[Federal Register Volume 70, Number 96 (Thursday, May 19, 2005)]
[Notices]
[Page 28930]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 05-9998]


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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy


Notice of Clarification to Energy Conservation Program for 
Consumer Products: Publication of the Petition for Waiver of Fujitsu 
General Limited from the DOE Residential Air Conditioner and Heat Pump 
Test Procedures (Case No. CAC-010)

AGENCY: Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy, Department of 
Energy.

ACTION: Notice of clarification.

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FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Dr. Michael G. Raymond, U.S. 
Department of Energy, Building Technologies Program, Mail Stop EE-2J, 
Forrestal Building, 1000 Independence Avenue, SW., Washington, DC 
20585-0121, (202) 586-9611; e-mail: Michael.Raymond.ee.doe.gov; or 
Francine Pinto, Esq., or Thomas DePriest, Esq., U.S. Department of 
Energy, Office of General Counsel, Mail Stop GC-72, Forrestal Building, 
1000 Independence Avenue, SW., Washington, DC 20585-0103, (202) 586-
9507; e-mail: [email protected], or [email protected].

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Clarification

    On February 4, 2005, the Department of Energy (Department or DOE) 
published a petition for waiver of Fujitsu General Limited from the DOE 
residential air conditioner and heat pump test procedures. (70 FR 5980) 
Subsequent to the publication of the waiver, DOE received two comments 
that identified an inadvertent error which has caused confusion.\1\
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    \1\ DOE has placed these comments in the docket file for this 
rulemaking. They are available at the U.S. Department of Energy, 
Forrestal Building, Room 1J-018 (Resource Room of the Building 
Technologies Program), 1000 Independence Avenue, SW., Washington, 
DC, (202) 586-9127, between 9 a.m. and 4 p.m., Monday through 
Friday, except Federal holidays. Please call Ms. Brenda Edwards-
Jones at the above telephone number for additional information 
regarding visiting the Resource Room.
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    On page 5981, there is a discussion of applicable test procedures: 
``On October 21, 2004, the Department published a direct final rule 
adopting ARI Standard 210/240-2003 for small commercial package air 
conditioning and heating equipment <= 65,000 Btu/h. (69 FR 61962) The 
test procedures in that direct final rule apply to three-phase 
products, but the Fujitsu product is single phase for both residential 
and commercial use. There is no prescribed test procedure for single-
phase, small commercial packaged air conditioning and heating 
equipment, so no test procedure waiver is required for commercial 
Airstage products.'' The last sentence in the quotation is in error. 
The Fujitsu products are single-phase central air conditioners and heat 
pumps with capacities