101 STAT. 108
PUBLIC LAW 100-12—MAR. 17, 1987 ENERGY CONSERVATION STANDARDS
"SEC. 325. (a) PURPOSES.—The purposes of this section are to— "(1) provide Federal energy conservation standards applicable to covered products; and "(2) authorize the Secretary to prescribe amended or new energy conservation standards for each type (or class) of covered product. "(b) STANDARDS FOR REFRIGERATORS, REFRIGERATOR-FREEZERS, AND
FREEZERS.—(1) The following is the maximum energy use allowed in kilowatt hours per year for the following products (other than those described in paragraph (2)) manufactured on or after January 1, 1990:
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Regulations.
Effective date.
State and local governments.
"Refrigerators and Refrigerator-Freezers with manual defrost Refrigerator-Freezers—partial automatic defrost Refrigerator-Freezers—automatic defrost with: Top mounted freezer without ice Side mounted freezer without ice Bottom mounted freezer without ice Top mounted freezer with through the door ice service Side mounted freezer with through the door ice Upright Freezers with: Manual defrost Automatic defrost Chest Freezers and all other freezers
Energy Standards Equations 16.3 AV + 316 21.8 AV-1-429 23.5 27.7 27.7 26.4 30.9
AV-H471 AV-1-488 AV 4-488 AV-1-535 AV-1-547
10.9 AV-1-422 16.0 AV-1-623 14.8 AV-1-223
"(2) The standards described in paragraph (1) do not apply to refrigerators and refrigerator-freezers with total refrigerated volume exceeding 39 cubic feet or freezers with total refrigerated volume exceeding 30 cubic feet. "(3)(A)(i) The Secretary shall publish a proposed rule, no later than July 1, 1988, to determine if the standards established by paragraph (1) should be amended. The Secretary shall publish a final rule no later than July 1, 1989, which shall contain such amendment, if any, and provide that the amendment shall apply to products manufactured on or after January 1, 1993. If such a final rule is not published before January 1, 1990, any amendment of such standards shall apply to products manufactured on or after January 1, 1995. Nothing in this subsection provides any justification or defense for a failure by the Secretary to comply with the nondiscretionary duty to publish final rules by the dates stated in this paragraph. "(ii)(I) If the Secretary does not publish a final rule before January 1, 1990, relating to the revision of the energy conservation standards for refrigerators, refrigerator-freezers and freezers, the regulations which established standards for such products and were promulgated by the California Energy Commission on December 14, 1984, to be effective January 1, 1992 (or any amendments to such standards that are not more stringent than the standards in the original regulations), shall apply in California to such products, effective beginning January 1, 1993, and shall not be preempted after such effective date by any energy conservation standard established in this section or prescribed, on or after January 1, 1990, under this section. "(II) If the Secretary does not publish a final rule before January 1, 1992, relating to the revision of the energy conservation standards for refrigerators, refrigerator-freezers and freezers. State regulations which apply to such products manufactured on or after
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