On Friday, the OMB’s Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs (OIRA) announced that it had received a final rule from the DOT’s Federal Aviation Administration on “Normalizing Unmanned Aircraft Systems Beyond Visual Line of Sight Operations”. The notice of proposed rulemaking was published on August 7th, 2025.
According to the 2026 Unified Agenda entry for this rulemaking:
“This action proposes performance-based regulations enabling the design and operation of unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) at low altitudes beyond visual line of sight (BVLOS) and for third-party services, to include UAS Traffic Management (UTM), that support these operations. The FAA Reauthorization Act of 2024 directs the development of this proposed rule. This proposed rule is necessary to support the integration of UAS into the national airspace system (NAS). This proposed rule is intended to provide a predictable and clear pathway for safe, routine, and scalable UAS operations that include package delivery, agriculture, aerial surveying, civic interest, operations training, demonstration, recreation, and flight testing.”
As I noted in a CFSN Detailed Analysis post the NPRM included security language from the TSA. I reported that: “The preamble notes that: ‘While FAA and TSA are issuing a joint proposed rulemaking, the agencies intend to concurrently issue separate final rules.’” That separate rulemaking was listed in the 2026 Unified Agenda, but there has been no announcement of its being sent to OIRA at this time.
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