Office of Procurement and Property Management 2024 – Federal Register Recent Federal Regulation Documents

The Rural Business-Cooperative Service (RBCS or the Agency), an agency of the Rural Development (RD) mission area within the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), is issuing a proposed rule with request for comments to adopt changes from the Agriculture Improvement Act of 2018 (2018 Farm Bill). These proposed changes include the merger of the Guidelines for Designating Biobased Products for Federal Procurement and the Voluntary Labeling Program for Biobased Products into one streamlined regulation, Biobased Markets (BioPreferred) Program. The plain language summary of the proposal is available on Regulations.gov in the docket for rulemaking.