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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. 

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