Official Summaries

This joint resolution nullifies the rule titled Energy Conservation Program: Energy Conservation Standards for Consumer Gas-fired Instantaneous Water Heaters and submitted by the Department of Energy (DOE) on December 26, 2024. Under the rule, DOE adopted amended energy conservation standards for gas-fired instantaneous water heaters to achieve the maximum improvement in energy efficiency that DOE determined was technologically feasible and economically justified.

This joint resolution nullifies the rule titled Energy Conservation Program: Energy Conservation Standards for Consumer Gas-fired Instantaneous Water Heaters and submitted by the Department of Energy (DOE) on December 26, 2024. Under the rule, DOE adopted amended energy conservation standards for gas-fired instantaneous water heaters to achieve the maximum improvement in energy efficiency that DOE determined was technologically feasible and economically justified.

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[119th Congress Public Law 6]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]



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Public Law 119-6
119th Congress

                            Joint Resolution


 
  Providing for congressional disapproval under chapter 8 of title 5, 
 United States Code, of the rule submitted by the Department of Energy 
relating to ``Energy Conservation Program: Energy Conservation Standards 
  for Consumer Gas-fired Instantaneous Water Heaters''. <<NOTE: May 9, 
                        2025 -  [H.J. Res. 20]>> 

    Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United 
States of America in Congress assembled, That Congress disapproves the 
rule submitted by the Department of Energy relating to ``Energy 
Conservation Program: Energy Conservation Standards for Consumer Gas-
fired Instantaneous Water Heaters'' (89 Fed. Reg. 105188 (December 26, 
2024)), and such rule shall have no force or effect.

    Approved May 9, 2025.

LEGISLATIVE HISTORY--H.J. Res. 20 (S.J. Res. 4):
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CONGRESSIONAL RECORD, Vol. 171 (2025):
            Feb. 27, considered and passed House.
            Apr. 9, 10, considered and passed Senate.
DAILY COMPILATION OF PRESIDENTIAL DOCUMENTS (2025):
            May 9, Presidential remarks.

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