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For those interested in watching the International Code Council’s (ICC’s) appeal hearings next week, registration is now available online. To register for the federal preemption hearing, which will be held on August 31 at 10:00 AM ET, please click here. To register for the scope/intent hearing, which will be held on September 3 at 10:00 AM ET, please click here. APGA and the American Gas Association (AGA) will be arguing their jointly filed appeal of four ICC actions related to provisions in the International Energy Conservation Code (IECC) during these hearings.

APGA, through the appeal, contended that these provisions should have been prevented from moving forward by ICC staff during the code development process because they either raised potential federal preemption concerns or were outside of IECC's defined scope/intent and, consequently, should not be included in the next edition of the IECC. APGA members would be directly and materially affected by state or local adoption of the requirements of these proposals, as the proposals would disadvantage the competitiveness of natural gas direct use applications.

For those interested, the ICC website has additional information pertaining to the appeal hearings. For questions on this article or APGA’s engagement with ICC, please contact Renée Lani of APGA staff by phone at 202-464-0836 or by email at rlani@apga.org.