[Congressional Bills 118th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 4167 Introduced in House (IH)]

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118th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 4167

 To prohibit the Secretary of Energy from changing energy conservation 
 standards for distribution transformers for a certain period, and for 
                            other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             June 15, 2023

 Mr. Hudson (for himself, Mr. Griffith, Mr. Bilirakis, Mr. Allen, Mr. 
   Balderson, Mrs. Harshbarger, Mrs. Miller-Meeks, and Mr. Walberg) 
 introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on 
                          Energy and Commerce

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                                 A BILL


 
 To prohibit the Secretary of Energy from changing energy conservation 
 standards for distribution transformers for a certain period, and for 
                            other purposes.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Protecting America's Distribution 
Transformer Supply Chain Act''.

SEC. 2. ENERGY CONSERVATION STANDARDS FOR DISTRIBUTION TRANSFORMERS.

    Notwithstanding any provision of part B or part C of title III of 
the Energy Policy and Conservation Act (42 U.S.C. 6291 et seq.), the 
Secretary of Energy may not, before the date that is 5 years after the 
date of enactment of this section, propose, finalize, implement, 
administer, or enforce any rule establishing any requirements under 
such Act for distribution transformers that are different than the 
requirements for distribution transformers under the final rule titled 
``Energy Conservation Program: Energy Conservation Standards for 
Distribution Transformers'' and published in the Federal Register on 
April 18, 2013 (78 Fed. Reg. 23336).
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