Rescinding the Grant Programs for Schools and Hospitals and Buildings Owned by Units of Local Government and Public Care Institutions Regulations

Document 2026-07165 is a Final Rule published by the Department of Energy in the Federal Register on April 14, 2026, with an effective date of May 14, 2026. The Department of Energy (DOE) publishes a final rule to eliminate the subject regulations due to their non-applicability to operating DOE programs. In 1996, DOE consolidated legacy programs into the State Energy Program and determined all programming would be regulated through a different regulatory framework, leaving the regulations at this part without utility. Now, these regulations are a legacy of an ancestral program and remain in place despite decades without Congress funding the underlying statutory program. This final rule has no impact on stakeholders and further streamlines the State Energy Program by eliminating extraneous and derelict regulations, and does not directly reduce availability of financial assistance. View the original at https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2026/04/14/2026-07165/rescinding-the-grant-programs-for-schools-and-hospitals-and-buildings-owned-by-units-of-local.

No. Document 2026-07165 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.