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Federal Register / Vol. 86, No. 149 / Friday, August 6, 2021 / Proposed Rules initially concludes that the impacts of the amendments to DOEs certification regulations proposed in this NOPR
would not have a significant economic impact on a substantial number of small entities. Accordingly, DOE has not prepared an IRFA for this NOPR. DOE
will transmit this certification of no significant impact on a substantial number of small entities and supporting statement of factual basis to the Chief Counsel for Advocacy of the Small Business Administration for review under 5 U.S.C. 605b.
C. Review Under the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995
Manufacturers of CFLKs, GSILs, IRLs, ceiling fans, consumer furnaces and boilers except for electric steam boilers, consumer water heaters, dishwashers, CCWs, battery chargers, and DPPPs must certify to DOE that their products or equipment comply with any applicable energy conservation standards. To certify compliance, manufacturers must first obtain test data for their products or equipment according to the DOE test procedures, including any amendments adopted for those test procedures. DOEs current reporting requirements are approved under OMB Control Number 19101400.
1. Description of the Requirements DOE is proposing to amend the reporting requirements for CFLKs, GSILs, IRLs, ceiling fans, consumer furnaces and boilers, consumer water heaters, dishwashers, CCWs, battery chargers, and DPPPs. DOE will send a revised information collection approval to OMB under the existing Control Number 19101400. The revisions will just reflect the changes proposed in this rulemaking as an amendment to the existing information collection.

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2. Method of Collection DOE is proposing that respondents must submit electronic forms using DOEs online Compliance Certification Management System CCMS. DOEs CCMS is publicly accessible at https
www.regulations.doe.gov/ccms/, and includes instructions for users, registration forms, and the productspecific reporting templates required for use when submitting information to CCMS.
3. Data The following are DOE estimates of the total annual reporting and recordkeeping burden imposed on manufacturers of CFLKs, GSILs, IRLs, ceiling fans, consumer furnaces and boilers, consumer water heaters, dishwashers, CCWs, battery chargers,
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and DPPPs subject to the amended certification reporting requirements proposed in this proposed rule. These estimates take into account the time necessary to develop any additional testing documentation, maintain any additional documentation supporting the development of the certified rating for each basic model, complete any additional certification, and submit any additional required documents to DOE
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DOE has tentatively determined that these proposed amendments would not impose additional costs for manufacturers of CFLKs, GSILs, IRLs, ceiling fans, dishwashers, CCWs, battery chargers, most consumer furnaces and boilers, and most consumer water heaters, because manufacturers of these products or equipment are already submitting certification reports to DOE
and should have readily available the information that DOE is proposing to collect as part of this rulemaking. DOE
has also tentatively determined that these proposed amendments would not impose additional costs for manufacturers of DPPPs because the proposals only clarify the existing certification requirements.
DOEs proposed amendments for the reporting requirements for electric steam boilers would require new certification reporting for electric steam boilers manufacturers and importers.
DOE estimates there are four manufacturers of electric steam boilers that would have to submit annual certification reports to DOE for those products based on the proposed reporting requirements. The following section estimates the burden for these four electric steam boiler manufacturers.
OMB Control Number: 19101400.
Form Number: DOE F 220.7.
Type of Review: Regular submission.
Affected Public: Domestic manufacturers and importers of electric steam boilers covered by this rulemaking.
Estimated Number of Respondents: 4.
Estimated Time per Response:
Certification reports, 35 hours.
Estimated Total Annual Burden Hours: 140.
Estimated Total Annual Cost to the Manufacturers: $14,000 in recordkeeping/reporting costs.
For grid-enabled consumer water heaters, DOE is proposing to add reporting requirements to 10 CFR 429.17
that would require manufacturers and importers to report the total number of grid-enabled water heaters shipped each year in accordance with the requirement in EPCA. The following are DOE
estimates of the total annual reporting and recordkeeping burden imposed on
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manufacturers of grid-enabled consumer water heaters subject to the proposed reporting provisions in this NOPR.
These estimates take into account the time necessary to develop testing documentation, maintain all the documentation supporting the development of the certified rating for each basic model, complete the certification, and submit all required documents to DOE electronically.
OMB Control Number: 19101400.
Form Number: DOE F 220.92.
Type of Review: Regular submission.
Affected Public: Manufacturers and importers of grid-enabled consumer water heaters covered by this rulemaking.
Estimated Number of Respondents: 5.
Estimated Time per Response:
Certification reports, 35 hours.
Estimated Total Annual Burden Hours: 175.
Estimated Total Annual Cost to the Manufacturers: $17,500 in recordkeeping/reporting costs.
4. Conclusion DOE has tentatively concluded that the removal of outdated reporting requirements and the addition of reporting requirements as proposed in this NOPR would not impose additional costs for CFLK, GSIL, IRL, CF, dishwasher, CCW, battery charger, DPPP, most consumer water heater, and most consumer furnace and boiler manufacturers see sections III.A.3, III.B.3, III.C.3, III.D.3, III.E, III.F.3,III.G.3, and III.H.3 of this document for a more complete discussion. Furthermore, DOE has tentatively concluded that there are four electric steam boiler manufacturers and five consumer water heater manufacturers that would have to submit new annual certification reports to DOE for those products. For all other manufacturers of covered products or equipment described in this NOPR, the public reporting burden for certification remains unchanged.
Public comment is sought regarding:
1 Whether this proposed collection of information is necessary for the proper performance of the functions of the agency, including whether the information shall have practical utility;
2 the accuracy of the burden estimate;
3 ways to enhance the quality, utility, and clarity of the information to be collected; and 4 ways to minimize the burden of the collection of information, including through the use of automated collection techniques or other forms of information technology. Send comments on these or any other aspects of the collection of information to the email address listed in the ADDRESSES section
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