Energy Conservation Program: Energy Conservation Standards for Small Electric Motors

What it does

The Energy Policy and Conservation Act, as amended ("EPCA"), prescribes energy conservation standards for various consumer products and certain commercial and industrial equipment, including small electric motors ("SEMs"). EPCA also requires the U.S. Department of Energy ("DOE") to periodically determine whether more-stringent standards would be technologically feasible and economically justified, and would result in significant conservation of energy. In this final determination, DOE has determined that more-stringent energy conservation standards for SEMs would not be cost-effective and, therefore, DOE has determined that energy conservation standards for SEMs should not be amended.

The Energy Department's summary, as published in the Federal Register.

What changed in the regulation

1 part of Title 10 of the Code of Federal Regulations:

10 CFR 431

Wording on eCFR: the day before it took effect and from the day it took effect (first part listed).

Compared with

The Energy Department has published 18 final rules in 2026 so far, compared with 33 in all of 2025.

Counted by the Tribune from Federal Register records since Jan. 1, 2025.

Before this

No earlier Federal Register document under regulation identifier 1904-AF39 since Jan. 1, 2025.

What happens next and when

The effective date of this final determination is March 16, 2026.

The agency's dates, word for word.

Check it yourself

• The document in the Federal Register
• Docket EERE-2022-BT-STD-0014 on Regulations.gov
• Title 10 on eCFR

The record as published

Source: the Federal Register (public domain). The document in the Federal Register