[Federal Register Volume 90, Number 91 (Tuesday, May 13, 2025)]
[Rules and Regulations]
[Pages 20231-20232]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2025-08298]
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Federal Register / Vol. 90, No. 91 / Tuesday, May 13, 2025 / Rules
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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
Farm Service Agency
7 CFR Part 760
RIN 0560-AI74
Removal of Obsolete Crop Assistance Program Regulations
AGENCY: Farm Service Agency, U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA).
ACTION: Final rule.
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SUMMARY: The Farm Service Agency (FSA) is updating our regulations to
remove the FSA Crop Assistance Program (CAP), which is obsolete. The
changes in this rule will have no impacts on past or present FSA
customers.
DATES: This rule is effective May 13, 2025.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Sherrie Grimm; telephone: (202) 401-
0062; email: [email protected]. Individuals with disabilities who
require alternative means for communication should contact the USDA
Target Center at (202) 720-2600 (voice and text telephone (TTY mode))
or dial 711 for Telecommunications Relay Service (both voice and text
telephone users can initiate this call from any telephone).
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Background
FSA program regulations are in 7 CFR Chapter VII (parts 700 through
799). This rule removes the CAP regulations that are obsolete. This
rule is considered a housekeeping change and is not changing the active
programs that FSA administers.
This rule removes the CAP regulations that are now obsolete due to
the expiration of its authority and the ending of the program. Removal
of this regulation will not impact any remaining disputes, issues, or
other matters regarding the program. The CAP regulations in effect at
the time of any action remain in effect for such matters though they
are removed from the CFR. The regulations are being removed and a brief
description of them follows.
Crop Assistance Program (7 CFR Part 760 Subpart H)
The CAP regulations in 7 CFR part 760 subpart H were authorized by
clause 3 of section 32 of the Agricultural Act of 1935 (Pub. L. 74-
320). The Secretary of Agriculture determined that it was necessary to
use that authority for a one-time program to provide emergency
assistance to reestablish the purchasing power of producers of certain
crops based on conditions for the 2009 crop year. As a one-time
program, the regulations are obsolete and this rule removes them from
the CFR.
Notice and Comment, Effective Date, and Exemptions
No public comment period nor delay in the effective date are
required for this rule because the Administrative Procedure Act (5
U.S.C. 553) provides that the notice and comment and 30-day delay in
the effective date provisions do not apply when the rule involves a
matter relating to agency management or personnel, or to public
property, loans, grants, benefits, or contracts. This rule involves a
program that provided payments to certain agricultural crop producers
and therefore falls within the exemption for rules related to benefits.
Executive Orders 12866, 13563, 13771, and 13777
Executive Order 12866, ``Regulatory Planning and Review,'' and
Executive Order 13563, ``Improving Regulation and Regulatory Review,''
direct agencies to assess all costs and benefits of available
regulatory alternatives and, if regulation is necessary, to select
regulatory approaches that maximize net benefits (including potential
economic, environmental, public health and safety effects, distributive
impacts, and equity). Executive Order 13563 emphasized the importance
of quantifying both costs and benefits, of reducing costs, of
harmonizing rules, and of promoting flexibility. Executive Order 13777
``Enforcing the Regulatory Reform Agenda,'' established a federal
policy to alleviate unnecessary regulatory burdens on the American
people. Executive Order 14192 ``Unleashing Prosperity Through
Deregulation'' announced the Administration policy to significantly
reduce the private expenditures required to comply with Federal
regulations to secure America's economic prosperity and national
security and the highest possible quality of life for each citizen and
to alleviate unnecessary regulatory burdens placed on the American
people. In line with the requirement to repeal, replace, or modify
regulations, this rule is repealing obsolete regulations and will
result in cost savings by not publishing those regulations in the Code
of Federal Regulations.
The Office of Management and Budget (OMB) designated this rule as
not significant under Executive Order 12866 and, therefore, OMB was not
required to review this rule. Executive Order 13771, ``Reducing
Regulation and Controlling Regulatory Costs,'' and Executive Order
14192 requires that in order to manage the private costs required to
comply with Federal regulations that for every new significant or
economically significant regulation issued, specifically, agencies are
directed to ensure that the total incremental cost of all new
regulations, including repealed regulations, being finalized this year,
will be significantly less than zero. Any cost savings related to
removing the regulations from the Code of Federal Regulation will be
accounted for and will be banked to be used as needed for future
offsetting costs.
List of Subjects in 7 CFR Part 760
Acreage allotments, Dairy products, Indemnity payments, Pesticides
and pests, Reporting and recordkeeping requirements.
For the reasons discussed above, under the authority cited in the
preamble, the Farm Service Agency amends 7 CFR part 760 as follows:
PART 760--INDEMNITY PAYMENT PROGRAMS
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1. The authority citation for part 760 continues to read as follows:
Authority: 7 U.S.C. 4501 and 1531; 16 U.S.C. 3801, note; 19
U.S.C. 2497; Title III, Pub. L. 109-234, 120 Stat. 474; Title IX,
Pub. L. 110-28, 121 Stat. 211; Sec. 748, Pub. L. 111-80, 123 Stat.
2131; Title I, Pub. L. 115-123, 132 Stat. 65; Title I, Pub. L. 116-
20, 133 Stat. 871; Division B, Title VII, Pub. L. 116-94, 133 Stat.
2658; Title I, Pub. L. 117-43,
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135 Stat. 356; and Division N, Title I, Pub. L. 117-328.
Subpart H--[Removed and Reserved]
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2. Remove and reserve subpart H.
William Beam,
Administrator, Farm Service Agency.
[FR Doc. 2025-08298 Filed 5-12-25; 8:45 am]
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