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Notifying Member: United States of America

If applicable, name of local government involved (Article 3.2 and 7.2):  

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Agency responsible: Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (OEERE), Department of Energy (DOE) [1140]

Name and address (including telephone and fax numbers, email and website addresses, if available) of agency or authority designated to handle comments regarding the notification shall be indicated if different from above: Please submit comments to: USA WTO TBT Enquiry Point, Email:  usatbtep@nist.gov

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Notified under Article 2.9.2 [X], 2.10.1 [ ], 5.6.2 [ ], 5.7.1 [ ], other:

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Products covered (HS or CCCN where applicable, otherwise national tariff heading. ICS numbers may be provided in addition, where applicable): Compressors. Test conditions and procedures in general (ICS 19.020), Compressors and pneumatic machines (ICS 23.140)

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Title, number of pages and language(s) of the notified document: Energy Conservation Program: Test Procedures for Compressors (42 pages, in English).

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Description of content: In this document, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) proposes to prescribe new definitions, sampling provisions, and test procedures for compressors in a new subpart of DOE regulations. The proposed test procedure would provide instructions for determining the full-load package isentropic efficiency for certain fixed-speed compressors and the part-load package isentropic efficiency for certain variable-speed compressors based on test methods described in International Organization for Standardization (ISO) Standard 1217:2009, "Displacement compressors--Acceptance tests," (ISO 1217:2009). This document also proposes certain modifications and additions to ISO 1217:2009 to increase the specificity of certain testing methods and improve the repeatability of tested and measured values. In this notice, DOE also announces a public meeting to discuss and receive comments on issues presented in this notice of proposed rulemaking.

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Objective and rationale, including the nature of urgent problems where applicable: Protection of the environment

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Relevant documents: 81 Federal Register (FR) 27219, 5 May 2016; Title 10 Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) Parts 429 and 431.  Will appear in the Federal Register when adopted.

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Proposed date of adoption: To be determined

Proposed date of entry into force: To be determined

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Final date for comments: 5 July 2016

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Texts available from: National enquiry point [  ] or address, telephone and fax numbers and email and website addresses, if available, of other body:

https://members.wto.org/crnattachments/2016/TBT/USA/16_1850_00_e.pdf