Energy Conservation Program: Energy Conservation Standards for Fans and Blowers

Document Headings Document headings vary by document type but may contain the following: the agency or agencies that issued and signed a document the number of the CFR title and the number of each part the document amends, proposes to amend, or is directly related to the agency docket number / agency internal file number the RIN which identifies each regulatory action listed in the Unified Agenda of Federal Regulatory and Deregulatory Actions See the Document Drafting Handbook for more details. Department of Energy 10 CFR Part 431 [EERE-2022-BT-STD-0002] RIN 1904-AF40 AGENCY: Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy, Department of Energy. ACTION: Notification of data availability (“NODA”). SUMMARY: On February 8, 2022, the U.S. Department of Energy (“DOE”) published a request for information regarding energy conservation standards for fans and blowers. In this NODA, DOE is publishing preliminary inputs and methodology for its technology, screening, engineering, shipments, markups, life cycle cost, and energy use analysis for air circulating fans. Air circulating fans are a subcategory of fans; however, air circulating fans were not included in the Appliance Standards and Rulemaking Federal Advisory (“ASRAC”) negotiations undertaken in 2015 (see Docket No. EERE-2013-BT-STD-0006). The purpose of this NODA is to provide stakeholders with the opportunity to review and provide comment on DOE's preliminary technical and economic evaluation of air circulating fans, prior to DOE's publication of a notice of proposed rulemaking for all fans and blowers. The analysis presented in this NODA is consistent with the air circulating fans scope and definitions that DOE proposed in the July 25, 2022, test procedure notice of proposed rulemaking (“NOPR”) for fans and blowers (“July 2022 TP NOPR”). DOE requests comments, data, and information regarding its analysis. DATES: Written comments and information will be acce…