensuring Lawful Governance and Implementing the President's 
``Department of Government Efficiency'' Deregulatory Initiative, 90 FR 
10583, and subsequent implementing memorandum directed all agency heads 
to review regulations within their purview and rescind those that are, 
among other things, unlawful or unnecessary.
    FNS has undertaken such a review and has identified the following 
obsolete, unnecessary, and outdated provisions in 7 CFR part 292:
    <bullet> Application Requirements: The regulations at 7 CFR 
292.13(q) authorized Summer EBT application flexibility only for 2024.
    <bullet> Verification Requirements: The regulations at 7 CFR 
292.14(g) authorized Summer EBT income verification flexibility only 
for 2024.
    This final rule removes these obsolete provisions. The Agency has 
found good cause under 5 U.S.C. 553(b)(4)(B) that notice-and-comment 
rulemaking is unnecessary to take these actions because the provisions 
being rescinded are obsolete.

Procedural Matters

Executive Orders 12866 and 13563

    Under Executive Order 12866, as amended by Executive Orders 14215 
and 13563, agencies must assess all costs and benefits of available 
regulatory alternatives and, if regulation is necessary, select 
regulatory approaches that maximize net benefits. The Office of 
Management and Budget's (OMB) Office of Information and Regulatory 
Affairs has determined that this regulatory action is not significant 
and, therefore, is not subject to OMB review.

Regulatory Flexibility Act

    Under the Regulatory Flexibility Act (5 U.S.C. 601-612) (as amended 
by the Small Business Regulatory Enforcement Fairness Act of 1996; 5 
U.S.C. 601 et seq.), agencies must prepare and make available for 
public comment a regulatory flexibility analysis that describes the 
effect of the rule on small entities (i.e., small businesses, small 
organizations, and small government jurisdictions). FNS has concluded 
and hereby certifies that this rule will not have a significant 
economic impact on a substantial number of small entities.

Unfunded Mandates Reform Act

    This rule does not contain Federal mandates (under the regulatory 
provisions of Title II of the Unfunded Mandates Reform Act (UMRA)) for 
State, local, and Tribal governments, or the private sector of $100 
million or more in any one year. Thus, the rule is not subject to the 
requirements of sections 202 and 205 of the UMRA.

Executive Order 13175

    Executive Order 13175 requires Federal agencies to consult and 
coordinate with Tribes on a government-to-government basis on policies 
that have Tribal implications, including regulations, legislative 
comments or proposed legislation, and other policy statements or 
actions that have substantial direct effects on one or more Indian 
Tribes, on the relationship between the Federal Government and Indian 
Tribes, or on the distribution of power and responsibilities between 
the Federal Government and Indian Tribes. FNS has determined that this 
rule would not have Tribal implications that require consultation under 
Executive Order 13175.

Paperwork Reduction Act

    In accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (44 U.S.C. 
3501-3520), an agency may not conduct or sponsor, and a person is not 
required to respond to, a collection of information, unless the 
collection displays a currently valid OMB control number. This rule 
does not impose any additional information collection requirements.

E-Government Act Compliance

    The Department is committed to complying with the E-Government Act, 
2002 to promote the use of the internet and other information 
technologies to provide increased opportunities for citizen access to 
Government information and services, and for other purposes.

Executive Order 13132; Federalism Summary Impact Statement

    The rule is deregulatory and has little effect on States and local 
governments, so FNS anticipates that this rule will not have 
implications for federalism. Therefore, under section 6(b) of the 
Executive order, a federalism summary is not required.

List of Subjects in 7 CFR Part 292

    Administrative practice and procedure, Agriculture, Food assistance 
programs, Grant programs--education, Grant programs--health, Infants 
and children, Nutrition, Public assistance programs, Reporting and 
recordkeeping requirements, School breakfast and lunch programs, 
Supplemental assistance programs.

    Accordingly, FNS amends 7 CFR part 292 as follows:

PART 292--SUMMER ELECTRONIC BENEFITS TRANSFER PROGRAM

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1. The authority citation for part 292 continues to read as follows:

    Authority: 42 U.S.C. 1762.

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Sec.  292.13   [Amended]

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2. Amend Sec.  292.13 by removing paragraph (q).


Sec.  292.13  [Amended]

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3. Amend Sec.  292.14 by removing and reserving paragraph (g).

James C. Miller,
Administrator.
[FR Doc. 2025-10623 Filed 6-10-25; 8:45 am]
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