This Week in Federal Regulations — 2026-06-01

TITLE: This Week in Federal Regulations — Specialty Crop Aid Finalized, Holtec Cask Amendment, and a Wave of Arms Sales (June 1, 2026)

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Agriculture Department

USDA finalized cash assistance for specialty crop producers, the week's most consequential rulemaking for the farm sector.

• 2026-10930 establishes the Assistance for Specialty Crop Farmers (ASCF) Program as a final rule, providing direct payments to specialty crop producers; compliance teams at eligible operations should review payment-eligibility and recordkeeping conditions before applying.

Defense Department

Defense issued nine separate Arms Sales Notifications in a single day — the largest concentration of foreign military sale notices in recent weeks — signaling heavy congressional-notification activity for pending FMS cases.

• Notices 2026-10920, 2026-10937, 2026-10944, 2026-10945, 2026-10946, 2026-10948, 2026-10949, 2026-10950, 2026-10953, and 2026-10954 all transmit certifications under the Arms Export Control Act; exporters and contractors with pending FMS work should check which case numbers correspond to their programs, as titles and dollar thresholds drive 30/15-day congressional review clocks.

Commerce Department

Commerce kicked off another tranche of antidumping/countervailing duty sunset reviews, restarting five-year clocks on multiple orders.

• 2026-10941 initiates five-year (sunset) reviews under 19 CFR Part 351, while 2026-10942 provides advance notice of upcoming AD/CVD sunset reviews — importers under affected orders should prepare substantive responses to avoid waiver and adverse inferences.

International Trade Commission

• 2026-10933 schedules full five-year reviews of the AD/CVD orders on fluid end blocks from China, Germany, India, and Italy; domestic producers and importers face questionnaire deadlines and a public hearing under 19 CFR Part 207.

Nuclear Regulatory Commission

NRC amended its approved spent fuel cask list, a 10 CFR Part 72 action with direct operational implications for ISFSI licensees.

• 2026-10935 approves Amendment No. 5 to Certificate of Compliance No. 1040 for the Holtec HI-STORM UMAX Canister Storage System (10 CFR 72.214); general licensees relying on the CoC can load casks under the amended design once effective.

Transportation Department

• 2026-10919 announces intent to prepare a Tier 2 NEPA Environmental Impact Statement for Section 2 of the Mid-States Corridor Project in Indiana, opening scoping for stakeholders along the proposed highway alignment.

Homeland Security Department

• 2026-10932 seeks comment on renewed information collection for CISA's Office for Bombing Prevention "Technical Analysis" program supporting counter-IED training and assessments for state, local, and private-sector partners.

Housing and Urban Development

• 2026-10918 is a 60-day PRA notice on the eLOCCS System Access Authorization Form, affecting grantees and intermediaries that draw HUD funds electronically — comment period closes ~60 days from publication.

Education Department

• 2026-10917 submits to OMB the information collection for State Workforce Pell Program Certification, an early operational step toward stand-up of the new short-term workforce Pell pathway authorized in last year's appropriations package.

Health and Human Services

• 2026-10931 posts NIH Center for Scientific Review closed meeting notices under FACA — routine peer-review sessions with no public participation, listed for transparency only.

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CFR titles touched this week

• 7 CFR (USDA specialty crop assistance, 2026-10930)
• 10 CFR Part 72 (NRC approved cask list, 2026-10935)
• 19 CFR Parts 207 & 351 (Commerce/ITC AD/CVD reviews, 2026-10933, 2026-10941, 2026-10942)

Editor's read

The week's substantive rulemaking is light — only two final rules (2026-10930, 2026-10935) — but the volume of Defense FMS notifications and the Commerce sunset-review cadence point to a busy trade-and-security calendar heading into summer. Watch the eLOCCS (2026-10918) and Workforce Pell (2026-10917) PRA notices: both are administrative on their face but signal infrastructure for larger program changes coming downstream.