UNITED STATES: LAMPS The following notification is being circulated in accordance with Article 10.6. G/TBT/NOTIF. 96.56. 1. Member to Agreement notifying: UNITED STATES. If applicable, name of local government involved (Articles 3.2 and 7.2). 2. Agency responsible: Department of Energy (43). 3. Notified under Article 2.9.2. 4. Products covered (HS or CCCN where applicable, otherwise national tariff heading. ICS numbers may be provided in addition, where applicable): Lamps (HS Chapter 9405). 5. Title and number of pages of the notified document: Energy Conservation Standards Programme for Consumer Products: Test Procedures for Fluorescent and Incandescent Lamps (6 pages). 6. Description of content: On 28 September 1994, the Department of Energy published an Interim Final Rule and a proposed rule regarding energy conservation test procedures for fluorescent and incandescent lamps. Based on the public responses, the Department is considering certain revisions of the Interim Final Rule and proposed rule and seeks public comment on options it is considering. The options involve the following topics: determining the wattage of a fluorescent lamp for purposes deciding whether the energy conservation standards and test procedures apply to it; the confidence limit, ``derating factor'' and statistical test used in the test procedure sampling plan; definition of coloured lamps; determining the rated voltage or rated voltage range of an incandescent lamp for purposes of deciding whether the energy conservation standards and test procedures apply to it; defining rated voltage for testing incandescent lamps; and defining the bulb shapes for elliptical reflector (ER) and bulged reflector (BR) incandescent lamps. 7. Objective and rationale: Energy conservation. 8. Relevant documents: 61 FR 7431, 28 February 1996; 10 CFR Part 430 also 59 FR 49478, 28 September 1994. Will appear in the Federal Register when adopted. 9. Proposed date of adoption and entry into force: To be determined. 10. Final date for comments: 15 April 1996. (087)

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