[Federal Register Volume 75, Number 64 (Monday, April 5, 2010)]
[Rules and Regulations]
[Pages 17036-17037]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2010-7642]


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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

10 CFR Part 431

[Docket Number EERE-2007-BT-STD-0007]
RIN 1904-AB70


Energy Conservation Program: Energy Conservation Standards for 
Small Electric Motors; Correction

AGENCY: Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy, Department of 
Energy.

ACTION: Final rule; technical correction.

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SUMMARY: This document contains a technical correction to the final 
rule regarding the energy conservation standards for small electric 
motors, which was published on March 9, 2010. In that final rule, the 
U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) adopted regulations to establish energy 
conservation standards for small electric motors. Due to a drafting 
error, an incorrect compliance date for this equipment was 
inadvertently inserted into the regulation. This correction notice 
addresses the error.

DATES: This technical correction is effective April 8, 2010.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

James Raba, U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Energy Efficiency and 
Renewable Energy, Building Technologies Program, EE-2J, 1000 
Independence Avenue, SW., Washington, DC 20585-0121, (202) 586-8654. E-
mail: [email protected].
Michael Kido, U.S. Department of Energy, Office of the General Counsel, 
GC-72, 1000 Independence Avenue, SW., Washington, DC 20585-0121, (202) 
586-9507. E-mail: [email protected].

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

I. Background

    On March 9, 2010, the DOE's Office of Energy Efficiency and 
Renewable Energy published a final rule titled ``Energy Conservation 
Standards for Small Electric Motors.'' 75 FR 10874. Since the 
publication of that rule, it has come to DOE's attention that, due to a 
technical oversight, a certain part of the final regulations 
inadvertently applied an incorrect date by which manufacturers would 
need to comply with the standards established by that rule. That 
section of the regulations, section 431.446(a) of Title 10 of the Code 
of Federal Regulations (10 CFR), Part 431, provides a date of February 
28, 2015. 75 FR 10947. Instead, that date should be March 9, 2015, 
which is 60 months from the date of the final rule's publication in the 
Federal Register, and in the case of a small electric motor that 
requires listing or certification by a nationally recognized safety 
testing laboratory, March 9, 2017, 84 months after such date. Both of 
these dates are specified compliance dates for small electric motor 
standards under the Energy Policy and Conservation Act of 1975, as 
amended (EPCA). See 42 U.S.C. 6317(b)(3).

II. Need for Correction

    As published, the final regulation contains an erroneous date that 
this document corrects. In light of the statutory requirement, the 
considerable amount of time before the compliance date and, in the case 
of the 2015 date, the small difference in the number of days at issue, 
the change addressed by today's document is technical in nature. 
Because these dates are specified by EPCA, DOE does not have the 
discretion to deviate from these statutorily-prescribed requirements. 
As such, DOE finds that there is good cause under 5 U.S.C. 553(b)(B) 
and that the issuance of a separate notice to solicit public comment on 
the changes contained in this notice is unnecessary. In FR Doc. 2010-
4358, appearing in the document beginning on page 10947 in the Federal 
Register of Tuesday, March 9, 2010, the following correction is made:


Sec.  431.446  [Corrected]

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1. On page 10947, in the third column, under Sec.  431.446, 
introductory paragraph (a) is corrected to read as follows:


Sec.  431.446  Small electric motors energy conservation standards and 
their effective dates.

    (a) Each small electric motor manufactured (alone or as a component 
of another piece of non-covered equipment) after March 9, 2015, or in 
the case of a small electric motor which

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requires listing or certification by a nationally recognized safety 
testing laboratory, after March 9, 2017, shall have an average full 
load efficiency of not less than the following:
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    Issued in Washington, DC, on March 29, 2010.
Cathy Zoi,
Assistant Secretary, Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy.
[FR Doc. 2010-7642 Filed 4-2-10; 8:45 am]
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