# Energy Conservation Program: Energy Conservation Standards for Direct Heating Equipment
> **US Department of Energy** · Final determination. · Published 2016-10-17 · Effective 2016-12-16 · 81 FR 71325
## Document
- **Document number:** 2016-24866
- **Category:** energy-efficiency
- **Sub-agency:** US Department of Energy
- **Federal Register citation:** 81 FR 71325
- **CFR reference:** 10 CFR 430
- **Publication date:** 2016-10-17
- **Effective date:** 2016-12-16
- **Energy docket:** Docket Number EERE-2016-BT-STD-0007
## Abstract

The Energy Policy and Conservation Act of 1975 (EPCA), as amended, prescribes energy conservation standards for various consumer products and certain commercial and industrial equipment, including direct heating equipment. EPCA also requires the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) to periodically determine whether more-stringent standards would be technologically feasible and economically justified, and would save a significant amount of energy. In this final determination, DOE is finalizing its determination that more-stringent energy conservation standards for direct heating equipment are not economically justified and is therefore not amending its energy conservation standards.

## Source
- [Federal Register document](https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2016/10/17/2016-24866/energy-conservation-program-energy-conservation-standards-for-direct-heating-equipment)
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