G/TBT/N/USA/1911  
24 August 2022  
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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) [1941]  
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 [  ], 5.7.1 [  ], 3.2 [  ], 7.2 [  ], 
other :  
4. Products covered (HS or CCCN where applicable, otherwise national tariff 
heading. ICS numbers may be provided in addition, where applicable):  Consumer 
clothes dryers; Centrifuges, including centrifugal dryers; filtering or purifying machinery 
and apparatus, for liquids or gases. (HS code(s): 8421); Environmental protection (ICS 
code(s): 13.020); Laundry appliances (ICS code(s): 97.060)  
5. Title, number of pages and language(s) of the notified document:  Energy 
Conservation Program: Energy Conservation Standards for Consumer Clothes Dryers; (76 
page(s), in English)  
6. Description of content:  Notice of proposed rulemaking and announcement of public 
meeting - The Energy Policy and Conservation Act, as amend ed ("EPCA"), prescribes 
energy conservation standards for various consumer products and certain commercial 
and industrial equipment, including consumer clothes dryers. EPCA also requires the U.S. 
Department of Energy ("DOE") to periodically determine wheth er more stringent 
standards would be technologically feasible and economically justified, and would result 
in significant energy savings. In this notice of proposed rulemaking ("NOPR"), DOE 
proposes amended energy conservation standards for consumer clothe s dryers, and also 
announces a public meeting to receive comment on these proposed standards and 
associated analyses and results.  
7. Objective and rationale, including the nature of urgent problems where 
applicable:  Consumer information, labelling; Protec tion of the environment  G/TBT/N/USA/1911  
 
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  8. Relevant documents:   
87 Federal Register (FR) 51734, 23 August 2022; Title 10 Code of Federal Regulations 
(CFR) Part 430:  
https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR -2022-08-23/html/2022 -17900.htm  
https://www.govin fo.gov/content/pkg/FR -2022-08-23/pdf/2022 -17900.pdf  
The Department of Energy will hold a public meeting via webinar on 13 September 2022, 
from 1:00 p.m. to 4:00 p .m. Eastern Time  See section VII, "Public Participation" for 
webinar registration information, participant instructions and information about the 
capabilities available to webinar participants.  
This noti ce of proposed rulemaking and announcement of public meeting is identified by 
Docket Number EERE -2014-BT-STD-0058. The Docket Folder is available on 
Regulations.gov at https://www.regulations.gov/docket/EERE -2014-BT-STD-
0058/document  and provides access to primary and supporting documents as well as 
comments received. Documents are also accessible from Regulations.gov  by search ing 
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 24 October 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.  
G/TBT/N/USA/305/Add .4 - Energy Conservation Program: Energy Conservation 
Standards for Residential Clothes Dryers and Room Air Conditioners; Direct Final Rule 
identified by Docket Number EERE-2007-BT-STD-0010 
G/TBT/N/USA/305/Add.6  - Energy Conservation Program: Energy Conservation 
Standards for Residential Clothes Dryers and Room Air Conditioners; Final Rule identified 
by Docket Number EERE-2007-BT-STD-0010 
G/TBT/N/USA/1762/Add.1  - Energy Conservation Program: Product Classes for 
Residential Dishwashers, Residential Clothes Washers, and Consumer Clothes Dryers; 
Final Rule identified by Docket Number EERE-2021-BT-STD-0002 
G/TBT/N/USA/1508/Add.4  - Energy Conservation Program: Test Procedure for Clothes 
Dryers; Final Rule identified by Docket Number EERE-2014-BT-TP-0034 
9. Proposed date of adoption:  To be determined  
Proposed date of entry into force:  To be determined  
10. Final date for comments:  24 October 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://member s.wto.org/crnattachments/2022/TBT/USA/22_5788_00_e.pdf