Brenda Edwards-Jones

04/28/99 11:06 AM

To: dan_barzel, IIbO, tim_feldman, charlfcs, earevalo, melhc, jhardin, hcarter, don.m.dasher, glakpe, mhewett, bhig

Subject: NOTICE OF BALLASTS WORKSHOP

The Department is in the process of publishing a Federal Register Notice of Public Workshops,

which will announce a workshop for fluorescent lamp ballasts on June 1, 1999. At the workshop

the Department plans to obtain public comment on the analyses being prepared for the Notice of

Proposed Rulemaking on revised energy efficiency standards for fluorescent lamp ballasts. In

addition to providing interested parties the opportunity to comment on the analyses, the workshop

will also provide interested parties with the opportunity to comment on what levels of revised

energy efficiency standards proposals they could support from the analyses.

Prior to the public workshop, the Department will make publicly available the analytical results

that it presently plans to use in its formal decision process. The material to be presented will be

the bases for the Technical Support Document for the Notice of Proposed Rulemakings. DOE

staff and contractors are preparing the material.

We have begun posting the analyses for fluorescent lamp ballasts at

http:// .eren.doe.gov/buildings/codes_standards/applbrf/ballast.html . Please continue to

check this site for additional postings.

The June 1 workshop format will be a summary of the analytical results that will have been

publicly available prior to the workshop, followed by a summary discussion of the comments

received prior to the workshop. A senior DOE official also will facilitate a discussion on which

standard levels participants at the workshop believe can be supported by the analyses.

The Department will conduct this workshop prior to our selection of proposed revisions to the

energy efficiency standards for fluorescent lamp ballasts and the Department will consider output

from the workshop in the development of its proposal.

Following the workshop, the Department will provide an additional comment period, during

which interested parties will have an opportunity to comment on the proceedings at the

workshop, as well as on any aspect of the rulemaking proceedings, including what policy

implications the commenters might draw from the analyses.

The following table lists the relevant dates.

Fluorescent Lamp

Ballasts

Comments Due on web materials I May 18, 1999

EE-RM-97-500 COMMENT 67A

Ef~B~:~a Edwardwones 

:: .. 04/28/99 11: 06 AM 

To: dan_barzel, IIbO, tim_feldman, charlfcs, earevalo, melhc, jhardin, hcarter, don.m.dasher, glakpe, mhewett, bhig 

Subject: NOTICE OF BALLASTS WORKSHOP 

The Department is in the process of publishing a Federal Register Notice of Public Workshops, 

which will announce a workshop for fluorescent lamp ballasts on June 1, 1999. At the workshop 

the Department plans to obtain public comment on the analyses being prepared for the Notice of 

Proposed Rulemaking on revised energy efficiency standards for fluorescent lamp ballasts. In 

addition to providing interested parties the opportunity to comment on the analyses, the workshop 

will also provide interested parties with the opportunity to comment on what levels of revised 

energy efficiency standards proposals they could support from the analyses. 

Prior to the public workshop, the Department will make publicly available the analytical results 

that it presently plans to use in its formal decision process. The material to be presented will be 

the bases for the Technical Support Document for the Notice of Proposed Rulemakings. DOE 

staff and contractors are preparing the material. 

We have begun posting the analyses for fluorescent lamp ballasts at 

http://www.eren.doe.govlbuildings/codes_standards/applbrf/ballast.html. Please continue to 

check this site for additional postings. 

The June 1 workshop format will be a summary of the analytical results that will have been 

publicly available prior to the workshop, followed by a summary discussion of the comments 

received prior to the workshop. A senior DOE official also will facilitate a discussion on which 

standard levels participants at the workshop believe can be supported by the analyses. 

The Department will conduct this workshop prior to our selection of proposed revisions to the 

energy efficiency standards for fluorescent lamp ballasts and the Department will consider output 

from the workshop in the development of its proposal. 

Following the workshop, the Department will provide an additional comment period, during 

which interested parties will have an opportunity to comment on the proceedings at the 

workshop, as well as on any aspect of the rulemaking proceedings, including what policy 

implications the commenters might draw from the analyses. 

The following table lists the relevant dates. 

Fluorescent Lamp 

Ballasts 

Comments Due on web materials May 18,1999 
Workshop June 1, 1999

Comments Due on workshop June 15, 1999

Written comments (10 copies) should be submitted to: U. S. Department of Energy, Attn: Brenda

Edwards-Jones, Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy, EE-43, 1000 Independence

Avenue, SW, Washington, D.C. 20585, (202)586-2945,

e-mail:Brenda.Edwards-Jones@ee.doe.gov.

EE-RM-97-500 COMMENT 67A

Workshop June 1, 1999 

Comments Due on workshop June 15, 1999 

Written comments (10 copies) should be submitted to: u.s. Department of Energy, Attn: Brenda 

Edwards-Jones, Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy, EE-43, 1000 Independence 

Avenue, SW, Washington, D.C. 20585, (202)586-2945, 

e-mail:Brenda.Edwards-Jones@ee.doe.gov.