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Rules and Regulations Federal Register

9001 

Vol. 90, No. 23 

Wednesday, February 5, 2025 

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

10 CFR Parts 429 and 430 

[EERE–2022–BT–TP–0028] 

RIN 1904–AF49 

Energy Conservation Program: Test 

Procedures for Central Air 

Conditioners and Heat Pumps 

AGENCY: Office of Energy Efficiency and 

Renewable Energy, Department of 

Energy. 

ACTION: Final rule; delay of effective 

date. 

SUMMARY: This document delays the 

effective date of a recently published 

final rule amending the test procedures 

for central air conditioners and heat 

pumps. DOE also seeks comment on any 

further delay of the effective date, 

including the impacts of such delay, as 

well as comment on the legal, factual, or 

policy issues raised by the rule. 

DATES: The effective date of the rule 

amending 10 CFR parts 429 and 430 

published at 90 FR 1224 on January 7, 

2025, are delayed until March 21, 2025. 

Written comments and information will 

be accepted on or before March 7, 2025. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Dr. Pradeep Prathibha, U.S. 

Department of Energy, Office of Energy 

Efficiency and Renewable Energy, 

Building Technologies Office, EE–5B, 

1000 Independence Avenue SW, 

Washington, DC 20585–0121. 

Telephone: (240) 255–0630. Email: 

ApplianceStandardsQuestions@

ee.doe.gov. 

Mr. Pete Cochran, U.S. Department of 

Energy, Office of the General Counsel, 

GC–33, 1000 Independence Avenue SW, 

Washington, DC 20585–0121. 

Telephone: (202) 586–4798. Email: 

peter.cochran@hq.doe.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: On 

January 20, 2025, the Assistant to the 

President and Chief of Staff (‘‘Chief of 

Staff’’) issued a memorandum outlining 

the President’s plan for managing the 

Federal regulatory process at the outset 

of the new Administration. In 

implementation of one of the measures 

directed by that memorandum, the 

United States Department of Energy 

(‘‘DOE’’) hereby temporarily postpones 

the effective date of its final rule 

amending the test procedures for central 

air conditioners and heat pumps 

published in the Federal Register on 

January 7, 2025 (90 FR 1224). The 

January 7, 2025, rule amends the test 

procedures for measuring the energy 

efficiency of central air conditioners and 

heat pumps by incorporating the latest 

version of the applicable industry 

standards and adopting a new industry 

standard that would apply to future 

energy conservation standards based on 

two new energy efficiency metrics. 

Consistent with the Chief of Staff’s 

memorandum of January 20, 2025, DOE 

is temporarily postponing the effective 

date of the final rule to March 21, 2025. 

The temporary delay in effective date is 

necessary to give DOE officials the 

opportunity for further review and 

consideration of new regulations, 

consistent with the President’s 

memorandum of January 20, 2025. 

To the extent that 5 U.S.C. 553 applies 

to this action, it is exempt from notice 

and comment because it constitutes a 

rule of procedure under 5 U.S.C. 

553(b)(A) and for which no notice of 

hearing is required by statute. The delay 

of the effective date to March 21, 2025, 

does not affect the compliance date for 

this rule, which remains July 7, 2025. 

DOE is, however, seeking comment on 

any further delay of the effective date, 

including the impacts of such delay, as 

well as comment on the legal, factual, or 

policy issues raised by the rule. 

Signing Authority 

This document of the Department of 

Energy was signed on January 30, 2025, 

by Jocelyn Richards, Acting General 

Counsel, Office of the General Counsel, 

pursuant to delegated authority from the 

Acting Secretary of Energy. That 

document with the original signature 

and date is maintained by DOE. For 

administrative purposes only, and in 

compliance with requirements of the 

Office of the Federal Register, the 

undersigned DOE Federal Register 

Liaison Officer has been authorized to 

sign and submit the document in 

electronic format for publication, as an 

official document of the Department of 

Energy. This administrative process in 

no way alters the legal effect of this 

document upon publication in the 

Federal Register. 

Signed in Washington, DC, on January 31, 

2025. 

Treena V. Garrett, 

Federal Register Liaison Officer, U.S. 

Department of Energy. 

[FR Doc. 2025–02234 Filed 2–4–25; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6450–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

10 CFR Part 430 

[EERE–2024–BT–TP–0010] 

RIN 1904–AB99 

Energy Conservation Program: Test 

Procedure for General Service Lamps 

AGENCY: Office of Energy Efficiency and 

Renewable Energy, Department of 

Energy. 

ACTION: Final rule; delay of effective 

date. 

SUMMARY: This document delays the 

effective date of a recently published 

final rule adopting several clarifications 

to the test procedures for general service 

lamps. DOE also seeks comment on any 

further delay of the effective date, 

including the impacts of such delay, as 

well as comment on the legal, factual, or 

policy issues raised by the rule. 

DATES: The effective date of the rule 

amending 10 CFR part 430 published at 

90 FR 4589 on January 16, 2025, is 

delayed until March 21, 2025. Written 

comments and information will be 

accepted on or before March 7, 2025. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Dr. Jordan Wilkerson, U.S. 

Department of Energy, Office of Energy 

Efficiency and Renewable Energy, 

Building Technologies Office, EE–5B, 

1000 Independence Avenue SW, 

Washington, DC 20585–0121. 

Telephone: (202) 287–1445. Email: 

ApplianceStandardsQuestions@

ee.doe.gov. 

Ms. Kiana Daw, U.S. Department of 

Energy, Office of the General Counsel, 

GC–33, 1000 Independence Avenue SW, 

Washington, DC 20585–0121. 

Telephone: (202) 586–4798. Email: 

kiana.daw@hq.doe.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: On 

January 20, 2025, the Assistant to the 


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