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EPA Issues Direct Final Rule Regulating Small Cans of Motor Vehicle Refrigerant

Published on 02/10/2017

In the September 28, 2017 Federal Register, EPA issued a direct final rule, which will be effective on December 27, 2017, unless EPA receives adverse comments by October 30, 2017. The direct final rule is intended to clarify a conflict over whether containers holding two pounds or less of non-exempt substitute refrigerants with a self-sealing valve can be sold to persons who are not certified technicians, so long as the cans were manufactured or imported prior to January 1, 2018. The direct final rule states that the cans may continue to be sold to persons not certified as technicians.

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EPA, Direct final rule, Protection of Stratospheric Ozone: Refrigerant Management Regulations for Small Cans of Motor Vehicle Refrigerant, 82 FR 45202, September 28, 2017

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