Energy Conservation Program for Consumer Products and Certain Commercial and Industrial Equipment: Test Procedures for Showerheads, Faucets, Water Closets, Urinals, and Commercial Prerinse Spray Valves

Energy Conservation Program for Consumer Products and Certain

Commercial and Industrial Equipment: Test Procedures for Showerheads,

Faucets, Water Closets, Urinals, and Commercial Prerinse Spray Valves

AGENCY: Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable

Energy, Department of Energy.ACTION: Supplemental notice of proposed

rulemaking. SUMMARY: The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) proposes

amendments to its May 2012 notice of proposed rulemaking related to

DOE test procedures for showerheads, faucets, water closets, urinals,

and commercial prerinse spray valves. The amendments proposed in this

supplemental notice of proposed rulemaking include revisions to the

definitions of showerhead and hand-held showerhead; removal of body

sprays from the proposed showerhead definition; requirements

pertaining to testing of showerheads that are components of shower

towers; a standardized test method to be used when verifying the

mechanical retention of a showerhead flow control insert when

subjected to 8 pounds force; clarification of permissible trim 2

adjustments for tank-type water closets; and amendments to the

required static test pressures to be used when testing flushometer

valve siphonic and blowout water closets. DOE also proposes further

clarification of the definition of basic model with respect to

flushometer valve water closets and urinals, as well as associated

changes to certification reporting requirements for these products.

Read full at Federal Register link:

https://www.federalregister.gov/articles/2013/04/08/2013-08073/test-procedures-for-showerheads-faucets-water-closets-urinals-and-commercial-prerinse-spray-valves