diff --git a/hbase-common/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/HConstants.java b/hbase-common/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/HConstants.java
index 6fafad37966..1b71cb453e7 100644
--- a/hbase-common/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/HConstants.java
+++ b/hbase-common/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/HConstants.java
@@ -134,10 +134,6 @@ public final class HConstants {
   public static final String HBASE_MASTER_NORMALIZER_CLASS =
     "hbase.master.normalizer.class";
 
-  /** Config for enabling/disabling pluggable region normalizer */
-  public static final String HBASE_NORMALIZER_ENABLED =
-    "hbase.normalizer.enabled";
-
   /** Cluster is standalone or pseudo-distributed */
   public static final boolean CLUSTER_IS_LOCAL = false;
 
diff --git a/hbase-common/src/main/resources/hbase-default.xml b/hbase-common/src/main/resources/hbase-default.xml
index d9a1994096d..eefd327ccfa 100644
--- a/hbase-common/src/main/resources/hbase-default.xml
+++ b/hbase-common/src/main/resources/hbase-default.xml
@@ -573,12 +573,6 @@ possible configurations would overwhelm and obscure the important.
     <value>300000</value>
     <description>Period at which the region balancer runs in the Master.</description>
   </property>
-  <property>
-    <name>hbase.normalizer.enabled</name>
-    <value>false</value>
-    <description>If set to true, Master will try to keep region size
-      within each table approximately the same.</description>
-  </property>
   <property>
     <name>hbase.normalizer.period</name>
     <value>1800000</value>
diff --git a/hbase-server/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/master/normalizer/TestSimpleRegionNormalizerOnCluster.java b/hbase-server/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/master/normalizer/TestSimpleRegionNormalizerOnCluster.java
index 4bcccc63f97..6ec2e955084 100644
--- a/hbase-server/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/master/normalizer/TestSimpleRegionNormalizerOnCluster.java
+++ b/hbase-server/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/master/normalizer/TestSimpleRegionNormalizerOnCluster.java
@@ -67,7 +67,6 @@ public class TestSimpleRegionNormalizerOnCluster {
   public static void beforeAllTests() throws Exception {
     // we will retry operations when PleaseHoldException is thrown
     TEST_UTIL.getConfiguration().setInt(HConstants.HBASE_CLIENT_RETRIES_NUMBER, 3);
-    TEST_UTIL.getConfiguration().setBoolean(HConstants.HBASE_NORMALIZER_ENABLED, true);
     TEST_UTIL.getConfiguration().setBoolean(QuotaUtil.QUOTA_CONF_KEY, true);
 
     // Start a cluster of two regionservers.