diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index db208dbc13f..39bb3d95f31 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -50,6 +50,7 @@ This release is compatible with NumPy 2.5.
 * Removed support for arrays of 2-dimensional vectors in `dpnp.cross`, which now requires (arrays of) 3-dimensional vectors and raises `ValueError` otherwise [#2950](https://github.com/IntelPython/dpnp/pull/2950)
 * Removed `dpnp.row_stack` in favor of `dpnp.vstack` [#2956](https://github.com/IntelPython/dpnp/pull/2956)
 * Removed all references to the unimplemented `dpnp.ndarray.resize` method from the documentation [#2989](https://github.com/IntelPython/dpnp/pull/2989)
+* Removed an obsolete oneAPI 2021.x workaround from the Windows conda build script that manually prepended `BUILD_PREFIX` paths onto the `LIB` and `INCLUDE` [#3013](https://github.com/IntelPython/dpnp/pull/3013)
 
 ### Fixed
 
diff --git a/conda-recipe/bld.bat b/conda-recipe/bld.bat
index 2c79ec80881..25003de8f85 100644
--- a/conda-recipe/bld.bat
+++ b/conda-recipe/bld.bat
@@ -1,7 +1,3 @@
-REM A workaround for activate-dpcpp.bat issue to be addressed in 2021.4
-set "LIB=%BUILD_PREFIX%\Library\lib;%BUILD_PREFIX%\compiler\lib;%LIB%"
-set "INCLUDE=%BUILD_PREFIX%\include;%INCLUDE%"
-
 "%PYTHON%" setup.py clean --all
 
 set "MKLROOT=%PREFIX%/Library"