Waste Prevention, Production Subject to Royalties, and Resource Conservation; Extension of Phase-In Requirements

What it does

Due to the receipt of significant adverse comments on the December 15, 2025, direct final rule (DFR) extending certain phase-in deadlines of the Bureau of Land Management's (BLM) Waste Prevention and Resource Conservation regulations, the Department of the Interior, through the BLM, is issuing a new final rule that responds to those comments.

The Land Management Bureau's summary, as published in the Federal Register.

What changed in the regulation

1 part of Title 43 of the Code of Federal Regulations:

43 CFR 3700

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

Compared with

The Land Management Bureau has published 4 final rules in 2026 so far, compared with 34 in all of 2025.

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

Before this

1 earlier Federal Register document under regulation identifier 1004-AF51 since Jan. 1, 2025.

• Dec. 15, 2025 Direct final rule; request for comments. Waste Prevention, Production Subject to Royalties, and Resource Conservation; Extension of Phase-In Requirements

What happens next and when

The effective date of February 13, 2026, for the direct final rule that published on December 15, 2025, (90 FR 57921) is confirmed. This final rule is effective on June 1, 2026.

The agency's dates, word for word.

Check it yourself

• The document in the Federal Register
• Docket BLM-2025-0268 on Regulations.gov
• Title 43 on eCFR

The record as published

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