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Residential Clothes Dryers and

Room Air Conditioners Test

Procedures NOPR Public

Meeting

Here you will find information on the U.S.

Department of Energy's (DOE) activities for

test procedures for residential clothes dryers

and room air conditioners, including meeting

materials and information for requesting to

speak at the public meeting, and how to

submit comments.

In order to implement recent amendments to

the Energy Policy and Conservation Act

(EPCA), DOE proposes to amend its test

procedures for residential clothes dryers and

room air conditioners to provide for

measurement of standby mode and off mode

power use by these products. The

amendments would incorporate into the DOE

test procedures relevant provisions from the

International Electrotechnical Commission's

(IEC) Standard 62301, "Household electrical

appliances – Measurement of standby power"

(First Edition, 005-06), as well as language to

clarify application of these provisions

specifically for measuring standby mode and

off mode power consumption in clothes dryers

and room air conditioners. DOE held a public

meeting to discuss and receive comments on

the issues presented in this notice.

The following documents are available as

Adobe Acrobat PDFs. Download Adobe Reader.

Meeting Materials

Energy Conservation Program for

Consumer Products: Test Procedures for

Clothes Dryers and Room Air

Conditioners, Notice of Proposed

Date: December 17, 2008

Time: 9:00 AM - 4:00 PM EST

Location:

U.S. Department of Energy

Forrestal Building

1000 Independence Avenue, SW

Room 8E-089

Washington, DC 20585

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Rulemaking and Notice of Public

Meeting, Federal Register, December 9,

2008 (PDF 176 KB)

Agenda (PDF 21 KB)

Presentation (PDF 295 KB)

Transcript (PDF 282 KB)

Request to Speak

DOE must receive requests to speak at the

public meeting before 4 PM EST on

December 10, 2008. Please submit a signed

original and an electronic copy of statements

to be given no later than 4 PM EST on

December 10, 2008.

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 the signed

original paper document.

All comments submitted must identify Clothes

Dryers and Room Air Conditioners

Rulemaking, the Docket Number, and

Regulatory Identifier Number (RIN).

Test Procedures for Clothes Dryers and

Room Air Conditioners NOPR: Docket

Number EERE-2008-BT-TP-0010 and

Regulatory Identification Number (RIN)

1904-AB76.

Comments may be submitted using any of the

following methods:

Federal e-Rulemaking Portal:

http://www.regulations.gov/search

/index.jsp

Follow the instructions for submitting

comments.

E-mail:

AHAM2-2008-TP-0010@hq.doe.gov.

Please be sure to include Docket

Number EERE-2008-BT-TP-0010

and/or RIN 1904-AB76 in the subject

line of the message.

Postal Mail:

Ms. Brenda Edwards

U.S. Department of Energy

Building Technologies Program

1000 Independence Avenue, SW

Mailstop EE-2J

Washington, DC 20585

Please include one signed original paper

copy.

Hand Delivery or Courier:

Ms. Brenda Edwards

U.S. Department of Energy

Building Technologies Program

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950 L'Enfant Plaza, 6th Floor

Washington, DC 20024.

Telephone: (202) 586-2945

Please include one signed original paper

copy.

Comments should clearly identify docket

number EERE-2008-BT-TP-0010. The

deadline for submitting comments was

February 23, 2009.

Contact Information

Stephen Witkowski, P.E.

Project Manager

(202) 586-7436

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