[Congressional Bills 118th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 2036 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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118th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                S. 2036

 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 SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                             June 15, 2023

  Mr. Barrasso (for himself and Mr. Tillis) introduced the following 
bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and 
                           Natural Resources

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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 of 2023''.

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., 6311 et 
seq.), the Secretary of Energy may not, before the date that is 5 years 
after the date of enactment of this Act, propose, finalize, implement, 
administer, or enforce any rule establishing any requirements under the 
Energy Policy and Conservation Act (42 U.S.C. 6201 et seq.) for 
distribution transformers that are different than the requirements for 
distribution transformers described in the final rule entitled ``Energy 
Conservation Program: Energy Conservation Standards for Distribution 
Transformers'' (78 Fed. Reg. 23336 (April 18, 2013)).
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