Reducing Bureaucracy and Burden for Refugee Resettlement Programs

What it does

The Department of Health and Human Services, Administration for Children and Families rescinds obsolete provisions of the State Legalization Impact Assistance Grants regulations (45 CFR part 402). The Administration for Children and Families has undertaken a sweeping review aimed at eliminating outdated rules and reducing unnecessary regulatory burdens to streamline, simplify, and efficiently deregulate across multiple fronts simultaneously to better serve the public. The docket on https://www.regulations.gov will include a plain language summary of the direct final rule as required by 5 U.S.C. 553(b)(4).

The Children and Families Administration's summary, as published in the Federal Register.

What changed in the regulation

1 part of Title 45 of the Code of Federal Regulations:

45 CFR 402

Wording on eCFR: the day before it took effect and from the day it took effect (first part listed).

Compared with

The Children and Families Administration has published 9 final rules in 2026 so far, compared with 2 in all of 2025.

Counted by the Tribune from Federal Register records since Jan. 1, 2025.

Before this

No earlier Federal Register document under regulation identifier 0970-AD28 since Jan. 1, 2025.

What happens next and when

Effective May 26, 2026, unless significant adverse comments are received on or before May 26, 2026. In the event the Administration for Children and Families receive significant adverse comments, the Administration for Children and Families will publish a timely withdrawal in the Federal Register informing the public the provisions of the rule(s) for which significant adverse comments were received and elimination will not take effect.

The agency's dates, word for word.

Check it yourself

• The document in the Federal Register
• Docket ACF-2026-0166 on Regulations.gov
• Title 45 on eCFR

The record as published

Source: the Federal Register (public domain). The document in the Federal Register