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Energy Conservation Program: Commercial Warm Air Furnaces; Notification of Tentative Determination and Request for Comment
The Energy Department published this final rule in the Federal Register on December 26, 2024. Comments closed on January 8, 2025.
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What the agency says
On June 2, 2023, the U.S. Department of Energy ("DOE" or the "Department") published a test procedure final rule which established test procedures for commercial warm air furnaces ("CWAFs"). The Air- Conditioning, Heating, and Refrigeration Institute ("AHRI") filed a petition for review of the final rule in the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit on August 1, 2023. In a February 6, 2024, order, the Fourth Circuit granted a voluntary remand of the final rule to the Department of Energy ("DOE") to determine whether establishment of the test procedure for the thermal efficiency two ("TE2") metric is supported by the specific provisions applicable to CWAFs under the Energy Policy and Conservation Act ("EPCA"). More specifically, DOE agreed in this voluntary remand to only establish the TE2 test procedure if the Department makes a determination that the TE2 test procedure is consistent with the amended industry test procedure, or a determination, supported by clear and convincing evidence, that the amended industry test procedure fails to satisfy the statutory requirements. This document provides DOE's tentative determination that the amended industry test procedure fails to satisfy EPCA's statutory requirements and requests comment on this topic.
Key facts
- Document number
- 2024-30274
- Type
- Final rule
- Action
- Notification of tentative determination and request for comment
- Agency
- Energy Department
- Published
- December 26, 2024
- Comments due
- January 8, 2025
- Dates
- DOE will accept comments, data, and information regarding this document no later than January 8, 2025. See section V, "Public Participation," for details.
- Docket
- EERE-2024-BT-DET-0012
- Regulation ID (RIN)
- 1904-AE57
- Code of Federal Regulations
- 10 CFR 431
- Pages
- 7
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