Energy Conservation Program for Consumer Products: Cooking Products (Kitchen Ranges and Ovens) Energy Conservation Standards

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy

10 CFR Part 430

[Docket Numbers EE-RM-90-201 and EE-RM-S-97-700]

RIN 1904-AA84

Energy Conservation Program for Consumer Products: Cooking

Products (Kitchen Ranges and Ovens) Energy Conservation Standards

AGENCY: Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy, DOE.

ACTION: Notice of limited reopening of the record and opportunity for

public comment.

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SUMMARY: The Department of Energy (DOE) is providing a limited

reopening of the record and opportunity for public comment on its

rulemaking to revise energy conservation standards for cooking products

under the Energy Policy and Conservation Act, as amended, for the

following classes: gas cooktops, gas ovens, and electric non-self-

cleaning ovens. On February 27, 1998, (63 FR 9975) DOE published a

notice reopening the comment period for 30 days. DOE received a letter

from the American Gas Association (AGA) requesting the Department to

change the comment period from 30 days to 60 days. AGA stated it needed

additional time to respond to the prescriptive elimination of pilot

lights, which is of significant interest to its members. Therefore, the

Department is providing a limited reopening of the comment period to

allow additional time to provide any new factual information, comment

on the supplemental analyses, the potential impact of standards, and

the principal policy options now under consideration.

DATES: Comments must be received on or before April 28, 1998.

ADDRESSES: A copy of the 1996 Draft Report on the Potential Impact of

Alternative Energy Efficiency Levels for Residential Cooking Products

(Draft Report), supplemental analysis, and other post comment period

correspondence are available for public inspection and copying at the

Freedom of Information Reading Room, U.S. Department of Energy,

Forrestal Building, Room 1E-190, 1000 Independence Avenue, SW,

Washington, DC 20585, (202) 586-3142, between the hours of 9:00 a.m.

and 4:00 p.m., Monday through Friday, except Federal holidays.

Please submit 10 copies of written comments (no faxes) and a

computer diskette (WordPerfect 6.1) to: Brenda Edwards-Jones, U.S.

Department of Energy, Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy,

``Energy Conservation Program for Consumer Products: Cooking Products,

Docket No. EE-RM-S-97-700'', EE-43, 1000 Independence Avenue, SW,

Washington, DC 20585-0121.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Kathi Epping, U.S. Department of

Energy, Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy, EE-43, 1000

Independence Avenue, SW, Washington, DC 20585-0121, (202) 586-7425, or

Eugene Margolis, Esq., U.S. Department of Energy, Office of General

Counsel, GC-72, 1000 Independence Avenue, SW, Washington, DC 20585-

0103, (202) 586-9507.

Issued in Washington, DC, on March 30, 1998.

Dan W. Reicher,

Assistant Secretary,

Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy.

[FR Doc. 98-8669 Filed 4-2-98; 8:45 am]

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