Rule 5 Feb 2025 manufacturing, compliance, department of energy, clothes dryers, clothes washers, energy conservation

🧺Delay in Clothes Washer and Dryer Test Procedure Regulations

This document delays the effective date of a recently published final rule amending the test procedures for residential and commercial clothes washers and consumer clothes dryers. DOE also seeks comment on any further delay of the effective date, including the impacts of such delay, as well as comment on the legal, factual, or policy issues raised by the rule.

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Compliance, Regulatory Requirements 17 Jan 2025 compliance, imports, administrative practice and procedure, incorporation by reference, intergovernmental relations, small businesses, department of energy, energy conservation, household appliances, confidential business information, energy efficiency, clothes washers, test procedures, dryers

⚖️New Compliance Rules for Clothes Washer and Dryer Testing 2024

In this final rule, the U.S. Department of Energy ("DOE") is amending the test procedures for residential and commercial clothes washers and consumer clothes dryers to update the test cloth specifications. DOE is also reorganizing the test procedures for improved readability. DOE is conducting this rulemaking to address specific issues and to make minor corrections to the current test procedures. This rulemaking does not satisfy the statutory requirement that, at least once every 7 years, DOE review the test procedures for clothes washers and consumer clothes dryers.

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