[Congressional Bills 118th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 3627 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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118th CONGRESS
  2nd Session
                                S. 3627

 To amend the Energy Policy and Conservation Act to require a certain 
 efficiency level for certain distribution transformers, and for other 
                               purposes.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                            January 18, 2024

    Mr. Brown (for himself, Mr. Cruz, Mr. Manchin, Mr. Hagerty, Mr. 
 Fetterman, Mr. Ricketts, Mr. Casey, Mr. Rubio, Ms. Sinema, Mr. Young, 
Mr. Tester, and Mr. Budd) introduced the following bill; which was read 
  twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources

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                                 A BILL


 
 To amend the Energy Policy and Conservation Act to require a certain 
 efficiency level for certain distribution transformers, and for other 
                               purposes.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Distribution Transformer Efficiency 
and Supply Chain Reliability Act of 2024''.

SEC. 2. EFFICIENCY LEVEL FOR LIQUID-IMMERSED AND DRY TYPE DISTRIBUTION 
              TRANSFORMERS.

    Section 321(35) of the Energy Policy and Conservation Act (42 
U.S.C. 6291(35)) is amended by adding at the end the following:
                    ``(C) Efficiency level.--The Secretary shall not 
                finalize any rule under which the efficiency level of a 
                liquid-immersed type, low voltage dry type, or medium 
                voltage dry type distribution transformer is greater 
                than trial standard level 2 (as described in table V.1 
                in the proposed rule entitled `Energy Conservation 
                Program: Energy Conservation Standards for Distribution 
                Transformers' (88 Fed. Reg. 1722 (January 11, 2023))).
                    ``(D) Effective date for certain rules.--Any rule 
                finalized by the Secretary under which the efficiency 
                level of a liquid-immersed type, low voltage dry type, 
                or medium voltage dry-type distribution transformer is 
                trial standard level 1 or 2 (as described in table V.1 
                in the proposed rule entitled `Energy Conservation 
                Program: Energy Conservation Standards for Distribution 
                Transformers' (88 Fed. Reg. 1722 (January 11, 2023))) 
                shall not take effect until 10 years after the date on 
                which the rule is finalized.''.
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