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19 February 2020  
(20-1283) Page: 1/2 
Committee on Technical Barriers to Trade  Original:  English  
 
  
NOTIFICATION  
The following notification is being circulated in accordance with Article 10.6  
 
1. Notifying Member:  UNITED STATES OF AME RICA 
If applicable, name of local government involved (Article 3.2 and 7.2):   
2. Agency responsible:  Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (OEERE), 
Department of Energy (DOE) [1610]  
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  
3. Notified under Article 2.9.2 [X], 2.10.1 [   ], 5.6.2 [   ], 5.7.1 [   ], other :  
4. Products covered (HS or CCCN where applicable, otherwise national tariff 
heading. ICS numbers may be provided in addition, where applicable):  Appliance 
standards; procedures; Standardization. General rules (ICS 01.120), Environmental 
protection (ICS 13.020), Domestic electrical appliances in general (ICS 97.030)  
5. Title, number of pages and language(s) of the notified document:  Energy 
Conserv ation Program for Appliance Standards: Procedures for Evaluating Statutory 
Factors for Use in New or Revised Energy Conservation Standards (8 page(s), in English)  
6. Description of content:  Supplemental notice of proposed rulemaking - The Department 
of En ergy (DOE) is proposing amendments to its decision -making process for selecting 
energy conservation standards. More specifically, DOE is proposing changes that would 
require DOE to conduct a comparative analysis of the relative costs and benefits of all of  
the proposed alternative levels for potentially establishing or amending an energy 
conservation standard in order to make a reliable determination that the chosen 
alternative is economically justified.  
7. Objective and rationale, including the nature of urgent problems where 
applicable:  Prevention of deceptive practices and consumer protection; Protection of the 
environment; Cost saving and productivity enhancement  
8. Relevant documents:   
• 85 Federal Register (FR) 8483, 14 February 2020; Title 10 Code of Federal 
Regulations (CFR) Part 430:  
https://www.govinfo.gov/content/p kg/FR -2020-02-14/html/2020 -00022.htm  
https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/F R-2020-02-14/pdf/2020 -00022.pdf  
• G/TBT/N/USA/1441 and subsequent addenda  
9. Proposed date of adoption:  To be determined  
Proposed date of entry into force:  To be determined  G/TBT/N/USA/1583  
 
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  10. Final date for comments:  16 March 2020  
11. 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/2020/TBT/USA/20_1297_00_e.pdf  
 