# Fall 2021 Unified Agenda of Regulatory and Deregulatory Actions > Briefs, arguments, decisions, and more. URL: https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/documents/fr%3A2022-00284 ## Record - **Collection:** Federal Register - **Document type:** Proposed Rule - **Published:** January 31, 2022 - **Citation:** 87 FR 5222 ## Text DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 10 CFR Chs. II, III, and X 48 CFR Ch. 9 Fall 2021 Unified Agenda of Regulatory and Deregulatory Actions AGENCY: Department of Energy. ACTION: Semiannual Regulatory Agenda. SUMMARY: The Department of Energy (DOE) has prepared and is making available its portion of the semiannual Unified Agenda of Federal Regulatory and Deregulatory Actions (Agenda), including its Regulatory Plan (Plan), pursuant to Executive Order 12866, “Regulatory Planning and Review,” and the Regulatory Flexibility Act. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 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 of 1975, 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 entire Fall 2021 Regulatory Agenda can be accessed online by going to www.reginfo.gov. Publication in the Federal Register is mandated by the Regulatory Flexibility Act (5 U.S.C. 602) only for Agenda entries that require either a regulatory flexibility analysis or periodic review under section 610 of that Act. The Plan appears in both the online Agenda and the Federal Register and includes the most important of DOE's significant regulatory actions and a Statement of Regulatory and Deregulatory Priorities. Samuel Walsh, General Counsel. Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy—Proposed Rule Stage Sequence No. Title Regulation Identifier No. 255 Energy Conservation Standards for General Service Lamps 1904-AD09 256 Energy Conservation Standards for Residential Conventional Cooking Products 1904-AD15 257 Energy Conservation Standards for Residential Non-Weatherized Gas Furnaces and Mobile Home Gas Furnaces 1904-AD20 258 Energy Conservation Standards for Commercial Water Heating-Equipment (Reg Plan Seq No. 40) 1904-AD34 References in boldface appear in The Regulatory Plan in part II of this issue of the Federal Register . Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy—Final Rule Stage Sequence No. Title Regulation Identifier No. 259 Test Procedures for Dehumidifying Direct-Expansion Dedicated Outdoor Air Systems 1904-AE46 DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY (DOE) Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EE) Proposed Rule Stage 255. Energy Conservation Standards for General Service Lamps Legal Authority: 42 U.S.C. 6295(i)(6)(A) Abstract: The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) will issue a Supplemental Notice of Proposed Rulemaking that includes a proposed determination with respect to whether to amend or adopt standards for general service light-emitting diode (LED) lamps and that may include a proposed determination with respect to whether to amend or adopt standards for compact fluorescent lamps. Timetable: Action Date FR Cite Framework Document Availability; Notice of Public Meeting 12/09/13 78 FR 73737 Framework Document Comment Period End 01/23/14 Framework Document Comment Period Extended 01/23/14 79 FR 3742 Framework Document Comment Period Extended End 02/07/14 Preliminary Analysis and Notice of Public Meeting 12/11/14 79 FR 73503 Preliminary Analysis Comment Period Extended 01/30/15 80 FR 5052 Preliminary Analysis Comment Period Extended End 02/23/15 Notice of Public Meeting; Webinar 03/15/16 81 FR 13763 NPRM 03/17/16 81 FR 14528 NPRM Comment Period End 05/16/16 Notice of Public Meeting; Webinar 10/05/16 81 FR 69009 Proposed Definition and Data Availability 10/18/16 81 FR 71794 Proposed Definition and Data Availability Comment Period End 11/08/16 Final Rule Adopting a Definition for GSL 01/19/17 82 FR 7276 Final Rule Adopting a Definition for GSL Effective 01/01/20 Final Rule Adopting a Definition for GSL Including IRL 01/19/17 82 FR 7322 Final Rule Adopting a Definition for GSL Including IRL Effective 01/01/20 Final Rule; Withdrawal of Definition for GSL (Reported as 1904-AE26) 09/05/19 84 FR 46661 Final Rule; Withdrawal of Definition for GSL Effective 10/07/19 Supplemental NPRM 01/00/22 Regulatory Flexibility Analysis Required: Yes. Agency Contact: Stephanie Johnson, General Engineer, Department of Energy, Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy, 1000 Independence Avenue SW, Building Technologies Office, EE5B, Washington, DC 20585, Phone: 202 287-1943, Email: stephanie.johnson@ee.doe.gov. RIN: 1904-AD09 256. Energy Conservation Standards for Residential Conventional Cooking Products Legal Authority: 42 U.S.C. 6295(m)(1); 42 U.S.C. 6292 (a)(10); 42 U.S.C. 6295(h) Abstract: The Energy Policy and Conservation Act (EPCA), as amended by Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007 (EISA), requires the Secretary to determine whether updating the statutory energy conservation standards for residential conventional cooking products would yield a significant savings in energy use and is technologically feasible and economically justified. The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) is reviewing the current standards to make such determination. Timetable: Action Date FR Cite Request for Information (RFI) 02/12/14 79 FR 8337 RFI Comment Period End 03/14/14 RFI Comment Period Extended 03/03/14 79 FR 11714 RFI Comment Period Extended End 04/14/14 NPRM and Public Meeting 06/10/15 80 FR 33030 NPRM Comment Period Extended 07/30/15 80 FR 45452 NPRM Comment Period Extended End 09/09/15 Supplemental NPRM 09/02/16 81 FR 60784 SNPRM Comment Period Extended 09/30/16 81 FR 67219 SNPRM Comment Period Extended End 11/02/16 Notice of Proposed Determination and Request for Comment 12/14/20 85 FR 80982 Notice of Proposed Determination Comment Period End 03/01/21 Second SNPRM 06/00/22 Regulatory Flexibility Analysis Required: Yes. Agency Contact: Stephanie Johnson, General Engineer, Department of Energy, Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy, 1000 Independence Avenue SW, Building Technologies Office, EE5B, Washington, DC 20585, Phone: 202 287-1943, Email: stephanie.johnson@ee.doe.gov. RIN: 1904-AD15 257. Energy Conservation Standards for Residential Non-Weatherized Gas Furnaces and Mobile Home Gas Furnaces Legal Authority: 42 U.S.C. 6295(f)(4)(C); 42 U.S.C. 6295(m)(1); 42 U.S.C. 6295(gg)(3) Abstract: The Energy Policy and Conservation Act, as amended, (EPCA) prescribes energy conservation standards for various consumer products and certain commercial and industrial equipment, including residential furnaces. EPCA also requires the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) to determine whether more-stringent amended standards would be technologically feasible and economically justified and would save a significant amount of energy. DOE is considering amendments to its energy conservation standards for residential non-weatherized gas furnaces and mobile home gas furnaces pursuant to a court-ordered remand of DOE's 2011 rulemaking for these products. Timetable: Action Date FR Cite Notice of Public Meeting 10/30/14 79 FR 64517 NPRM and Notice of Public Meeting 03/12/15 80 FR 13120 NPRM Comment Period Extended 05/20/15 80 FR 28851 NPRM Comment Period Extended End 07/10/15 Notice of Data Availability (NODA) 09/14/15 80 FR 55038 NODA Comment Period End 10/14/15 NODA Comment Period Reopened 10/23/15 80 FR 64370 NODA Comment Period Reopened End 11/06/15 Supplemental NPRM and Notice of Public Meeting 09/23/16 81 FR 65720 Supplemental NPRM Comment Period End 11/22/16 SNPRM Comment Period Reopened 12/05/16 81 FR 87493 SNPRM Comment Period End 01/06/17 Notice of NPRM Withdrawal 01/15/21 86 FR 3873 NPRM 03/00/22 Regulatory Flexibility Analysis Required: Yes. Agency Contact: Julia Hegarty, Department of Energy, 1000 Independence Avenue SW, Washington, DC 20585, Phone: 240 597-6737, Email: julia.hegarty@ee.doe.gov. RIN: 1904-AD20 258. Energy Conservation Standards for Commercial Water Heating-Equipment Regulatory Plan: This entry is Seq. No. 40 in part II of this issue of the Federal Register . RIN: 1904-AD34 DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY (DOE) Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EE) Final Rule Stage 259. Test Procedures for Dehumidifying Direct-Expansion Dedicated Outdoor Air Systems Legal Authority: 42 U.S.C. 6314(a)(4) Abstract: Consistent with the requirements under the Energy Policy and Conservation Act (EPCA), as amended, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) is seeking to establish a Federal test procedure for dehumidifying direct-expansion dedicated outdoor air systems (DDX-DOASes) under 10 CFR 431.96. For covered equipment addressed in the American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning Engineers (ASHRAE) Standard 90.1, the DOE test procedure must be based upon the generally accepted industry testing procedure referenced in that industry consensus standard (42 U.S.C. 6314(a)(4)(A)). The statute further requires that each time the referenced industry test procedure is updated, DOE must amend the Federal test procedure to be consistent with the amended industry test procedure, unless there is clear and convincing evidence that the update would not be representative of an average use cycle or would be unduly burdensome to conduct (42 U.S.C. 6314(a)(4)(B)). Independent of that test procedure review obligation, EPCA also includes a 7-year-lookback review provision for covered commercial and industrial equipment that requires DOE to conduct an evaluation of each class of covered equipment to determine whether amended test procedures would more accurately or fully comply with the requirements that the Federal test procedure be representative of an average use cycle and not be unduly burdensome to conduct (42 U.S.C. 6314(a)(1)). In this test procedure rulemaking for DDX-DOASes, DOE is acting under its authority at 42 U.S.C. 6314(a)(4), and accordingly, it will propose and adopt a new Federal test procedure for this equipment. (The NOPR for this rule was mistakenly published in the Federal Register as RIN 1904-AD93 on July 7, 2021). Timetable: Action Date FR Cite Request for Information (RFI) 07/25/17 82 FR 34427 RFI Comment Period Ends 08/24/17 NPRM (Incorrectly Published as 1904-AD93) 07/07/21 86 FR 36018 NPRM Comment Period End 09/07/21 Final Rule 04/00/22 Regulatory Flexibility Analysis Required: Yes. Agency Contact: Catherine Rivest, General Engineer, Department of Energy, Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy, 1000 Independence Avenue SW, Building Technologies Office, EE-5B, Washington, DC 20585, Phone: 202 586-7335, Email: catherine.rivest@ee.doe.gov. RIN: 1904-AE46 [FR Doc. 2022-00284 Filed 1-28-22; 8:45 am] BILLING CODE 6450-01-P --- Source: Frix Law Library, https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/documents/fr%3A2022-00284. Public record. Not legal advice.