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Rules and Regulations
Federal Register Vol. 86, No. 229
Thursday, December 2, 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 Parts 429 and 430
EERE2016BTTP0029
RIN 1904AD71
Energy Conservation Program: Test Procedures for Central Air Conditioners and Heat Pumps;
Correction Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy, Department of Energy.
ACTION: Final rule; correcting amendments.
AGENCY:
On January 5, 2017, the U.S.
Department of Energy DOE
published a final rule that made two sets of amendments to the test procedure for central air conditioners and heat pumps CAC/HPs:
amendments to the existing test
SUMMARY:
procedure required for determining compliance with the current energy conservation standards; and establishment of a new test procedure that would be the basis for making efficiency representations as of the compliance date for any amended energy conservation standards. This document corrects typographical errors, omissions, and incorrect crossreferences in the Code of Federal Regulations that resulted from the January 2017 final rule. Neither the errors nor the corrections in this document affect the substance of the rulemaking or any conclusions reached in support of the final rule.
DATES: Effective December 2, 2021.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 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: 202 586
7335. Email: ApplianceStandards Questions@ee.doe.gov.
Mr. Peter Cochran, U.S. Department of Energy, Office of the General Counsel, GC33, 1000 Independence Avenue SW, Washington, DC 205850121.
Telephone: 202 5869496. Email:
Peter.Cochran@hq.doe.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
I. Background On January 5, 2017, DOE published a final rule regarding the Federal test procedure for central air conditioner and heat pumps. 82 FR 1426 January 2017 final rule. The January 2017 final rule amended the test procedure for central air conditioners and heat pumps at title 10 of the Code of Federal Regulations CFR part 430 subpart B
appendix M Appendix M and established a new test procedure at 10
CFR part 430 subpart B appendix M1
Appendix M1. 82 FR 1426.
Appendix M provides for the measurement of the cooling and heating performance of central air conditioners and heat pumps using the seasonal energy efficiency ratio SEER metric and heating seasonal performance factor HSPF metric, respectively.
Appendix M1 specifies a revised SEER
metric SEER2 and a revised HSPF
metric HSPF2. The test procedures as amended and established in the January 2107 final rule for central air conditioners and heat pumps include a number of typographical errors, omissions, and incorrect crossreferences, which may result in confusion in executing the test procedures. The errors and corrections are summarized in the Table I.1.
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TABLE 1.1SUMMARY OF ERRORS AND CORRECTIONS
CFR sections
Description of error and correction
Rationale
10 CFR 429.16a1
Corrects cross-references regarding represented values related to multi-split systems, multi-circuit systems, and multi-head mini-split systems by:
1 Replacing c3ii with c3iii.
2 Replacing Additional representations are allowed, as described in paragraph c3i of this section. with Additional representations are allowed, as described in paragraphs c3i and c3ii of this section..
Removes the language b3iC and b3iB and replaces with b3iii and b3ii, respectively.
Corrects the instruction regarding compressor speed for the H1N heating mode test.
Cross-references did not get updated when the January 2017 final rule added 10 CFR
429.16c3i.
Corrects incorrect references to HSPF2 in appendix M. HSPF2 is associated with appendix M1. The revision corrects the reference to HSPF.
Inserts missing inequalities in the titles, revis ck=1Tj BLTj Q
ck=2Tj, to read ing Q
ck=1Tj < BLTj < Q
ck=2Tj..
Q
Reference inadvertently made to HSPF2 rather than HSPF.
10
CFR
429.16f1iB, 10
CFR
429.16f2iiA, and 10
CFR
429.16f4iB.
Paragraph a of Section 3.6.4 of Appendix M
and Paragraph a of Section 3.6.4 of appendix M1.
Paragraphs b and c of Section 3.6.6 of appendix M.
Section 4.1.3.2 and Section 4.1.4.2 of appendix M.
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