0575-AC56 201410 The Regulatory Plan and the Unified Agenda of Federal Regulatory and Deregulatory Actions 0575 Rural Housing Service RHS 0500 Department of Agriculture USDA Environmental Policies and Procedures

The Rural Development is seeking to consolidate, simplify, and update all Agency environmental requirements into a common environmental regulation. This Rural Development regulation will replace 7 CFR 1794; the current Utilities environmental regulation, 7 CFR 1940-G; the current Housing/Business environmental regulation, 7 CFR 1901-F; the current Historic Preservation regulation; and 7 CFR part 1940-J, the current Intergovernmental Review regulation. This consolidation effort will produce a single user-friendly tool to help the program constituents, rural communities, and Rural Development staff and bring the environmental requirements of Agency actions in line with the environmental requirements of other Federal programs for similar actions. This rule consists of subparts A through O.

]]> Substantive, Nonsignificant Previously Published in The Unified Agenda Final Rule Stage No No 7 CFR 1794 7 CFR 1901-F 7 CFR 1940-G 5 USC 301 7 USC 1989 42 USC 1480 No NPRM 02/04/2014 79 FR 6740 NPRM Comment Period End 04/07/2014 Final Action 05/00/2015 No No None No No No No Frank Mancino 0575 Rural Housing Service RHS 202 720-9647 mancino.frank@wdc.usda.gov 1400 Independence Avenue SW., STOP 0761, Washington DC 20250