Bill Text: PA HB1432 | 2011-2012 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Providing for minimum energy efficiency standards for certain appliances and equipment; providing for the powers and duties of the Department of Environmental Protection and the Attorney General; and establishing the Appliance Energy Efficiency Fund.

Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 9-1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2011-05-03 - Referred to ENVIRONMENTAL RESOURCES AND ENERGY [HB1432 Detail]

Download: Pennsylvania-2011-HB1432-Introduced.html

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PRINTER'S NO. 1722
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA
HOUSE BILL
No. 1432 Session of2011
INTRODUCED BY BRIGGS, SANTARSIERO, D. COSTA, GOODMAN, HORNAMAN, JOSEPHS, MARSHALL, PAYTON, READSHAW AND CALTAGIRONE, MAY 3, 2011
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON ENVIRONMENTAL RESOURCES AND ENERGY, MAY 3, 2011
AN ACT
Providing for minimum energy efficiency standards for certain
appliances and equipment; providing for the powers and duties
of the Department of Environmental Protection and the
Attorney General; and establishing the Appliance Energy
Efficiency Fund.
The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
hereby enacts as follows:
Section 1. Short title.
This act shall be known and may be cited as the Appliance
Energy Efficiency Standards Act.
Section 2. Definitions.
The following words and phrases when used in this act shall
have the meanings given to them in this section unless the
context clearly indicates otherwise:
"Art work light fixture." A light fixture designed only to
be mounted directly to or adjacent to art work and for the
purpose of illuminating that art work.
"Attorney General." The Attorney General of the
Commonwealth.
"Board." The Environmental Quality Board of the
Commonwealth.
"Bottle-type water dispenser." A water dispenser that uses a
bottle or reservoir as the source of potable water.
"Combination television." A system in which a television or
television monitor and an additional device or devices
including, but not limited to, a DVD player or a VCR, are
combined into a single unit in which the additional devices are
included in the television casing.
"Commercial hot food holding cabinet." A heated, fully
enclosed compartment with one or more doors that is designed to
maintain the temperature of hot food that has been cooked in a
separate appliance. The term does not include heated glass
merchandising cabinets, drawer warmers or cook-and-hold
appliances.
"Component television." A television composed of two or more
separate components marketed and sold as a television under one
model or system designation. An example of a component
television is a separate display device and tuner that is sold
as a model or a system. A component television may have more
than one power cord.
"Computer monitor." An analog or digital device designed
primarily for the display of computer-generated signals and that
is not marketed for use as a television.
"Covered product." New products sold, offered for sale or
installed in this Commonwealth that are subject to the terms of
this act.
"Department." The Department of Environmental Protection of
the Commonwealth.
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"Department of Energy." The United States Department of
Energy.
"EPA." The United States Environmental Protection Agency.
"Fund." The Appliance Energy Efficiency Fund established in
section 9.
"LED light engine." A subsystem of an LED light fixture that
includes one or more LED components, including an LED driver
power source with electrical and mechanical interfaces, and an
integral heat sink to provide thermal dissipation and may be
designed to accept additional components that provide aesthetic,
optical and environmental control.
"LED light fixture." A complete lighting unit consisting of
an LED light source, with one or more LED lamps or LED light
engines, together with parts to distribute light, to position
and protect the light source and to connect the light source to
electrical power.
"Light fixture." A product designed to provide light that
includes at least one lamp socket and parts to distribute the
light, to position or protect one or more lamps and to connect
one or more lamps to a power supply.
"Portable electric spa." A factory-built electric spa or hot
tub, supplied with equipment for heating and circulating water.
"Portable light fixture." A light fixture that has a
flexible cord and an attachment plug for connection to a nominal
120-volt circuit that allows the user to relocate the product
without any rewiring and which typically can be controlled with
a switch on the product or the power cord of the product. The
term does not include art work light fixtures, direct plug-in
night lights, sun or heat lamps, medical or dental lights,
portable electric hand lamps, signs or commercial advertising
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displays, photographic lamps, germicidal lamps or light fixtures
for marine use or for use in hazardous locations as those terms
are designated in ANSI/NFPA 70 of the National Electrical Code,
or its successor standard. The term does not include decorative
lighting strings, decorative lighting outfits or electric
candles or candelabra without lamp shades that are covered under
Underwriter Laboratories (UL) standard 588, "Seasonal and
Holiday Decorative Products.", or its successor standard.
"Secretary." The Secretary of Environmental Protection of
the Commonwealth.
"Television." An analog or digital device designed primarily
for the display and reception of a terrestrial, satellite, cable
Internet Protocol TV (IPTV) or other broadcast or recorded
transmission of analog or digital signals. The term includes
combination televisions, television monitors, component
televisions, and any product that is marketed as a television.
The term does not include computer monitors.
"Television monitor." A television that does not have an
internal tuner or receiver or playback device.
"Total horsepower." The product of a motor's service factor
and nameplate horsepower.
"Water dispenser." A factory-made assembly that mechanically
cools and heats potable water and that dispenses the cooled or
heated water by integral or remote means.
Section 3. Scope.
(a) General rule.--This act shall apply to the testing,
certification and enforcement of efficiency standards for all
covered products.
(b) Exclusions.--This act shall not apply to any of the
following:
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(1) New products manufactured in this Commonwealth and
sold outside this Commonwealth.
(2) New products manufactured outside this Commonwealth
and sold at wholesale inside this Commonwealth for final
retail sale and installation outside this Commonwealth.
(3) Products installed in manufactured homes at the time
of construction.
(4) Products designed expressly for installation and use
in recreational vehicles.
Section 4. Efficiency standards.
In accordance with section 6, the secretary may adopt minimum
efficiency standards and other requirements to meet the purposes
of this act. For covered products, any such standards shall be
no less stringent than the following minimum efficiency
standards:
(1) Bottle-type water dispensers designed for dispensing
both hot and cold water shall not have standby energy
consumption greater than 1.2 kilowatt hours per day, as
measured in accordance with the test criteria contained in
version 1 of the EPA's "Energy Star Program Requirements for
Bottled Water Coolers," except units with an integral,
automatic timer shall not be tested using Section D, "Timer
Usage," of the test criteria.
(2) Commercial hot food holding cabinets with interior
volume of 8 cubic feet or greater shall have a maximum idle
energy rate of 40 watts per cubic foot of interior volume, as
determined by the "idle energy rate-dry test" in ASTM
F2140-01, "Standard Test Method for Performance of Hot Food
Holding Cabinets" published by ASTM International. Interior
volume shall be measured in accordance with the method shown
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in the EPA's "Energy Star Program Requirements for Commercial
Hot Food Holding Cabinets" as in effect on August 15, 2003.
(3) Portable light fixtures shall meet one or more of
the following requirements:
(i) Be a fluorescent light fixture that meets the
requirements of the EPA's "Energy Star Program for
Residential Light Fixtures Version 4.2."
(ii) Be equipped with only one or more GU-24 line
voltage sockets, not be rated for use with incandescent
lamps of any type, as defined in ANSI standards, and meet
the requirements of the EPA's "Energy Star Program for
Residential Light Fixtures Version 4.2," including line
voltage or low voltage.
(iii) Be an LED light fixture or a light fixture
with an LED light engine and comply with the following
minimum requirements:
(A) Minimum light output: 200 lumens - initial.
(B) Minimum LED light engine efficacy: 40
lumens/watt in fixtures that meet the minimum light
fixture efficacy of 29 lumens/watt or, alternatively,
a minimum LED light engine efficacy of 60 lumens/watt
for fixtures that do not meet the minimum light
fixture efficacy of 29 lumens per watt.
(C) All portable fixtures shall have a minimum
LED light fixture efficacy of 29 lumens/watt and a
minimum LED light engine efficacy of 60 lumens/watt
by January 1, 2016.
(D) Color Correlated Temperature (CCT): 2700K
through 4000K.
(E) Minimum Color Rendering Index (CRI): 75.
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(F) Power factor equal to or greater than 0.70.
(G) Portable light fixtures that have internal
power supplies shall have zero standby power when the
light fixture is turned off.
(H) LED light sources shall deliver at least 70%
of initial lumens for at least 25,000 hours.
(iv) Be equipped with an ANSI-designated E12, E17 or
E26 screw-based socket and be prepackaged and sold
together with one screw-based compact fluorescent lamp or
screw-based LED lamp for each screw-based socket on the
light fixture. The compact fluorescent or LED lamps
prepackaged with the light fixture shall be fully
compatible with any light fixture controls incorporated
into the light fixture, an example of such would be,
light fixtures with dimmers shall be packed with dimmable
lamps. Compact fluorescent lamps prepackaged with light
fixtures shall meet the requirements of the EPA's "Energy
Star Program for CFLs, Version 4.0."
(v) Be equipped with one or more single-ended, non-
screw-based halogen lamp sockets, line or low voltage, a
dimmer control or high-low control, and be rated for a
maximum of 100W.
(4) Portable electric spas shall not have a normalized
standby power greater than 5(V2/3) Watts where V=the fill
volume in gallons, as measured in accordance with the test
method for portable electric spas contained in section 1604,
title 20, California Code of Regulations as amended on
December 3, 2008.
(5) Televisions with a viewable screen area no greater
than 1400 square inches shall:
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(i) use no more than (0.12* viewable screen area
(in2) + 25) watts in on mode;
(ii) use no more than one (1) watt in standby
passive mode; and
(iii) have a peak luminance in the preset mode
designed for typical home use and for the default mode as
shipped that is no less than 65% of the peak luminance at
the brightest setting.
Section 5. Implementation.
(a) Sale of new products.--On or after January 1, 2013, no
covered product may be sold or offered for sale in this
Commonwealth unless the efficiency of the covered product meets
or exceeds the efficiency standards set forth in this section or
adopted pursuant to section 6.
(b) Installation of new products.--On or after January 1,
2014, no covered product may be installed in this Commonwealth
unless the efficiency of the new product meets or exceeds the
efficiency standards set forth in section 4 or adopted pursuant
to section 6.
Section 6. New and revised standards.
(a) General rule.--The board may establish new or increased
efficiency standards for covered products by regulation. The
board may also establish standards for products not included in
the definition of covered products. In considering such new or
amended standards, the board shall set efficiency standards upon
a determination that increased efficiency standards would serve
to promote energy conservation in the State and would be cost-
effective for consumers who purchase and use such new products,
provided that no new or increased efficiency standards shall
become effective within one year following the adoption of any
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amended regulations establishing such increased efficiency
standards.
(b) Secretary's authority.--Notwithstanding subsection (a),
and in order to facilitate the speedy implementation of this
program, the secretary shall have the power and authority to
adopt new or increased energy efficiency standards for covered
products through guidelines which shall be published in the
Pennsylvania Bulletin. The guidelines shall not be subject to
review pursuant to section 204(b) of the act of October 15, 1980
(P.L. 950, No. 164), known as the Commonwealth Attorneys Act,
and shall not be subject to review pursuant to the act of June
25, 1982 (P.L. 633, No. 181), known as the Regulatory Review
Act, and shall be effective until such time that the board
adopts a final rulemaking establishing new or increased energy
efficiency standards relating to that covered product.
(c) Standard determinations.--In order to exercise the
authority in subsection (b), the secretary must determine that:
(1) The standards will promote energy conservation in
this Commonwealth.
(2) The standards will be cost-effective for consumers
who purchase and use such products.
(3) The standards are used by the industry and are
publicly available in the United States.
(4) Products which meet the standards are widely
available for purchase at retailers in Pennsylvania.
(d) Adopted standards.--Standards adopted under subsection
(b) shall not become effective until six months following the
publication described in this section.
(e) Waiver.--The department may apply for a waiver of
Federal preemption in accordance with section 327 of the Energy
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Policy and Conservation Act (Public Law 94-163, 89 Stat. 871).
Section 7. Administration.
(a) Testing.--If the procedures for testing the energy
efficiency of covered products are not provided for by State
law, the department shall use the Department of Energy approved
test methods or, in the absence of such test methods, other
appropriate nationally or State-recognized test methods. The
manufacturers of covered products shall provide to the
department, certification of the test data of the samples tested
in accordance with the test procedures adopted pursuant to this
act or those specified in other State law.
(b) Manufacturer certification.--Manufacturers of covered
products shall certify to the department that such products are
in compliance with the provisions of this act. The board shall
adopt regulations governing the certification of the products
and may work in coordination with the certification program of
other states with like standards.
(c) Reciprocity.--The board shall adopt regulations
governing the certification of new products and may coordinate
with the certification programs of other states with similar
standards. Any manufacturer that has certified a product to
another state or to the EPA Energy Star Program may provide the
department with a copy of the certification that the
manufacturer made to the other state or agency in place of a
separate certification to the department, provided that:
(1) the other state's standards or the Energy Star
specifications are equivalent to or more stringent than the
standards established under this act; and
(2) all information required by the regulations adopted
under paragraph (1) is included in the certification.
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(d) Identification.--Manufacturers of covered products shall
identify each product offered for sale or installed in this
Commonwealth as in compliance with the provisions of this act by
means of a mark, label or tag on the product and packaging at
the time of sale or installation. The board shall adopt
regulations governing the identification of the products and
packaging and may work in coordination with the labeling
programs of other states with like standards.
(e) Noncompliant tested products.--The department may test a
covered product using an accredited testing facility. The board
shall adopt regulations governing the identification testing
protocols from similar states or EPA Energy Star program and may
work in coordination with testing programs of other states or
EPA Energy Star with like standards. If a product is tested and
is not in compliance with the minimum efficiency standards
established under section 6 or adopted pursuant to this section,
the department shall:
(1) Charge the manufacturer of the product for the cost
of product purchase and testing.
(2) Provide information to the public on the products.
(f) Periodic inspection.--The department may cause periodic
inspections to be made of distributors or retailers of covered
products in order to determine compliance with the provisions of
this act. The department shall cooperate with other Commonwealth
agencies to coordinate on inspections for covered products that
are also covered by other state laws.
(g) Regulations.--The board shall adopt regulations as
necessary to ensure the proper implementation and enforcement of
the provisions of this act.
Section 8. Unlawful conduct.
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It shall be unlawful to fail to comply with, or to cause or
assist in the violation of, any of the provisions of this act or
rules, regulations and guidelines adopted; or to fail to comply
with any order of the department; or to hinder, obstruct,
prevent or interfere with the department or its personnel in the
performance of any duty under this act; or to violate the
provisions of 18 Pa.C.S. § 4903 (relating to false swearing) or
4904 (relating to unsworn falsification to authorities) in
regard to papers required to be submitted under this act.
Section 9. Civil penalties and remedies.
(a) Civil penalty.--
(1) In addition to proceeding under any other remedy
available at law or in equity for a violation of a provision
of this act or a rule or regulation adopted or order issued
under this act, the department may assess a civil penalty of
not more than $250 for the first day of each offense and $250
for each additional day of continuing violation. The factors
for consideration in determining the amount of the penalty
are:
(i) The extent of the violation.
(ii) The willfulness of the violation.
(iii) Previous violations.
(iv) The economic benefit to the violator for
failing to comply with this act.
(2) Whenever the department finds it appropriate, the
department may issue a warning in lieu of assessing a penalty
where the manufacturer, distributor or retailer takes
immediate action to resolve the violation and come into
compliance.
(b) Collection.--In cases of inability to collect the civil
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penalty or failure of any person to pay all or a portion of the
penalty, as the department may determine, the department may
refer the matter to the Office of Attorney General which shall
take appropriate action to recover the penalty. Any penalty
assessed shall act as a lien on the property of the person
against whom the penalty has been assessed.
(c) Civil remedies.--In order to restrain or prevent any
violation of this act or the rules and regulations promulgated
under this act or any order issued under this act, suits may be
instituted in equity or at law. These proceedings may be
prosecuted in the Commonwealth Court or in the court of common
pleas of the county where the activity has taken place, the
condition exists or the public is affected, and, to that end,
jurisdiction is hereby conferred in law and equity upon these
courts. In addition to an injunction, the court in such equity
proceeding may assess civil penalties in accordance with this
section. The court may, in its decree, fix a reasonable time
during which the person responsible for the violation may make
provision for the abatement of same.
(d) Establishment of fund.--There is hereby created a
special nonlapsing account in the General Fund to be known as
the Appliance Energy Efficiency Fund. All fees, fines,
judgments, bond forfeitures, interest and recovered costs
collected by the department under this act shall be paid into
the Appliance Energy Efficiency Fund. All moneys placed in the
Appliance Energy Efficiency Fund and the interest it accrues are
hereby appropriated, upon authorization by the Governor, to the
department for the costs of implementing the energy efficiency
program created by this act.
Section 10. Enforcement orders.
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The department may issue such orders as are necessary to aid
in the enforcement of the provisions of this act. Any order
issued under this section shall take effect upon notice unless
the order specifies otherwise.
Section 11. Powers reserved under existing laws.
Nothing contained in this act shall in any way abridge or
alter rights of action or remedies now or hereafter existing in
equity, or under the common law or statutory law, criminal or
civil, nor shall any provision in this act, or the granting of
any permit under this act, or any act done by virtue of this
act, be construed as stopping the Commonwealth, persons or
municipalities, in the exercise of their rights under the common
law or decisional law or in equity, from proceeding in courts of
law or equity to enforce common law or statutory rights. Nothing
in this act shall limit in any way whatever the powers conferred
upon the department or the Office of Attorney General under laws
other than this act, including the act of December 4, 1996 (P.L.
906, No 146), known as the Unfair Trade Practices and Consumer
Protection Law. A court exercising general equitable
jurisdiction shall not be deprived of such jurisdiction even
though a violation of this act is subject to regulation or other
action by the Commonwealth. The collection of any penalty
imposed under the provisions of this act shall not be construed
as estopping the Commonwealth from proceeding in courts of law
or equity address violations of this act or rules, regulations
and guidelines adopted hereunder; or an order of the department.
Section 12. Severability.
The provisions of this act are severable. If any provision of
this act or its application to any person or circumstance is
held invalid, the invalidity shall not affect other provisions
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or applications of this act which can be given effect without
the invalid provision or application.
Section 13. Effective date.
This act shall take effect in 60 days.
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