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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 in

amendments 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 conditioners

and 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

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Draft Technical Support Document (TSD)

Technical Support Document (TSD): Energy Efficiency Standards for

Certain Commercial and Industrial Equipment Covered by ASHRAE

Standard 90.1, March 2, 2006 (PDF_f^-)KB

Energy Policy Act of 2005 (EPAct 2005) (PDF 1.4 MB)

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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Notices and rules, public workshops and hearings, priority setting

and product webRages.

Final Rule : Energy Efficiency Program for Commercial and

Industrial Equipment : Efficiency Standards for Commercial

Heating, Air Conditioning and Water Heating Equipment, Federal

Register, January 12, 2001 ( 66 FR 3336) (PDF 630 KBB)

Notice of Preliminary Screening Analysis : Efficiency Standards for

Commercial Heating Air Conditioning and Water heating

Equipment, Federal Register, March 1 , 2000 (65 FR 10984 )

140 KB)

Final Rule : Energy Efficiency Program for Certain Commercial and

Industrial Equipment : Test Procedures and Efficiency Standards for

Commercial Warm Air Furnaces: General Provisions for Commercial

Heating , Air Conditioning and Water Heating Equipment ; Energy

Efficiency Provisions for Electric Motors, Federal Register, October

21, 2004 (69 FR 61916) (EDE 359 KB)

. Useful irks to manufacturers and standards organizations.

All comments (electronic and hardcopy) should clearly identify the Docket

number/s, to correspond with the product/s for which comments are

submitted. The Docket numbers are:

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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