Rulemaking for Commercial Clothes Washers Test Procedures
The Department of Energy is amending its test procedures for commercial clothes washers to provide numerical equations for translating modified energy factor and water factor values as measured using DOE’s new clothes washer test procedure (10 CFR 430, Appendix J2) into their equivalent values as measured using the current test procedure (10 CFR 430, Appendix J1). The amendments also clarify the dates for which the current and new test procedures can be used to determine compliance with existing energy conservation standards and any future revised energy conservation standards for commercial clothes washers.
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DOE has published a final rule regarding test procedure amendments for clothes washers. 80 FR 50757 (August 21, 2015). These amendments codify test procedure guidance that DOE has issued in response to frequently asked questions, clarify additional provisions within the test procedures, provide improved organization of each section, and correct formatting errors in DOE’s clothes washer test procedures.
No public meeting is scheduled at this time.
The commercial clothes washer test procedure rulemaking docket EERE-2013–BT–TP–0002 contains all notices, public comments, public meeting transcripts, and supporting documents. For the latest information on the planned timing of future DOE regulatory milestones, see the current Office of Management and Budget Unified Agenda of Regulatory and Deregulatory Actions. All planned dates are preliminary and subject to change.
| Notice of Proposed Rulemaking |
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| Final Rule |
- Final Rule, Federal Register, 79 FR 71624 (December 3, 2014)
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This rulemaking is related to the Commercial Clothes Washer standards rulemaking.
Title III of the Energy Policy and Conservation Act of 1975 (“EPCA”), Pub. L. 94-163 (42 U.S.C. 6291, et seq) sets forth a variety of provisions designed to improve energy efficiency. Part C of Title III (42 U.S.C. 6311–6317) establishes the “Energy Conservation Program for Certain Industrial Equipment,” which includes commercial clothes washers. (42 U.S.C. 6311(1)(H))
For more information related to this rulemaking, please email:
commercial_clothes_washers@ee.doe.gov
