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Federal Register / Vol. 86, No. 149 / Friday, August 6, 2021 / Proposed Rules 429.12 General requirements applicable to certification reports.

d Annual filing. All data required by paragraphs a through c of this section
shall be submitted to DOE annually, on or before the following dates:

TABLE 1 TO PARAGRAPH d Deadline for data submission
Product category 1 Portable air conditioners
2 Fluorescent lamp ballasts; Compact fluorescent lamps; General service fluorescent lamps, general service incandescent lamps, and incandescent reflector lamps; Candelabra base incandescent lamps and intermediate base incandescent lamps;
Ceiling fans; Ceiling fan light kits; Showerheads; Faucets; Water closets; and Urinals.
3 Water heaters; Consumer furnaces; Pool heaters; Commercial water heating equipment; Commercial packaged boilers;
Commercial warm air furnaces; Commercial unit heaters; and Furnace fans.
4 Dishwashers; Commercial pre-rinse spray valves; Illuminated exit signs; Traffic signal modules and pedestrian modules;
and Distribution transformers.
5 Room air conditioners; Central air conditioners and central air conditioning heat pumps; and Commercial heating, ventilating, air conditioning HVAC equipment.
6 Consumer refrigerators, refrigerator-freezers, and freezers; Commercial refrigerators, freezers, and refrigerator-freezers;
Automatic commercial ice makers; Refrigerated bottled or canned beverage vending machines; Walk-in coolers and walk-in freezers; and Consumer miscellaneous refrigeration products.
7 Torchieres; Dehumidifiers; Metal halide lamp ballasts and fixtures; External power supplies; Pumps; and Battery chargers 8 Residential clothes washers; Residential clothes dryers; Direct heating equipment; Cooking products; and Commercial clothes washers.

3. Section 429.17 is amended by adding paragraph c to read as follows:

429.17

Water heaters.

c Reporting of annual shipments for grid-enabled water heaters. Pursuant to 42 U.S.C. 6295e6Ci, manufacturers of grid-enabled water heaters must report the total number of grid-enabled water heater units shipped for sale in the U.S. by the manufacturer for the previous calendar year i.e., January 1st through December 31st, as well as the calendar year that the shipments cover, starting on or before May 1, 2022 and annually on or before May 1 each year thereafter. This information shall be reported separately from the certification report required under paragraph b2 of this section and must be submitted to DOE in accordance with the submission procedures set forth in 429.12h. DOE will consider the annual reported shipments to be confidential business information without the need for the manufacturer to request confidential treatment of the information pursuant to 429.7c.
4. Section 429.18 is amended by revising the section heading and paragraphs a2vii and b2 and 3
to read as follows:
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429.18

Consumer furnaces.

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vii The represented value of annual fuel utilization efficiency must be rounded to the nearest one-tenth of a percentage point. The represented values of standby mode power and off
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mode power must be rounded to the nearest one-tenth of a watt.
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2 Pursuant to 429.12b13, a certification report shall include the following public product-specific information:
i Consumer furnaces and boilers:
The annual fuel utilization efficiency AFUE in percent % and the input capacity in British thermal units per hour Btu/h.
ii For gas-fired hot water and gasfired steam boilers: The type of ignition system.
iii For non-weatherized oil-fired furnaces including mobile home furnaces, electric furnaces, and boilers:
The standby mode power consumption PW,SB and off mode power consumption PW,OFF in watts.
3 Pursuant to 429.12b13, a certification report shall include the following additional product-specific information:
i For cast-iron sectional boilers: A
declaration of whether certification is based on linear interpolation or testing.
ii For hot water boilers and gas-fired steam boilers: A declaration that the manufacturer has incorporated the applicable design requirements.

5. Section 429.19 is amended by revising paragraph b3 to read as follows:
429.19

Dishwashers.

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following additional product-specific information i The capacity in number of place settings as specified in ANSI/AHAM
DW12010 incorporated by reference, see 429.4;
ii Presence of a soil sensor if yes, the number of cycles required to reach calibration;
iii The water inlet temperature used for testing in degrees Fahrenheit F;
iv The cycle selected for energy testing and whether that cycle is soilsensing;
v The options selected for the energy test;
vi Presence of a built-in water softening system if yes, the energy use in kilowatt-hours and the water use in gallons required for each regeneration of the water softening system, the number of regeneration cycles per year, and data and calculations used to derive these values; and vii Indication of whether Cascade Complete powder was used as the detergent formulation in lieu of Cascade with the Grease Fighting Power of Dawn powder.
6. Section 429.27 is amended by revising paragraphs b2ii and iii to read as follows:
429.27 General service fluorescent lamps, general service incandescent lamps, and incandescent reflector lamps.

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