G/TBT/N/USA/858/Rev.1  
11 October 2023  
(23-6815) Page: 1/2 
Committee on Technical Barriers to Trade  Original:  English  
 
  
NOTIFICATION  
Revision  
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 (Articles 3.2 and 7.2):   
2. Agency responsible:   
Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (OEERE), Department of Energy (DOE)  
Name and address (including telephone and fax numbers, email and website 
addresses, if available) of  agency or authority designated to handle comments 
regard ing 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 [  ], 3.2 [  ], 7.2 [  ], 
other :  
4. Products covered (HS or CCCN where applicable, otherwise national tariff 
heading.  ICS numbers may be provided in addition, where applicable):  
Commercial refrigeration equipment; Ref rigerators, freezers and other refrigerating or 
freezing equipment, electric or other; heat pumps; parts thereof (excl. air conditioning 
machines of heading 8415) (HS code(s): 8418); Environmental protection (ICS code(s): 
13.020); Commercial refrigerating appliances (ICS code(s): 97.130.20)  
5. Title, number of pages and language(s) of the notified document:  Energy 
Conservation Program: Energy Conservation Standards for Commercial Refrigerators, 
Freezers, and Refrigerator -Freezers; (112 page(s), in English)  
6. Description of content:  Notice of proposed rulemaking and announcement of public 
meeting - The Energy Policy and Conservation Act,  as amended  ("EPCA"), prescribes 
energy conservation standards for various consumer equipm ent and certain commercial 
and industrial equipment, including commercial refrigerators, freezers, and refrigerator -
freezers (" commercial refrigeration equ ipment " or "CRE"). EPCA also requires the U.S. 
Department of Energy ("DOE" "the Department") to periodically determine whether more 
stringent standards would be technologically feasible and economically justified, and 
would result in significant energy savings. In this notice of proposed rulemaking ("NOPR"), 
DOE proposes new and amended energy conservation standards for CRE, and also 
announces a public meeting to receive comment on these proposed standards and 
associated a nalyses and results.  
DOE will hold a public meeting on Tuesday, 7 November 2023, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.  
Eastern Time , in Washingt on, DC. This meeting will also be broadcast as a webinar.  
7. Objective and rationale, including the nature of urgent problems where 
applicable:  Protection of the environment   G/TBT/N/USA/858/Rev.1  
 
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  8. Relevant documents:  88 Federal Register (FR) 70196, 10 October 2023; Title 10 Code 
of Federal Regulations (CFR) Part 431 : 
https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR -2023-10-10/html/2023 -21987.htm  
https://www.govin fo.gov/content/pkg/FR -2023-10-10/pdf/2023 -21987.pdf  
This notice of proposed rulemaking; announcement of public meeting, the notification of 
availability of preliminary technical support document; request for comment noti fied as 
G/TBT/N/USA/858/Add.4  and the request for information notified as 
G/TBT/N/USA/858/Add.3  are identified by Docket N umber EERE -2017-BT-STD-0007. The 
Docket Folder is available on Regulations.gov at 
https://www.regulations.gov/docket/EERE -2017-BT-STD-0007/document  and provides 
access to primary and supporting documents as well as comments received. Documents 
are also accessible from Regulations.gov  by searching the Docket Number. WT O Members 
and their stakeholders are asked to submit comments to the USA TBT Enquiry Point  by or 
before 4pm Eastern Time  on 11 December 2023. Comments received by the USA TBT 
Enquiry Point from WTO Members and their stakeho lders will be shared with the regulator 
and will also be submitted to the Docket  on Regulations.gov if received within the 
comment period.  
9. Proposed date of adoption:  To be determined  
Proposed date of entry into force:  To be determined  
10. Final date for comments:  11 December 2023  
11. Texts available from:  National enquiry point [ ] or address, telephone or fax 
numbers  and email and website address es, if available , of other body:   
https://members.wto.org/crnattachments/2023/TBT/USA/23_12937_00_e.pdf