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National Volatile Organic Compound Emission Standards for Aerosol Coatings Amendments
The Environmental Protection Agency published this final rule in the Federal Register on January 17, 2025. It took effect on January 17, 2025.
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What the agency says
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is finalizing amendments to the National Volatile Organic Compound Emission Standards for Aerosol Coatings. This action revises national emission standards for the aerosol coatings (aerosol spray paints) category under the Clean Air Act (CAA), which requires control of volatile organic compound (VOC) emissions from certain categories of consumer and commercial products for purposes of reducing VOC emissions contributing to ozone formation and ozone nonattainment. The regulation employs a relative reactivity-based approach to control aerosol coating products' contribution to ozone formation by encouraging the use of less reactive VOC ingredients in formulations. In this final rule, the EPA is updating coating category product-weighted reactivity (PWR) limits, adding new compounds and reactivity factors, updating existing reactivity factors, revising the rule's default reactivity factor, amending thresholds for VOC regulated by the rule, amending reporting requirements, updating test methods to reflect more recent versions, adding a new compliance date, and making clarifying edits.
Key facts
- Document number
- 2025-00436
- Type
- Final rule
- Action
- Final rule
- Agency
- Environmental Protection Agency
- Published
- January 17, 2025
- Takes effect
- January 17, 2025
- Dates
- Effective date. The effective date of this final rule is January 17, 2025. The incorporation by reference of certain material listed in this rule is approved by the Director of the Federal Register as of January 17, 2025. The incorporation by reference of certain other material listed in this rule was approved by the Director of the Federal Register as of March 24, 2008.
- Docket
- EPA-HQ-OAR-2006-0971; FRL-7966-03-OAR
- Regulation ID (RIN)
- 2060-AU94
- Code of Federal Regulations
- 40 CFR 59
- Topics
- Administrative practice and procedure; Air pollution control; Environmental protection; Incorporation by reference
- Pages
- 22
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