Appliance Standards: Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Energy Conservation and Power of the Committee on Energy and Commerce, House of Representatives, Ninety-ninth Congress, Second Session on H.R. 5465 ... September 10, 1987, Volume 4 |
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AFUE Furnace AHAM amended standard appliance efficiency standards Appliance Energy Conservation appliance industry appliance standards benefits bill Btu/hour Btu/hr burden California California Energy Commission CENTRAL AIR CONDITIONERS Chairman clothes dryers Company competition comply Congress consumers cost covered product Department of Energy Dowd economically justified effective date efficient appliances electric electric resistance Empire Comfort enacted energy conditions Energy Conservation Act energy conservation standard energy consumption Energy Policy energy savings established FEDERAL STANDARDS freezers heat pumps home appliances January legislation major appliances marketplace models MOORHEAD national appliance efficiency National Appliance Energy national market national standards NORRIS NRDC paragraph petition Policy and Conservation preemption prescribed previous final rule products manufactured proposed redesign reduce refrigerators regulation requirements result rule no later rulemaking Secretary shall publish section 325 Simple payback stringent subsection technologically feasible test procedures tion type or class unusual and compelling utilities WACKER DRIVE CHICAGO waiver water heaters Whirlpool Corporation
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Page 184 - ... (3) Models of covered products in use before the date on which the amended energy conservation standard becomes effective (or revisions of such models that come into use after such date and have the same energy efficiency, energy use, or water use characteristics) that comply with the energy conservation standard applicable to such covered products on the day before such date shall be deemed to comply with the amended energy conservation standard. (4) The Secretary's authority to amend energy...
Page 179 - State's energy plan and forecast, the costs, benefits, burdens, and reliability of energy savings resulting from the State regulation make such regulation preferable or necessary when measured against the costs, benefits, burdens, and reliability of alternative approaches to energy savings or production, including reliance on reasonably predictable market-induced improvements in efficiency of all products subject to the State regulation. The...
Page 76 - ADEQUATE TIME IS PERMITTED FOR REDESIGN, THE REQUIRED EFFICIENCIES CAN BE TECHNOLOGICALLY ACHIEVED BY ALL AIR CONDITIONING MANUFACTURERS. THERE IS SUFFICIENT TIME PROVIDED IN THE PROPOSED LEGISLATION FOR THE NECESSARY REDESIGNING AND RETOOLING, AND THERE IS A REASONABLE PERIOD — SEVEN YEARS — OF STABILITY AFTER THE STANDARDS TAKE EFFECT. THIS PERIOD OF STABILITY, DURING WHICH STANDARDS DO NOT CHANGE, IS PARTICULARLY IMPORTANT FOR US. WE MUST HAVE THIS PERIOD OF TIME DURING WHICH TO AMORTIZE OUR...
Page 91 - ... pursuant to this part; or (B) if the previous final rule published under this part did not amend the standard, the earliest date by which a previous amendment could have been in effect, except that in no case may an amended standard apply to products manufactured within 3 years (for refrigerators, refrigerator-freezers, and freezers, room air conditioners, dishwashers, clothes washers, clothes dryers, fluorescent lamp ballasts, and kitchen ranges and ovens) or 5 years (for central air conditioners...
Page 180 - ... prescribe a rule under this subsection if the Secretary finds (and publishes such finding) that interested persons have established, by a preponderance of the evidence, that such State regulation will significantly burden manufacturing, marketing, distribution, sale, or servicing of the covered product on a national basis. In determining whether to make such finding, the Secretary shall evaluate all relevant factors, including— (A) the extent to which the State regulation will increase manufacturing...
Page 182 - ... respect to such product in such State. The Secretary shall consider such petition in accordance with the requirements of paragraphs (1), (3), and (4), except that the burden shall be on the petitioner to show by a preponderance of the evidence that the rule received by the State under paragraph (1) should be withdrawn as a result of the amendment to the Federal standard. If the Secretary determines that the petitioner has shown that the rule issued by the State should be so withdrawn, the Secretary...
Page 179 - Secretary shall, within the 6-month period beginning on the date on which any such petition is filed, deny such petition or prescribe the requested rule, except that the Secretary may publish a notice in the Federal Register extending such period to a date certain but no longer than one year after the date on which the petition was filed. Such notice shall include the reasons for delay. In the case of any denial of a petition under this subsection, the Secretary shall publish in the Federal Register...
Page 180 - States in any product type (or class) of performance characteristics (including reliability), features, sizes, capacities, and volumes that are substantially the same as those generally available in the United States...
Page 182 - ... water emergency condition, which— (I) imperils the health, safety, and welfare of its residents because of the inability of the State or utilities within the State to provide adequate quantities of gas or electric energy or, in the case of a water emergency condition, water or wastewater treatment, to its residents at less than prohibitive costs; and (II) cannot be substantially alleviated by the importation of energy or, in the case of a water emergency condition, by the importation of water,...
Page 187 - ... (c) Energy efficiency standards for each type (or class) of covered products prescribed under this section shall be designed to achieve the maximum improvement in energy efficiency which the Secretary determines is technologically feasible and economically justified.