Summary
This rule eliminates two time-limited state options in the Summer Electronic Benefits Transfer for Children (Summer EBT) program regulations that are now obsolete.
Dates
This rule is effective June 11, 2025.
Supplementary Information
The President's Executive Order 14219 of Feb. 19, 2025, Ensuring Lawful Governance and Implementing the President's “Department of Government Efficiency” Deregulatory Initiative, 90 FR 10583, and subsequent implementing memorandum directed all agency heads to review regulations within their purview and rescind those that are, among other things, unlawful or unnecessary.
FNS has undertaken such a review and has identified the following obsolete, unnecessary, and outdated provisions in 7 CFR part 292:
- Application Requirements: The regulations at 7 CFR 292.13(q) authorized Summer EBT application flexibility only for 2024.
- Verification Requirements: The regulations at 7 CFR 292.14(g) authorized Summer EBT income verification flexibility only for 2024.
This final rule removes these obsolete provisions. The Agency has found good cause under 5 USC 553(b)(4)(B) that notice-and-comment rulemaking is unnecessary to take these actions because the provisions being rescinded are obsolete.
Accordingly, FNS amends 7 CFR part 292 as follows:
PART 292—SUMMER ELECTRONIC BENEFITS TRANSFER PROGRAM
The authority citation for part 292 continues to read as follows:
Authority: 42 USC 1762.
§ 292.13 [Amended]
- Amend § 292.13 by removing paragraph (q).
§ 292.13 [Amended]
- Amend § 292.14 by removing and reserving paragraph (g).