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Pursuant to the 7-year look-back provision in Energy Policy and Conservation Act (EPCA) (42 U.S.C. 6314(a)(1)(A)), the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) is evaluating the test procedures for commercial refrigeration equipment (CRE) to determine whether amended test procedures for CRE would more accurately or fully comply with the requirements in EPCA that test procedures: 1) be reasonably designed to produce test results which reflect energy use during a representative average use cycle; and 2) not be unduly burdensome to conduct.

In the final rule, DOE amends the test procedures for commercial refrigerators, refrigerator-freezers, and freezers to reference the latest versions of the applicable industry standards. In the rule, DOE also establishes definitions and test procedures for new equipment categories, adopts test procedures consistent with recently published waivers and interim waivers, establishes product-specific enforcement provisions, allows for volume determinations based on computer aided designs, specifies a sampling plan for volume and total display area, and adopts additional clarifying amendments.