# 2025-09890: Federal Highway Agency Puts Pavement Rule Makeover on Hold

2025-09890, Updates to Pavement Regulations, is a Federal Register proposed rule from Transportation Department, Federal Highway Administration published 2025-06-03, effective 2025-06-03; PRIA reads it as touching household money (as of 2026-10-27).

- Canonical: https://policyrisk.com/federal-register/2025-09890
- As of: 2026-10-27
- Plain-text twin of the page above; the HTML and this file carry the same facts.

## Facts
- Document number: 2025-09890
- Title: Updates to Pavement Regulations
- Type: Proposed Rule
- Agencies: Transportation Department; Federal Highway Administration
- Citation: 90 FR 23490
- Published: 2025-06-03
- Effective: 2025-06-03
- Comments close: not stated
- Significant: no
- Touches household money: yes
- Regulation identifier numbers: 2125-AF96
- Last updated: 2026-10-27

## In one line

Federal Highway Agency Puts Pavement Rule Makeover on Hold

## Summary

The Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) has decided to stop working on updating pavement rules for now. This means no new changes or costs will happen soon, and the project won’t move forward in 2025. FHWA will keep thinking about the best way to improve pavement rules in the future, but for now, nothing new is coming.

## Abstract

FHWA terminates its rulemaking on "Updates to Pavement Regulations." FHWA will proceed to formally terminate the rule from FHWA's upcoming Spring 2025 Unified Agenda of Regulatory and Deregulatory Actions ("Unified Agenda").

## Effects PRIA read

- No Pavement Rule Changes in 2025: benefit, low. You will not see any new FHWA pavement regulation changes or new compliance costs soon. FHWA formally terminated the "Updates to Pavement Regulations" rulemaking on June 3, 2025, and the project will not move forward in 2025.

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## Sources
- [2025-09890 on federalregister.gov](https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2025/06/03/2025-09890/updates-to-pavement-regulations)
- [2025-09890 as published (PDF)](https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2025-06-03/pdf/2025-09890.pdf)

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Source: PRIA, https://policyrisk.com/federal-register/2025-09890 (as of 2026-10-27).