G/TBT/N/USA/888  
 
24 February 2014  
(14-1121)  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) [905] 
Name and address (including telephon e 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 :    
3. Notified under Article 2.9.2 [ X ], 2.10.1 [   ], 5.6.2 [   ], 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 heating, ventilating, air-conditioning, water heating, and refrigeration equipment:  Air conditioning machines, comprising a motor-driven fan and elements for 
changing the temperature and humidity, including those machines in which the humidity 
cannot be separately regulated. (HS 8415), Furnace burners for liquid fuel, for pulverized solid fuel or for gas; mechanical stokers, including their mechanical grates, mechanical ash 
dischargers and similar appliances. (HS 8416), Industrial or laboratory furnaces and 
ovens, including incinerators, non-electric. (HS 8417), Refrigerators, freezers and other refrigerating or freezing equipment, elec tric or other; heat pumps other than air 
conditioning machines of heading 84.15. (HS 8418), Machinery, plant or laboratory 
equipment, whether or not electrically heated (excluding furnaces, ovens and other equipment of heading 85.14), for the treatment of materials by a process involving a change of temperature such as heating, cooking, roasting, distilling, rectifying, sterilising, 
pasteurising, steaming, drying, evaporating, vaporising, condensing or cooling, other than 
machinery or plant of a kind used for domestic purposes; instantaneous or storage water heaters, non-electric. (HS 8419) 
Ventilators. Fans. Air-conditioners (ICS 23.120), Burners. Boilers (ICS 27.060), Heat 
pumps (ICS 27.080), Domestic, commercial and industrial heating appliances (ICS 97.100), Shop fittings (ICS 97.130) 
5. Title, number of pages and langua ge(s) of the notified document:  Energy 
Conservation Program: Certification of Commercial Heating, Ventilation, and Air-Conditioning (HVAC), Water Heating (WH), and Refrigeration (CRE) Equipment (18 pages, 
in English). 
6. Description of content:  The U.S. Department of Energy is proposing to revise and 
expand its existing regulations governing certifying compliance with the applicable 
energy conservation standards and the reporting of related ratings for commercial heating, ventilating, air-conditioning, water heating, and refrigeration equipment 
covered by EPCA. 
7. Objective and rationale, including the nature of urgent problems where 
applicable:  Protection of the environment G/TBT/N/USA/888 
 
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  8. Relevant documents:   79 Federal Register (FR) 8886, 14 February 2014; Title 10 Code 
of Federal Regulations (CFR) Part 429.  Will appear in the Federal Register when adopted.   
9. Proposed date of adoption:   
Proposed date of entry into force:      To be determined   To be determined 
10. Final date for comments:  17 March 2014 
11. Text available from:  National enquiry point [  ], or address, telephone and fax 
numbers, e-mail and web-site addresse s, if available of the other body:    
http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/FR -2014-02-14/html /2014-03103.htm  
http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/FR -2014-02-14/pd f/2014-03103.pdf