[Federal Register: July 8, 2003 (Volume 68, Number 130)]
[Proposed Rules]
[Page 40553]
From the Federal Register Online via GPO Access [wais.access.gpo.gov]
[DOCID:fr08jy03-17]
=======================================================================
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
10 CFR Chs. II, III, and X
RIN 1904-AA78
Semiannual Regulatory Agenda; Clarification
AGENCY: Department of Energy.
ACTION: Semiannual Regulatory Agenda; clarification.
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
SUMMARY: The Department of Energy is clarifying its discussion of one
of the items (Residential Furnaces, Boilers, and Mobile Home Furnaces)
in the Semiannual Regulatory Agenda, 68 FR 30192, 30195 (May 27, 2003).
DATES: This correction is made as of July 8, 2003.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For information on Energy Efficiency
Standards for Residential Furnaces, Boilers, and Mobile Home Furnaces
contact: Mohammed Khan, Room 1J-018, Forrestal Building, 1000
Independence Avenue SW., Washington, DC 20585,
mohammed.khan@hq.doe.gov, (202) 586-7892. For information on the
Regulatory Agenda in general, please contact: Richard L. Farman, Room
6E-078, Forrestal Building, 1000 Independence Avenue SW., Washington,
DC 20585, richard.farman@hq.doe.gov, (202) 586-8145.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: In the fall of 2002, DOE designated the
Energy Efficiency Standards for Residential Furnaces, Boilers, and
Mobile Home Furnaces as high priority in The FY2003 Priority Setting
Summary Report and Actions Proposed, which the Office of Building
Technologies Program, U.S. Department of Energy, published on August
22, 2002.
In the Department of Energy's most recent Semiannual Regulatory
Agenda notice, 68 FR 30195 (May 27, 2003), the Department inadvertently
noted in its discussion of the Energy Efficiency Standards for
Residential Furnaces, Boilers, and Mobile Home Furnaces that ``the
Department is reclassifying this action as low priority, pending
further review.''
The Department of Energy has not reclassified this action as a low
priority and remains committed to getting public input before making
decisions on the priorities for its rulemakings. As the Office of
Building Technologies Program described in its 1996 Procedures for
Consideration of New or Revised Energy Conservation Standards for
Consumer Products (Process Rule), 61 FR 36974, 36976, 36982 (July 15,
1996), the program will prepare an analysis of pending or prospective
rulemakings at least once a year. The program will invite the public to
review and comment on the program's priority analysis prior to making
any changes to its priority designation. As noted in the Semiannual
Regulatory Agenda published May 27, 2003, the program will be seeking
comments from stakeholders regarding the priority status of Residential
Furnaces, Boilers, and Mobile Home Furnaces. In addition, the program
will be seeking comments on its prioritization of all current
rulemakings this summer. The program fully intends to follow the
Process Rule and provide stakeholders with an opportunity to comment.
Issued in Washington, DC, on July 2, 2003.
Douglas L. Faulkner,
Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary, Energy Efficiency and Renewable
Energy.
[FR Doc. 03-17196 Filed 7-7-03; 8:45 am]
BILLING CODE 6450-01-P