Unified Agenda of Federal Regulatory and Deregulatory Actions

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY <CFR>10 CFR Chs. II, III, and X</CFR> <CFR>48 CFR Ch. 9</CFR> <SUBJECT>Unified Agenda of Federal Regulatory and Deregulatory Actions</SUBJECT> <HD SOURCE="HED">AGENCY:</HD> Department of Energy. <HD SOURCE="HED">ACTION:</HD> Semiannual Regulatory Agenda. <SUM> <HD SOURCE="HED">SUMMARY:</HD> The Department of Energy (DOE) has prepared and is making available its portion of the semi-annual Unified Agenda of Federal Regulatory and Deregulatory Actions (Agenda) pursuant to Executive Order 12866, “Regulatory Planning and Review,” and the Regulatory Flexibility Act. </SUM> <SUPLINF> <HD SOURCE="HED">SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:</HD> The Agenda is a government-wide compilation of upcoming and ongoing regulatory activity, including a brief description of each rulemaking and a timetable for action. The Agenda also includes a list of regulatory actions completed since publication of the last Agenda. The Department of Energy's portion of the Agenda includes regulatory actions called for by the Energy Policy and Conservation Act, as amended, and programmatic needs of DOE offices. The internet is the basic means for disseminating the Agenda and providing users the ability to obtain information from the Agenda database. DOE's Spring 2024 Agenda can be accessed online by going to <E T="03">www.reginfo.gov.</E> DOE's regulatory flexibility agenda is made up of rulemakings setting energy efficiency standards and requirements applicable to DOE sites. <SIG> <NAME>Samuel Walsh,</NAME> General Counsel. </SIG> <GPOTABLE COLS="3" OPTS="L2,i1" CDEF="xs60,r100,14"> <TTITLE>Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy—Final Rule Stage</TTITLE> <CHED H="1">Sequence No.</CHED> <CHED H="1">Title</CHED> <CHED H="1"> Regulation Identifier No. </CHED> <ROW> <ENT I="01">59</ENT> <ENT>Energy Conservation Standards for Circulator Pumps</ENT> <ENT>1904-AD61</ENT> </ROW> <ROW> <ENT I="01">60</ENT> <ENT>Energy Conservation Standards for Consumer Water Heaters</ENT> <ENT>1904-AD91</ENT> </ROW> <ROW> <ENT I="01">61</ENT> <ENT>Test Procedures for Air-Cooled, Evaporatively-Cooled, and Water-Cooled Commercial Package Air Conditioners and Heat Pumps</ENT> <ENT>1904-AD93</ENT> </ROW> <ROW> <ENT I="01">62</ENT> <ENT>Energy Conservation Standards for Distribution Transformers</ENT> <ENT>1904-AE12</ENT> </ROW> <ROW> <ENT I="01">63</ENT> <ENT>Energy Conservation Standards for Consumer Boilers</ENT> <ENT>1904-AE82</ENT> </ROW> <ROW> <ENT I="01">64</ENT> <ENT>Test Procedures for Evaporatively-Cooled Commercial Unitary Air Conditioners (ECUACs) and Water-Cooled Commercial Unitary Air Conditioners (WCUACs)</ENT> <ENT>1904-AF45</ENT> </ROW> </GPOTABLE> <GPOTABLE COLS="3" OPTS="L2,i1" CDEF="xs60,r100,14"> <TTITLE>Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy—Completed Actions</TTITLE> <CHED H="1">Sequence No.</CHED> <CHED H="1">Title</CHED> <CHED H="1"> Regulation Identifier No. </CHED> <ROW> <ENT I="01">65</ENT> <ENT>Energy Conservation Standards for Residential Non-Weatherized Gas Furnaces and Mobile Home Gas Furnaces</ENT> <ENT>1904-AD20</ENT> </ROW> <ROW> <ENT I="01">66</ENT> <ENT>Energy Conservation Standards for Consumer Clothes Washers</ENT> <ENT>1904-AD98</ENT> </ROW> <ROW> <ENT I="01">67</ENT> <ENT>Energy Conservation Standards for Miscellaneous Residential Refrigeration</ENT> <ENT>1904-AF00</ENT> </ROW> <ROW> <ENT I="01">68</ENT> <ENT>Energy Conservation Program: Energy Conservation Standards for General Service Lamps</ENT> <ENT>1904-AF43</ENT> </ROW> </GPOTABLE> <HD SOURCE="HD1"> <E T="0742">DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY (DOE)</E> </HD> <HD SOURCE="HD2">Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EE)</HD> <HD SOURCE="HD3">Final Rule Stage</HD> <HD SOURCE="HD1">59. Energy Conservation Standards for Circulator Pumps [1904-AD61]</HD> <E T="03">Legal Authority:</E> 42 U.S.C. 6311(1)(A); 42 U.S.C. 6316(a); 42 U.S.C. 6295(o) <E T="03">Abstract:</E> The Energy Policy and Conservation Act, as amended (EPCA), prescribes energy conservation standards for various consumer products and certain commercial and industrial equipment, including circulator pumps. EPCA also requires the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) to periodically determine whether more-stringent, standards would be technologically feasible and economically justified, and would result in significant energy savings. In the final rule, DOE adopted new energy conservation standards for circulator pumps. It has determined that the energy conservation standards for this equipment would result in significant conservation of energy, and are technologically feasible and economically justified. <E T="03">Timetable:</E> <GPOTABLE COLS="3" OPTS="L2,tp0,i1" CDEF="s25,8,xs48"> <TTITLE> </TTITLE> <CHED H="1">Action</CHED> <CHED H="1">Date</CHED> <CHED H="1">FR Cite</CHED> <ROW> <ENT I="01">Notice of Intent to Start a Negotiated Rulemaking Working Group and Notice of Public Meeting</ENT> <ENT>02/03/16</ENT> <ENT>81 FR 5658</ENT> </ROW> <ROW> <ENT I="01">Notice of Working Group Public Meetings</ENT> <ENT>03/16/16</ENT> <ENT>81 FR 14024</ENT> </ROW> <ROW> <ENT I="01">Request for Information (RFI)</ENT> <ENT>05/07/21</ENT> <ENT>86 FR 24516</ENT> </ROW> <ROW> <ENT I="01">RFI Comment Period Extended</ENT> <ENT>05/26/21</ENT> <ENT>86 FR 28298</ENT> </ROW> <ROW> <ENT I="01">RFI Comment Period Extended End</ENT> <ENT>07/30/21</ENT> </ROW> <ROW> <ENT I="01">NPRM</ENT> <ENT>12/06/22</ENT> <ENT>87 FR 74850</ENT> </ROW> <ROW> <ENT I="01">NPRM Comment Period End</ENT> <ENT>02/06/23</ENT> </ROW> <ROW> <ENT I="01">Final Action</ENT> <ENT>05/20/24</ENT> <ENT>89 FR 44464</ENT> </ROW> <ROW> <ENT I="01">Final Action Effective</ENT> <ENT>08/05/24</ENT> <E T="03">Regulatory Flexibility Analysis Required:</E> Yes. <E T="03">Agency Contact:</E> Jeremy Dommu, Building Technologies Office, EE-2J, Department of Energy, 1000 Independence Avenue SW, Washington, DC 20585, <E T="03">Phone:</E> 202 586-9870, <E T="03">Email: jeremy.dommu@ee.doe.gov.</E> <E T="03">RIN:</E> 1904-AD61 <HD SOURCE="HD1">60. Energy Conservation Standards for Consumer Water Heaters [1904-AD91]</HD> <E T="03">Legal Authority:</E> 42 U.S.C. 6295(m)(1) <E T="03">Abstract:</E> The Energy Policy and Conservation Act, as amended (EPCA), prescribes energy conservation standards for various consumer products and certain commercial and industrial equipment, including consumer water heaters. EPCA also requires the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) to periodically determine whether more stringent standards would be technologically feasible and economically justified, and would result in significant energy savings. In the final rule, DOE has adopted amended energy conservation standards for consumer water heaters, except for gas-fired instantaneous water heaters (GIWHs). DOE has determined that the new and amended energy conservation standards for these products would result in significant conservation of energy, and are technologically feasible and economically justified. DOE is still considering amended energy conservation standards for GIWHs and will continue to consider comments submitted previously to inform any decision on amended standards. <E T="03">Timetable:</E> <GPOTABLE COLS="3" OPTS="L2,tp0,i1" CDEF="s25,8,xs48"> <TTITLE> </TTITLE> <CHED H="1">Action</CHED> <CHED H="1">Date</CHED> <CHED H="1">FR Cite</CHED> <ROW> <ENT I="01">Request for Information (RFI)</ENT> <ENT>05/21/20</ENT> <ENT>85 FR 30853</ENT> </ROW> <ROW> <ENT I="01">RFI Comment Period End</ENT> <ENT>07/06/20</ENT> </ROW> <ROW> <ENT I="01">Notice of Webinar and Availability of Preliminary Technical Support Document</ENT> <ENT>03/01/22</ENT> <ENT>87 FR 11327</ENT> </ROW> <ROW> <ENT I="01">Public Meeting</ENT> <ENT>04/12/22</ENT> </ROW> <ROW> <ENT I="01">Preliminary Technical Support Document Comment Period End</ENT> <ENT>05/02/22</ENT> </ROW> <ROW> <ENT I="01">RFI Comment Period Reopened</ENT> <ENT>05/04/22</ENT> <ENT>87 FR 26303</ENT> </ROW> <ROW> <ENT I="01">RFI Comment Period Reopened End</ENT> <ENT>05/16/22</ENT> </ROW> <ROW> <ENT I="01">NPRM</ENT> <ENT>07/28/23</ENT> <ENT>88 FR 49058</ENT> </ROW> <ROW> <ENT I="01">Public Meeting</ENT> <ENT>09/13/23</ENT> <ENT I="01">NPRM Comment Period End</ENT> <ENT>09/26/23</ENT> </ROW> <ROW> <ENT I="01">Supplemental NPRM</ENT> <ENT>12/27/23</ENT> <ENT>88 FR 89330</ENT> </ROW> <ROW> <ENT I="01">Supplemental NPRM Comment Period End</ENT> <ENT>01/10/24</ENT> </ROW> <ROW> <ENT I="01">Final Action</ENT> <ENT>05/06/24</ENT> <ENT>89 FR 37778</ENT> </ROW> <ROW> <ENT I="01">Final Action Effective</ENT> <ENT>07/05/24</ENT> <E T="03">Regulatory Flexibility Analysis Required:</E> Yes. <E T="03">Agency Contact:</E> Julia Hegarty, Department of Energy, 1000 Independence Avenue SW, Washington, DC 20585, <E T="03">Phone:</E> 240 597-6737, <E T="03">Email: julia.hegarty@ee.doe.gov.</E> <E T="03">RIN:</E> 1904-AD91 <HD SOURCE="HD1">61. Test Procedures for Air-Cooled, Evaporatively-Cooled, and Water-Cooled Commercial Package Air Conditioners and Heat Pumps [1904-AD93]</HD> <E T="03">Legal Authority:</E> 42 U.S.C. 6314(a)(4)(B); 42 U.S.C. 6314(a)(1)(A) <E T="03">Abstract:</E> The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has amended the Federal test procedures for air-cooled commercial package air conditioners and heat pumps with a rated cooling capacity greater than or equal to 65,000 Btu/h, evaporatively-cooled commercial package air conditioners, and water-cooled commercial package air conditioners to incorporate by reference the latest versions of the applicable industry test standards. In the final rule, DOE has amended the current test procedure for this equipment for measuring the current cooling and heating metrics—integrated energy efficiency ratio (IEER) and coeffici ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Preview showing 10k of 31k characters. 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