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Federal Register / Vol. 86, No. 106 / Friday, June 4, 2021 / Proposed Rules amended energy conservation standards are not warranted.
A. Authority and Background The Energy Policy and Conservation Act, as amended EPCA,1 authorizes DOE to regulate the energy efficiency of a number of consumer products and certain industrial equipment. 42 U.S.C.
62916317 Title III, Part B 2 of EPCA
established the Energy Conservation Program for Consumer Products Other Than Automobiles. These products include ceiling fan light kits CFLKs, the subject of this document. 42 U.S.C.
6295ff; 42 U.S.C. 629150 EPCA
prescribed energy conservation standards for these products, and authorized DOE to consider whether to amend these standards. 42 U.S.C.
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Under EPCA, DOEs energy conservation program consists essentially of four parts: 1 Testing, 2
labeling, 3 Federal energy conservation standards, and 4 certification and enforcement procedures. Relevant provisions of EPCA specifically include definitions 42 U.S.C. 6291, test procedures 42 U.S.C. 6293, labeling provisions 42 U.S.C. 6294, energy conservation standards 42 U.S.C. 6295, and the authority to require information and reports from manufacturers 42
U.S.C. 6296.
Federal energy efficiency requirements for covered products established under EPCA generally supersede State laws and regulations concerning energy conservation testing, labeling, and standards. 42 U.S.C.
6297ac DOE may, however, grant waivers of Federal preemption for particular State laws or regulations, in accordance with the procedures and other provisions set forth under 42
U.S.C. 6297d.
DOE must follow specific statutory criteria for prescribing new or amended standards for covered products. EPCA
requires that any new or amended energy conservation standard prescribed by the Secretary of Energy Secretary be designed to achieve the maximum improvement in energy or water efficiency that is technologically feasible and economically justified. 42
U.S.C. 6295o2A The Secretary may not prescribe an amended or new standard that will not result in significant conservation of energy, or is not technologically feasible or economically justified. 42 U.S.C.
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1 All references to EPCA in this document refer to the statute as amended through the Energy Act of 2020, Public Law 116260 Dec. 27, 2020.
2 For editorial reasons, upon codification in the U.S. Code, Part B was redesignated Part A.

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EPCA also requires that, not later than 6 years after the issuance of any final rule establishing or amending a standard, DOE evaluate the energy conservation standards for each type of covered product, including those at issue here, and publish either a notice of determination that the standards do not need to be amended, or a notice of proposed rulemaking NOPR that includes new proposed energy conservation standards proceeding to a final rule, as appropriate. 42 U.S.C.
6295m1 DOE is publishing this RFI
in accordance with the 6-year lookback requirement.
B. Rulemaking History EPCA initially established individual energy conservation standards for three groups of CFLKs manufactured on or after January 1, 2007: 1 Those having medium screw base sockets Medium Screw Base product class; 2 those having pin-based sockets for fluorescent lamps Pin-Based product class; and 3 any CFLKs other than those included in the Medium Screw Base product class or the Pin-Based product class, including candelabra screw base sockets Other Base Type product class. 42
U.S.C. 6295ff24 In a technical amendment published on October 18, 2005, DOE codified the EPCA
requirements for the Medium Screw Base and Pin-Based product classes. 70
FR 60407, 60413. EPCA also specified that if DOE did not issue a final rule on energy conservation standards for Other Base Type product class CFLKs by January 1, 2007, a 190 watt W limit would apply to those products manufactured after January 1, 2009. 42
U.S.C. 6295ff4C DOE did not issue a final rule on standards for CFLKs by that date, and published a technical amendment that codified EPCAs requirements for Other Base Type product class CFLKs, which applied to such CFLKs manufactured on or after January 1, 2009. 72 FR 1270, 12731274
Jan. 11, 2007. In another technical amendment final rule to adopt updates to EPCA from the Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007, DOE added a provision that CFLKs with sockets for pin-based fluorescent lamps must be packaged with lamps to fill all sockets.
74 FR 12058, 12069 Mar. 3, 2009. 42
U.S.C. 6295ff4Cii On January 6, 2016, DOE published a final rule adopting amended performance standards for CFLKs manufactured on or after January 7, 2019. 81 FR 580 January 2016 Final Rule. The January 2016 Final Rule established a minimum efficacy requirement for all CFLKs, expressed in lumens per watt lm/W that is
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applicable based on the lumen output of each basic model of lamp packaged with the basic model of CFLK or each basic model of integrated solid-state lighting SSL in the CFLK basic model. Id. at 81 FR 581. Subsequently, DOE
published a final rule that changed the compliance date from January 7, 2019 to January 21, 2020 to comply with Public Law 115161, Ceiling Fan Energy Conservation Harmonization Act the Act, which was signed into law on April 3, 2018. 83 FR 22587 May 16, 2018. The Act amended the compliance date for the CFLK standards to establish a single compliance date for the energy conservation standards for both CFLKs and ceiling fans. Id. The current energy conservation standards are located in title 10 of the Code of Federal Regulations CFR part 430, 430.32s6.
On December 24, 2015, DOE
published a final rule December 2015
Final Rule updating the CFLK test procedure. 80 FR 80209. The currently applicable DOE test procedure for CFLKs appears at 10 CFR part 430, subpart B, appendices V and V1
appendices V and V1.
II. Request for Information DOE is publishing this RFI to collect data and information during the early assessment review to inform its decision, consistent with its obligations under EPCA, as to whether the Department should proceed with an energy conservation standards rulemaking. Below DOE has identified certain topics for which information and data are requested to assist in the evaluation of the potential for amended energy conservation standards. DOE
also welcomes comments on other issues relevant to its early assessment that may not specifically be identified in this document.
A. Significant Savings of Energy The January 2016 Final Rule established an energy conservation standard for CFLKs that is expected to result in 0.049 quadrillion British thermal units quads of full-fuelcycle FFC energy savings over a 30year period. 81 FR 580, 582.
Additionally, in the January 2016 Final Rule, DOE estimated that an energy conservation standard established at an efficiency level equivalent to that achieved using the maximum available technology max-tech would have resulted in 0.070 quads of FFC energy savings.3 81 FR 580, 620.
3 Table V.10 outlines the Cumulative national Energy Savings for CFLKs during a 30 year period.

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