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Energy Conservation Program for Appliance Standards: Procedures for Evaluating Statutory Factors for Use in New or Revised Energy Conservation Standards (8 page(s), in English)
Reference: G/TBT/N/USA/1583

Date of arrival: 2020 February 19     -     Final date for comments: 2020 March 16

Description

: Supplemental notice of proposed rulemaking - The Department of Energy (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.

Objectives

Prevention of Deceptive Practices & Cons. Protect.
Protection of Environment
Other

Fields of Activity

Domestic electrical appliances in general
Environmental protection
Standardization. General rules

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