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Clothes Washer Rulemaking

This page contains the material that was the basis for the Clothes Washer Final Rule and technical support document (TSD).

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Certification Information

Marginal Energy Prices Report (PDF 378 KB)
Marginal Energy Prices – RECS 97 Update (PDF 17 KB)

Clothes Washer Test Cloth Correction Factor Information

• Look-up Table for Spin Between 50 to 100g (Excel 18 KB)
• Test Cloth Data for Lots 5 & 6 (Excel 43 KB)
• Lot 7 Correction Coefficients Using 50 and 100g (Excel 20 KB)
• Lot 7 Correction Coefficients Using 50, 200 and 350g (Excel 23 KB)
• Lot 7 Correction Coefficients Using 100, 200, and 350g (Excel 23 KB)
• Lot 8 Correction Coefficients Using 50 and 100g (Excel 22 KB)
• Lot 8 Correction Coefficients Using 50, 200, and 350g (Excel 23 KB)
• Lot 8 Correction Coefficients Using 100 200, and 350g (Excel 23 KB)
• Lot 9 Correction Coefficients Using 50, 200, 350g (Excel 23 KB)
• Lot 9 Correction Coefficients Using 100, 200, 350g (Excel 23 KB)
• Lot 10 Comparisons (Excel 10 KB)
• Lot 10 Correction Coefficients Using 50, 200, 350g (Excel 23 KB)
• Lot 10 Correction Coefficients Using 100, 200, 350g (Excel 30 KB)
• Lot 11 Correction Coefficients Using 100, 200, 350g (Excel 33 KB)
• Lot 12 Correction Coefficients Using 100, 200, 350g (Excel 36 KB)
• Lot 13 Correction Coefficients Using 100, 200, 350g (Excel 34 KB)
• Lot 14 Correction Coefficients Using 50, 200, 350g (Excel 24 KB)
• Lot 14 Correction Coefficients Using 100, 200, 350g (Excel 38 KB)
• Lot 15 Correction Coefficients Using 100, 200, 350g (Excel 75 KB)
• Lot 16 Correction Coefficients Using 100, 200, 350g (Excel 91 KB)

Price Efficiency Results

See Chapter 4 of the Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NOPR) TSD (PDF 56 KB)

Life-Cycle Cost and Payback Period Results

• Chapter 7 of the NOPR TSD (PDF 205 KB)
• LCC Spreadsheet (Excel 2.2 MB)
• LCC Spreadsheet Instructions (PDF 15 KB)

Consumer Results

Chapter 8 of the NOPR TSD (PDF 46 KB)

National Energy Savings and Shipments Results

• Chapter 9 (PDF 164 KB) and Chapter 10 (PDF 78 KB) of the NOPR TSD
• Two-Tier Shipments/NES Spreadsheet (Excel 2.5 MB)
• Two-Tier Shipments/Spreadsheet Instructions (PDF 22 KB)

Net National Employment Results

Chapter 13 of the NOPR TSD (PDF 120 KB)

Manufacturers Impact Analysis Results

• Chapter 11 of the NOPR TSD (PDF 359 KB)
• Government Regulatory Impact Model (GRIM) Spreadsheet (Excel 3.3 MB)
• GRIM Spreadsheet Instructions (PDF 310 KB)

Emissions Results

• Environmental Assessment (EA) (PDF 129 KB)
• EA, Appendix 1 (PDF 27 KB)
• EA, Appendix 2 (PDF 19 KB)
• EA, Appendix 3 (PDF 94 KB)

Regulatory Impact Analysis

• Regulatory Impact Analysis (RIA) (PDF 64 KB)
• RIA Spreadsheet (Excel 2.6 MB)
• RIA Spreadsheet Instructions (PDF 9 KB)

Contact Information

Stephen Witkowski
Project Manager
202-586-7463