Official Summaries

This joint resolution nullifies the rule titled Energy Conservation Program: Energy Conservation Standards for Walk-In Coolers and Walk-In Freezers and submitted by the Department of Energy (DOE) on December 23, 2024. Under the rule, DOE adopted amended energy conservation standards for walk-in coolers and freezers to achieve the maximum improvement in energy efficiency that DOE determined was technologically feasible and economically justified.

This joint resolution eliminates new, more stringent energy conservation standards for certain walk-in coolers and freezers, including the new limits on maximum daily energy consumption for walk-in non-display doors. Under the joint resolution, walk-in non-display doors and walk-in refrigeration systems are no longer required to comply with the new standards.

Specifically, the joint resolution nullifies the rule titled Energy Conservation Program: Energy Conservation Standards for Walk-In Coolers and Walk-In Freezers and submitted by the Department of Energy (DOE) on December 23, 2024. Under the rule, DOE adopted energy conservation standards for walk-in coolers and freezers to achieve the maximum improvement in energy efficiency that DOE determined was technologically feasible and economically justified. The rule required walk-in non-display doors to comply with those standards by December 23, 2027, and walk-in refrigeration systems to comply with them by December 31, 2028.

Current Full Text

[119th Congress Public Law 7]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]



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Public Law 119-7
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 Walk-In Coolers and Walk-In Freezers''. <<NOTE: May 9, 2025 -  [H.J. 
                               Res. 24]>> 

    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 Walk-In Coolers 
and Walk-In Freezers'' (89 Fed. Reg. 104616 (December 23, 2024)), and 
such rule shall have no force or effect.

    Approved May 9, 2025.

LEGISLATIVE HISTORY--H.J. Res. 24:
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CONGRESSIONAL RECORD, Vol. 171 (2025):
            Mar. 27, considered and passed House.
            Apr. 2, 3, considered and passed Senate.
DAILY COMPILATION OF PRESIDENTIAL DOCUMENTS (2025):
            May 9, Presidential remarks.

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