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

Document 2025-23294 is a Final Rule published by the Department of Energy in the Federal Register on December 18, 2025, with an effective date of January 20, 2026. The Commission is partially rescinding a direct final rule that inserted a conditional sunset date into certain regulations. The Commission is rescinding the sunset provision from one regulation because it received a significant adverse comment in response to an identical proposed rule which was published concurrently with the direct final rule. View the original at https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2025/12/18/2025-23294/implementation-of-the-executive-order-entitled-zero-based-regulatory-budgeting-to-unleash-american.

No. Document 2025-23294 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.