G/TBT/N/USA/1729  
11 May 2021  
(21-3981) 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) [1758]  
Name and address (including telephone 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 [   ], 2.10.1 [   ], 5.6.2 [   ], 5.7.1 [   ], other  [X]:  
4. Products covered (HS or CCCN where applicable, otherwise national tariff 
heading. ICS numbers may be provided in addition, where applicable):  Circulator 
pumps and small vertical in -line pumps; Test conditions and procedures in general 
(ICS 19.020), Pumps (ICS 23.080)  
5. Title, number of pages and language(s) of the notified document:  Energy 
Conservation Program: Test Procedures and Energy Cons ervation Standards for Circulator 
Pumps and Small Vertical In -Line Pumps (22 page(s), in English)  
6. Description of content:  Request for information - The U.S. Department of Energy 
("DOE" or "the Department") is restarting rulemaking activities to conside r potential test 
procedures and energy conservation standards for circulator pumps and small vertical in -
line pumps. Consensus recommendations for test procedures and energy conservation 
standards were negotiated in 2016 by a stakeholder working group of t he Appliance 
Standards Rulemaking Federal Advisory Committee ("ASRAC"). Through this request for 
information ("RFI"), DOE seeks data and information regarding development and 
evaluation of new test procedures that would be reasonably designed to produce te st 
results which reflect energy use during a representative average use cycle for the 
equipment without being unduly burdensome to conduct. Additionally, this RFI solicits 
information regarding the development and evaluation of potential new energy 
conserv ation standards for circulator pumps and small vertical in -line pumps, and whether 
such standards would result in significant energy savings and be technologically feasible 
and economically justified. DOE also welcomes written comments from the public on a ny 
subject within the scope of this document (including those topics not specifically raised), 
as well as the submission of data and other relevant information.  
7. Objective and rationale, including the nature of urgent problems where 
applicable:  Protecti on of the environment; Cost saving and productivity enhancement  G/TBT/N/USA/1729  
 
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  8. Relevant documents:   
• 86 Federal Register (FR) 24516, 7 May 2021; Title 10 Code of Federal Regulations 
(CFR) Parts 429 and 431:  
https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR -2021-05-07/html/2021 -09242.htm  
https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR -2021-05-07/pdf/2021 -09242.pdf  
This request for information is identified by Docket Number EERE -2016-BT-STD-0004. 
The Docket Folder is available on Regulat ions.gov  at 
https://www.regulations.gov/docket/EERE -2016-BT-STD-0004/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. WTO Members 
and their stakeholders are asked to submit comments to the USA TBT Enquiry Point . 
Comments received by the USA TBT Enquiry Point from WTO Members and their 
stakeholders will be shared with the regulator and will also be submitted to the Docket  
on Regulations.gov  if received within the comment period.  
• G/TBT/N/U SA/980 and subsequent addenda and corrigenda  - Energy 
Conservation Program: Test Procedure for Pumps  
• G/TBT/N/USA/981 and subsequent corrigendum and addendum  - Energy 
Conservation Program: Energy Conservation Standards for Pumps  
9. Proposed date of adoption:  To be determined  
Proposed date of entry into force:  To be determined  
10. Final date for comments:  6 July 2021  
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/crnattachments/2021/TBT/USA/21_3360_00_e.pdf