diff --git a/packages/google-cloud-bigquery-data-exchange/.github/.OwlBot.lock.yaml b/packages/google-cloud-bigquery-data-exchange/.github/.OwlBot.lock.yaml
index 5fc5daa31783..b8edda51cf46 100644
--- a/packages/google-cloud-bigquery-data-exchange/.github/.OwlBot.lock.yaml
+++ b/packages/google-cloud-bigquery-data-exchange/.github/.OwlBot.lock.yaml
@@ -13,4 +13,4 @@
 # limitations under the License.
 docker:
   image: gcr.io/cloud-devrel-public-resources/owlbot-python:latest
-  digest: sha256:8555f0e37e6261408f792bfd6635102d2da5ad73f8f09bcb24f25e6afb5fac97
+  digest: sha256:2e247c7bf5154df7f98cce087a20ca7605e236340c7d6d1a14447e5c06791bd6
diff --git a/packages/google-cloud-bigquery-data-exchange/.kokoro/requirements.in b/packages/google-cloud-bigquery-data-exchange/.kokoro/requirements.in
index 882178ce6001..ec867d9fd65a 100644
--- a/packages/google-cloud-bigquery-data-exchange/.kokoro/requirements.in
+++ b/packages/google-cloud-bigquery-data-exchange/.kokoro/requirements.in
@@ -5,6 +5,6 @@ typing-extensions
 twine
 wheel
 setuptools
-nox
+nox>=2022.11.21 # required to remove dependency on py
 charset-normalizer<3
 click<8.1.0
diff --git a/packages/google-cloud-bigquery-data-exchange/.kokoro/requirements.txt b/packages/google-cloud-bigquery-data-exchange/.kokoro/requirements.txt
index fa99c12908f0..66a2172a76a8 100644
--- a/packages/google-cloud-bigquery-data-exchange/.kokoro/requirements.txt
+++ b/packages/google-cloud-bigquery-data-exchange/.kokoro/requirements.txt
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 #
-# This file is autogenerated by pip-compile with python 3.10
-# To update, run:
+# This file is autogenerated by pip-compile with Python 3.9
+# by the following command:
 #
 #    pip-compile --allow-unsafe --generate-hashes requirements.in
 #
@@ -335,9 +335,9 @@ more-itertools==9.0.0 \
     --hash=sha256:250e83d7e81d0c87ca6bd942e6aeab8cc9daa6096d12c5308f3f92fa5e5c1f41 \
     --hash=sha256:5a6257e40878ef0520b1803990e3e22303a41b5714006c32a3fd8304b26ea1ab
     # via jaraco-classes
-nox==2022.8.7 \
-    --hash=sha256:1b894940551dc5c389f9271d197ca5d655d40bdc6ccf93ed6880e4042760a34b \
-    --hash=sha256:96cca88779e08282a699d672258ec01eb7c792d35bbbf538c723172bce23212c
+nox==2022.11.21 \
+    --hash=sha256:0e41a990e290e274cb205a976c4c97ee3c5234441a8132c8c3fd9ea3c22149eb \
+    --hash=sha256:e21c31de0711d1274ca585a2c5fde36b1aa962005ba8e9322bf5eeed16dcd684
     # via -r requirements.in
 packaging==21.3 \
     --hash=sha256:dd47c42927d89ab911e606518907cc2d3a1f38bbd026385970643f9c5b8ecfeb \
@@ -380,10 +380,6 @@ protobuf==3.20.3 \
     #   gcp-docuploader
     #   gcp-releasetool
     #   google-api-core
-py==1.11.0 \
-    --hash=sha256:51c75c4126074b472f746a24399ad32f6053d1b34b68d2fa41e558e6f4a98719 \
-    --hash=sha256:607c53218732647dff4acdfcd50cb62615cedf612e72d1724fb1a0cc6405b378
-    # via nox
 pyasn1==0.4.8 \
     --hash=sha256:39c7e2ec30515947ff4e87fb6f456dfc6e84857d34be479c9d4a4ba4bf46aa5d \
     --hash=sha256:aef77c9fb94a3ac588e87841208bdec464471d9871bd5050a287cc9a475cd0ba