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This bill, titled the "Zero-Based Regulatory Budgeting to Unleash American Energy Act of 2026," mandates that certain government agencies, referred to as "covered agencies" (including the Department of Energy, specific offices within the Department of the Interior like the Bureau of Land Management and Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, and the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission), must implement sunset dates for their regulations. Existing regulations will expire one year after the bill's enactment unless extended, while new regulations will have a five-year sunset date, though this can be waived if the regulation is determined to have a net deregulatory effect. Extensions to these sunset dates are permitted for up to five years at a time, but only after providing an opportunity for public comment on the regulation's costs and benefits, and if the agency head determines an extension is warranted based on that feedback; however, amendments that have a net deregulatory effect can extend a regulation's sunset without this public comment process. If a regulation's sunset date is not extended, it will cease to have any effect, will no longer be enforced, and will be removed from the official compilation of federal rules.

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