Implementation of the Executive Order Entitled “Zero-Based Budgeting To Unleash American Energy”

Document 2025-19607 is a Final Rule published by the Department of Energy in the Federal Register on October 21, 2025, with an effective date of December 5, 2025. The Commission is revising its regulations to insert a conditional sunset date into certain regulations in response to Executive Order (E.O.) 14270, "Zero-Based Regulatory Budgeting to Unleash American Energy." View the original at https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2025/10/21/2025-19607/implementation-of-the-executive-order-entitled-zero-based-budgeting-to-unleash-american-energy.

No. Document 2025-19607 is not classified as economically significant under Executive Order 12866. Economically significant rules require OIRA review and are estimated to have impacts of $100 million or more per year.