### 2716 Federal Register /"V61.* 50, No. 13' / Friday, January.` 18, 1985 f` Notices

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY assist consumers in making purchase control, DOE agrees that a waiver „. ,. decisions.-These test procedure s appear" should be granted, to allow the 20 second Office of Conservation and at 10-CFR Part 430,.Subpart B. blower time delay when testing the Renewable Energy The Department of Energy amended Coleman 2900 model series furnace. the prescribed test procedure Accordingly, with regard to testing the 

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-No: F•-013] regulations, by adding § 430.27, to allow 2900 model series furnaces only, today's he t Assistant Secretary for Conservation . Decision and Order exempts Coleman Energy Conservation Program for and Renewable Energy to waive from the existing provisions regarding Consumer Products ; Decision and temporarily test procedures for a blower controls and allows testing with Order Granting Waiver From Furnace particular basic model when a petitioner the 20 second delay. ',Test Procedures to Coleman Co., Inc . shows that the basic model contains one It is therefore ordered that: - or more design characteristics which (1} The "Petition for Waiver" filed by AGENCY. Office of Conservation and. prevent testing of the basic model..,,. Coleman Company, Inc. (F-013), is Renewable Energy, DOE. ' according to the prescribed test hereby granted as set forth in paragraph ACTION : Decision and order.. procedures or when the prescribed test (2) below, subject to the provisions of

SUMMARY: Notice is given of the - Decision and Order [Case No. F-013] granting Coleman Company, Inc. a waiver for its 2900 model series warm' air furnaces, from.,the existing DOE furnace-test procedures.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Michael J. McCabe, U.S. Department of 

### Energy, Office of Conservation and procedures may evaluate the basic paragraphs (3) and (4). model in a manner so unrepresentative (2) Notwithstanding any contraryof its true energy consumption provisions of Appendix N of 10 CFR Partcharacteristics as to provide materially 430, Subpart B, Coleman Company, Inc. inadequate comparative data. 45 FR shall be permitted to test its 2900 model 6.4108 (Sept.26, 1980). 'series gas furnaces 'on the basis of the 

### Pursuant to § 430.27(g), the Assistant test procedure specified in 10 CFR Part Secretary shall publish in the Federal 430, with the modification set forth Register notice of each waiver, granted, , below: and any limiting conditions of each - (i) Section 9 1 of ANSI/ASHRAE 3

. . Renewable Energy, Mail Station CE-. waiver. Standard 103-1982'is deleted and 113,1, Forrestal Building, 1000 Coleman Company, Inc. (Coleman), replaced with the following paragraph: Independence Avenue, SW, filed a "Petition for Waiver" in "Gas- and Oil-Fueled Central Washington, D.C. 20585,, (202) 252- accordance with § 430.27 of 10 CFR Part :Furnaces. After equilibrium conditions 9127. • ' - 430. DOE published in the Federal 

### ll h l d h d f i Eugene,Margolis, Esq., U.S. Department Register the Coleman petition and of Energy, Office of General Counsel, solicited comments, data, and Mail Station GC-12,'Forrestal information respecting the petition. 49 Building, 1000 Independence Avenue, FR 39207 (October 4,1984). No SW, (202) 252-9513. comments were received. DOE SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION : In consulted with the Federal Trade accordance with 10 CFR 430.27(g), notice Commission on October 28, 1984, is hereby given of the issuance of the concerning the Coleman petition. Decision and Order set out below. In the Assertions and Determinations Decision and Order, Coleman Company, Coleman's petition seeks a waiver Inc. has been granted a waiver for its P 

### . from the DOE test provisions that 2900 model series warm air furnaces

, permitting the company to use an 

### alternate test method.

Issued in Washington, D.C., January 4, 1985. Pat Collins, Under Secretary. , __ 

### require a 1.5 minute time delay between the ignition of the burner and the starting of the circulating air blower. . Instead, Coleman requests the .. allowance to test using a'20 second blower time delay when testing its 2900 model series gas furnaces. Coleman Decision and Order of the Department of states that since the 20 second delay is 

### Energy Assistant Secretary for indicative of how the 2900 models Conservation and Renewable Energy
In the Matter of: Coleman Company,' Inc.; Case No. F-013. 

### actually operate and since such a delay results in an improvement in efficiency of approximately 0.5%, the waiver should be granted. The Energy Conservation Program for . Under specific circumstances, the Consumer Products was established DOE test procedures contain exceptions pursuant to the Energy Policy and which allow testing with blower delay Conservation Act, Pub. L. 94-163, .89 times of less than the prescribed 1.5 Stat. 917, as amended by the National minute-delay. Coleman indicates that it Energy Conservation Policy Act, Pub..L. is unable to take advantage of any of 95-619, 92 Slat. 3266, which requires the ._these exceptions for the 2900 model Department of Energy (DOE) to series. r -.. ... - 

### prescribe standardized test procedures Since the blower controls to fneasure the energy consumption of incorporated on the Coleman furnace certain consumer products, including' .^; are designed to impose a 20 second furnaces. The intent of the test blower delay in every-instance of start procedures-is to provide a-comparable up, and since the% current -provisions do measure of energy consumption that will not specifically address this type of 

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- own o test and the required measurements performed, turn on the furnace and measure the flue gas temperature, using the thermocouple grid described above, at 0.5 and 2.5 minutes after the main burner(s) come on. After the burner . start-up, delay the blower start-up by 1.5 minutes (t-), unless: (1) The furnace employs a single motor to drive the power burner and the indoor air circulating blower, in which case the burner and blower shall be started together; (2) the furnace is designed to operate using an unvarying delay time that is other than 1.5 minutes, in which case the fan control shall be permitted, to start the blower; or (3) the delay time would result in the activation of a temperature safety device which shuts off the burner, in which the fan control shall be permitted to start the blower. In the latter case, if the fan control is adjustable, set it to start the blower at the highest temperature. If the fan control is permitted to start-the blower, measure time delay, (t-), using a stop watch. Record the measured tempetPatures. During the heat-up test for oil-fueled furnaces, maintain the draft in the flue pipe within ±0.01 in. of water gauge of the manufacturer's recommended on-period draft." (ii) With the exception " of the modification set forth in subparagraphs (i) above, Coleman Company, Inc. shall comply in all respects with the test procedures specified in Appendix N of 10 CFR Part 430, Subpart B.

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-(3) The waiver shall remain in effect.:: from the date of issuance of this Order' until the Department of-Energy., : prescribes final teat procedures : appropriate to the 2900 model series warm air furnace manufactured-by Coleman Company,- Inc.: ;. ; 

### 14) This waiver is based upon the presumed validity of statements, allegations , and documentary materials submitted by the applicant. This ' waiver maybe revoked or modified at any time upon a determination that the factual : basis underlying the application is incorrect.
Issued in Washington, D.C., January 4, 1985. Pat Collins, Under Secretary.

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