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aircleaners -- Board Approves Air Cleaner Amendments, and Test Method Clarification is Now Available
Posted: 16 Dec 2009 10:07:39
The Air Resources Board approved all of the proposed amendments to the Air Cleaner Regulation on December 9, 2009 in Sacramento. Air cleaners will still have to be tested and certified by October 18, 2010; however, the package labeling requirements will not have to be met for an additional year, and adhesive labels (rather than printing on the package) will be allowed for two years. Other amendments will: (1) allow air cleaners to be tested for electrical safety at additional testing facilities; (2) incorporate into the regulation three clarifications to the ozone test protocol issued by Underwriters Laboratories, Inc, (UL); (3) allow devices that include an air cleaner component but whose main purpose is something other than air cleaning to be tested for electrical safety under the applicable ANSI/UL electrical safety test; and 4) refine the definition of “mechanical filtration only” to reference all pollutants (not just particles) to be fully consistent with the rest of the regulation. Additional details regarding these amendments are available in the Public Notice and the associated formal regulatory materials (staff report and proposed language changes) that can be accessed from our website at: http://www.arb.ca.gov/regact/2009/iacd09/iacd09.htm. Please note that the final regulatory approval process will take several months; these amendments are expected to become effective in Spring 2010. Also, the third 2009 Certification Requirement Decision (CRD) issued by UL on the ANSI/UL Standard 867 ozone emission test method used in ARB’s air cleaner regulation is now posted at http://www.arb.ca.gov/research/indoor/aircleaners/aircleaners.htm. The new CRD clarifies the tests needed for models marketed with multiple filter options. This CRD will also be posted on ARB's official regulation website (http://www.arb.ca.gov/regact/2009/iacd09/iacd09.htm) in January 2010 for a 15-day public comment period. A listserve notice will be sent out when that comment period begins. Inquiries concerning the amendments or the regulation may be directed to Ms. Peggy Jenkins, Manager of the Indoor Exposure Assessment Section, at (916) 323-1504 or mjenkins@arb.ca.gov, or Mr. Jim Behrmann, at (916) 322-8278 or jbehrman@arb.ca.gov. For information regarding the certification process and required tests, please contact Ryan Johnson at (916) 323-2190, or rjohnson@arb.ca.gov. If you have problems accessing the webpages, please contact Susan Lum at (916) 323-5043 or slum@arb.ca.gov.