G/TBT/N/USA/1133  
 
6 June 2016  
(16-3014)  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) [1151] 
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 Enquiry Point 
Email: usatbtep@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 water 
heating equipment. Environmental protection (ICS: 13.020), Domestic, commercial and 
industrial heating appliances (ICS: 97.100) 
5. Title, number of pages and langua ge(s) of the notified document: Energy 
Conservation Program: Energy Conservation Standards for Commercial Water Heating Equipment (99 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 commercial water heaters, hot 
water supply boilers, and unfired hot water storage tanks (hereinafter referred to as "commercial water heating (CWH) equipment"). EP CA also requires that every 6 years, the 
U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) must determine whether more-stringent, amended 
standards would be technologically feasible and economically justified, and would save a 
significant amount of energy. In this action, DOE has tentatively concluded that there is clear and convincing evidence to support more-stringent standards for several classes of 
the equipment that are the subject of this rulemaking. DOE did not consider more-
stringent standards in this action for commercial oil-fired storage water heaters, whose standards were recently amended. Therefore, DOE proposes amended energy conservation 
standards for certain commercial water heating equipment, 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: Protection of the environment  
8. Relevant documents: 81 Federal Register (FR) 34439, 31 May 2016; Title 10 Code of 
Federal Regulations (CFR) Parts 429 and 431. Will appear in the Federal Register when adopted. G/TBT/N/USA/1133 
 
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  9. Proposed date of adoption: To be determined 
Proposed date of entry into force: To be determined   
10. Final date for comments: 1 August 2016 
11. Texts available from: National enquiry point [ ] or address, telephone and fax 
numbers and email and website addresses, if available, of other body:  
https://members.wto.org/crnattachm ents/2016/TBT/USA/16_2171_00_e.pdf