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Rescission of Useless Water Pressure Standards

SignedMay 9, 2025
Memorandum·Donald Trump·Water Standards
Why This Matters

The order ends federal water conservation requirements for faucets, showers, bathtubs, and toilets, allowing manufacturers to produce appliances without these efficiency standards.

This means that consumers may find cheaper and more functional bathroom appliances since manufacturers can now design them without strict water use limits.
Manufacturers of bathroom appliances, consumers purchasing faucets and showerheads, and state regulators overseeing water use standards.
Summary

1. The order directs the Secretary of Energy to consider rescinding regulations from the Energy Policy Act of 1992 that affect water use in appliances. 2. It requires the Secretary of Energy to publish a notice clarifying the waiver of federal preemption of state regulations on water efficiency. 3. The Secretary has 60 days to submit recommendations to Congress regarding the repeal of certain sections of the Energy Policy Act of 1992.

Who is affected?

Manufacturers of bathroom appliances, consumers purchasing faucets and showerheads, and state regulators overseeing water use standards.

What does it revoke?

Revokes previous regulations that set specific water use limits for various bathroom appliances, making them more efficient but often more expensive and less functional.

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Presidential Actions

Rescission of Useless Water Pressure Standards

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MEMORANDUM FOR THE SECRETARY OF ENERGY
THE SECRETARY OF THE INTERIOR
THE DEPUTY ASSISTANT TO THE PRESIDENT AND DIRECTOR OF THE OFFICE OF LEGISLATIVE AFFAIRS


SUBJECT:       Rescission of Useless Water Pressure Standards

By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, I hereby direct:

Water conservation requirements for faucets, showers, bathtubs, and toilets — promulgated by the Department of Energy pursuant to the Energy Policy Act of 1992 (Public Law 102-486) — make bathroom appliances more expensive and less functional.  “Efficiency” standards render other American appliances like clothes washers and dishwashers less useful, more breakable, and more expensive to repair.  The Federal Government should not impose or enforce regulations that make taxpayers’ lives worse.

To address these unnecessary radical green agenda policies, I direct the Secretary of Energy to consider using all lawful authority to rescind — or, as appropriate, amend to revert to the standards required by statute — the regulations found in 10 C.F.R. 430.32(f), relating to water and energy use in dishwashers; 10 C.F.R. 430.32(o), relating to water use in faucets; 10 C.F.R. 430.32(p), relating to water use in showerheads; 10 C.F.R. 430.32(q), relating to water use in water closets; 10 C.F.R. 430.32(r), relating to water use in urinals; the definitions of “automatic clothes washer,” “clothes washer,” “dishwasher,” “faucet,” “other clothes washer,” “semi-automatic clothes washer,” “urinal,” and “water closet” contained in 10 C.F.R. 430.2; the residential washing machine efficiency standards contained in 10 C.F.R. 430.32(g); and the commercial washing machine efficiency standards contained in 10 C.F.R. 431.156.

Furthermore, I direct the Secretary of Energy to publish in the Federal Register a notice clarifying the Waiver of Federal Preemption of State regulations covered by the application of “Energy Efficiency Program for Consumer Products:  Waiver of Federal Preemption of State Regulations Concerning the Water Use or Water Efficiency of Showerheads, Faucets, Water Closets and Urinals,” 75 Fed. Reg. 80289 (December 22, 2010).

I further direct the Secretary of Energy not to enforce any of the regulatory provisions listed in this memorandum, pending rescission or reversion of such provisions; the provisions of 42 U.S.C. 6295(j) and (k); or energy and water efficiency standards for washing machines, including the provisions in 42 U.S.C. 6295(g) and 42 U.S.C. 6313(e).

Finally, I direct the Secretary of Energy and the Deputy Assistant to the President and Director of the Office of Legislative Affairs to jointly prepare and submit recommendations to the President, within 60 days of the date of this memorandum, through the Chair of the National Energy Dominance Council, for the Congress to rescind, insofar as each relates to the subject matter of this memorandum, 42 U.S.C. 6295(g), (j), (k), and (o) and 42 U.S.C. 6313(e), or to repeal the Energy Policy Act of 1992 in its entirety.

This memorandum is not intended to, and does not, create any right or benefit, substantive or procedural, enforceable at law or in equity by any party against the United States, its departments, agencies, or entities, its officers, employees, or agents, or any other person.



                              DONALD J. TRUMP

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