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The Energy Policy and Conservation Act (EPCA) of 1975 

established an energy conservation program for major household 

appliances. Title III of EPCA (42 U.S.C. 6291 et seq.) sets forth a 

variety of provisions designed to improve energy efficiency. 

Amendments to Title III of EPCA in the Energy Policy Act of 1992,

P.L. 102-486, established energy conservation standards for 

certain fluorescent lamps and incandescent reflector lamps and 

authorized the Department of Energy (DOE) to amend these 

standards if such amendments were warranted. (42 U.S.C. 6291

(1), 6295(i)(1) and (3)-(4)) These same amendments to EPCA 

also authorized DOE to adopt standards for additional general 

service fluorescent lamps if such additional standards were 

warranted. (42 U.S.C. 6295(i)(5)) 

DOE's Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy, Building 

Technologies Program conducts the program that develops 

energy conservation standards for consumer products and 

commercial equipment. This office has the overall responsibility 

for rulemaking activities for fluorescent and incandescent lamps 

in fulfillment of the law. The rulemaking activities for these 

products, both past and present, are presented below. 

Some of the following documents are available as Adobe Acrobat 

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Energy Conservation Standard Rulemaking 

z Advance Notice of Proposed Rulemaking 

z Framework Document 

Test Procedure Rulemaking 

z Notice of Proposed Rulemaking 

Previous Federal Register Notices 

z Fluorescent and Incandescent Lamp Test Procedure, 

Federal Register, May 29, 1997 (PDF 195 KB) 

Contact Information 

Linda Graves 

Lighting Standards Project Manager 

(202) 586-1851 

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Test Procedure 

Notice of Proposed Rulemaking 

The Energy Policy and Conservation Act (EPCA) authorizes the 

Department of Energy (DOE) to establish energy conservation 

standards for various consumer products and commercial and 

industrial equipment, including general service fluorescent lamps 

and incandescent reflector lamps, for which DOE determines that 

energy conservation standards for these lamps would be 

technologically feasible and economically justified and would 

result in significant energy savings. 

EPCA established the "Energy Conservation Program for 

Consumer Products Other Than Automobiles." The consumer and 

commercial products currently subject to this program include 

general service fluorescent, incandescent reflector, and general 

service incandescent lamps. Manufacturers of covered products 

are required to use the relevant DOE test procedures to certify 

compliance with the energy conservation standards adopted 

under EPCA. 

In this Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NOPR), DOE proposed 

amendments to its test procedures for fluorescent and 

incandescent lamps. In addition to various technical and 

referenced standard updates, this notice proposed amendments 

to DOE's test procedures to provide appropriate methods to test 

additional fluorescent lamps considered for coverage in the 

energy conservation standards rulemaking as well as newly 

covered general service incandescent lamps, as regulated by the 

Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007. In addition, the 

NOPR also announced a public meeting to receive comments. 

The comment period for this stage of the rulemaking analysis is 

open until 75 days after publication in the Federal Register, date 

TBD. How to Submit Comments 

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z NOPR Public Meeting

z Notice of Proposed Rulemaking and Notice of Public 

Meeting, issued by DOE, February 21, 2008 (PDF 339 KB) 

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Public Meeting for Test 

Procedure NOPR and 

Energy Conservation Standard 

ANOPR 

Purpose: The Department of Energy (DOE) will hold an informal 

public meeting that will cover the test procedure Notice of 

Proposed Rulemaking (NOPR) for general service fluorescent, 

incandescent reflector, and general service incandescent lamps 

and the energy conservation standard Advance Notice of 

Proposed Rulemaking (ANOPR) for general service fluorescent 

lamps and incandescent reflector lamps. This public meeting 

gives DOE an opportunity to present its proposals in the test 

procedure NOPR, the methodology analyses prepared for the 

energy conservation standard ANOPR, and to respond to 

stakeholder's questions. The meeting also enables DOE to outline 

its plans for the remaining energy conservation standard analyses

and to seek input from stakeholders on its planned 

methodologies, assumptions, and data sources. The agenda for 

the public meeting will first cover the test procedure NOPR and 

then the energy conservation standard ANOPR, continuing on the 

following day, March 11, 2008, if necessary. 

Please note that foreign nationals visiting DOE headquarters are 

subject to advance security screening procedures. Foreign 

nationals wishing to attend this meeting must inform DOE of this 

fact by contacting Brenda Edwards as soon as possible, at (202) 

586-2945. 

For more information, please visit the Energy Conservation 

Standard ANOPR and Test Procedure NOPR webpages. 

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Meeting Materials 

z Notice of Proposed Rulemaking and Notice of Public 

Meeting, issued by DOE, February 21, 2008 (PDF 339 KB) 

z Advance Notice of Proposed Rulemaking and Notice of 

DATE: March 10-11, 2008 

TIME: 9:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. ET 

LOCATION: U.S. Department of Energy 

1000 Independence Avenue, SW

Room 8E-089 

Washington, DC 20585 

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