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### Commercial Heating, Air Conditioning and Water Heating Equipment Notice of Document Availability for ASHRAE Products (Instantaneous Tankless Water Heaters , Commercial Boilers , PTACs and PTHPs, 3-Ph AC <65kBtu/h, and SPVUs) The Energy Policy and Conservation Act (EPCA), as amended, establishes energy efficiency standards for various commercial equipment. The Department of Energy (the Department or DOE) is assessing whether to adopt, as uniform national standards, efficiency standards contained inamendments to the American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and AirConditioning Engineers, Inc. (ASHRAE) and Illuminating Engineering Society of North America (IESNA) Standard 90.1 for certain types of commercial equipment. Such commercial equipment includes gas-fired instantaneous water heaters, packaged terminal air conditioners and heat pumps (PTACs and PTHPs), packaged boilers, three-phase air conditionersand heat pumps <65,000 Btu/h (3-Ph AC <65kBtu/h), and singlepackage vertical air conditioners and heat pumps, collectively known as single-package vertical units (SPVUs), covered by EPCA. This notice announces the availability of a technical support document (TSD) the Department is using in making this assessment. The Department also invites written comments on the TSD and on DOE's preliminary conclusions, which are set forth in this notice. In addition, on August 8, 2005, the Energy Policy Act of 2005 (EPACT 2005) (Pub. L. 109-58) was signed into law by the President. Section 136 (b) of EPACT 2005 amended section 342(a) of EPCA by inserting energy conservation standards for small (>65,000 Btu/h to <135,000 Btu/h), large (>135,000 Btu/h to <240,000 Btu/h), and very large (>240,000 Btu/h to <760,000 Btu/h) commercial PTACs and PTHPs. The standards for small, large and very large commercial PTACs and PTHPs in Section 136(b) of EPACT 2005, which amended section 431 of EPCA, implicitly cover SPVUs. However, since the energy conservation standards contained in EPACT 2005 cover SPVUs >65,000 Btu/h to <760,000 Btu/h, today's notice addresses SPVUs that are <65,000 Btu/h only. EPACT 2005 also included energy efficiency standards for some additional commercial equipment and those new standards appear in Tables 1.1 and 1.2 in today's notice. Notice of Document Availability: Energy Efficiency Program for Commercial and Industrial Equipment : Efficiency Standards for Commercial Heating , Air-Conditioning and Water Heating Equipment, Federal Register , March 13 , 2006 [71FR12634 ] (PDF 311 KB) Download Adobe Reader. Some of the following documents are available as Adobe Acrobat PDFs. Download Adobe Reader.

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Referenced Correspondence McCabe, M., personal communication. U.S. Department of Energy, Washington, DC. Letter to Karim Amrane, ARI. July 25, 2003. (PDF 1.5

McCabe, M., personal communication

. U.S. Department of Energy, Washington , DC. Letter to Karim Amrane , ARI. March 16 , 2004 . (PDF 392 Le
- B ) Murphy, M., Form for Commenting on a Public Review Draft ASHRAE Standard, Guideline, or Addendum: BSR/ASHRAE/IESNA Addendum b to ANSI/ASHRAE/IESNA Standard 90.1-2004, Energy Standard for Buildings Except Low-Rise Residential Buildings. U.S. Department of Energy, Washington, DC. January 10, 2005. (PDF 2.U P=96

Amrane , K., personal communication

. Air-Conditioning and Refrigeration Institute , Washington , DC. Letter to Michael McCabe , DOE. November 4, 2003 . (PDF 212 KB) How to Submit Comments You may submit comments electronically, by mail, or by courier. Wherever possible, comments in the electronic format should carry the electronic signature of the author. Absent an electronic signature, comments submitted electronically must be followed and authenticated by submitting a signed original paper document.
Email: ASHRAE .Pioductsf Rule(ee.doe.gov DOE Building Technologies Rulemaking Portal : http://www. renulations.riop.u Federal eRulemaking Portal : http: lwww.regulations.goyl
Mail: Ms. Brenda Edwards-Jones, U.S. Department of Energy, Building Technologies Program, Mail Stop EE-2J, 1000 Independence Avenue, SW, Washington, DC, 20585-0121. Courier : Ms. Brenda Edwards-Jones, U.S. Department of Energy, Building Technologies Program, Room 1J-018, 1000 Independence Avenue, SW, Washington, DC, 20585-0121. Telephone: (202) 586-2945. Supplementary Information and Procedures for Submitting Comments (PDF 20 KB) Previous Documents "Appliance Standards Program - The FY 2003 Priority-Setting Summary Report and Actions Proposed," August 13, 2002 (PDF 265 KB) Appendix A : Technical Support Document ( PDF 668 KB) Appendix B : Data Sheets for Existing Products (PDF 235 KB) Appendix C : Data Sheets for New Products (PpF 783 KB) Web Page References

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EE-RM / STD-03

- 100 (3 -Ph AC/HP <65 kBtu/h), EE-RM / STD-03 -200 (PTAC/PTHP; Commercial Oil- and Gas-Fired Packaged Boilers; and Tankless Gas-Fired Water Heaters), and EE-RM / STD-03 -300 (SPVAC/SPVHP collectively referred to as SPVUs). Dates The Department will accept written comments, data, and information in response to this notice, but no later than April 27, 2006. Contact Information Maureen Murphy Project Manager (202)586-0598
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