# Energy Department rescinds loan rules for minority businesses seeking federal contracts

The Federal Register published the rescission on Aug. 26, eliminating regulations that had governed DOE loans to minority business enterprises.

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The Energy Department has rescinded its regulations governing loans to minority business enterprises seeking DOE contracts and assistance, according to a rule the Federal Register published on Aug. 26.[^1]

The rescission removes a standing regulatory framework - one aimed specifically at minority-owned firms pursuing DOE contracting and cooperative agreement opportunities. The read here is that the deletion of a targeted loan program rule is a structural change, not a routine modification: where a program-level regulation existed before, there is now no rule in its place.

The Federal Register entry names the action as a rescission, not a revision or amendment, which means the underlying regulatory text is gone rather than modified. The record does not carry the original effective date of the rescinded regulations, the volume of loans previously made under them, or any replacement mechanism.

What would settle the picture is a DOE notice identifying whether any successor authority covers the same population of borrowers, or whether the rescission leaves minority business enterprises without a dedicated loan pathway into DOE contracting. That notice, if it exists, is not in the current record.

## What this stands on

1. Energy Department published Rule: Rescinding Regulations for Loans for Minority Business Enterprises Seeking DOE Contracts and Assistance (2026-08-26). (Federal Register, Federal Register, claim on record)
2. New regulations require prescribers to hold a diploma or master's degree in the medicinal use of cannabis and be registered in the Federal Registry of Health Professionals. (lanacion.com.ar, News)

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