Energy Conservation Program for Consumer Products: Decision and Order Granting a Waiver From the Vented Home Heating Equipment Test Procedure to Vermont Castings, Inc.

Résumé

Notice is given of the Decision and Order (Case No. DH-006) granting a Waiver to Vermont Castings, Inc. (Vermont Castings) from the existing Department of Energy (DOE or Department) test procedure for vented home heating equipment. The Department is granting Vermont Castings' Petition for Waiver regarding pilot light energy consumption for manually controlled heaters in the calculation of Annual Fuel Utilization Efficiency (AFUE), and calculation procedure for weighted average steady state efficiency for manually controlled heaters with various input rates for its model DV40 manually controlled vented heater. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: William W. Hui, U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy, Mail Station EE-43 Forrestal Building, 1000 Independence Avenue, SW, Washington, DC 20585- 0121, (202) 586-9145 Eugene Margolis, Esq., U.S. Department of Energy, Office of General Counsel, Mail Station GC-72, Forrestal Building, 1000 Independence Avenue, SW, Washington, DC 20585-0103, (202) 586-9507.