The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) is initiating an effort to consider amending energy conservation standards for commercial and industrial pumps. Once completed, this rulemaking will fulfill DOE’s statutory obligation to review its standards and either propose amended energy conservation standards for this equipment or determine that the existing standards do not need to be amended. To this end, DOE must determine whether national standards more stringent than those currently in place would result in a significant amount of energy savings and whether such amended national standards would be technologically feasible and economically justified.