[Federal Register Volume 68, Number 130 (Tuesday, July 8, 2003)]
[Proposed Rules]
[Page 40553]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 03-17196]


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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

10 CFR Chs. II, III, and X

RIN 1904-AA78


Semiannual Regulatory Agenda; Clarification

AGENCY: Department of Energy.

ACTION: Semiannual Regulatory Agenda; clarification.

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SUMMARY: The Department of Energy is clarifying its discussion of one 
of the items (Residential Furnaces, Boilers, and Mobile Home Furnaces) 
in the Semiannual Regulatory Agenda, 68 FR 30192, 30195 (May 27, 2003).

DATES: This correction is made as of July 8, 2003.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For information on Energy Efficiency 
Standards for Residential Furnaces, Boilers, and Mobile Home Furnaces 
contact: Mohammed Khan, Room 1J-018, Forrestal Building, 1000 
Independence Avenue SW., Washington, DC 20585, 
[email protected], (202) 586-7892. For information on the 
Regulatory Agenda in general, please contact: Richard L. Farman, Room 
6E-078, Forrestal Building, 1000 Independence Avenue SW., Washington, 
DC 20585, [email protected], (202) 586-8145.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: In the fall of 2002, DOE designated the 
Energy Efficiency Standards for Residential Furnaces, Boilers, and 
Mobile Home Furnaces as high priority in The FY2003 Priority Setting 
Summary Report and Actions Proposed, which the Office of Building 
Technologies Program, U.S. Department of Energy, published on August 
22, 2002.
    In the Department of Energy's most recent Semiannual Regulatory 
Agenda notice, 68 FR 30195 (May 27, 2003), the Department inadvertently 
noted in its discussion of the Energy Efficiency Standards for 
Residential Furnaces, Boilers, and Mobile Home Furnaces that ``the 
Department is reclassifying this action as low priority, pending 
further review.''
    The Department of Energy has not reclassified this action as a low 
priority and remains committed to getting public input before making 
decisions on the priorities for its rulemakings. As the Office of 
Building Technologies Program described in its 1996 Procedures for 
Consideration of New or Revised Energy Conservation Standards for 
Consumer Products (Process Rule), 61 FR 36974, 36976, 36982 (July 15, 
1996), the program will prepare an analysis of pending or prospective 
rulemakings at least once a year. The program will invite the public to 
review and comment on the program's priority analysis prior to making 
any changes to its priority designation. As noted in the Semiannual 
Regulatory Agenda published May 27, 2003, the program will be seeking 
comments from stakeholders regarding the priority status of Residential 
Furnaces, Boilers, and Mobile Home Furnaces. In addition, the program 
will be seeking comments on its prioritization of all current 
rulemakings this summer. The program fully intends to follow the 
Process Rule and provide stakeholders with an opportunity to comment.

    Issued in Washington, DC, on July 2, 2003.
Douglas L. Faulkner,
Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary, Energy Efficiency and Renewable 
Energy.
[FR Doc. 03-17196 Filed 7-7-03; 8:45 am]
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