HR 5845 — SMART Energy Efficiency Standards Act

(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:   Energy Standards Equations Refrigerators and Refrigerator-Freezers with manual defrost 16.3 AV+316 Refrigerator-Freezers—partial automatic defrost 21.8 AV+429 Refrigerator-Freezers—automatic defrost with: Top mounted freezer without ice 23.5 AV+471 Side mounted freezer without ice 27.7 AV+488 Bottom mounted freezer without ice 27.7 AV+488 Top mounted freezer with through the door ice service 26.4 AV+535 Side mounted freezer with through the door ice 30.9 AV+547 Upright Freezers with: Manual defrost 10.9 AV+422 Automatic defrost 16.0 AV+623 Chest Freezers and all other freezers 14.8 AV+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 January 1, 1995, shall apply to such products until the effective date of a rule issued under this section with respect to such products. (B) After the publication of a final rule under subparagraph (A), the Secretary shall publish a final rule no later than five years after the date of publication of the previous final rule. The Secretary shall determine in such rule whether to amend the standards in effect for the products described in paragraph (1). (C) Any amendment prescribed under subparagraph (B) shall apply to products manufactured after a date which is five years after— (i) the effective date of the previous amendment; or (ii) if the previous final rule did not amend the standards, the earliest date by which the previous amendment could have been effective; except that in no case may any amended standard apply to products manufactured within three years after publication of the fi...