Eliminating Regulations Establishing Fellowships in Laboratory Standardization and Testing for Foreign Citizens

What it does

By this rule, NIST removes its regulations establishing fellowships in laboratory standardization and testing for foreign citizens of "other American republics." This action is necessary because no statute specifically requires or contemplates the promulgation of these regulations and because there has not been any active program under these regulations in decades. The removal of these regulations will streamline the Code of Federal Regulations, thereby promoting administrative simplicity and efficiency, and also reprioritize U.S. interests.

The National Institute of Standards and Technology's summary, as published in the Federal Register.

What changed in the regulation

1 part of Title 15 of the Code of Federal Regulations:

15 CFR 255

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

Compared with

The National Institute of Standards and Technology has published 4 final rules in 2026 so far, compared with 0 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 0693-AB74 since Jan. 1, 2025.

What happens next and when

The rule is effective April 24, 2026.

The agency's dates, word for word.

Check it yourself

• The document in the Federal Register
• Title 15 on eCFR

The record as published

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