Energy Star Program Requirements for Compact Fluores-
cent Lamps, Energy Star Eligibility Criteria, Energy-Effi-
ciency Specification issued by the Environmental Protec-
tion Agency and Department of Energy: 
‘‘(A) Minimum initial efficacy. 
‘‘(B) Lumen maintenance at 1000 hours. 
‘‘(C) Lumen maintenance at 40 percent of 
rated life. 
‘‘(D) Rapid cycle stress test. 
‘‘(E) Lamp life. 
‘‘(2) The Secretary may, by rule, establish require-
ments for color quality (CRI), power factor, operating fre-
quency, and maximum allowable start time based on the 
requirements prescribed by the August 9, 2001, version 
of the Energy Star Program Requirements for Compact 
Fluorescent Lamps. 
‘‘(3) The Secretary may, by rule— 
‘‘(A) revise the requirements established under 
paragraph (2); or 
‘‘(B) establish other requirements, after consid-
ering energy savings, cost effectiveness, and con-
sumer satisfaction. 
‘‘(cc) DEHUMIDIFIERS.—(1) Dehumidifiers manufac-
tured on or after October 1, 2007, shall have an Energy 
Factor that meets or exceeds the following values:
Minimum Energy Factor 
‘‘Product Capacity (pints/day): 
(Liters/kWh): 
25.00 or less .............................................................................
1.00
25.01 – 35.00 ...........................................................................
1.20
35.01 – 54.00 ...........................................................................
1.30
54.01 – 74.99 ...........................................................................
1.50
75.00 or more ..........................................................................
2.25. 
‘‘(2)(A) Not later than October 1, 2009, the Sec-
retary shall publish a final rule in accordance with sub-
sections (o) and (p), to determine whether the energy con-
servation standards established under paragraph (1) 
should be amended. 
‘‘(B) The final rule published under subparagraph 
(A) shall— 
‘‘(i) contain any amendment by the Secretary; 
and 
‘‘(ii) provide that the amendment applies to 
products manufactured on or after October 1, 2012. 
‘‘(C) If the Secretary does not publish an amendment 
that takes effect by October 1, 2012, dehumidifiers manu-
factured on or after October 1, 2012, shall have an Energy 
Factor that meets or exceeds the following values: 
Minimum Energy Factor 
‘‘Product Capacity (pints/day): 
(Liters/kWh): 
25.00 or less .............................................................................
1.20
25.01 – 35.00 ...........................................................................
1.30
35.01 – 45.00 ...........................................................................
1.40
45.01 – 54.00 ...........................................................................
1.50
54.01 – 74.99 ...........................................................................
1.60
75.00 or more ..........................................................................
2.5. 
‘‘(dd) COMMERCIAL PRERINSE SPRAY VALVES.— 
Commercial prerinse spray valves manufactured on or
after January 1, 2006, shall have a flow rate of not more 
than 1.6 gallons per minute. 
‘‘(ee) MERCURY VAPOR LAMP BALLASTS.—Mercury 
vapor lamp ballasts shall not be manufactured or imported 
after January 1, 2008. 
‘‘(ff) APPLICATION DATE.—Section 327 applies— 
‘‘(1) to products for which energy conservation 
standards are to be established under subsection (l), 
(u), or (v) beginning on the date on which a final 
rule is issued by the Secretary, except that any State 
or local standard prescribed or enacted for the prod-
uct before the date on which the final rule is issued 
shall not be preempted until the energy conservation 
standard established under subsection (l),(u), or (v) 
for the product takes effect; and 
‘‘(2) to products for which energy conservation 
standards are established under subsections (w) 
through (ee) on the date of enactment of those sub-
sections, except that any State or local standard pre-
scribed or enacted before the date of enactment of 
those subsections shall not be preempted until the 
energy conservation standards established under 
subsections (w) through (ee) take effect.’’.
(d) GENERAL
RULE
OF
PREEMPTION.—Section 
327(c) of the Energy Policy and Conservation Act (42 
U.S.C. 6297(c)) is amended— 
(1) in paragraph (5), by striking ‘‘or’’ at the 
end; 
(2) in paragraph (6), by striking the period at 
the end and inserting ‘‘; or’’; and 
(3) by adding at the end the following: 
‘‘(7)(A) is a regulation concerning standards for 
commercial prerinse spray valves adopted by the 
California Energy Commission before January 1, 
2005; or 
‘‘(B) is an amendment to a regulation described 
in subparagraph (A) that was developed to align 
California regulations with changes in American So-
ciety for Testing and Materials Standard F2324; 
‘‘(8)(A) is a regulation concerning standards for 
pedestrian modules adopted by the California En-
ergy Commission before January 1, 2005; or 
‘‘(B) is an amendment to a regulation described 
in subparagraph (A) that was developed to align 
California regulations to changes in the Institute for 
Transportation Engineers standards, entitled ‘Per-
formance Specification: Pedestrian Traffic Control 
Signal Indications’.’’.
SEC. 102. ENERGY CONSERVATION STANDARDS FOR COM-
MERCIAL EQUIPMENT. 
(a) DEFINITIONS.—Section 340 of the Energy Policy 
and Conservation Act (42 U.S.C. 6311) is amended— 
(1) in paragraph (1)— 
(A) by redesignating subparagraphs (D) 
through (G) as subparagraphs (H) through 
(K), respectively; and 
(B) by inserting after subparagraph (C) 
the following: 
‘‘(D) Very large commercial package air 
conditioning and heating equipment. 
‘‘(E) Commercial refrigerators, freezers, 
and refrigerator-freezers. 
‘‘(F) Automatic commercial ice makers. 
‘‘(G) Commercial clothes washers.’’; 
(2) in paragraph (2)(B), by striking ‘‘small and 
large commercial package air conditioning and heat-
ing equipment’’ and inserting ‘‘commercial package 
air conditioning and heating equipment, commercial 
refrigerators, freezers, and refrigerator-freezers, 
automatic 
commercial 
ice 
makers, 
commercial 
clothes washers’’; 
(3) by striking paragraphs (8) and (9) and in-
serting the following: