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Rules and Regulations
Federal Register Vol. 86, No. 132
Wednesday, July 14, 2021

This section of the FEDERAL REGISTER
contains regulatory documents having general applicability and legal effect, most of which are keyed to and codified in the Code of Federal Regulations, which is published under 50 titles pursuant to 44 U.S.C. 1510.
The Code of Federal Regulations is sold by the Superintendent of Documents.

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
10 CFR Part 431
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Energy Conservation Program: Energy Conservation Standards for Evaporatively-Cooled Commercial Package Air Conditioners and WaterCooled Commercial Package Air Conditioners Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy, Department of Energy.
ACTION: Final determination.
AGENCY:

The Energy Policy and Conservation Act EPCA, as amended, prescribes energy conservation standards for various consumer products and certain commercial and industrial equipment, including evaporatively-cooled commercial package air conditioners and water-cooled commercial package air conditioners referred to as evaporatively-cooled commercial unitary air conditioners ECUACs and water-cooled commercial unitary air conditioners WCUACs in this document. EPCA also requires the U.S.
Department of Energy DOE to periodically determine whether more stringent, amended standards would result in significant additional conservation of energy, be technologically feasible, and be economically justified. In this final determination, DOE has determined that more stringent standards for small cooling capacity less than 135,000 Btu/
h, large cooling capacity greater than or equal to 135,000 and less than 240,000 Btu/h, and very large cooling capacity greater than or equal to 240,000
and less than 760,000 Btu/h ECUACs and WCUACs would not result in significant additional conservation of energy, and thus has determined that
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the standards for ECUACs and WCUACs do not need to be amended.
DATES: The effective date of this final determination is July 14, 2021.
ADDRESSES: The docket for this rulemaking, which includes Federal Register notices, comments, and other supporting documents/materials, is available for review at https
www.regulations.gov. All documents in the docket are listed in the https
www.regulations.gov index. However, not all documents listed in the index may be publicly available, such as information that is exempt from public disclosure.
The docket web page can be found at https www.regulations.gov/
docket?D=EERE-2017-BT-STD-0032.
The docket web page contains instructions on how to access all documents, including public comments, in the docket.
For further information on how to review the docket, contact the Appliance and Equipment Standards Program staff at 202 2871445 or by email: ApplianceStandardsQuestions@
ee.doe.gov.
Ms.
Catherine Rivest, U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy, Building Technologies Office, EE5B, 1000
Independence Avenue SW., Washington, DC, 205850121.
Telephone: 202 5867335. Email:
ApplianceStandardsQuestions@
ee.doe.gov.
Ms. Linda Field, U.S. Department of Energy, Office of the General Counsel, GC33, 1000 Independence Avenue SW, Washington, DC 205850121.
Telephone: 202 5863440. Email:
Linda.Field@hq.doe.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Table of Contents I. Synopsis of the Final Determination II. Introduction A. Authority B. Background 1. Current Standards 2. Rulemaking History III. Discussion and Rationale A. General Comments B. Energy Efficiency Metric C. Market Analysis 1. Shipments Estimates 2. Model Counts 3. Current Market Efficiency Distributions IV. Final Determination V. Procedural Issues and Regulatory Review
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A. Review Under Executive Orders 12866
and 13563
B. Review Under the Regulatory Flexibility Act C. Review Under the Paperwork Reduction Act D. Review Under the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969
E. Review Under Executive Order 13132
F. Review Under Executive Order 12988
G. Review Under the Unfunded Mandates Reform Act of 1995
H. Review Under the Treasury and General Government Appropriations Act, 1999
I. Review Under Executive Order 12630
J. Review Under the Treasury and General Government Appropriations Act, 2001
K. Review Under Executive Order 13211
L. Information Quality VI. Approval of the Office of the Secretary
I. Synopsis of the Final Determination Title III, Part C 1 of EPCA 2 established the Energy Conservation Program for Certain Industrial Equipment, 42 U.S.C.
63116317, as codified. This equipment includes ECUACs and WCUACs, the subject of this final determination.
DOE is issuing this final determination pursuant to the EPCA
requirement that not later than 6 years after issuance of any final rule establishing or amending an energy conservation standard for covered equipment, DOE must publish either a notice of determination that standards for the equipment do not need to be amended, or a notice of proposed rulemaking NOPR including new proposed energy conservation standards proceeding to a final rule, as appropriate. 42 U.S.C. 6316a6Ci For this final determination, DOE
analyzed the ECUACs and WCUACs subject to the standards found at title 10
of the Code of Federal Regulations CFR part 431. See 10 CFR 431.97.
DOE first analyzed the potential for energy savings of more efficient ECUACs and WCUACs. Based on this analysis, as summarized in section IV of this document, DOE has determined that there is not clear and convincing evidence that amended standards would result in significant additional conservation of energy. 42 U.S.C.
6313a6Aii Therefore, DOE has determined that the current standards 1 For editorial reasons, upon codification in the U.S. Code, Part C was re-designated Part A1.
2 All references to EPCA in this document refer to the statute as amended through the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2021, Public Law 116260
Dec. 27, 2020.

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