G/TBT/N/USA/812  
 
12 April 2013  
(13-1922)  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, Department of 
Energy (828) 
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):  Residential 
clothes dryers and room air conditioners (HS 8421.12, 8415.10; ICS 13.020, 23.120, 97.060). 
5. Title, number of pages and langua ge(s) of the notified document:  Energy 
Conservation Program: Energy Conservation Standards for Residential Clothes Dryers and 
Room Air Conditioners (3 pages, in English).     
6. Description of content:  This proposed rule would corr ect the energy conservation 
standards for room air conditioners. In the direct final rule establishing amended energy 
conservation standards for residential clothes dryers and room air conditioners, published in the Federal Register on 21 April 2011, and the subsequent notices of effective date and 
compliance dates for the direct final rule and amendment of compliance dates, published 
on 24 August  2011, the Department of Energy (DOE) erroneously specified the maximum cooling capacity for product class 5a for room air conditioners without reverse cycle and with louvered sides as 24,999 British thermal units per hour (Btu/h), and the minimum 
cooling capacity for product class 5b for room air conditioners without reverse cycle and 
with louvered sides as 25,000 Btu/h, rather than 27,999 Btu/h and 28,000 Btu/h, respectively.  
7. Objective and rationale, including the nature of urgent problems where 
applicable:  Protection of the environment.  
8. Relevant documents:   78 Federal Register (FR) 20842, 9 April 2013; Title 10 Code of 
Federal Regulations (CFR) Part 430.  Will appear in the Federal Register when adopted. 
- G/TBT/N/USA/522 
 http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/FR -2010-02-23/html /2010-3479.htm  
 http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/FR -2010-02-23/pd f/2010-3479.pdf  
- G/TBT/N/USA/522/Add.1 
 http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/FR -2011-04-21/html /2011-9041.htm  
 http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/FR -2011-04-21/pd f/2011-9041.pdf  G/TBT/N/USA/812 
 
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  9. Proposed date of adoption:   
Proposed date of entry into force:    To be determined 
10. Final date for comments:  8 May 2013 
11. Text available from:  National enquiry point [X], or address, telephone and fax 
numbers, e-mail and web-site addresse s, if available of the other body:    
URLs: http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/FR -2013-04-08/html /2013-08074.htm  
http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/FR -2013-04-08/pd f/2013-08074.pdf