Procedures for Implementing the National Environmental Policy Act

What it does

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is rescinding and repromulgating its regulations related to environmental quality to update the regulations to codify changes to NEPA. NASA has determined there is good cause to promulgate its revised NEPA implementing regulations in the form of an interim final rule in order to avoid confusion related to NASA's administrative process and provide NASA action proponents, non-Federal project sponsors of proposed actions, and the public with the procedural certainty required to efficiently prepare an environmental document under NEPA. Additionally, this interim final rule updates NASA's list of existing categorical exclusions.

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration's summary, as published in the Federal Register.

What changed in the regulation

1 part of Title 14 of the Code of Federal Regulations:

14 CFR 1216

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

Compared with

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration has published 2 final rules in 2026 so far, compared with 1 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 2700-AE80 since Jan. 1, 2025.

What happens next and when

This interim final rule is effective August 17, 2026. Comments are due by July 31, 2026.

The agency's dates, word for word.

Check it yourself

• The document in the Federal Register
• Docket NASA-2026-0100 on Regulations.gov
• Title 14 on eCFR

The record as published

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