Voglio sapere a riguardo di…

43436

Federal Register / Vol. 86, No. 150 / Monday, August 9, 2021 / Proposed Rules
2. Life-Cycle Cost and Payback Period Analysis In the January 2016 ECS Final Rule analysis, DOE conducted a LCC and payback period PBP analysis to estimate the economic impacts of potential new standards on individual consumers of pump equipment. The analysis included, among others, the inputs further elaborated below.
a. Installation, Repair and Maintenance Costs In generating end-user price inputs for the LCC analysis and NIA in the January 2016 ECS Final Rule, DOE assumed that installation, maintenance, and repair costs remain identical across efficiency levels. With the market efficiency moving beyond what was projected in the January 2016 ECS Final Rule, there may be additional or different data available to represent the relationship between installation, repair, and maintenance costs and efficiency.
Issue 11: DOE requests feedback and data on whether installation costs at higher efficiency levels differ in comparison to baseline installation costs. To the extent that these costs differ, DOE seeks supporting data and the reasons for those differences.
Issue 12: DOE requests feedback and data on whether repair and maintenance costs at higher efficiency levels differ in comparison to repair and maintenance costs at baseline levels, respectively, both in terms of value and frequency of occurrence during the equipment lifetime. To the extent that these costs differ, DOE seeks supporting data and the reasons for those differences.

lotter on DSK11XQN23PROD with PROPOSALS1

b. Equipment Lifetimes The lifetime energy use of a pump is calculated as the annual energy use multiplied by the equipment economic lifetime. DOE considers economic lifetime, also called service lifetime, as the total number of years that the equipment is in service from initial equipment installation until its final retirement, and the mechanical lifetime, as the total number of operating hours from initial equipment installation until its final retirement. In the January 2016 ECS Final Rule, DOE
estimated the pump equipment lifetimes to range between 4 and 40 years, with an average lifetime of 15 years across all equipment classes, based on estimates from market experts and input from the CIP working group. The analysis conducted for the January 2016 ECS
Final Rule used Weibull lifetime distribution per equipment class, and included variability by pump rotation
VerDate Sep<11>2014

16:39 Aug 06, 2021

Jkt 253001

speed, and lifetime extensions through repairs.23
Issue 13: DOE requests comment and data on whether any market and technology changes since the January 2016 ECS Final Rule would affect its equipment lifetime estimates for pumps for which DOE currently has standards, and if so, how. DOE additionally requests equipment lifetime data for any pump types discussed through Section II.A that are not currently subject to energy conservation standards.
III. Submission of Comments DOE invites all interested parties to submit in writing by the date under the DATES heading, comments and information on matters addressed in this notification and on other matters relevant to DOEs early assessment of whether more-stringent energy conservation standards are warranted for pumps.
Submitting comments via https
www.regulations.gov. The https
www.regulations.gov web page requires you to provide your name and contact information. Your contact information will be viewable to DOE Building Technologies staff only. Your contact information will not be publicly viewable except for your first and last names, organization name if any, and submitter representative name if any.
If your comment is not processed properly because of technical difficulties, DOE will use this information to contact you. If DOE
cannot read your comment due to technical difficulties and cannot contact you for clarification, DOE may not be able to consider your comment.
However, your contact information will be publicly viewable if you include it in the comment or in any documents attached to your comment. Any information that you do not want to be publicly viewable should not be included in your comment, nor in any document attached to your comment. If this instruction is followed, persons viewing comments will see only first and last names, organization names, correspondence containing comments, and any documents submitted with the comments.
Do not submit information for which disclosure is restricted by statute, such as trade secrets and commercial or financial information hereinafter referred to as Confidential Business Information CBI to https
www.regulations.gov. Comments submitted through https
23 See Section 8.3.2.5 of Chapter 8 of the TSD for the January 2016 ECS Final Rule. Docket EERE
2011BTSTD00310056 p. 513.

PO 00000

Frm 00008

Fmt 4702

Sfmt 4702

www.regulations.gov cannot be claimed as CBI. Comments received through the website will not be protected under CBI.
For information on submitting CBI, see the Confidential Business Information section.
DOE processes submissions made through https www.regulations.gov before posting. Normally, comments will be posted within a few days of being submitted. However, if large volumes of comments are being processed simultaneously, your comment may not be viewable for up to several weeks. Please keep the comment tracking number that is generated through https www.regulations.gov after you have successfully uploaded your comment.
Submitting comments via email.
Comments and documents submitted via email also will be posted to https
www.regulations.gov. If you do not want your personal contact information to be publicly viewable, do not include it in your comment or any accompanying documents. Instead, provide your contact information in a cover letter.
Include your first and last names, email address, telephone number, and optional mailing address. The cover letter will not be publicly viewable as long as it does not include any comments.
Include contact information each time you submit comments, data, documents, and other information to DOE. Faxes will not be accepted.
Comments, data, and other information submitted to DOE
electronically should be provided in PDF preferred, Microsoft Word or Excel, WordPerfect, or text ASCII file format. Provide only unsecured documents in English, and free of any defects or viruses. Documents should not contain special characters or any form of encryption and, if possible, they should carry the electronic signature of the author.
Campaign form letters. Please submit campaign form letters by the originating organization in batches of between 50 to 500 form letters per PDF or as one form letter with a list of supporters names compiled into one or more PDFs. This reduces comment processing and posting time.
Confidential Business Information.
Pursuant to 10 CFR 1004.11, any person submitting information that he or she believes to be confidential and exempt by law from public disclosure should submit via email two well-marked copies: One copy of the document marked confidential including all the information believed to be confidential, and one copy of the document marked non-confidential with the information
E:FRFM09AUP1.SGM

09AUP1