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Energy Conservation Program: Energy Conservation Standards for Portable Air Conditioners:

The Energy Policy and Conservation Act of 1975 (EPCA or the Act), as amended, prescribes energy conservation standards for various consumer products and certain commercial and industrial equipment. In addition to specifying a list of covered consumer products and commercial equipment, EPCA contains provisions that enable the Secretary of Energy to classify additional types of consumer products as covered products. On April 18, 2016, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE or the Department) published a final coverage determination to classify portable air conditioners (ACs) as covered consumer products under the applicable provisions in EPCA. In this final rule, DOE establishes new energy conservation standards for portable ACs. DOE has determined that the energy conservation standards for these products would result in significant conservation of energy, and are technologically feasible and economically justified.

CFR:

10 CFR 429

10 CFR 430

Energy Conservation Program for Certain Industrial Equipment: Energy Conservation Standards for Small, Large, and Very Large Air-Cooled Commercial Package Air Conditioning and Heating Equipment and Commercial Warm Air Furnaces:

The Energy Policy and Conservation Act of 1975, as amended (EPCA), prescribes energy conservation standards for various consumer products and certain commercial and industrial equipment, including small, large, and very large air-cooled commercial package air conditioning and heating equipment and commercial warm air furnaces. EPCA also requires that the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) periodically review and consider amending its standards for specified categories of industrial equipment, including commercial heating and air conditioning equipment, in order to determine whether more-stringent, amended standards would be technologically feasible and economically justified, and save a significant additional amount of energy. In this direct final rule, DOE is amending the energy conservation standards for both small, large, and very large air-cooled commercial package air conditioning and heating equipment and commercial warm air furnaces after determining that the amended energy conservation standards being adopted for these equipment would result in the significant conservation of energy and be technologically feasible and economically justified.

CFR:

10 CFR 431

Hazardous Waste Miscellaneous Units; Standard; Applicable to Owners and Operators:

The Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA) authorizes the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to issue standards applicable to owners and operators of hazardous waste management facilities. Over the past several years, the Agency has promulgated standards for specific types of treatment, storage, and disposal units, including containers, tanks, surface impoundments, waste piles, land treatment units, landfills, incinerators, underground injection wells, and research, development, and demonstration facilities. However, because some hazardous waste management technologies are not covered by the existing permitting standards, owners and operators of facilities utilizing them cannot obtain the RCRA permits necessary to operate them. To fill this gap, the Agency is today promulgating a new set of standards under Subpart X of Part 264. The standards are applicable to owners and operators of new and existing hazardous waste management units not covered under the existing regulations. This will enable the Agency, and the States that adopt equivalent authorities, to issue permits to miscellaneous waste management units.

CFR:

40 CFR Part 144 260 264 270

Based on the policies above develop your objectives, targets, and programs?

Answer 1

The objective here by implementing both the policies is to conserve energy and reduce environmental degradation due to industrial waste. Both EPA and EPCA have set different sets of standards for both commercial users and industries based on which they can use a certain amount of energy through equipment like air coolers and heaters, and also defined ways of waste disposal by industries, only based on which the industries will be given permits to operate.

These programs run by EPA and EPCA are important for the environmental protection and long life of renewable sources.