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“Btu” means British thermal unit.
“°C” means degrees Celsius.
“cfm” means cubic feet per minute.
“CFR” means Code of Federal Regulations.
“Commission” means the California Energy Commission.
“Consumer product” means any article of a type which, to any significant extent, is
distributed in commerce for personal use or consumption by individuals.
“CSA” means CSA International, which is also known as Canadian Standards Association
International.
“Database” means the database established pursuant to Section 1606(c).
“Date of sale” means the day when the appliance is physically delivered to the buyer.
“DC” means direct current.
“Design standard” means a prescriptive standard, such as a ban on constant burning pilots
or a requirement that a clothes washer have a particular feature.
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“Directory” means a directory, a supplement thereto, or a part of a directory or supplement.
“Electric resistance heating” means the production of heat by passing electric current
through a resistive element.
“Energy efficiency standard” means a performance standard expressed in numerical form,
such as energy factor, EER, or thermal efficiency.
“EPAct” means the Energy Policy Act of 1992, 42 U.S.C. Section 6311 et seq.
“Executive Director” means the Executive Director of the Commission or his or her
designee.
“°F” means degrees Fahrenheit.
“Federally-regulated appliance” means an appliance that is federally-regulated
commercial and industrial equipment or a federally-regulated consumer product.
“Federally-regulated commercial and industrial equipment” means commercial and
industrial equipment for which there exists a test method and an energy conservation
standard prescribed by or under EPAct.
“Federally-regulated consumer product” means a consumer product for which there exists
a test method and an energy conservation standard prescribed by or under NAECA.
“FSTC” means Pacific Gas and Electric Company’s Food Service Technology Center.
“Gallon (g)” means U.S. liquid gallon.
“GAMA” means the Gas Appliance Manufacturers Association.
“Gas” means natural gas or liquefied petroleum gas.
“gpm” means gallons per minute.
“HI” means the Hydraulic Institute.
“HI-G” means the Hydronics Institute – Division of GAMA.
“IAPMO” means the International Association of Plumbing and Mechanical Officials.
“Identifiers”, when referenced in relation to Table V data submittal requirements, means
those fields shown in Table V for each specific appliance type that, when taken in
combination for a specific model of a specific appliance type, represent the criteria for
designating a model. At a minimum, each specific appliance type’s model “identifiers” will
include (a) manufacturer, (b) brand, and (c) model number. Individual appliance types
may include additional fields as identifiers. All identifiers are represented in Table V by an
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asterisk (“*”). For purposes of compliance with Section 1606(e)(1), the identifiers
represent fields that cannot be modified.
“ISO” means the International Organization for Standardization.
“kW” means kilowatt.
“kWh” means kilowatt-hour.
“LPG” means liquefied petroleum gas.
“Luminaire” means a complete lighting unit consisting of a lamp or lamps together with the
parts designed to distribute the light, to position and protect the lamps and to connect the
lamps to the power supply.
“Manufacturer” means any person engaged in the original production or assembly of an
appliance. For plumbing fittings, federally-regulated general service fluorescent lamps,
federally-regulated incandescent reflector lamps, and state-regulated general service
incandescent lamps, “manufacturer” also means a private brand packager or reassembler.
“Model” means any collection of appliance units to which the manufacturer has assigned the
same model number.
“Model number” means a combination of letters, digits, or characters representing the
manufacturer, brand, design, or performance of an appliance.
“NAECA” means the National Appliance Energy Conservation Act, 42 U.S.C. Section 6291
et seq.
“NEMA” means the National Electrical Manufacturers Association.
“Non-federally-regulated appliance” means an appliance that is neither federally-regulated
commercial and industrial equipment nor a federally-regulated consumer product.
“NSF International” means the National Sanitation Foundation, International.
“Other mobile equipment” means transportation machinery including but not limited to cars,
trucks, trains, airplanes, boats, and buses, but excluding mobile homes and manufactured
homes.
“Ozone-depleting substance” means any substance that has been found by the United States
Environmental Protection Agency to act as a catalyst in the breaking down of ozone, 03, into
molecular oxygen, 02.
“Performance standard” means a standard that specifies a minimum level of energy or water
efficiency or a maximum level of energy or water consumption of an appliance.
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“Private brand packager” means any person or entity that buys products from a manufacturer,
packages them using its own brand name, and distributes them for sale using its own brand
name.
“Reassembler” means any person or entity that buys products from a manufacturer, modifies
them, and distributes them for sale using its own brand name.
“Recreational vehicle” means a van or utility vehicle used for recreational purposes.
“Statement,” as used in Section 1606, means a single and complete line of data for a specific
model and end-use, containing all the data required in Table V for that appliance type.
“UL” means Underwriters Laboratories, Inc.
“U.S.C.” means the United States Code. |
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