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## Enclosedplease find a communicationfrom Wally Rowcliffe regarding gas fireplace regulations.
I would appreciate any assistance you couldprovidepertainingto this matter. Please markyour return correspondenceto the attention ofCaleb Shoenhardwhenresponding to my office.
Thankyoufor your attentionto myrequest.

CEG/cs

RANKING MEMBER, JUDICIARY 

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# ...... Charles E. Grassley United States Senator

Committee Assignments: AGRICULTURE BUDGET FINANCE

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Staff: calebs Address To: General Name: Mr. Wally 

### Address: 415 West Mission Street Strawberry Point lA Email: wally.cft-ia@hotmail.com Home Phone: (563) 608-5786 Work Phone: (563) 933-2081 Salutation: Dear Mr. Rowcliffe: Interest: EN-01 Classification: Workflow: Message Body: Date Rec-eived:__111Z.l20tUA9;21 PM 

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### #: Report Date: 11/8/2011

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I own and operate Lit' Bit ofCountry Stoves & Fireplaces in Strawberry Point. Ourstore serves a 50 mi. radius around Strawberry Point. Gas fireplaces are a large percentage ofour business. We are a small business with only 2 employees but we provide work for approximately 6 people indirectly. The DOE has enacted and proposed regulations thatwill ruin my small business by banning decorative gas fireplaces and log sets. The DOE is claiming they are space heaters but they are not. They are decorative products, not heaters. The DOE's regulation will greatly increase my costs ofdoing businessfar more than even the most generous estimate ofenergy savings gained by banning these decorative products. These products have an aesthetic purpose and are used for special occasions, notfor heatin'g. Withoutthese produsts, itwill difficultfor meto stay in business, which is already difficult in this economy. I am asking Senator Grassley to hope by contacting DOE Secretary Steven Chu aboutthis terrible rule. I would like Senator Grassley to urge Mr. Chus NOTto proceed with or implement any regulations related tothe manufacturing, distribution and sale of decorative vented gas fireplaces and fireplace gas log sets until the U.S. Congress enacts legislation that provides the Department with statutory definitions for decorative vented gas hearth products as NOT being heaters.

I would appreciate a written response indicating what Senator Grassley will 

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