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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 lightemitting 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 

Action Date FR Cite 

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 

Action Date FR Cite 

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 


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Action Date FR Cite 

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 

Action Date FR Cite 

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 

Action Date FR Cite 

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 

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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 

Action Date FR Cite 

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] 

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