Energy Efficiency Program for Certain Commercial and Industrial Equipment: Test Procedures and Efficiency Standards for Commercial Warm Air Furnaces; General Provisions for Commercial Heating, Air Conditioning and Water Heating Equipment; Energy Efficiency Provisions for Electric Motors

Pursuant to Part C of Title III of the Energy Policy and Conservation Act (EPCA), the Department of Energy (DOE or the Department) promulgates a rule prescribing test procedures to rate the energy efficiency of commercial warm air furnaces. The rule also recodifies existing commercial warm air furnace energy conservation standards so that they are located contiguous with the test procedures that DOE promulgates today. For commercial heating, air conditioning and water heating products generally, the rule prescribes definitions and procedural provisions, and incorporates from EPCA general enforcement and administrative provisions. Finally, we are placing the new requirements for this equipment in the part of our regulations that already contains existing efficiency requirements for electric motors, and we are reorganizing and republishing, without substantive change, the existing requirements for motors.