Providing for congressional disapproval under chapter 8 of title 5, United States Code, of the rule submitted by the Department of Energy relating to “Energy Conservation Program: Energy Conservation Standards for Consumer Gas-fired Instantaneous Water Heaters”, provision 1, 1.
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The gas water heater standard is undone
The document says “shall not”Who acts: CongressHow: statute 1 in the PDF
What the document says
“and such rule shall have no force or effect.”
A resolution of disapproval under chapter 8 of title 5 of the United States Code, the Congressional Review Act. It names the rule by the title the agency gave it and by where the rule was published, and it states no reason. What the rule itself required is not described here, because that rule is not one of the documents this site has indexed.
What the document actually says
“and such rule shall have no force or effect.”
That sentence, in plain words
Congress votes down a rule about gas water heaters. The rule now has no force.
What this is about
The Energy Department wrote a rule about gas water heaters. Congress voted to undo it. The rule is dead. It binds no one now. Congress used a law that lets it undo a new rule within a set time.
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