G/TBT/N/USA/952
13 January 2015 
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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) [870] 
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 : 
Please submit comments to: 
USA WTO TBT Inquiry Point    Email: ncsci@nist.gov  
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 applic able, otherwise national tariff heading. 
ICS numbers may be provided in addition, where applicable): Commercial heating, 
air-conditioning, and water-heating 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), Refrigerators, freezers and other refrigerating or freezing equipment, electric or other; heat pumps other than air conditioning machines of heading 
84.15. (HS: 8418), Electric instantaneous or storage water heaters and immersion heaters; 
electric space heating apparatus and soil heating apparatus; electro-thermic hair-dressing apparatus (for example, hair dryers, hair curlers, curling tong heaters) and hand dryers; electric smoothing irons; other electro-thermic appliances of a kind used for domestic 
purposes; electric heating resistors, other than those of heading 85.45. (HS: 8516) 
Environmental protection (ICS: 13.020), Ventil ators. Fans. Air-conditioners (ICS: 23.120), 
Heat pumps (ICS: 27.080), Domestic, commercial and industrial heating appliances (ICS: 
97.100) 
5. Title, number of pages and language(s) of the notified document: Energy 
Conservation Program for Certain Industrial Equipment: Energy Conservation Standards and 
Test Procedures for Commercial Heating, Air-Conditioning, and Water-Heating Equipment (66 pages, in English) 
6. Description of content: The Energy Policy and Conservation Act of 1975 (EPCA), as 
amended, prescribes energy conservation standards for various consumer products and certain commercial and industrial equipment, including several classes of commercial 
heating, air-conditioning, and water- heating equipment. EPCA also requires that each time 
the American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning Engineers (ASHRAE) Standard 90.1 is amended with respect to the standard levels or design requirements 
applicable to that equipment, the U.S. Depa rtment of Energy (DOE) must adopt amended 
uniform national standards for this equipment equivalent to those in ASHRAE Standard 90.1, unless DOE determines that there is clear and convincing evidence showing that 
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  justified, and would save a significant additi onal amount of energy. ASHRAE most recently 
amended Standard 90.1 on 9 October 2013. Based upon its analysis of the energy savings 
potential of amended energy conservation stan dards and the lack of clear and convincing 
evidence to support more-stringent standards, DOE is proposing to adopt the amended 
standards in ASHRAE Standard 90.1 for: Small three-phase commercial air-cooled air conditioners (single package only) and heat pumps (single package and split system) less 
than 65,000 Btu/h; water-source heat pumps; and commercial oil-fired storage water 
heaters. DOE is also making a proposed determination that the standards for small three-phase commercial air-cooled air conditioners (split system) do not need to be amended. 
Finally, DOE is proposing updates to the current Federal test procedures to incorporate by 
reference the most current version of the American National Standards Institute (ANSI) Z21.47, Gas-fired central furnaces, specified in ASHRAE Standard 90.1 applicable to commercial warm-air furnaces, and to the most current version of ASHRAE 103, Method of 
Testing for Annual Fuel Utilization Efficiency of Residential Central Furnaces and Boilers. 
This document also announces a public meet ing to receive comment on these proposed 
standards and associated analyses and result s, as well as the proposed test procedure 
provisions.  
7. Objective and rationale, including the nature of urgent problems where applicable: 
Protection of the environment  
8. Relevant documents:  80 Federal Register (FR) 1171, 8 January 2015; Title 10 Code of 
Federal Regulations (CFR) Part 431. Will appear in the Federal Register when adopted. 
9. Proposed date of adoption:   To be determined 
Proposed date of entry into force:   To be determined   
10. Final date for comments: 24 March 2015 
11. Texts available from: Nati onal enquiry point [ ] or address, telephone and fax 
numbers and email and website addresses, if available, of other body: 
http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/FR -2015-01-08/html /2014-30839.htm   
http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/FR -2015-01-08/pd f/2014-30839.pdf