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‘‘(D) Very large commercial package air conditioning 
and heating equipment. 
‘‘(E) Commercial refrigerators, freezers, and refrig-
erator-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 heating 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 inserting the 
following: 
‘‘(8)(A) The term ‘commercial package air conditioning and 
heating equipment’ means air-cooled, water-cooled, evapo-
ratively-cooled, or water source (not including ground water 
source) electrically operated, unitary central air conditioners 
and central air conditioning heat pumps for commercial applica-
tion. 
‘‘(B) The term ‘small commercial package air conditioning 
and heating equipment’ means commercial package air condi-
tioning and heating equipment that is rated below 135,000 
Btu per hour (cooling capacity). 
‘‘(C) The term ‘large commercial package air conditioning 
and heating equipment’ means commercial package air condi-
tioning and heating equipment that is rated— 
‘‘(i) at or above 135,000 Btu per hour; and 
‘‘(ii) below 240,000 Btu per hour (cooling capacity). 
‘‘(D) The term ‘very large commercial package air condi-
tioning and heating equipment’ means commercial package air 
conditioning and heating equipment that is rated— 
‘‘(i) at or above 240,000 Btu per hour; and 
‘‘(ii) below 760,000 Btu per hour (cooling capacity). 
‘‘(9)(A) The term ‘commercial refrigerator, freezer, and 
refrigerator-freezer’ means refrigeration equipment that— 
‘‘(i) is not a consumer product (as defined in section 
321); 
‘‘(ii) is not designed and marketed exclusively for med-
ical, scientific, or research purposes; 
‘‘(iii) operates at a chilled, frozen, combination chilled 
and frozen, or variable temperature; 
‘‘(iv) displays or stores merchandise and other perish-
able materials horizontally, semivertically, or vertically; 
‘‘(v) has transparent or solid doors, sliding or hinged 
doors, a combination of hinged, sliding, transparent, or 
solid doors, or no doors; 
‘‘(vi) is designed for pull-down temperature applications 
or holding temperature applications; and 
‘‘(vii) is connected to a self-contained condensing unit 
or to a remote condensing unit. 
‘‘(B) The term ‘holding temperature application’ means a 
use of commercial refrigeration equipment other than a pull-
down temperature application, except a blast chiller or freezer. 
‘‘(C) The term ‘integrated average temperature’ means the 
average temperature of all test package measurements taken 
during the test.
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‘‘(D) The term ‘pull-down temperature application’ means 
a commercial refrigerator with doors that, when fully loaded 
with 12 ounce beverage cans at 90 degrees F, can cool those 
beverages to an average stable temperature of 38 degrees F 
in 12 hours or less. 
‘‘(E) The term ‘remote condensing unit’ means a factory-
made assembly of refrigerating components designed to com-
press and liquefy a specific refrigerant that is remotely located 
from the refrigerated equipment and consists of one or more 
refrigerant compressors, refrigerant condensers, condenser fans 
and motors, and factory supplied accessories. 
‘‘(F) The term ‘self-contained condensing unit’ means a 
factory-made assembly of refrigerating components designed 
to compress and liquefy a specific refrigerant that is an integral 
part of the refrigerated equipment and consists of one or more 
refrigerant compressors, refrigerant condensers, condenser fans 
and motors, and factory supplied accessories.’’; and 
(4) by adding at the end the following: 
‘‘(19) The term ‘automatic commercial ice maker’ means 
a factory-made assembly (not necessarily shipped in one pack-
age) that— 
‘‘(A) consists of a condensing unit and ice-making sec-
tion operating as an integrated unit, with means for making 
and harvesting ice; and 
‘‘(B) may include means for storing ice, dispensing 
ice, or storing and dispensing ice. 
‘‘(20) The term ‘commercial clothes washer’ means a soft-
mount front-loading or soft-mount top-loading clothes washer 
that— 
‘‘(A) has a clothes container compartment that— 
‘‘(i) for horizontal-axis clothes washers, is not more 
than 3.5 cubic feet; and 
‘‘(ii) for vertical-axis clothes washers, is not more 
than 4.0 cubic feet; and 
‘‘(B) is designed for use in— 
‘‘(i) applications in which the occupants of more 
than one household will be using the clothes washer, 
such as multi-family housing common areas and coin 
laundries; or 
‘‘(ii) other commercial applications. 
‘‘(21) The term ‘harvest rate’ means the amount of ice 
(at 32 degrees F) in pounds produced per 24 hours.’’. 
(b) STANDARDS FOR COMMERCIAL PACKAGE AIR CONDITIONING 
AND HEATING EQUIPMENT.—Section 342(a) of the Energy Policy 
and Conservation Act (42 U.S.C. 6313(a)) is amended— 
(1) in the subsection heading, by striking ‘‘SMALL
AND 
LARGE’’ and inserting ‘‘SMALL, LARGE, AND VERY LARGE’’; 
(2) in paragraph (1), by inserting ‘‘but before January 1, 
2010,’’ after ‘‘January 1, 1994,’’; 
(3) in paragraph (2), by inserting ‘‘but before January 1, 
2010,’’ after ‘‘January 1, 1995,’’; and 
(4) in paragraph (6)— 
(A) in subparagraph (A)— 
(i) by inserting ‘‘(i)’’ after ‘‘(A)’’; 
(ii) by striking ‘‘the date of enactment of the 
Energy Policy Act of 1992’’ and inserting ‘‘January 
1, 2010’’;
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(iii) by inserting after ‘‘large commercial package 
air conditioning and heating equipment,’’ the following: 
‘‘and very large commercial package air conditioning 
and heating equipment, or if ASHRAE/IES Standard 
90.1, as in effect on October 24, 1992, is amended 
with respect to any’’; and 
(iv) by adding at the end the following: 
‘‘(ii) If ASHRAE/IES Standard 90.1 is not amended with respect 
to small commercial package air conditioning and heating equip-
ment, large commercial package air conditioning and heating equip-
ment, and very large commercial package air conditioning and 
heating equipment during the 5-year period beginning on the effec-
tive date of a standard, the Secretary may initiate a rulemaking 
to determine whether a more stringent standard— 
‘‘(I) would result in significant additional conservation of 
energy; and 
‘‘(II) is technologically feasible and economically justified.’’; 
and 
(B) in subparagraph (C)(ii), by inserting ‘‘and very 
large commercial package air conditioning and heating 
equipment’’ after ‘‘large commercial package air condi-
tioning and heating equipment’’; and 
(5) by adding at the end the following: 
‘‘(7) Small commercial package air conditioning and heating 
equipment manufactured on or after January 1, 2010, shall meet 
the following standards: 
‘‘(A) The minimum energy efficiency ratio of air-cooled cen-
tral air conditioners at or above 65,000 Btu per hour (cooling 
capacity) and less than 135,000 Btu per hour (cooling capacity) 
shall be— 
‘‘(i) 11.2 for equipment with no heating or electric 
resistance heating; and 
‘‘(ii) 11.0 for equipment with all other heating system 
types that are integrated into the equipment (at a standard 
rating of 95 degrees F db). 
‘‘(B) The minimum energy efficiency ratio of air-cooled cen-
tral air conditioner heat pumps at or above 65,000 Btu per 
hour (cooling capacity) and less than 135,000 Btu per hour 
(cooling capacity) shall be— 
‘‘(i) 11.0 for equipment with no heating or electric 
resistance heating; and 
‘‘(ii) 10.8 for equipment with all other heating system 
types that are integrated into the equipment (at a standard 
rating of 95 degrees F db). 
‘‘(C) The minimum coefficient of performance in the heating 
mode of air-cooled central air conditioning heat pumps at or 
above 65,000 Btu per hour (cooling capacity) and less than 
135,000 Btu per hour (cooling capacity) shall be 3.3 (at a 
high temperature rating of 47 degrees F db). 
‘‘(8) Large commercial package air conditioning and heating 
equipment manufactured on or after January 1, 2010, shall meet 
the following standards: 
‘‘(A) The minimum energy efficiency ratio of air-cooled cen-
tral air conditioners at or above 135,000 Btu per hour (cooling 
capacity) and less than 240,000 Btu per hour (cooling capacity) 
shall be—