Technical Guidelines for the Production of Regenerative Agricultural Biofuel Feedstocks

What it does

This final rule revises technical guidelines for quantifying, reporting, and verifying the carbon intensity of agricultural commodity crops used in the production of biofuels relative to an estimated national average that were established by a prior January 2025 interim rule. Specifically, the January 2025 interim rule established guidelines for the implementation, reporting, verification, and quantification of carbon intensity (CI) of certain agricultural commodities at the field-scale. This final rule makes revisions to the January 2025 interim rule that were requested by commenters or that are otherwise necessary because of intervening Executive action. The revised guidelines articulate an approach for farm producers to quantify the change in net emissions associated with crops produced using one or more authorized practices. The revised guidelines also articulate a framework for how information regarding emissions, resulting from the production of biofuel feedstock commodity crops, could be reported and tracked throughout the supply chain.

The Energy and Environmental Policy Office's summary, as published in the Federal Register.

What changed in the regulation

1 part of Title 7 of the Code of Federal Regulations:

7 CFR 2100

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

Compared with

The Energy and Environmental Policy Office has published 1 final rule 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

1 earlier Federal Register document under regulation identifier 0503-AA82 since Jan. 1, 2025.

• Jan. 17, 2025 Interim rule. Technical Guidelines for Climate-Smart Agriculture Crops Used as Biofuel Feedstocks

What happens next and when

Effective date: July 29, 2026.

The agency's dates, word for word.

Check it yourself

• The document in the Federal Register
• Title 7 on eCFR

The record as published

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