diff --git a/.github/.OwlBot.lock.yaml b/.github/.OwlBot.lock.yaml
index 757c9dca75..1ce6085235 100644
--- a/.github/.OwlBot.lock.yaml
+++ b/.github/.OwlBot.lock.yaml
@@ -13,5 +13,5 @@
 # limitations under the License.
 docker:
   image: gcr.io/cloud-devrel-public-resources/owlbot-python:latest
-  digest: sha256:81ed5ecdfc7cac5b699ba4537376f3563f6f04122c4ec9e735d3b3dc1d43dd32
-# created: 2022-05-05T22:08:23.383410683Z
+  digest: sha256:e7bb19d47c13839fe8c147e50e02e8b6cf5da8edd1af8b82208cd6f66cc2829c
+# created: 2022-07-05T18:31:20.838186805Z
diff --git a/.kokoro/continuous/prerelease-deps.cfg b/.kokoro/continuous/prerelease-deps.cfg
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..3595fb43f5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.kokoro/continuous/prerelease-deps.cfg
@@ -0,0 +1,7 @@
+# Format: //devtools/kokoro/config/proto/build.proto
+
+# Only run this nox session.
+env_vars: {
+    key: "NOX_SESSION"
+    value: "prerelease_deps"
+}
diff --git a/.kokoro/presubmit/prerelease-deps.cfg b/.kokoro/presubmit/prerelease-deps.cfg
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..3595fb43f5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.kokoro/presubmit/prerelease-deps.cfg
@@ -0,0 +1,7 @@
+# Format: //devtools/kokoro/config/proto/build.proto
+
+# Only run this nox session.
+env_vars: {
+    key: "NOX_SESSION"
+    value: "prerelease_deps"
+}
diff --git a/.kokoro/samples/python3.6/common.cfg b/.kokoro/samples/python3.6/common.cfg
deleted file mode 100644
index 20f6b9691d..0000000000
--- a/.kokoro/samples/python3.6/common.cfg
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,40 +0,0 @@
-# Format: //devtools/kokoro/config/proto/build.proto
-
-# Build logs will be here
-action {
-  define_artifacts {
-    regex: "**/*sponge_log.xml"
-  }
-}
-
-# Specify which tests to run
-env_vars: {
-    key: "RUN_TESTS_SESSION"
-    value: "py-3.6"
-}
-
-# Declare build specific Cloud project.
-env_vars: {
-    key: "BUILD_SPECIFIC_GCLOUD_PROJECT"
-    value: "python-docs-samples-tests-py36"
-}
-
-env_vars: {
-    key: "TRAMPOLINE_BUILD_FILE"
-    value: "github/python-bigquery/.kokoro/test-samples.sh"
-}
-
-# Configure the docker image for kokoro-trampoline.
-env_vars: {
-    key: "TRAMPOLINE_IMAGE"
-    value: "gcr.io/cloud-devrel-kokoro-resources/python-samples-testing-docker"
-}
-
-# Download secrets for samples
-gfile_resources: "/bigstore/cloud-devrel-kokoro-resources/python-docs-samples"
-
-# Download trampoline resources.
-gfile_resources: "/bigstore/cloud-devrel-kokoro-resources/trampoline"
-
-# Use the trampoline script to run in docker.
-build_file: "python-bigquery/.kokoro/trampoline_v2.sh"
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/.kokoro/samples/python3.6/continuous.cfg b/.kokoro/samples/python3.6/continuous.cfg
deleted file mode 100644
index 7218af1499..0000000000
--- a/.kokoro/samples/python3.6/continuous.cfg
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,7 +0,0 @@
-# Format: //devtools/kokoro/config/proto/build.proto
-
-env_vars: {
-    key: "INSTALL_LIBRARY_FROM_SOURCE"
-    value: "True"
-}
-
diff --git a/.kokoro/samples/python3.6/periodic-head.cfg b/.kokoro/samples/python3.6/periodic-head.cfg
deleted file mode 100644
index 5aa01bab5b..0000000000
--- a/.kokoro/samples/python3.6/periodic-head.cfg
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,11 +0,0 @@
-# Format: //devtools/kokoro/config/proto/build.proto
-
-env_vars: {
-    key: "INSTALL_LIBRARY_FROM_SOURCE"
-    value: "True"
-}
-
-env_vars: {
-    key: "TRAMPOLINE_BUILD_FILE"
-    value: "github/python-bigquery/.kokoro/test-samples-against-head.sh"
-}
diff --git a/.kokoro/samples/python3.6/periodic.cfg b/.kokoro/samples/python3.6/periodic.cfg
deleted file mode 100644
index 71cd1e597e..0000000000
--- a/.kokoro/samples/python3.6/periodic.cfg
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,6 +0,0 @@
-# Format: //devtools/kokoro/config/proto/build.proto
-
-env_vars: {
-    key: "INSTALL_LIBRARY_FROM_SOURCE"
-    value: "False"
-}
diff --git a/.kokoro/samples/python3.6/presubmit.cfg b/.kokoro/samples/python3.6/presubmit.cfg
deleted file mode 100644
index a1c8d9759c..0000000000
--- a/.kokoro/samples/python3.6/presubmit.cfg
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,6 +0,0 @@
-# Format: //devtools/kokoro/config/proto/build.proto
-
-env_vars: {
-    key: "INSTALL_LIBRARY_FROM_SOURCE"
-    value: "True"
-}
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/.kokoro/test-samples-impl.sh b/.kokoro/test-samples-impl.sh
index 8a324c9c7b..2c6500cae0 100755
--- a/.kokoro/test-samples-impl.sh
+++ b/.kokoro/test-samples-impl.sh
@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@ export PYTHONUNBUFFERED=1
 env | grep KOKORO
 
 # Install nox
-python3.6 -m pip install --upgrade --quiet nox
+python3.9 -m pip install --upgrade --quiet nox
 
 # Use secrets acessor service account to get secrets
 if [[ -f "${KOKORO_GFILE_DIR}/secrets_viewer_service_account.json" ]]; then
@@ -76,7 +76,7 @@ for file in samples/**/requirements.txt; do
     echo "------------------------------------------------------------"
 
     # Use nox to execute the tests for the project.
-    python3.6 -m nox -s "$RUN_TESTS_SESSION"
+    python3.9 -m nox -s "$RUN_TESTS_SESSION"
     EXIT=$?
 
     # If this is a periodic build, send the test log to the FlakyBot.
diff --git a/.repo-metadata.json b/.repo-metadata.json
index 670aba7939..d1be7ec4d9 100644
--- a/.repo-metadata.json
+++ b/.repo-metadata.json
@@ -13,5 +13,6 @@
     "requires_billing": false,
     "default_version": "v2",
     "codeowner_team": "@googleapis/api-bigquery",
-    "api_shortname": "bigquery"
+    "api_shortname": "bigquery",
+    "api_description": "is a fully managed, NoOps, low cost data analytics service.\nData can be streamed into BigQuery at millions of rows per second to enable real-time analysis.\nWith BigQuery you can easily deploy Petabyte-scale Databases."
 }
diff --git a/CONTRIBUTING.rst b/CONTRIBUTING.rst
index f183b63b49..d06598b310 100644
--- a/CONTRIBUTING.rst
+++ b/CONTRIBUTING.rst
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ In order to add a feature:
   documentation.
 
 - The feature must work fully on the following CPython versions:
-  3.6, 3.7, 3.8, 3.9 and 3.10 on both UNIX and Windows.
+  3.7, 3.8, 3.9 and 3.10 on both UNIX and Windows.
 
 - The feature must not add unnecessary dependencies (where
   "unnecessary" is of course subjective, but new dependencies should
@@ -221,13 +221,11 @@ Supported Python Versions
 
 We support:
 
--  `Python 3.6`_
 -  `Python 3.7`_
 -  `Python 3.8`_
 -  `Python 3.9`_
 -  `Python 3.10`_
 
-.. _Python 3.6: https://docs.python.org/3.6/
 .. _Python 3.7: https://docs.python.org/3.7/
 .. _Python 3.8: https://docs.python.org/3.8/
 .. _Python 3.9: https://docs.python.org/3.9/
@@ -239,7 +237,7 @@ Supported versions can be found in our ``noxfile.py`` `config`_.
 .. _config: https://github.com/googleapis/python-bigquery/blob/main/noxfile.py
 
 
-We also explicitly decided to support Python 3 beginning with version 3.6.
+We also explicitly decided to support Python 3 beginning with version 3.7.
 Reasons for this include:
 
 -  Encouraging use of newest versions of Python 3
diff --git a/README.rst b/README.rst
index e8578916a2..475d055a27 100644
--- a/README.rst
+++ b/README.rst
@@ -52,11 +52,11 @@ dependencies.
 
 Supported Python Versions
 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
-Python >= 3.6, < 3.11
+Python >= 3.7, < 3.11
 
 Unsupported Python Versions
 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
-Python == 2.7, Python == 3.5.
+Python == 2.7, Python == 3.5, Python == 3.6.
 
 The last version of this library compatible with Python 2.7 and 3.5 is
 `google-cloud-bigquery==1.28.0`.
diff --git a/noxfile.py b/noxfile.py
index f088e10c22..c6f7c76b1d 100644
--- a/noxfile.py
+++ b/noxfile.py
@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@
 
 DEFAULT_PYTHON_VERSION = "3.8"
 SYSTEM_TEST_PYTHON_VERSIONS = ["3.8", "3.10"]
-UNIT_TEST_PYTHON_VERSIONS = ["3.6", "3.7", "3.8", "3.9", "3.10"]
+UNIT_TEST_PYTHON_VERSIONS = ["3.7", "3.8", "3.9", "3.10"]
 CURRENT_DIRECTORY = pathlib.Path(__file__).parent.absolute()
 
 # 'docfx' is excluded since it only needs to run in 'docs-presubmit'
diff --git a/owlbot.py b/owlbot.py
index ca96f4e081..4d287ac46b 100644
--- a/owlbot.py
+++ b/owlbot.py
@@ -68,6 +68,7 @@
         # https://github.com/googleapis/python-bigquery/issues/191
         ".kokoro/presubmit/presubmit.cfg",
         ".github/workflows",  # exclude gh actions as credentials are needed for tests
+	"README.rst",
     ],
 )
 
diff --git a/samples/geography/noxfile.py b/samples/geography/noxfile.py
index a40410b563..29b5bc8521 100644
--- a/samples/geography/noxfile.py
+++ b/samples/geography/noxfile.py
@@ -89,7 +89,7 @@ def get_pytest_env_vars() -> Dict[str, str]:
 
 # DO NOT EDIT - automatically generated.
 # All versions used to test samples.
-ALL_VERSIONS = ["3.6", "3.7", "3.8", "3.9", "3.10"]
+ALL_VERSIONS = ["3.7", "3.8", "3.9", "3.10"]
 
 # Any default versions that should be ignored.
 IGNORED_VERSIONS = TEST_CONFIG["ignored_versions"]
diff --git a/samples/magics/noxfile.py b/samples/magics/noxfile.py
index a40410b563..29b5bc8521 100644
--- a/samples/magics/noxfile.py
+++ b/samples/magics/noxfile.py
@@ -89,7 +89,7 @@ def get_pytest_env_vars() -> Dict[str, str]:
 
 # DO NOT EDIT - automatically generated.
 # All versions used to test samples.
-ALL_VERSIONS = ["3.6", "3.7", "3.8", "3.9", "3.10"]
+ALL_VERSIONS = ["3.7", "3.8", "3.9", "3.10"]
 
 # Any default versions that should be ignored.
 IGNORED_VERSIONS = TEST_CONFIG["ignored_versions"]
diff --git a/samples/snippets/README.rst b/samples/snippets/README.rst
index 05af1e8120..b5865a6ce9 100644
--- a/samples/snippets/README.rst
+++ b/samples/snippets/README.rst
@@ -47,7 +47,7 @@ Install Dependencies
    .. _Python Development Environment Setup Guide:
        https://cloud.google.com/python/setup
 
-#. Create a virtualenv. Samples are compatible with Python 3.6+.
+#. Create a virtualenv. Samples are compatible with Python 3.7+.
 
     .. code-block:: bash
 
diff --git a/samples/snippets/noxfile.py b/samples/snippets/noxfile.py
index a40410b563..29b5bc8521 100644
--- a/samples/snippets/noxfile.py
+++ b/samples/snippets/noxfile.py
@@ -89,7 +89,7 @@ def get_pytest_env_vars() -> Dict[str, str]:
 
 # DO NOT EDIT - automatically generated.
 # All versions used to test samples.
-ALL_VERSIONS = ["3.6", "3.7", "3.8", "3.9", "3.10"]
+ALL_VERSIONS = ["3.7", "3.8", "3.9", "3.10"]
 
 # Any default versions that should be ignored.
 IGNORED_VERSIONS = TEST_CONFIG["ignored_versions"]
diff --git a/scripts/readme-gen/templates/install_deps.tmpl.rst b/scripts/readme-gen/templates/install_deps.tmpl.rst
index 275d649890..6f069c6c87 100644
--- a/scripts/readme-gen/templates/install_deps.tmpl.rst
+++ b/scripts/readme-gen/templates/install_deps.tmpl.rst
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ Install Dependencies
    .. _Python Development Environment Setup Guide:
        https://cloud.google.com/python/setup
 
-#. Create a virtualenv. Samples are compatible with Python 3.6+.
+#. Create a virtualenv. Samples are compatible with Python 3.7+.
 
     .. code-block:: bash
 
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index a040e96e75..a3d5c829ed 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -111,7 +111,6 @@
         "License :: OSI Approved :: Apache Software License",
         "Programming Language :: Python",
         "Programming Language :: Python :: 3",
-        "Programming Language :: Python :: 3.6",
         "Programming Language :: Python :: 3.7",
         "Programming Language :: Python :: 3.8",
         "Programming Language :: Python :: 3.9",
@@ -124,7 +123,7 @@
     namespace_packages=namespaces,
     install_requires=dependencies,
     extras_require=extras,
-    python_requires=">=3.6, <3.11",
+    python_requires=">=3.7, <3.11",
     include_package_data=True,
     zip_safe=False,
 )