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        <dc:title>Power And Security Systems (PASS) Act</dc:title>
        <citableAs>Public Law 115–78</citableAs>
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        <property style="-uslm-dtd:comp-short-title" role="compShortTitle">Power And Security Systems (PASS) Act</property>
        <citationNote style="-uslm-dtd:public-law">[(<citableAs>Public Law 115–78</citableAs>)]</citationNote>
        <editionNote style="-uslm-dtd:updated-through-note">[This law has not been amended]</editionNote>
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    <main style="-uslm-dtd:legis-body"><longTitle><docTitle style="-uslm-dtd:legis-type">AN ACT</docTitle><officialTitle style="-uslm-dtd:official-title">To provide for consideration of the extension under the Energy Policy and Conservation Act of nonapplication of No-Load Mode energy efficiency standards to certain security or life safety alarms or surveillance systems, and for other purposes.</officialTitle></longTitle><enactingFormula style="-uslm-dtd:enacting-clause">Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,</enactingFormula>
        <section style="-uslm-dtd:section" identifier="/us/sComp/115/78/s1" styleType="OLC">
            <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="1">SECTION 1. </num><editorialNote style="-uslm-dtd:usc-reference" role="uscRef"><b>[</b><ref href="/us/usc/t42/s6201">42 U.S.C. 6201 note</ref><b>]</b> </editorialNote><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">SHORT TITLE. </heading>
            <content style="-uslm-dtd:text" class="block">This Act may be cited as the “<shortTitle style="-uslm-dtd:quote">Power And Security Systems (PASS) Act</shortTitle>”.</content>
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        <section style="-uslm-dtd:section" identifier="/us/sComp/115/78/s2" styleType="OLC">
            <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="2">SEC. 2. </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">EXTENSION OF NONAPPLICATION OF NO-LOAD MODE ENERGY EFFICIENCY STANDARD TO CERTAIN SECURITY OR LIFE SAFETY ALARM OR SURVEILLANCE SYSTEMS. </heading>
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                <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="a">(a) </num><chapeau style="-uslm-dtd:text">Section 325(u)(3)(D)(ii) of the Energy Policy and Conservation Act (42 U.S.C. 6295(u)(3)(D)(ii)) is amended—</chapeau>
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                    <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="1">(1) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">by striking “<quotedText style="-uslm-dtd:quote">2015</quotedText>” each place it appears and inserting “<quotedText style="-uslm-dtd:quote">2021</quotedText>”; and</content>
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                <paragraph style="-uslm-dtd:paragraph" identifier="/us/sComp/115/78/s2/a/2" styleType="OLC">
                    <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="2">(2) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">by striking “<quotedText style="-uslm-dtd:quote">2017</quotedText>” and inserting “<quotedText style="-uslm-dtd:quote">2023</quotedText>”.</content>
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                <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="b">(b) </num><chapeau style="-uslm-dtd:text">Section 325(u)(3)(E) of the Energy Policy and Conservation Act (42 U.S.C. 6295(u)(3)(E)) is amended—</chapeau>
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                    <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="1">(1) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">in clause (ii), by striking “<quotedText style="-uslm-dtd:quote">July 1, 2017,</quotedText>” and inserting “<quotedText style="-uslm-dtd:quote">the effective date of the amendment under subparagraph (D)(ii)</quotedText>”; and</content>
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                    <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="2">(2) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">by adding at the end the following:<quotedContent style="-uslm-dtd:quoted-block">
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                        <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="iv">“(iv) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">Treatment in rule.—</heading><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">In the rule under subparagraph (D)(ii) and subsequent amendments the Secretary may treat some or all external power supplies designed to be connected to a security or life safety alarm or surveillance system as a separate  product class or may extend the nonapplication under clause (ii).”</content>
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