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[Federal Register Volume 90, Number 23 (Wednesday, February 5, 2025)]
[Rules and Regulations]
[Pages 9001-9002]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2025-02235]

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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.

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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: [email protected].
    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: [email protected].

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:  On January 20, 2025, the Assistant to the

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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 clarifying the test procedures for 
general service lamps published in the Federal Register on January 16, 
2025 (90 FR 4589). The January 16, 2025, rule adopted clarifications to 
the test procedures for general service lamps (``GSLs'') located in 
appendix W, appendix BB and appendix DD. Specifically, DOE clarified 
instructions that GSLs must not be tested as colored lamps and that 
lamps with additional components that do not affect light output must 
be turned off during testing. The clarifications also specified that 
non-integrated lamps be tested with a fluorescent lamp ballast, high 
intensity discharge (``HID'') lamp ballast or external light-emitting 
diode (``LED'') driver selected based on compatibility lists and 
availability; and provided specifications regarding the starting 
method, ballast factor, and number of lamps. 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 Chief of Staff'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 or 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 15, 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. 2025-02235 Filed 2-4-25; 8:45 am]
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