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‘‘(8)(A) The term ‘commercial package air condi-
tioning and heating equipment’ means air-cooled,
water-cooled, evaporatively-cooled, or water source
(not including ground water source) electrically oper-
ated, unitary central air conditioners and central air
conditioning heat pumps for commercial application.
‘‘(B) The term ‘small commercial package air
conditioning and heating equipment’ means commer-
cial package air conditioning and heating equipment
that is rated below 135,000 Btu per hour (cooling ca-
pacity).
‘‘(C) The term ‘large commercial package air
conditioning and heating equipment’ means commer-
cial package air conditioning 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 conditioning and heating equipment’ means com-
mercial package air conditioning and heating equip-
ment that is rated—
‘‘(i) at or above 240,000 Btu per hour; and
‘‘(ii) below 760,000 Btu per hour (cooling
capacity).
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‘‘(9)(A) The term ‘commercial refrigerator, freez-
er, and refrigerator-freezer’ means refrigeration equip-
ment that—
‘‘(i) is not a consumer product (as defined
in section 321);
‘‘(ii) is not designed and marketed exclu-
sively for medical, scientific, or research pur-
poses;
‘‘(iii) operates at a chilled, frozen, combina-
tion chilled and frozen, or variable temperature;
‘‘(iv) displays or stores merchandise and
other 
perishable 
materials 
horizontally,
semivertically, or vertically;
‘‘(v) has transparent or solid doors, sliding
or hinged doors, a combination of hinged, slid-
ing, transparent, or solid doors, or no doors;
‘‘(vi) is designed for pull-down temperature
applications or holding temperature applica-
tions; and
‘‘(vii) is connected to a self-contained con-
densing 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, ex-
cept a blast chiller or freezer.
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‘‘(C) The term ‘integrated average temperature’
means the average temperature of all test package
measurements taken during the test.
‘‘(D) The term ‘pull-down temperature applica-
tion’ 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 aver-
age 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 compress and liquefy a specific refrigerant
that is remotely located from the refrigerated equip-
ment and consists of 1 or more refrigerant compres-
sors, refrigerant condensers, condenser fans and mo-
tors, and factory supplied accessories.
‘‘(F) The term ‘self-contained condensing unit’
means a factory-made assembly of refrigerating com-
ponents designed to compress and liquefy a specific
refrigerant that is an integral part of the refrigerated
equipment and consists of 1 or more refrigerant com-
pressors, refrigerant condensers, condenser fans and
motors, and factory supplied accessories.’’; and
(4) by adding at the end the following:
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‘‘(19) The term ‘automatic commercial ice
maker’ means a factory-made assembly (not nec-
essarily shipped in 1 package) that—
‘‘(A) consists of a condensing unit and ice-
making section 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 occu-
pants of more than 1 household will be
using the clothes washer, such as multi-fam-
ily housing common areas and coin laun-
dries; or
‘‘(ii) other commercial applications.
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‘‘(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 CON-
DITIONING 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 in-
serting ‘‘January 1, 2010’’;
(iii) by inserting after ‘‘large commer-
cial package air conditioning and heating
equipment,’’ the following: ‘‘and very large
commercial package air conditioning and
heating equipment, or if ASHRAE/IES
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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 equipment, large commercial package air con-
ditioning and heating equipment, and very large commer-
cial package air conditioning and heating equipment dur-
ing the 5-year period beginning on the effective date of a
standard, the Secretary may initiate a rulemaking to deter-
mine whether a more stringent standard—
‘‘(I) would result in significant additional con-
servation of energy; and
‘‘(II) is technologically feasible and economically
justified.’’; and
(B) in subparagraph (C)(ii), by inserting
‘‘and very large commercial package air condi-
tioning and heating equipment’’ after ‘‘large
commercial package air conditioning and heat-
ing 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: