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## Clothes Washer Rulemaking Attached is preliminary material that is intended to be the basis for the Technical Support Documentfor the clothes washer Notice of Proposed Rulemaking. The material has been prepared by DOE staffand contractors. This material is being made available to the publicfor review and comment prior to an information meeting scheduled for July 22, 1999, at DOE headquarters forfinal public input prior to issuance ofthe Proposed Rule. We are providing on the web the results ofthe life cycle-cost (LCC), payback, national energy savings (NES), net national employment impact and emissions analyses as well as spreadsheet models which you can use to determine the efficacy ofthe analysis and to be able to analyze different scenarios. In our analysis we have discovered some uncertainties in the Modified Energy Factor (MEF), one ofthe Department's measures ofenergy efficiency, dueto apparent discrepancies in the remaining moisture content (RMC) results. We are trying to determine the cause ofthese discrepancies and we do not know ifthe previously collected data and analyses will be affected. Once we determine the extent ofany problems, we will determine whether and what changes are needed to the test procedure and our analyses. As a result ofthe MEF uncertainties, we have notfinalized the manufacturer impact analysis. Despite this issue, we plan to go ahead with an information meeting on July 22. The meeting is scheduled to begin at 9:00a.m. and run until 1:OOp.m. at the U.S. Department of Energy, Forrestal Building, 1000 Independence Avenue, SW, Room 1E-245, Washington, D.C. 20585. Although the content ofthe meeting may change, the proposed agenda is as follows:



### - StatusofRulemaking

- TestProcedure

- Review ofTools -Shipments Spreadsheet -GRIM Spreadsheet



### - ShipmentsAnalysis Ifyou have comments or ifyou encounter any problems while using these spreadsheets, please contact Bryan Berringer at (202) 586-0371. Previous information from the December 14,**199~_workshop** and ANOPR. 

## p • See Chapter4 ofthe Preliminary Technical Support Document (PDF Format 7KB)

• Life-Cycle Costs and Payback Periods for Clothes Washers (PDF Format 360KB) • LCC Spreadsheet**(0..~§E2r~?.!???.Q.f.S.~)** • LCC Spreadsheet Documentation (PDF Format 12KB)

• NES Summary Report (PDF Format 257KB) • NES Spreadsheet (XLS Format**1400K~)** • NES Spreadsheet Documentation**CPPFF<?~E!:!?.~J!f.S~)** 7115/99 3:35 PMB'.(S: .Lighting andAppliance Stds - ClothesWashers http://erendev.nrel.gov/buildings/codes_standards/applbrti'clwasher.html 

### Shipment Results • Shipments Write-ups (PDF Format 161KB) • Shipments Spreadsheet (XLS Format 1491KB) • Shipments Instruction Sheet (PDF Format 12KB) 

### Net National Employment Results • Net National Employment Results (PDF Format 132KB) 

### Manufacturers ImpactAnalysis Results ClothesWashers • Write-up explaining the clothes washer GRIM (PDF Format 62KB) • Clothes Washer GRIM Spreadsheet (XLS Format 400KB) 

### Clothes Dryers • Write-up explaining the clothes dryer GRIM (PDF Format 14KB) • Clothes Dryer GRIM Spreadsheet (XLS Format 51 KB) 

### Emissions Results • Emissions Results (PDF Format 7KB) 

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