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Federal Register / Vol. 86, No. 194 / Tuesday, October 12, 2021 / Rules and Regulations by AHAM, titled Energy and Internal Volume of Consumer Refrigeration Products, HRF12019. HRF12019 is an industry-accepted test procedure for measuring the energy consumption of electric single-phase, alternating current refrigerators, refrigeratorfreezers, freezers or miscellaneous refrigeration products. Specifically, the test procedure codified by this final rule references various sections of HRF1
2019 that address test setup, instrumentation, test conduct, and calculations.
Copies of HRF12019 can be obtained from the Association of Home Appliance Manufacturers, 1111 19th Street NW, Suite 402, Washington, DC
20036, 202 8725955, or go to https
www.AHAM.org.
The incorporation by reference of AS/
NZS 4474.1:2007 in appendix A to subpart B of part 430 has already been approved by the Director of the Federal Register and there are no changes in this final rule.
V. Approval of the Office of the Secretary The Secretary of Energy has approved publication of this final rule.
List of Subjects 10 CFR Part 429
Administrative practice and procedure, Confidential business information, Energy conservation, Household appliances, Reporting and recordkeeping requirements.
10 CFR Part 430
Administrative practice and procedure, Confidential business information, Energy conservation, Household appliances, Imports, Incorporation by reference, Intergovernmental relations, Small businesses.
Signing Authority This document of the Department of Energy was signed on September 29, 2021, by Kelly Speakes-Backman, Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary and Acting Assistant Secretary for Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy, pursuant to delegated authority from the Secretary of Energy. That document with the original signature and date is maintained by DOE. For administrative purposes only, and in compliance with requirements of the Office of the Federal Register, the undersigned DOE Federal Register Liaison Officer has been authorized to sign and submit the document in electronic format for publication, as an official document of the Department of Energy. This administrative process in
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no way alters the legal effect of this document upon publication in the Federal Register.
Signed in Washington, DC, on September 30, 2021.
Treena V. Garrett, Federal Register Liaison Officer, U.S.
Department of Energy.

For the reasons stated in the preamble, DOE amends parts 429 and 430 of chapter II of title 10, Code of Federal Regulations as set forth below:
PART 429CERTIFICATION, COMPLIANCE, AND ENFORCEMENT
FOR CONSUMER PRODUCTS AND
COMMERCIAL AND INDUSTRIAL
EQUIPMENT
1. The authority citation for part 429
continues to read as follows:

Authority: 42 U.S.C. 62916317; 28 U.S.C.
2461 note.

2. Section 429.14 is amended by revising paragraphs b3 and d to read as follows:

429.14 Consumer refrigerators, refrigerator-freezers and freezers.

b
3 Pursuant to 429.12b13, a certification report shall include the following additional product-specific information: Whether the basic model has variable defrost control in which case, manufacturers must also report the values, if any, of CTL and CTM See section 5.3 of appendix A and appendix B to subpart B of 10 CFR part 430 used in the calculation of energy consumption, whether the basic model has variable anti-sweat heater control in which case, manufacturers must also report the values of heater Watts at the ten humidity levels 5%, 15%, 25%, 35%, 45%, 55%, 65%, 75%, 85%, and 95% used to calculate the variable antisweat heater Correction Factor, and whether testing has been conducted with modifications to the standard temperature sensor locations, as specified in section 5.1g of appendices A and B to subpart B of 10 CFR part 430, as applicable.

d Product category determination.
Each basic model shall be certified according to the appropriate product category as defined in 430.2 based on compartment volumes and compartment temperatures.
1 Compartment volumes used to determine product category shall be the mean of the measured compartment volumes for each tested unit of the basic model according to the provisions in section 4.1 of appendix A of subpart B

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of part 430 of this chapter for refrigerators and refrigerator-freezers and section 4.1 of appendix B of subpart B of part 430 of this chapter for freezers, or the compartment volumes of the basic model as calculated in accordance with 429.72c; and 2 Compartment temperatures used to determine product category shall be the mean of the measured compartment temperatures at the coldest setting for each tested unit of the basic model according to the provisions of appendix A of subpart B of part 430 of this chapter for refrigerators and refrigeratorfreezers and appendix B of subpart B of part 430 of this chapter for freezers.
3. Section 429.61 is amended by revising paragraphs b3 and d to read as follows:
429.61 Consumer miscellaneous refrigeration products.

b
3 Pursuant to 429.12b13, a certification report coolers or combination cooler refrigeration products shall include the following additional product-specific information:
Whether the basic model has variable defrost control in which case, manufacturers must also report the values, if any, of CTL and CTM See section 5.3 in appendix A to subpart B
of part 430 of this chapter used in the calculation of energy consumption, whether the basic model has variable anti-sweat heater control in which case, manufacturers must also report the values of heater Watts at the ten humidity levels 5%, 15%, 25%, 35%, 45%, 55%, 65%, 75%, 85%, and 95%
used to calculate the variable anti-sweat heater Correction Factor, and whether testing has been conducted with modifications to the standard temperature sensor locations, as specified in section 5.1g of appendix A
to subpart B of part 430 of this chapter.

d Product category determination.
Each basic model of miscellaneous refrigeration product must be certified according to the appropriate product category as defined in 430.2 based on compartment volumes and compartment temperatures.
1 Compartment volumes used to determine product category shall be the mean of the measured compartment volumes for each tested unit of the basic model according to the provisions in section 4.1 of appendix A to subpart B
of part 430 of this chapter, or the compartment volumes of the basic model as calculated in accordance with 429.72d; and
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