Modernizing Suspension and Debarment Rules

What it does

In this document, the Federal Communications Commission (Commission) adopts the Office of Management and Budget's Guidance for Nonprocurement Debarment and Suspension, along with agency-specific regulations to allow the agency to further combat waste, fraud, and abuse, and remove bad actors from participation in its support programs. The Commission finds further notice and comment "unnecessary" under the Administrative Procedure Act (APA) for the Commission to adopt the Guidelines (including updates made after the Notice of Proposed Rulemaking in this proceeding), but elect to provide an opportunity for input on that assessment as to three of the Guidelines. A Proposed Rule relating to the Commission's adoption of updated suspension and debarment rules is published elsewhere in this issue of the Federal Register.

The Federal Communications Commission's summary, as published in the Federal Register.

What changed in the regulation

3 parts of Title 2, 47 of the Code of Federal Regulations:

2 CFR 6001, 47 CFR 54, 47 CFR 64

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

Compared with

The Federal Communications Commission has published 57 final rules in 2026 so far, compared with 78 in all of 2025.

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

What happens next and when

Effective dates: Amendatory instruction 3 is effective May 11, 2026. Amendatory instructions 1, 4 through 9, and 11 through 13 are delayed indefinitely. The Commission will publish a document in the Federal Register announcing the effective date for the delayed actions.

The agency's dates, word for word.

Check it yourself

• The document in the Federal Register
• Title 2 on eCFR

The record as published

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