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Schedule Setting for the Appliance Standards Rulemaking ProcessAppliance Standards ScheduleOn January 31, 2006, the Department of Energy released a schedule for setting new appliance efficiency standards that will save American consumers billions of dollars in energy costs. The five-year plan outlines how DOE will address the appliance standards rulemaking backlog and meet all of the statutory requirements established in the Energy Policy and Conservation Act (EPCA) and the Energy Policy Act of 2005 (EPACT 2005). Statutes require DOE to set appliance efficiency standards at levels that achieve the maximum improvement in energy efficiency that is technologically feasible and economically justified. Standards already in place for residential products are expected to save consumers nearly $93 billion, by 2020, and to save enough energy to operate all U.S. homes for approximately two years. The five-year plan, which was developed considering the recent public comments received on appliance rulemaking, provides for the issuance of one rulemaking for each of the 18 products in the backlog. The plan also provides for setting appliance standards for products required under EPACT 2005. The Department is aggressively implementing process improvements to speed up the development and issuing of appliance standards rulemakings. The schedule also provides for issuance of a number of on-going test procedures and new test procedures required by EPACT 2005.
The overall plan for implementing the schedule is contained in the Report to Congress, which was released January 31, 2006. The report is posted below as a PDF file. Section 141 of EPACT pertains to the Department's failure to meet deadlines for new or amended energy conservation standards. The report identifies all products for which DOE has missed the deadlines established in the Energy Policy and Conservation Act (EPCA) (42 U.S.C. § 6291. et seq., as amended). It also describes the reasons for such delays and the Secretary's plan for expeditiously prescribing new or amended standards. Section 141 requires both an initial report and semi-annual implementation reports.
The Department of Energy held a public meeting on November 15, 2005, in Washington, D.C., to discuss appliance standards scheduling issues. The Department received comments on the desire to bring all appliance rulemaking activities into compliance with the applicable statutory requirements. The Department based its standards scheduling plan on consideration of comments received during and following the public meeting. Further information on that meeting is shown below. Analytical updates or revisions to last year's data sheets and spreadsheets are specified as 2006 analyses where applicable. Schedule Setting Documents
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