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Federal Register / Vol. 86, No. 149 / Friday, August 6, 2021 / Proposed Rules
amendments to ensure consistency among terms used throughout DOEs certification and reporting provisions.
A. Ceiling Fan Light Kits 1. Scope of Applicability This NOPR applies to CFLKs, which are products designed to provide light from a ceiling fan and can be either: 1
Integral, such that the equipment is attached to the ceiling fan prior to the time of retail sale; or 2 attachable, such that at the time of retail sale the equipment is not physically attached to the ceiling fan, but may be included inside the ceiling fan packaging at the time of sale or sold separately for subsequent attachment to the fan. 10
CFR 430.2 42 U.S.C. 629150. In the December 2015 CFLK TP Final Rule, DOE revised its interpretation of the CFLK definition to state that the requirement for a CFLK to be designed to provide light includes all light sources in a CFLK, including accent lighting. 80 FR 80209, 80214. DOE seeks comment on whether CFLKs are still being distributed in commerce that were manufactured prior to January 21, 2020, and therefore, DOE should retain compliance requirements for these standards.
2. Reporting Under the existing requirements in 10
CFR 429.33b, manufacturers must report: 1 System efficacy and rated wattage for CFLKs with medium screw base lamps; 2 system efficacy, rated wattage, and lamp length for CFLKs with pin-based fluorescent lamps; and 3 rated wattage and number of individual sockets for CFLKs with any other socket type. The existing reporting requirements also require a declaration that CFLKs with any other socket type i.e., not medium screw base or pinbased meet the applicable design requirements. These requirements provide for certifying compliance with the January 1, 2007 standards. DOE is proposing to replace these requirements and align the reporting requirements with the January 21, 2020 standards and proposing general certification requirements for CFLKs. DOE discusses these proposed updates in the sections as follows.

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a. Efficacy The January 21, 2020 standards require that all lamps and integrated SSL packaged with CFLKs meet certain efficacy standards based on the lumens of the lamp. To reflect the January 21, 2020 standards, DOE proposes to require a certification report to identify each basic model of lamp or integrated
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basic model and to provide the corresponding lumen output in lumens and the efficacy in lumens per watt lm/W for each lamp/SSL basic model. The inclusion of basic model number, associated lumen output, and efficacy in the certification report provides necessary data to determine whether the basic model of the lamp in the CFLK complies with the January 21, 2020 standards requiring a minimum efficacy based on the lumens of the lamp.
The current test procedures and reporting requirements for various lighting products do not all use the same terms for lumen output and efficacy e.g., lumen output, average lumen output, initial lumen output, rated lumen output, efficacy, lamp efficacy, initial lamp efficacy, system efficacy. DOE therefore proposes to use the common terms lumen output and efficacy to identify the required values, and to make conforming revisions to the rounding requirements at 10 CFR 429.33c.
DOE seeks comments on requiring the reporting of lumen output and efficacy to certify compliance to January 21, 2020 standards.
b. Lumen Maintenance, Lifetime, and Rapid Cycle Stress Test Both the January 1, 2007 standards and January 21, 2020 standards include, for medium screw base CFLs packaged with a CFLK, minimum requirements for lumen maintenance at 1,000 hours, lumen maintenance at 40 percent of lifetime, lifetime, and the number of units in the tested sample that must pass the rapid cycle stress test. 10 CFR
430.32s3i and s6i. Currently, the reporting requirements do not reflect these requirements for CFLs packaged with CFLKs. DOE proposes to require these values to verify whether the information provided is consistent with the certifiers statement of compliance with the January 21, 2020 standards.
Specifically, for CFLKs packaged with a medium screw base CFL, for each basic model of CFL, DOE proposes to require reporting lumen maintenance at 1,000
hours and lumen maintenance at 40
percent of lifetime in percentages;
lifetime in hours; and the number of CFL units that pass rapid cycle stress testing. Similar to DOEs reporting requirements for CFLs sold individually see 10 CFR 429.35, DOE proposes to allow certification of lumen maintenance at 40 percent of lifetime, lifetime, and rapid cycle stress testing of a medium screw base CFL in a CFLK to be based on estimations until testing is complete. This would allow new basic
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models of CFLKs with medium screw based CFLs to be distributed prior to completion of lifetime testing.
DOE seeks comment on reporting lumen maintenance at 1,000 hours and at 40 percent of lifetime, lifetime, and the rapid cycle stress test results for medium screw base CFLs in CFLKs.
DOE seeks comment on allowing estimates for lumen maintenance at 40
percent of lifetime, lifetime, and the rapid cycle stress test result.
c. Design Requirement Declarations The January 21, 2020 standards continue to require that CFLKs with pin-based sockets for fluorescent lamps must use an electronic ballast. 10 CFR
430.32s6ii. The current certification reporting requirements require for CFLKs with any socket type other than medium screw base or pin base a declaration that the basic model meets the applicable EPCA design requirement 10 and that the features that have been incorporated into the ceiling fan light kit meet the applicable design requirement e.g., circuit breaker, fuse, ballast. 10 CFR 429.33b3. DOE
proposes to make this declaration more specific to existing requirements and require that, for a CFLK with a pinbased socket for a fluorescent lamp, the manufacturer provide in the certification report a declaration that that such a CFLK has an electronic ballast. This will allow DOE to verify whether the information provided is consistent with the certifiers statement of compliance with the January 21, 2020
standard requirement that a pin-based socket fluorescent lamp in a CFLK have an electronic ballast. 10 CFR 429.12b.
The January 21, 2020 standards also continue to require that, for all lamp types, the CFLK be packaged with lamps to fill all of the sockets. 10 CFR
430.32s6. DOE proposes to require a declaration that the CFLK is packaged with lamps to fill all sockets of all lamp types e.g., candelabra base, medium screw base, pin-based. The declaration provides DOE with data indicating whether the manufacturers have addressed the January 21, 2020 standard requirement that for all lamp types the CFLK is packaged with lamps to fill all of the sockets.
DOE seeks comment on requiring a declaration that pin-based fluorescent lamps in CFLKs have an electronic ballast. DOE also seeks comment on requiring a declaration that the CFLK
are packaged with lamps sufficient to fill all sockets.
10 CFLKs that meet the January 21, 2020 efficacy standards are presumed to meet the EPCAmandated 190 W limit requirement. See 42 U.S.C.
6295ff4C and 10 CFR 430.32s5.

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