Rule2025-04474
Energy Conservation Program: Energy Conservation Standards for Walk-In Coolers and Walk-In Freezers
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Published
March 20, 2025
Effective
May 20, 2025
Issuing agencies
Energy Department
Abstract
This document further delays the effective date of a recently published final rule adopting amended energy conservation standards for walk-in coolers and freezers.
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[Federal Register Volume 90, Number 53 (Thursday, March 20, 2025)]
[Rules and Regulations]
[Pages 13054-13055]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2025-04474]
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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
10 CFR Part 431
[EERE-2017-BT-STD-009]
RIN 1904-AD79
Energy Conservation Program: Energy Conservation Standards for
Walk-In Coolers and Walk-In Freezers
AGENCY: Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy, Department of
Energy (DOE).
ACTION: Final rule; delay of effective date.
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SUMMARY: This document further delays the effective date of a recently
published final rule adopting amended energy conservation standards for
walk-in coolers and freezers.
DATES: As of March 20, 2025, the effective date of the rule amending 10
CFR part 431 published in the Federal Register at 89 FR 104616 on
December 23, 2024, is delayed until May 20, 2025.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mr. Troy Watson, 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) 449-9387. Email:
<a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#febf8e8e92979f909d9bad8a9f909a9f8c9a8daf8b9b8d8a9791908dbe9b9bd09a919bd0999188"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="09487979656068676a6c5a7d68676d687b6d7a587c6c7a7d6066677a496c6c276d666c276e667f">[email protected]</span></a>.
Ms. Ani Esenyan, 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: <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#72131c1b5c1701171c0b131c321a035c161d175c151d04"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="b2d3dcdb9cd7c1d7dccbd3dcf2dac39cd6ddd79cd5ddc4">[email protected]</span></a>.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: On January 20, 2025, President Trump issued
the ``Regulatory Freeze Pending Review'' memorandum, published in the
Federal Register on January 28, 2025 (90 FR 8249). This presidential
action ordered all executive departments and agencies to consider
postponing for 60 days the effective date of certain rules published in
the Federal Register for the purpose of reviewing any questions of
fact, law, and policy that the rules may raise. Additionally, executive
departments and agencies were to consider opening a comment period to
allow interested parties to provide comments about issues of fact, law,
and policy raised by the rules postponed under the memorandum.
Consistent with the Presidential Memorandum of January 20, 2025,
the U.S. Department of Energy (``DOE'') delayed the effective date of
its final rule adopting amended energy conservation standards for walk-
in coolers and freezers (``walk-ins'' or
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``WICFs'') published in the Federal Register on December 23, 2024 (89
FR 104616) and an accompanying correction document published in the
Federal Register on January 7, 2025 (90 FR 1029) to March 21, 2025. 90
FR 9951 (Feb. 20, 2025). DOE also sought 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.
DOE is still in the process of reviewing questions of fact, law,
and policy for this rule and comment received on the rule. As such, and
consistent with the Presidential Memorandum of January 20, 2025, DOE
further delays the effective date of this rule another 60-days to May
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. Further, the delay of the effective date to May
20, 2025, does not affect the compliance date for this rule, which
remains December 23, 2027, for walk-in non-display doors and December
31, 2028, for walk-in refrigeration systems. As such, this action is
not a ``substantive rule'' for which a 30-day delay in effective date
is required under 5 U.S.C. 553(d).
Signing Authority
This document of the Department of Energy was signed on March 13,
2025, by Lou Hrkman, Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for Energy
Efficiency and Renewable Energy, pursuant to delegated authority from
the 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 March 13, 2025.
Treena V. Garrett,
Federal Register Liaison Officer, U.S. Department of Energy.
[FR Doc. 2025-04474 Filed 3-19-25; 8:45 am]
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