G/TBT/N/USA/787/Add.3  
 
26 August 2016  
(16-4539) Page: 1/1 
Committee on Technical Barriers to Trade  Original: English  
 
  NOTIFICATION  
Addendum  
The following communication, dated 25 August 2016, is being circulated at the request of the 
delegation  of the United States of America . 
 
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TITLE: Energy Conservation Program: Test Procedures for Cooking Products  
AGENC Y: Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy, Department of Energy  
ACTION: Supplemental notice of proposed rulemaking  
SUMMARY: On 3 December 2014, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) issued a supplemental 
notice of proposed rulemaking (SNOPR) to rev ise its test procedures for cooking products. As part 
of the December 2014 test procedure SNOPR, DOE proposed a change to the test equipment that 
would allow for measuring the energy efficiency of induction cooking tops. DOE also proposed 
methods to test n on-circular electric surface units, electric surface units with flexible concentric 
cooking zones, full -surface induction cooking tops, and gas burners with high input rates. In this 
SNOPR, to address issues raised by interested parties regarding the abili ty of the previous cooking 
top proposals to adequately measure energy use during a representative average use cycle, DOE 
proposes to amend its test procedure for all conventional electric cooking tops to incorporate by 
reference the relevant selections fro m European standard EN 60350 -2:2013 ``Household electric 
cooking appliances Part 2: Hobs --Methods for measuring performance'' (EN 60350 -2:2013). DOE 
also revises its proposals for testing non - circular electric surface units, electric surface units with 
flexible concentric cooking zones, and full -surface induction  cooking tops based on EN 
60350 -2:2013. Furthermore, DOE proposes to extend the test methods in EN 60350 -2:2013 to 
measure the energy consumption of gas cooking tops by correlating test equipment d iameter to 
burner input rate, including input rates that exceed 14,000 British thermal units per hour (Btu/h). 
DOE also proposes to modify the calculations of conventional cooking top annual energy 
consumption and integrated annual energy consumption to ac count for the proposed water -
heating test method. DOE proposes to incorporate by reference test structures from American 
National Standards Institute (ANSI) Z21.1 -2016 "Household cooking gas appliances" to 
standardize the installation conditions under whic h cooking tops are tested. DOE also proposes 
minor technical clarifications to the gas heating value correction and other grammatical changes to 
the regulatory text in appendix I that do not alter the substance of the existing test methods. With 
regard to conventional ovens, DOE proposes to repeal the regulatory provisions establishing the 
test procedure for conventional ovens under the Energy Policy and Conservation Act (EPCA). DOE 
has determined that the conventional oven test procedure may not accurately  represent consumer 
use as it favors conventional ovens with low thermal mass and does not capture cooking 
performance -related benefits due to increased thermal mass of the oven cavity.  
DATES: DOE will accept comments, data, and information regarding this SNOPR no later than 
21 September 2016. See section V, "Public Participation," for details.  
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