DOE Sets Feb. 19 Public Meeting on Proposed Import Energy Reporting Rule
The Department of Energy gave CTA, the Information Technology Industry Council and six other trade groups just a bit of what they had sought when it extended the Friday comments deadline to Feb. 29 in an NPRM (docket EERE-2015-BT-CE-0019) that…
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would require importers of products covered under “an applicable energy conservation standard” to file a “certification of admissibility” for each shipment of such products before their arrival at a U.S. port of entry (see 1602100012). DOE did grant the groups’ request to hold a public meeting to explain the NPRM before comments are due, said a prepublication notice in the Federal Register released by the agency. But that meeting will be Feb. 19, 9:30 a.m., at DOE headquarters in Washington, only 10 days before comments are due, the notice said. The meeting also will be webcast, it said. The groups had asked DOE to extend the comments deadline for 30 days after the meeting date. CTA, ITI and the other groups have said in a joint letter that they're genuinely "confused" with the NPRM because it “does little to explain the specific issue the Department is attempting to resolve with the proposed import data collection.”