Committee on Technical Barriers to Trade - Notification - United States - General service lamps - Addendum

notification

Addendum

The following communication, dated 21 July 2016, is being circulated at the request of the delegation of the United States of America.

 

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TITLE: Energy Conservation Program: Test Procedures for Certain Categories of General Service Lamps

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

ACTION: Supplemental notice of proposed rulemaking

SUMMARY: This supplemental notice of proposed rulemaking (SNOPR) proposes to establish test procedures for certain categories of general service lamps (GSLs) to support the ongoing energy conservation standards rulemaking. Specifically, this rulemaking proposes new test procedures for determining the initial lumen output, input power, lamp efficacy, power factor, and standby mode power of GSLs that are not integrated light-emitting diode (LED) lamps, compact fluorescent lamps (CFLs), or general service incandescent lamps (GSILs). This SNOPR revises the previous proposed test procedures for GSLs by referencing Illuminating Engineering Society (IES) LM-79-08 for the testing of non- integrated LED lamps. The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) is also proposing to clarify references to the existing lamp test methods and sampling plans for determining the represented values of integrated LED lamps, CFLs, and GSILs.

DATES: DOE will accept comments, data, and information regarding this SNOPR no later than 19 August 2016. See section V, "Public Participation," for details.

https://members.wto.org/crnattachments/2016/TBT/USA/16_2905_00_e.pdf

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