G/TBT/N/USA/1840  
28 February 2022  
(22-1869) Page: 1/2 
Committee on Technical Barriers to Trade  Original:  English  
 
  
NOTIFICATION  
The following notification is being circulated in accordance with Article 10.6  
 
1. Notifying Member:  UNITED STATES OF AMERICA   
If applicable, name of local government involved (Article 3.2 and 7.2):   
2. Agency responsible:  Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (OEERE), 
Department of Energy (DOE) [1869]  
Name and address (including telephone and fax numbers , email and website 
addresses, if available) of agency or authority designated to handle comments 
regarding the notification shall be indicated if different from above:   
Please submit comments to: USA WTO TBT Enquiry Point, Email: usatbtep@nist.gov  
3. Notified under Article 2.9.2 [X], 2.10.1 [   ], 5.6.2 [X ], 5.7.1 [   ], other :  
4. Products covered (HS or CCCN where applicable, otherwise national tariff 
heading. ICS numbers may be provided in addition, where applicable):  
Commercial warm air furnaces; Furnace burners for liquid fuel, for pulverized solid fuel 
or for gas; mechanical stokers, incl. their mechanical grates, mechanical ash dischargers 
and similar appliances; parts thereof (HS 8416); Quality (ICS 03.120), Envir onmental 
protection (ICS 13.020), Test conditions and procedures in general (ICS 19.020), 
Industrial furnaces (ICS 25.180)  
5. Title, number of pages and language(s) of the notified document:  Energy 
Conservation Program: Test Procedure for Commercial Warm Air Furnaces (26 page(s), 
in English)  
6. Description of content:  Notice of proposed rulemaking and announcement of public 
meeting - The U.S. Department of Energy ("DOE") proposes to amend the test procedures 
for commercial warm air furnaces ("CWAFs") to i ncorporate the latest versions of the 
industry standards that are currently incorporated by reference. DOE also proposes to 
establish a  new metric, Thermal Efficiency Two ("TE2"), and corresponding 
test procedure. Use of the newly proposed test procedure w ould become  mandatory at 
such time as compliance with amended energy conservation  standards based on TE2 is 
required, should DOE adopt such standards.  DOE also proposes additional specifications 
for CWAFs with multiple  vent hoods or small -diameter vent hoo ds. DOE is seeking 
comment from  interested parties on the proposal.  
7. Objective and rationale, including the nature of urgent problems where 
applicable:  Prevention of deceptive practices and consumer protection; Protection of the 
environment; Quality req uirements  G/TBT/N/USA/1840  
 
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  8. Relevant documents:   
87 Federal Register (FR) 10726, 25 February 2022; Title 10 Code of Federal Regulations 
(CFR) Part 431:  
https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR -2022-02-25/html/2022 -03484.htm  
https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR -2022-02-25/pdf/2022 -03484.pdf  
This notice of proposed rulemaking and announcement of public  meeting  is identified by 
Docket Number EERE -2019-BT-TP-0041. The Docket Folder is available from 
Regulations.gov at  https://www.regulations.gov/docket/EERE -2019-BT-TP-
0041/document  and provides access to primary documents as well as comments received. 
Documents are also accessible  from Regulations.gov  by searching the Docket Number. 
WTO Members and their stakeholders are asked to submit comments to the  USA TBT 
Enquiry Point  by or before  4pm Eastern Time  on 26 April 2022.  Comments received by 
the USA TBT Enquiry Point from WTO Members and their stakeholders will be shared with 
the regulator and will also be submitted to the  Docket  on Regulations.gov if received 
within the comment period.   
Department of Energy will hold a webinar on Tuesday, 29 March 2022, from 1:00 p.m. to 
5:00 p.m.  Eastern Time . See section V, "Public Participation," for webinar regis tration 
information, participant instructions, and information about the capabilities available to 
webinar participants. If no participants register for the webinar, it will be cancelled.  
G/TBT/N/USA/963 and subsequent addenda  - Energy Conservation Program for Ce rtain 
Industrial Equipment: Energy Conservation Standards for Commercial Warm Air 
Furnaces  identified by Docket Number  EERE-2013-BT-STD-0021. 
9. Proposed date of adoption:  To be determined  
Proposed date of entry into force:  To be determined  
10. Final date for comments:  26 April 2022  
11. Texts available from:  National enquiry point [ ] or address, telephone and fax 
numbers and email and website addresses, if available , of other body:   
https://members.wto.org/crnattachments/2022/TBT/USA/22_1847_00_e.pdf