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Providing for congressional disapproval under chapter 8 of title 5, United States Code, of the rule submitted by the Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy, Department of Energy relating to “Energy Conservation Program: Energy Conservation Standards for Commercial Refrigerators, Freezers, and Refrigerator-Freezers”

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What this chapter is about

This law kills a rule. The Energy Department made the rule. It was about shop fridges and freezers. The rule no longer applies.

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The document says “shall notWho acts: CongressHow: statute 1 in the PDF
What the document says

“Congress disapproves the rule submitted by the Office of the Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy, Department of Energy relating to "Energy Conservation Program: Energy Conservation Standards for Commercial Refrigerators, Freezers, and Refrigerator-Freezers" (90 Fed. Reg. 7464; published January 21, 2025) and such rule shall have no force or effect.”

Providing for congressional disapproval under chapter 8 of title 5, United States Code, of the rule submitted by the Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy, Department of Energy relating to “Energy Conservation Program: Energy Conservation Standards for Commercial Refrigerators, Freezers, and Refrigerator-Freezers”,  1

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

“Congress disapproves the rule submitted by the Office of the Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy, Department of Energy relating to "Energy Conservation Program: Energy Conservation Standards for Commercial Refrigerators, Freezers, and Refrigerator-Freezers" (90 Fed. Reg. 7464; published January 21, 2025) and such rule shall have no force or effect.”

Providing for congressional disapproval under chapter 8 of title 5, United States Code, of the rule submitted by the Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy, Department of Energy relating to “Energy Conservation Program: Energy Conservation Standards for Commercial Refrigerators, Freezers, and Refrigerator-Freezers”,  1
That sentence, in plain words

Congress votes down a rule about shop fridges and freezers. The rule now has no force.

What this is about

The Energy Department wrote a rule about shop fridges and freezers. 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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What This Page Covers, and What It Leaves Out

The one thing the resolution does: it names a rule and deprives it of force.

The rule being disapproved. It is an agency rule published in the Federal Register, not this law, and it is named here rather than summarized.

The resolution gives no reason for the disapproval, so none is recorded. Members' reasons, where they gave any, are in their floor remarks rather than in the law.