Final Rule
DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
10 CFR Part 431
[EERE-2019-BT-STD-0018]
RIN 1904-AE12
Energy Conservation Program: Energy Conservation Standards for Distribution
Transformers
AGENCY: Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy, Department of Energy
Link to Standards Michigan reference in Final Rule (Pages 52 & 142)
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As part of its implementation of, “Reducing Regulation and Controlling Regulatory Costs,” (Executive Order 13771) the Department of Energy Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (DOE-EERE) is seeking comments and information from interested parties to assist the DOE-EERE in identifying potential modifications to its 1991 “Process Rule” for the development of appliance standards to achieve meaningful burden reduction while continuing to achieve the Department’s statutory obligations in the development of appliance standards. As the largest non-residential building construction market in the United States the education industry is a significant consumer of portable and fixed-in-place lighting, heating and cooling appliances.
DOE held public meetings and received 13 comments from trade associations and individual stakeholders during the original December 2017-January 2018 commenting period but is now responding to requests for more time to review the proposed revisions to the original 31-page, 26-year old regulation. A sample letter is linked below:
17-348 NEMA AHAM AHRI Request for Extension of DOE-EERE Commenting Period
Some trade associations claimed that they did not have enough time to accumulate responses from their membership. Accordingly, the DOE has issued an extension until March 2nd (though there seems to be some conflict with another stated deadline of March 16th).
Joint request for 30 day extension to the comment period
Interested persons are encouraged to submit comments using the Federal eRulemaking Portal at http://www.regulations.gov. All federal regulations that affect the education facilities industry are on the standing agenda of our weekly Open Door Teleconference every Wednesday 11 AM Eastern Time. Everyone is welcomed to “click in” with the login information linked here: Standards Michigan Open Door Teleconference.
Issue: [17-348]
Category: Energy, US Department of Energy. Facility Asset Management
