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Energy and Water Use Labeling for
Consumer Products Under the Energy
Policy and Conservation Act (‘‘Energy
Labeling Rule’’)
Federal Trade Commission
(FTC or Commission).
ACTION: Proposed rule.
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in the Federal Register of November 14,
2013, regarding Procedures for
Delegation of Administration of Grants
and Cooperative Agreements. This
correction provides the correct
regulatory identification number (RIN)
for the proposed rule.
SUMMARY:
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Leigh Pomponio, 202–358–0592.
Correction
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beginning on page 68376 in the issue of
November 14, 2013, make the following
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Comments must be received by
February 10, 2014.
ADDRESSES: Interested parties may file a
comment online or on paper by
following the instructions in the
Request for Comment part of the
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION section
below. Write ‘‘Television Labels, Matter
No. R611004’’ on your comment, and
file your comment online at https://
ftcpublic.commentworks.com/ftc/
televisionlabels by following the
instructions on the web-based form. If
you prefer to file your comment on
paper, mail or deliver your comment to
the following address: Federal Trade
Commission, Office of the Secretary,
Room H–113 (Annex F), 600
Pennsylvania Avenue NW., Washington,
DC 20580.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Hampton Newsome, (202) 326–2889,
Attorney, Division of Enforcement,
Bureau of Consumer Protection, Federal
Trade Commission, Room M–8102B,
600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW.,
Washington, DC 20580.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
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National Aeronautics and
Space Administration.
AGENCY:
Nanette Jennings,
NASA Liaison Officer.
The Commission proposes
conforming amendments to the Energy
Labeling Rule (‘‘Rule’’) to require a new
Department of Energy (DOE) test
procedure for televisions and establish
data reporting requirements for those
products.
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I. Background
The Commission’s Energy Labeling
Rule (Rule) (16 CFR Part 305), issued
pursuant to the Energy Policy and
Conservation Act (EPCA), requires
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energy labeling for major household
appliances and other consumer
products to help consumers compare
competing models. When first
published in 1979, the Rule applied to
eight product categories: Refrigerators,
refrigerator-freezers, freezers,
dishwashers, water heaters, clothes
washers, room air conditioners, and
furnaces. The Commission has since
expanded the Rule’s coverage to include
central air conditioners, heat pumps,
plumbing products, lighting products,
ceiling fans, certain types of water
heaters, and televisions.
The Rule requires manufacturers to
attach yellow EnergyGuide labels on
many of these products, and prohibits
retailers from removing the labels or
rendering them illegible. In addition,
the Rule directs sellers, including
retailers, to post label information on
Web sites and in paper catalogs from
which consumers can order products.
EnergyGuide labels for covered
appliances must contain three key
disclosures: Estimated annual energy
cost (for most products); a product’s
energy consumption or energy
efficiency rating as determined from
Department of Energy (DOE) test
procedures; and a comparability range
displaying the highest and lowest
energy costs or efficiency ratings for all
similar models.1 For energy cost
calculations, the Rule specifies national
average costs for applicable energy
sources (e.g., electricity, natural gas, oil)
as calculated by DOE. The Rule sets a
five-year schedule for updating range of
comparability and average unit energy
cost information.2 The Commission
updates the range information based on
manufacturer data submitted pursuant
to the Rule’s reporting requirements.
1 Where no ‘‘applicable’’ DOE test exists for
televisions, EPCA authorizes the Commission to use
‘‘adequate non-Department of Energy test
procedures’’ to obtain information for energy
disclosures. 42 U.S.C. 6294(a)(2)(I)(ii). During FTC’s
television labeling proceeding, DOE announced
plans to develop a new test procedure. 74 FR 53640,
53641 (Oct. 20, 2009).
2 16 CFR 305.10.
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II. Proposed Amendments
The Commission now proposes
conforming amendments to revise the
Rule’s television testing and reporting
requirements in response to a new DOE
television test procedure published on
October 25, 2013 (78 FR 63823). These
amendments will ensure the Rule’s
television labeling requirements are
consistent with EPCA, which mandates
that FTC labels reflect applicable DOE
test procedures when available.3
When the Commission first issued
labeling requirements for televisions in
2011 (76 FR 1038 (Jan. 6, 2011)), no
DOE test procedure existed for such
products. Accordingly, the FTC required
manufacturers to use the Environmental
Protection Agency’s (EPA’s) ENERGY
STAR test procedure to measure
television energy use. However, as
discussed in several previous Federal
Register Notices, the Commission has
anticipated that amendments would be
necessary after completion of the DOE
test procedure.4 DOE’s recently
completed test procedure supersedes
the ENERGY STAR procedure and
triggers EPCA’s directive for
manufacturers to begin using the new
procedure 180 days after its issuance.5
To conform the labeling rule to the
new DOE test procedure, the
Commission proposes three
amendments. First, consistent with
EPCA’s mandate requiring DOE test
procedures for labeling, the Commission
plans to remove the Rule’s reference to
the ENERGY STAR test in section 305.5
and replace it with the DOE procedure.6
Second, the Commission proposes a
new reporting requirement for
televisions consistent with requirements
for most other labeled products, such as
refrigerators and clothes washers.7
3 42
U.S.C. 6294(c).
example, the Commission explained in 2011
that ‘‘[w]hen DOE completes its own rulemaking to
develop a television test procedure for use in that
agency’s efficiency standards program, the
Commission will issue conforming amendments
consistent with EPCA’s requirements that the labels
use information from DOE test procedures when
such procedures are available.’’ 76 FR 1038, 1040
(Jan. 6, 2011). See also 78 FR 43974, 43975 (July
23, 2013); 78 FR 1779, 1780 (Jan. 9, 2013).
5 Any energy representation, including those
made on a label, for a covered product must fairly
reflect the results of a new DOE test procedure 180
days after that test’s issuance. See 42 U.S.C.
6293(c)(2). In its October 25, 2013 Notice, DOE
identified April 23, 2014 as the date for revised
representations.
6 EPCA gives Commission no discretion to retain
the ENERGY STAR procedure. 42 U.S.C.
6294(a)(2)(I).
7 The new DOE test procedure triggers EPCA’s
reporting provisions, which require manufacturers
to submit energy reports to the Commission derived
from DOE test procedures for all new models and
annually for models in current production. 42
U.S.C. 6296(b)(1) and (4). Consistent with the Rule’s
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Manufacturers may submit their new
television data through the DOE’s webbased reporting tool, the Compliance
and Certification Management System
(CCMS).8 To ensure that EPCA’s 180day period (i.e., April 23, 2014) is
complete before requiring the first
round of data reports, the Commission
proposes a May 1 date for annual
submissions pursuant to the Rule’s
reporting schedule (section 305.8). After
the Commission reviews the new data,
it will consider issuing updated
comparability ranges for television
labels.9 Finally, the proposed
amendments update the definition of
‘‘television’’ in section 305.3 to
incorporate DOE’s definition of that
term as well as limit labeling coverage
to the scope of DOE’s test procedure.
For the most part, DOE’s definition of
‘‘television’’ and the coverage of its test
procedure are consistent with FTC’s
current rule. However, DOE determined
not to cover very small models with
screen sizes of 15 inches or fewer in its
procedure because consumers often do
not use such devices as typical
televisions.10
III. Paperwork Reduction Act
The current Rule contains
recordkeeping, disclosure, testing, and
reporting requirements that constitute
information collection requirements as
defined by 5 CFR 1320.3(c), the
definitional provision within the Office
of Management and Budget (OMB)
regulations that implement the
Paperwork Reduction Act (PRA). OMB
has approved the Rule’s existing
information collection requirements
through February 29, 2016 (OMB
Control No. 3084 0069). The
Commission accounted for the burden
of testing and labeling televisions when
it first issued the labeling requirements
(76 FR 1038 (Jan. 6, 2011)). However,
the new DOE test procedure triggers
EPCA’s requirement that manufacturers
retest their televisions for any energy
representations made 180 days after
DOE publishes the test, including those
on the FTC label. This creates an
required reports for other covered products, the
content for the television reports in the proposed
amendments include brand name; model number;
screen size (diagonal in inches); power (in watts)
consumed in on mode, standby-passive mode, in
standby-active mode, low mode, and off mode; and
annual energy consumption (kWh/year) for each
basic model in current production.
8 See https://www.regulations.doe.gov/ccms.
9 Section 305.17 contains the television ranges.
10 See 10 CFR 430.2 and App. H, sec. 1; 78 FR
at 63825–63826. The proposed amendments also
would delete obsolete § 305.17(h), which contains
specific labeling directions for televisions of nine
inches or fewer. The Commission will consider
revisions to the ranges in § 305.17 once data based
on the DOE test procedure becomes available.
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additional, one-time burden. In issuing
the television labels, FTC staff estimated
that 2,000 basic models exist in the
marketplace, that manufacturers test
two units per model, and that testing
requires one hour per unit tested. Using
these estimates, the Commission expects
the new testing will require a one-time
burden of 4,000 additional hours of
burden. Annualized over a 3-year PRA
clearance cycle, this one-time burden
amounts to 1,333 hours. Assuming
further that this testing will be
implemented by electrical engineers,
and applying an associated hourly wage
rate of $44.14 per hour, labor costs for
testing would annualized total of
$58,839.11 In addition, the amendments
would increase the Rule’s reporting
requirements. Staff estimates that the
average reporting burden for these
manufacturers is approximately two
minutes per basic model to enter
information into DOE’s online database.
Based on this estimate, multiplied by an
estimated total of 2,000 basic television
models, the annual reporting burden for
manufacturers is an estimated 67 hours
(2 minutes × 2,000 models ÷ 60 minutes
per hour). Assuming further that these
filing requirements will be implemented
by data entry workers at an hourly wage
rate of $15.11 per hour, the associated
labor cost for recordkeeping would be
approximately $1,012 per year.12 Any
non-labor costs associated with the
amendments are likely to be minimal.
IV. Regulatory Flexibility Act
The Regulatory Flexibility Act (RFA),
5 U.S.C. 601–612, requires that the
Commission provide an Initial
Regulatory Flexibility Analysis (IRFA)
with a Proposed Rule and a Final
Regulatory Flexibility Analysis (FRFA),
if any, with the final Rule, unless the
Commission certifies that the Rule will
not have a significant economic impact
on a substantial number of small
entities.13
The Commission does not anticipate
that the Proposed Rule will have a
significant economic impact on a
substantial number of small entities.
Consistent with past analysis (76 FR at
1049), the Commission estimates that
these new requirements will apply to
about 30 product manufacturers. Out of
these companies, the Commission
expects that no manufactures qualify as
11 See Bureau of Labor Statistics, U.S. Department
of Labor, Occupational Employment and Wages—
May 2012, Table 1 (National employment and wage
data from the Occupational Employment Statistics
survey by occupation, May 2012), available at:
https://www.bls.gov/news.release/ocwage.t01.htm.
12 See id.
13 5 U.S.C. 603–605.
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small businesses.14 Furthermore, the
Commission does not expect that the
requirements specified in the Proposed
Rule will have a significant impact on
these entities. In addition, the
Commission does not expect that the
label design and other requirements
specified in the Proposed Rule will have
a significant economic impact on these
entities.
Accordingly, this document serves as
notice to the Small Business
Administration of the FTC’s
certification of no effect. To ensure the
accuracy of this certification, however,
the Commission requests comment on
whether the Proposed Rule will have a
significant impact on a substantial
number of small entities, including
specific information on the number of
entities that would be covered by the
Proposed Rule, the number of these
companies that are ‘‘small entities,’’
under the RFA, and the average annual
burden for each entity. Although the
Commission certifies under the RFA
that the Rule proposed in this Notice
would not, if promulgated, have a
significant impact on a substantial
number of small entities, the
Commission has determined,
nonetheless, that it is appropriate to
publish an IRFA in order to inquire into
the impact of the Proposed Rule on
small entities. Therefore, the
Commission has prepared the following
analysis:
A. Description of the Reasons That
Action by the Agency Is Being Taken
The Commission is proposing
amendments to conform the Rule to a
recently published DOE test procedure
for televisions.
B. Statement of the Objectives of, and
Legal Basis for, the Proposed Rule
The objective of the Proposed Rule is
to provide television energy use
information to consumers. EPCA
provides the Commission with authority
to require energy disclosures for
televisions and other consumer
electronics.
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C. Small Entities To Which the Proposed
Rule Will Apply
Under the Small Business Size
Standards issued by the Small Business
Administration, television
manufacturers qualify as small
businesses if they have fewer than 1,000
employees (for other household
appliances the figure is 500 employees)
or if their sales are less than $8.0
14 See also 78 FR at 63838 (DOE’s conclusion that
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million annually. The Commission
estimates that no manufacturers subject
to the Proposed Rule qualify as small
businesses. The Commission seeks
comment and information with regard
to the estimated number or nature of
small business entities for which the
Proposed Rule would have a significant
economic impact
D. Projected Reporting, Recordkeeping,
and Other Compliance Requirements
The Commission recognizes that the
proposed rule will involve some
increased costs related to reporting
these products, and maintaining test
records. All of these burdens and the
skills required to comply are discussed
in the previous section of this
document, regarding the Paperwork
Reduction Act, and there should be no
difference in that burden as applied to
small businesses. The Commission
invites comment and information on
these issues.
E. Duplicative, Overlapping, or
Conflicting Federal Rules
The Commission has not identified
any other federal statutes, rules, or
policies that would duplicate, overlap,
or conflict with the Proposed Rule. The
Commission invites comment and
information on this issue.
F. Significant Alternatives to the
Proposed Rule
The Commission seeks comment and
information on the need, if any, for
alternative compliance methods that
would reduce the economic impact of
the Rule on such small entities. As one
alternative to reduce burden, the
Commission could delay the proposed
Rule’s reporting date to provide
additional time for small business
compliance. If the comments filed in
response to this Notice identify small
entities that would be affected by the
Rule, as well as alternative methods of
compliance that would reduce the
economic impact of the Rule on such
entities, the Commission will consider
the feasibility of such alternatives and
determine whether they should be
incorporated into the final rule.
V. Request for Comments
You can file a comment online or on
paper. For the Commission to consider
your comment, we must receive it on or
before February 10, 2014. Write
‘‘Television Labels, Matter No.
R611004’’ on your comment. Your
comment—including your name and
your state—will be placed on the public
record of this proceeding, including, to
the extent practicable, on the public
Commission Web site, at https://
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www.ftc.gov/os/publiccomments.shtm.
As a matter of discretion, the
Commission tries to remove individuals’
home contact information from
comments before placing them on the
Commission Web site.
Because your comment will be made
public, you are solely responsible for
making sure that your comment does
not include any sensitive personal
information, such as anyone’s Social
Security number, date of birth, driver’s
license number or other state
identification number or foreign country
equivalent, passport number, financial
account number, or credit or debit card
number. You are also solely responsible
for making sure that your comment does
not include any sensitive health
information, such as medical records or
other individually identifiable health
information. In addition, do not include
any ‘‘[t]rade secret or any commercial or
financial information which is . . .
privileged or confidential,’’ as discussed
in § 6(f) of the FTC Act, 15 U.S.C. 46(f),
and FTC Rule 4.10(a)(2), 16 CFR
4.10(a)(2). In particular, do not include
competitively sensitive information
such as costs, sales statistics,
inventories, formulas, patterns, devices,
manufacturing processes, or customer
names.
If you want the Commission to give
your comment confidential treatment,
you must file it in paper form, with a
request for confidential treatment, and
you have to follow the procedure
explained in FTC Rule 4.9(c), 16 CFR
4.9(c). Your comment will be kept
confidential only if the FTC General
Counsel, in his or her sole discretion,
grants your request in accordance with
the law and the public interest.
Postal mail addressed to the
Commission is subject to delay due to
heightened security screening. As a
result, we encourage you to submit your
comments online. To make sure that the
Commission considers your online
comment, you must file it at https://
ftcpublic.commentworks.com/ftc/
televisionlabels, by following the
instruction on the web-based form. If
this Notice appears at https://
www.regulations.gov, you also may file
a comment through that Web site.
If you file your comment on paper,
write ‘‘Television Labels, Matter No.
R611004’’ on your comment and on the
envelope, and mail or deliver it to the
following address: Federal Trade
Commission, Office of the Secretary,
Room H–113 (Annex F), 600
Pennsylvania Avenue NW., Washington,
DC 20580. If possible, submit your
paper comment to the Commission by
courier or overnight service.
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Visit the Commission Web site at
https://www.ftc.gov to read this NPRM
and the news release describing it. The
FTC Act and other laws that the
Commission administers permit the
collection of public comments to
consider and use in this proceeding, as
appropriate. The Commission will
consider all timely and responsive
public comments that it receives on or
before February 10, 2014. You can find
more information, including routine
uses permitted by the Privacy Act, in
the Commission’s privacy policy, at
https://www.ftc.gov/ftc/privacy.htm.
Because written comments appear
adequate to present the views of all
interested parties, the Commission has
not scheduled an oral hearing regarding
these proposed amendments. Interested
parties may request an opportunity to
present views orally. If such a request is
made, the Commission will publish a
document in the Federal Register
stating the time and place for such oral
presentation(s) and describing the
procedures that will be followed.
Interested parties who wish to present
oral views must submit a hearing
request, on or before January 15, 2014,
in the form of a written comment that
describes the issues on which the party
wishes to speak. If there is no oral
hearing, the Commission will base its
decision on the written rulemaking
record.
VI. Communications by Outside Parties
to the Commissioners or Their Advisors
Written communications and
summaries or transcripts of oral
communications respecting the merits
of this proceeding, from any outside
party to any Commissioner or
Commissioner’s advisor, will be placed
on the public record. See 16 CFR
1.26(b)(5).
List of Subjects in 16 CFR Part 305
Advertising, Energy conservation,
Household appliances, Labeling,
reporting and recordkeeping
requirements.
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For the reasons set out above, the
Commission proposes to amend 16 CFR
Part 305 as follows:
PART 305—ENERGY AND WATER USE
LABELING FOR CONSUMER
PRODUCTS UNDER THE ENERGY
POLICY AND CONSERVATION ACT
(‘‘ENERGY LABELING RULE’’)
1. The authority citation for Part 305
continues to read as follows:
Authority: 42 U.S.C. 6294.
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(y) Television means a product that is
designed to produce dynamic video,
contains an internal TV tuner encased
within the product housing, and is
capable of receiving dynamic visual
content from wired or wireless sources
including but not limited to:
(1) Broadcast and similar services for
terrestrial, cable, satellite, and/or
broadband transmission of analog and/
or digital signals; and/or
(2) Display-specific data connections,
such as HDMI, Component video,
Svideo, Composite video; and/or
(3) Media storage devices such as a
USB flash drive, memory card, or a
DVD; and/or
(4) Network connections, usually
using Internet Protocol, typically carried
over Ethernet or Wi-Fi.
(z) The requirements of this part are
limited to those televisions for which
the Department of Energy has adopted
and published test procedures for
measuring energy use.
■ 3. In § 305.5, remove paragraph (d),
redesignate paragraph (e) as paragraph
(d), and revise newly redesignated
paragraph (d) to read as follows:
§ 305.5 Determinations of estimated
annual energy consumption, estimated
annual operating cost, and energy
efficiency rating, water use rate, and other
required disclosure content.
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(d) Representations for ceiling fans
under § 305.13 and televisions under
§ 305.17 must be derived from
applicable procedures in 10 CFR parts
429, 430, and 431.
■ 4. In § 305.8, revise paragraph (a)(1);
redesignate paragraph (a)(3) as
paragraph (a)(4); add new paragraph
(a)(3), and revise newly redesignated
paragraph (a)(4) and paragraph (b)(1) to
read as follows:
the Commission as required by this
section, manufacturers may submit such
information to the Department of Energy
via the Compliance and Certification
Management System (CCMS) at https://
regulations.doe.gov/ccms as provided
by 10 CFR 429.12.
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(3) Manufacturers of televisions shall
submit annually a report containing the
brand name; model number; screen size
(diagonal in inches); power (in watts)
consumed in on mode, standby-passive
mode, in standby-active mode, low
mode, and off mode; and annual energy
consumption (kWh/year) for each basic
model in current production. The report
should also include a starting serial
number, date code, or other means of
identifying the date of manufacture with
the first submission for each basic
model. In lieu of submitting the
required information to the Commission
as required by this section,
manufacturers may submit such
information to the Department of Energy
via the Compliance and Certification
Management System (CCMS) at https://
regulations.doe.gov/ccms as provided
by 10 CFR 429.12.
(4) This section does not require
reports for general service light-emitting
diode (LED or OLED) lamps.
(b)(1) All data required by § 305.8(a)
except serial numbers shall be
submitted to the Commission annually,
on or before the following dates:
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add paragraph (z) to read as follows:
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(a)(1) Except as provided in
paragraphs (a)(2) through (4) of this
section, each manufacturer of a covered
product subject to the disclosure
requirements of this part and subject to
Department of Energy certification
requirements in 10 CFR part 429 shall
submit annually a report for each model
in current production containing the
same information that must be
submitted to the Department of Energy
pursuant to 10 CFR part 429 for that
product, and that the Department has
identified as public information
pursuant to 10 CFR part 429. In lieu of
submitting the required information to
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Product category
Refrigerators ...............................
Refrigerators-freezers .................
Freezers ......................................
Central air conditioners ..............
Heat pumps ................................
Dishwashers ...............................
Water heaters .............................
Room air conditioners ................
Furnaces .....................................
Pool heaters ...............................
Clothes washers .........................
Fluorescent lamp ballasts ...........
Showerheads ..............................
Faucets .......................................
Water closets ..............................
Ceiling fans .................................
Urinals .........................................
Metal halide lamp fixtures ..........
General service fluorescent
lamps.
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FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Donald S. Clark,
Secretary.
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LIBRARY OF CONGRESS
U.S. Copyright Office
37 CFR Parts 201 and 210
[Docket No. 2012–7]
Mechanical and Digital Phonorecord
Delivery Compulsory License
U.S. Copyright Office, Library
of Congress.
ACTION: Request for additional
comments.
AGENCY:
The U.S. Copyright Office
(‘‘Office’’ or ‘‘Copyright Office’’) of the
Library of Congress requests additional
public comments on clarifying the terms
in the Monthly and Annual Statements
of Account for the making and
distribution of phonorecords.
DATES: Additional comments on the
proposed rule published July 27, 2012
(77 FR 44179), must be received in the
Office of the General Counsel of the
Copyright Office no later than 5 p.m.
Eastern Daylight Time (EDT) on January
30, 2014. Reply comments must be
received no later than 5 p.m. EDT on
February 14, 2014.
ADDRESSES: The Copyright Office
strongly prefers that comments be
submitted electronically. A comment
submission page is posted on the
Copyright Office Web site at https://
www.copyright.gov/docs/section115/
soa/comments/. The Web site interface
requires submitters to complete a form
specifying name and other required
information, and to upload comments as
an attachment. To meet accessibility
standards, all comments must be
uploaded in a single file in either the
Portable Document File (PDF) format
that contains searchable, accessible text
(not an image); Microsoft Word;
WordPerfect; Rich Text Format (RTF); or
ASCII text file format (not a scanned
document). The maximum file size is 6
megabytes (MB). The name of the
submitter and organization should
appear on both the form and the face of
the comments. All comments will be
posted publicly on the Copyright Office
Web site exactly as they are received,
along with names and organizations if
provided. If electronic submission of
comments is not feasible, please contact
the Copyright Office at (202) 707–8380
for special instructions.
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William Roberts, Senior Counsel to the
Register of Copyrights, or Stephen
Ruwe, Attorney Advisor, Copyright GC/
I&R, P.O. Box 70400, Washington, DC
20024. Telephone: (202) 707–8380.
Telefax: (202) 707–8366.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: On July
27, 2012, the Copyright Office published
a notice of proposed rulemaking
(‘‘NPRM’’) and request for comments
concerning new regulations that would
amend the requirements for reporting
Monthly and Annual Statements of
Account for the making and distribution
of phonorecords under the compulsory
license, 17 U.S.C. 115, to bring the
regulations up to date to accommodate
certain rates and terms proposed by the
Copyright Royalty Judges (‘‘Judges’’)
that provided for a multi-step process
for calculating royalties for certain new
services, including limited offerings,
mixed service bundles, paid locker
services and purchased content locker
services. Mechanical and Digital
Phonorecord Delivery Compulsory
License; Notice of proposed rulemaking,
77 FR 44179, July 27, 2012.
The NPRM noted that the existing
regulations addressing Statements of
Account are designed to address flat
penny rates, such as those that are still
applicable for the making and
distribution of physical phonorecords,
permanent digital downloads and
ringtones. The Office also observed that
the current regulations do not
specifically accommodate the more
complex methods for calculating the
royalties contained in the Judges’ May
17, 2012 proposed rule, announced in
the context of the Judges’ royalty rate
adjustment proceeding in Docket No.
2011–3 CRB Phonorecords II. See, 77 FR
29259, May 17, 2012. In order to address
this concern, the Copyright Office,
acting under the authority set forth in 17
U.S.C. 115(c)(5), initiated a rulemaking
to amend the Statement of Account
provisions. In large part, the proposed
regulations incorporate by reference the
methodology adopted by the Judges in
their 2009 determination, which are
mirrored in the regulations adopting
new rates and terms for the current
licensing period. However, the NPRM
identified a number of issues associated
with the new rate structure that require
careful consideration before adoption.
See, 77 FR at 44181–185.
In response to joint motions by
several parties requesting more time to
provide input, the Office decided to
extend the comment and reply comment
periods. Mechanical and Digital
Phonorecord Delivery Compulsory
License; Notice of proposed rulemaking:
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comment periods. 77 FR 55783, Sept.
11, 2012; Mechanical and Digital
Phonorecord Delivery Compulsory
License; Extension of reply comment
periods. 77 FR 68075, Nov. 15, 2012.
The Office withheld further action in
this rulemaking pending the Judges’
adoption of final rates and terms.
On November 13, 2013, the Judges
issued final rates and terms for the
section 115 license. Adjustment of
Determination of Compulsory License
Rates for Mechanical and Digital
Phonorecord, Final rule. 78 FR 67938,
Nov. 13, 2013. The final rates and terms
differed from the 2012 proposed rates
and terms in certain respects, due in
part to actions taken by the Judges.
Specifically, the Judges referred material
questions of law to the Register of
Copyrights concerning their authority to
adopt certain terms relating to
statements of account. Order Referring
Material Questions of Law and Setting
Briefing Schedule (March 27, 2013). The
Judges also referred novel material
questions of substantive law to the
Register concerning their authority to
adopt certain terms. Order Referring
Novel Questions of Law and Setting
Briefing Schedule (May 17, 2013). In
light of the Register’s timely responses
to these referred questions, the Judges
declined to adopt certain terms
contained in the May 17, 2012 proposed
rule. Adjustment of Determination of
Compulsory License Rates for
Mechanical and Digital Phonorecord.
Final rule. 78 FR 67938, Nov. 13, 2013.
The Office finds that the conclusion
of the recent proceeding and adoption of
new rates and terms for the current
licensing period may be pertinent to the
issues raised in this rulemaking.
Likewise, due to the passage of time
since the issuance of the NPRM,
marketplace developments and changes
in business models may be relevant to
the amendment of the regulations.
Consequently, the Office has decided to
extend an opportunity for such
additional comments and supporting
information. Interested parties are
strongly encouraged to offer information
and/or documentation to support
arguments or conclusions offered in
their comments. Any additional
comments must be received in the
Office of the General Counsel of the
Copyright Office no later than January
30, 2014, and reply comments no later
than February 14, 2014.
Dated: December 17, 2013.
Maria A. Pallante,
Register of Copyrights.
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FEDERAL TRADE COMMISSION
16 CFR Part 305
[3084-AB15]
Energy and Water Use Labeling for Consumer Products Under the
Energy Policy and Conservation Act (``Energy Labeling Rule'')
AGENCY: Federal Trade Commission (FTC or Commission).
ACTION: Proposed rule.
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SUMMARY: The Commission proposes conforming amendments to the Energy
Labeling Rule (``Rule'') to require a new Department of Energy (DOE)
test procedure for televisions and establish data reporting
requirements for those products.
DATES: Comments must be received by February 10, 2014.
ADDRESSES: Interested parties may file a comment online or on paper by
following the instructions in the Request for Comment part of the
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION section below. Write ``Television Labels,
Matter No. R611004'' on your comment, and file your comment online at
https://ftcpublic.commentworks.com/ftc/televisionlabels by following
the instructions on the web-based form. If you prefer to file your
comment on paper, mail or deliver your comment to the following
address: Federal Trade Commission, Office of the Secretary, Room H-113
(Annex F), 600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW., Washington, DC 20580.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Hampton Newsome, (202) 326-2889,
Attorney, Division of Enforcement, Bureau of Consumer Protection,
Federal Trade Commission, Room M-8102B, 600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW.,
Washington, DC 20580.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
I. Background
The Commission's Energy Labeling Rule (Rule) (16 CFR Part 305),
issued pursuant to the Energy Policy and Conservation Act (EPCA),
requires energy labeling for major household appliances and other
consumer products to help consumers compare competing models. When
first published in 1979, the Rule applied to eight product categories:
Refrigerators, refrigerator-freezers, freezers, dishwashers, water
heaters, clothes washers, room air conditioners, and furnaces. The
Commission has since expanded the Rule's coverage to include central
air conditioners, heat pumps, plumbing products, lighting products,
ceiling fans, certain types of water heaters, and televisions.
The Rule requires manufacturers to attach yellow EnergyGuide labels
on many of these products, and prohibits retailers from removing the
labels or rendering them illegible. In addition, the Rule directs
sellers, including retailers, to post label information on Web sites
and in paper catalogs from which consumers can order products.
EnergyGuide labels for covered appliances must contain three key
disclosures: Estimated annual energy cost (for most products); a
product's energy consumption or energy efficiency rating as determined
from Department of Energy (DOE) test procedures; and a comparability
range displaying the highest and lowest energy costs or efficiency
ratings for all similar models.\1\ For energy cost calculations, the
Rule specifies national average costs for applicable energy sources
(e.g., electricity, natural gas, oil) as calculated by DOE. The Rule
sets a five-year schedule for updating range of comparability and
average unit energy cost information.\2\ The Commission updates the
range information based on manufacturer data submitted pursuant to the
Rule's reporting requirements.
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\1\ Where no ``applicable'' DOE test exists for televisions,
EPCA authorizes the Commission to use ``adequate non-Department of
Energy test procedures'' to obtain information for energy
disclosures. 42 U.S.C. 6294(a)(2)(I)(ii). During FTC's television
labeling proceeding, DOE announced plans to develop a new test
procedure. 74 FR 53640, 53641 (Oct. 20, 2009).
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II. Proposed Amendments
The Commission now proposes conforming amendments to revise the
Rule's television testing and reporting requirements in response to a
new DOE television test procedure published on October 25, 2013 (78 FR
63823). These amendments will ensure the Rule's television labeling
requirements are consistent with EPCA, which mandates that FTC labels
reflect applicable DOE test procedures when available.\3\
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When the Commission first issued labeling requirements for
televisions in 2011 (76 FR 1038 (Jan. 6, 2011)), no DOE test procedure
existed for such products. Accordingly, the FTC required manufacturers
to use the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA's) ENERGY STAR test
procedure to measure television energy use. However, as discussed in
several previous Federal Register Notices, the Commission has
anticipated that amendments would be necessary after completion of the
DOE test procedure.\4\ DOE's recently completed test procedure
supersedes the ENERGY STAR procedure and triggers EPCA's directive for
manufacturers to begin using the new procedure 180 days after its
issuance.\5\
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\4\ For example, the Commission explained in 2011 that ``[w]hen
DOE completes its own rulemaking to develop a television test
procedure for use in that agency's efficiency standards program, the
Commission will issue conforming amendments consistent with EPCA's
requirements that the labels use information from DOE test
procedures when such procedures are available.'' 76 FR 1038, 1040
(Jan. 6, 2011). See also 78 FR 43974, 43975 (July 23, 2013); 78 FR
1779, 1780 (Jan. 9, 2013).
\5\ Any energy representation, including those made on a label,
for a covered product must fairly reflect the results of a new DOE
test procedure 180 days after that test's issuance. See 42 U.S.C.
6293(c)(2). In its October 25, 2013 Notice, DOE identified April 23,
2014 as the date for revised representations.
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To conform the labeling rule to the new DOE test procedure, the
Commission proposes three amendments. First, consistent with EPCA's
mandate requiring DOE test procedures for labeling, the Commission
plans to remove the Rule's reference to the ENERGY STAR test in section
305.5 and replace it with the DOE procedure.\6\ Second, the Commission
proposes a new reporting requirement for televisions consistent with
requirements for most other labeled products, such as refrigerators and
clothes washers.\7\ Manufacturers may submit their new television data
through the DOE's web-based reporting tool, the Compliance and
Certification Management System (CCMS).\8\ To ensure that EPCA's 180-
day period (i.e., April 23, 2014) is complete before requiring the
first round of data reports, the Commission proposes a May 1 date for
annual submissions pursuant to the Rule's reporting schedule (section
305.8). After the Commission reviews the new data, it will consider
issuing updated comparability ranges for television labels.\9\ Finally,
the proposed amendments update the definition of ``television'' in
section 305.3 to incorporate DOE's definition of that term as well as
limit labeling coverage to the scope of DOE's test procedure. For the
most part, DOE's definition of ``television'' and the coverage of its
test procedure are consistent with FTC's current rule. However, DOE
determined not to cover very small models with screen sizes of 15
inches or fewer in its procedure because consumers often do not use
such devices as typical televisions.\10\
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\6\ EPCA gives Commission no discretion to retain the ENERGY
STAR procedure. 42 U.S.C. 6294(a)(2)(I).
\7\ The new DOE test procedure triggers EPCA's reporting
provisions, which require manufacturers to submit energy reports to
the Commission derived from DOE test procedures for all new models
and annually for models in current production. 42 U.S.C. 6296(b)(1)
and (4). Consistent with the Rule's required reports for other
covered products, the content for the television reports in the
proposed amendments include brand name; model number; screen size
(diagonal in inches); power (in watts) consumed in on mode, standby-
passive mode, in standby-active mode, low mode, and off mode; and
annual energy consumption (kWh/year) for each basic model in current
production.
\8\ See https://www.regulations.doe.gov/ccms.
\9\ Section 305.17 contains the television ranges.
\10\ See 10 CFR 430.2 and App. H, sec. 1; 78 FR at 63825-63826.
The proposed amendments also would delete obsolete Sec. 305.17(h),
which contains specific labeling directions for televisions of nine
inches or fewer. The Commission will consider revisions to the
ranges in Sec. 305.17 once data based on the DOE test procedure
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III. Paperwork Reduction Act
The current Rule contains recordkeeping, disclosure, testing, and
reporting requirements that constitute information collection
requirements as defined by 5 CFR 1320.3(c), the definitional provision
within the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) regulations that
implement the Paperwork Reduction Act (PRA). OMB has approved the
Rule's existing information collection requirements through February
29, 2016 (OMB Control No. 3084 0069). The Commission accounted for the
burden of testing and labeling televisions when it first issued the
labeling requirements (76 FR 1038 (Jan. 6, 2011)). However, the new DOE
test procedure triggers EPCA's requirement that manufacturers retest
their televisions for any energy representations made 180 days after
DOE publishes the test, including those on the FTC label. This creates
an additional, one-time burden. In issuing the television labels, FTC
staff estimated that 2,000 basic models exist in the marketplace, that
manufacturers test two units per model, and that testing requires one
hour per unit tested. Using these estimates, the Commission expects the
new testing will require a one-time burden of 4,000 additional hours of
burden. Annualized over a 3-year PRA clearance cycle, this one-time
burden amounts to 1,333 hours. Assuming further that this testing will
be implemented by electrical engineers, and applying an associated
hourly wage rate of $44.14 per hour, labor costs for testing would
annualized total of $58,839.\11\ In addition, the amendments would
increase the Rule's reporting requirements. Staff estimates that the
average reporting burden for these manufacturers is approximately two
minutes per basic model to enter information into DOE's online
database. Based on this estimate, multiplied by an estimated total of
2,000 basic television models, the annual reporting burden for
manufacturers is an estimated 67 hours (2 minutes x 2,000 models / 60
minutes per hour). Assuming further that these filing requirements will
be implemented by data entry workers at an hourly wage rate of $15.11
per hour, the associated labor cost for recordkeeping would be
approximately $1,012 per year.\12\ Any non-labor costs associated with
the amendments are likely to be minimal.
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\11\ See Bureau of Labor Statistics, U.S. Department of Labor,
Occupational Employment and Wages--May 2012, Table 1 (National
employment and wage data from the Occupational Employment Statistics
survey by occupation, May 2012), available at: https://www.bls.gov/news.release/ocwage.t01.htm.
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IV. Regulatory Flexibility Act
The Regulatory Flexibility Act (RFA), 5 U.S.C. 601-612, requires
that the Commission provide an Initial Regulatory Flexibility Analysis
(IRFA) with a Proposed Rule and a Final Regulatory Flexibility Analysis
(FRFA), if any, with the final Rule, unless the Commission certifies
that the Rule will not have a significant economic impact on a
substantial number of small entities.\13\
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The Commission does not anticipate that the Proposed Rule will have
a significant economic impact on a substantial number of small
entities. Consistent with past analysis (76 FR at 1049), the Commission
estimates that these new requirements will apply to about 30 product
manufacturers. Out of these companies, the Commission expects that no
manufactures qualify as
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small businesses.\14\ Furthermore, the Commission does not expect that
the requirements specified in the Proposed Rule will have a significant
impact on these entities. In addition, the Commission does not expect
that the label design and other requirements specified in the Proposed
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Accordingly, this document serves as notice to the Small Business
Administration of the FTC's certification of no effect. To ensure the
accuracy of this certification, however, the Commission requests
comment on whether the Proposed Rule will have a significant impact on
a substantial number of small entities, including specific information
on the number of entities that would be covered by the Proposed Rule,
the number of these companies that are ``small entities,'' under the
RFA, and the average annual burden for each entity. Although the
Commission certifies under the RFA that the Rule proposed in this
Notice would not, if promulgated, have a significant impact on a
substantial number of small entities, the Commission has determined,
nonetheless, that it is appropriate to publish an IRFA in order to
inquire into the impact of the Proposed Rule on small entities.
Therefore, the Commission has prepared the following analysis:
A. Description of the Reasons That Action by the Agency Is Being Taken
The Commission is proposing amendments to conform the Rule to a
recently published DOE test procedure for televisions.
B. Statement of the Objectives of, and Legal Basis for, the Proposed
Rule
The objective of the Proposed Rule is to provide television energy
use information to consumers. EPCA provides the Commission with
authority to require energy disclosures for televisions and other
consumer electronics.
C. Small Entities To Which the Proposed Rule Will Apply
Under the Small Business Size Standards issued by the Small
Business Administration, television manufacturers qualify as small
businesses if they have fewer than 1,000 employees (for other household
appliances the figure is 500 employees) or if their sales are less than
$8.0 million annually. The Commission estimates that no manufacturers
subject to the Proposed Rule qualify as small businesses. The
Commission seeks comment and information with regard to the estimated
number or nature of small business entities for which the Proposed Rule
would have a significant economic impact
D. Projected Reporting, Recordkeeping, and Other Compliance
Requirements
The Commission recognizes that the proposed rule will involve some
increased costs related to reporting these products, and maintaining
test records. All of these burdens and the skills required to comply
are discussed in the previous section of this document, regarding the
Paperwork Reduction Act, and there should be no difference in that
burden as applied to small businesses. The Commission invites comment
and information on these issues.
E. Duplicative, Overlapping, or Conflicting Federal Rules
The Commission has not identified any other federal statutes,
rules, or policies that would duplicate, overlap, or conflict with the
Proposed Rule. The Commission invites comment and information on this
issue.
F. Significant Alternatives to the Proposed Rule
The Commission seeks comment and information on the need, if any,
for alternative compliance methods that would reduce the economic
impact of the Rule on such small entities. As one alternative to reduce
burden, the Commission could delay the proposed Rule's reporting date
to provide additional time for small business compliance. If the
comments filed in response to this Notice identify small entities that
would be affected by the Rule, as well as alternative methods of
compliance that would reduce the economic impact of the Rule on such
entities, the Commission will consider the feasibility of such
alternatives and determine whether they should be incorporated into the
final rule.
V. Request for Comments
You can file a comment online or on paper. For the Commission to
consider your comment, we must receive it on or before February 10,
2014. Write ``Television Labels, Matter No. R611004'' on your comment.
Your comment--including your name and your state--will be placed on the
public record of this proceeding, including, to the extent practicable,
on the public Commission Web site, at https://www.ftc.gov/os/publiccomments.shtm. As a matter of discretion, the Commission tries to
remove individuals' home contact information from comments before
placing them on the Commission Web site.
Because your comment will be made public, you are solely
responsible for making sure that your comment does not include any
sensitive personal information, such as anyone's Social Security
number, date of birth, driver's license number or other state
identification number or foreign country equivalent, passport number,
financial account number, or credit or debit card number. You are also
solely responsible for making sure that your comment does not include
any sensitive health information, such as medical records or other
individually identifiable health information. In addition, do not
include any ``[t]rade secret or any commercial or financial information
which is . . . privileged or confidential,'' as discussed in Sec. 6(f)
of the FTC Act, 15 U.S.C. 46(f), and FTC Rule 4.10(a)(2), 16 CFR
4.10(a)(2). In particular, do not include competitively sensitive
information such as costs, sales statistics, inventories, formulas,
patterns, devices, manufacturing processes, or customer names.
If you want the Commission to give your comment confidential
treatment, you must file it in paper form, with a request for
confidential treatment, and you have to follow the procedure explained
in FTC Rule 4.9(c), 16 CFR 4.9(c). Your comment will be kept
confidential only if the FTC General Counsel, in his or her sole
discretion, grants your request in accordance with the law and the
public interest.
Postal mail addressed to the Commission is subject to delay due to
heightened security screening. As a result, we encourage you to submit
your comments online. To make sure that the Commission considers your
online comment, you must file it at https://ftcpublic.commentworks.com/ftc/televisionlabels, by following the instruction on the web-based
form. If this Notice appears at https://www.regulations.gov, you also
may file a comment through that Web site.
If you file your comment on paper, write ``Television Labels,
Matter No. R611004'' on your comment and on the envelope, and mail or
deliver it to the following address: Federal Trade Commission, Office
of the Secretary, Room H-113 (Annex F), 600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW.,
Washington, DC 20580. If possible, submit your paper comment to the
Commission by courier or overnight service.
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Visit the Commission Web site at https://www.ftc.gov to read this
NPRM and the news release describing it. The FTC Act and other laws
that the Commission administers permit the collection of public
comments to consider and use in this proceeding, as appropriate. The
Commission will consider all timely and responsive public comments that
it receives on or before February 10, 2014. You can find more
information, including routine uses permitted by the Privacy Act, in
the Commission's privacy policy, at https://www.ftc.gov/ftc/privacy.htm.
Because written comments appear adequate to present the views of
all interested parties, the Commission has not scheduled an oral
hearing regarding these proposed amendments. Interested parties may
request an opportunity to present views orally. If such a request is
made, the Commission will publish a document in the Federal Register
stating the time and place for such oral presentation(s) and describing
the procedures that will be followed. Interested parties who wish to
present oral views must submit a hearing request, on or before January
15, 2014, in the form of a written comment that describes the issues on
which the party wishes to speak. If there is no oral hearing, the
Commission will base its decision on the written rulemaking record.
VI. Communications by Outside Parties to the Commissioners or Their
Advisors
Written communications and summaries or transcripts of oral
communications respecting the merits of this proceeding, from any
outside party to any Commissioner or Commissioner's advisor, will be
placed on the public record. See 16 CFR 1.26(b)(5).
List of Subjects in 16 CFR Part 305
Advertising, Energy conservation, Household appliances, Labeling,
reporting and recordkeeping requirements.
Proposed Rule Language
For the reasons set out above, the Commission proposes to amend 16
CFR Part 305 as follows:
PART 305--ENERGY AND WATER USE LABELING FOR CONSUMER PRODUCTS UNDER
THE ENERGY POLICY AND CONSERVATION ACT (``ENERGY LABELING RULE'')
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1. The authority citation for Part 305 continues to read as follows:
Authority: 42 U.S.C. 6294.
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2. In Sec. 305.3, revise paragraph (y) and add paragraph (z) to read
as follows:
Sec. 305.3 Description of covered products.
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(y) Television means a product that is designed to produce dynamic
video, contains an internal TV tuner encased within the product
housing, and is capable of receiving dynamic visual content from wired
or wireless sources including but not limited to:
(1) Broadcast and similar services for terrestrial, cable,
satellite, and/or broadband transmission of analog and/or digital
signals; and/or
(2) Display-specific data connections, such as HDMI, Component
video, Svideo, Composite video; and/or
(3) Media storage devices such as a USB flash drive, memory card,
or a DVD; and/or
(4) Network connections, usually using Internet Protocol, typically
carried over Ethernet or Wi-Fi.
(z) The requirements of this part are limited to those televisions
for which the Department of Energy has adopted and published test
procedures for measuring energy use.
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3. In Sec. 305.5, remove paragraph (d), redesignate paragraph (e) as
paragraph (d), and revise newly redesignated paragraph (d) to read as
follows:
Sec. 305.5 Determinations of estimated annual energy consumption,
estimated annual operating cost, and energy efficiency rating, water
use rate, and other required disclosure content.
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(d) Representations for ceiling fans under Sec. 305.13 and
televisions under Sec. 305.17 must be derived from applicable
procedures in 10 CFR parts 429, 430, and 431.
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4. In Sec. 305.8, revise paragraph (a)(1); redesignate paragraph
(a)(3) as paragraph (a)(4); add new paragraph (a)(3), and revise newly
redesignated paragraph (a)(4) and paragraph (b)(1) to read as follows:
Sec. 305.8 Submission of data.
(a)(1) Except as provided in paragraphs (a)(2) through (4) of this
section, each manufacturer of a covered product subject to the
disclosure requirements of this part and subject to Department of
Energy certification requirements in 10 CFR part 429 shall submit
annually a report for each model in current production containing the
same information that must be submitted to the Department of Energy
pursuant to 10 CFR part 429 for that product, and that the Department
has identified as public information pursuant to 10 CFR part 429. In
lieu of submitting the required information to the Commission as
required by this section, manufacturers may submit such information to
the Department of Energy via the Compliance and Certification
Management System (CCMS) at https://regulations.doe.gov/ccms as
provided by 10 CFR 429.12.
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(3) Manufacturers of televisions shall submit annually a report
containing the brand name; model number; screen size (diagonal in
inches); power (in watts) consumed in on mode, standby-passive mode, in
standby-active mode, low mode, and off mode; and annual energy
consumption (kWh/year) for each basic model in current production. The
report should also include a starting serial number, date code, or
other means of identifying the date of manufacture with the first
submission for each basic model. In lieu of submitting the required
information to the Commission as required by this section,
manufacturers may submit such information to the Department of Energy
via the Compliance and Certification Management System (CCMS) at
https://regulations.doe.gov/ccms as provided by 10 CFR 429.12.
(4) This section does not require reports for general service
light-emitting diode (LED or OLED) lamps.
(b)(1) All data required by Sec. 305.8(a) except serial numbers
shall be submitted to the Commission annually, on or before the
following dates:
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Deadline for data
Product category submission
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Refrigerators.............................. Aug. 1.
Refrigerators-freezers..................... Aug. 1.
Freezers................................... Aug. 1.
Central air conditioners................... July 1.
Heat pumps................................. July 1.
Dishwashers................................ June 1.
Water heaters.............................. May 1.
Room air conditioners...................... July 1.
Furnaces................................... May 1.
Pool heaters............................... May 1.
Clothes washers............................ Oct. 1.
Fluorescent lamp ballasts.................. Mar. 1.
Showerheads................................ Mar. 1.
Faucets.................................... Mar. 1.
Water closets.............................. Mar. 1.
Ceiling fans............................... Mar. 1.
Urinals.................................... Mar. 1.
Metal halide lamp fixtures................. Sept. 1.
General service fluorescent lamps.......... Mar. 1.
Medium base compact fluorescent lamps...... Mar. 1.
General service incandescent lamps......... Mar. 1.
Televisions................................ May 1.
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Sec. 305.17 [Amended]
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5. In Sec. 305.17, remove paragraph (h).
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By direction of the Commission.
Donald S. Clark,
Secretary.
[FR Doc. 2013-30633 Filed 12-24-13; 8:45 am]
BILLING CODE 6750-01-P