# Energy Conservation Program: Test Procedure for Automatic Commercial Ice Makers
> **US Department of Energy** · Final rule. · Published 2012-01-11 · Effective 2012-02-10 · 77 FR 1591
## Document
- **Document number:** 2012-218
- **Category:** other
- **Sub-agency:** US Department of Energy
- **Federal Register citation:** 77 FR 1591
- **CFR reference:** 10 CFR 431
- **Publication date:** 2012-01-11
- **Effective date:** 2012-02-10
- **Energy docket:** Docket No. EERE-2010-BT-TP-0036
## Abstract

On April 4, 2011, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE or the Department) issued a notice of proposed rulemaking (NOPR) to amend the test procedure for automatic commercial ice makers (ACIM). That NOPR serves as the basis for today's action. This final rule amends the current test procedure for automatic commercial ice makers. The changes include updating the incorporation by reference of industry test procedures to the most current published versions, expanding coverage of the test procedure to all batch type and continuous type ice makers with capacities between 50 and 4,000 pounds of ice per 24 hours, standardizing test results based on ice hardness for continuous type ice makers, clarifying the test methods and reporting requirements for automatic ice makers designed to be connected to a remote compressor rack, and discontinuing the use of a clarified energy use equation.

## Source
- [Federal Register document](https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2012/01/11/2012-218/energy-conservation-program-test-procedure-for-automatic-commercial-ice-makers)
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