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Home » ACCA: EPA Proposed Refrigerant Rule Raises ‘Serious Safety Concerns’

ACCA: EPA Proposed Refrigerant Rule Raises ‘Serious Safety Concerns’

November 21, 2018

The Air Conditioning Contractors of America has submitted public comments on the Environmental Protection Agency’s proposed rule, Protection of Stratospheric Ozone: Revisions to the Refrigerant Management Program's Extension to Substitutes, and other portions of the Section 608 program the EPA requested comments on.

On September 18, the EPA issued the proposed rule, which would rescind leak repair, maintenance, and reporting requirements for appliances and HVACR systems containing 50 or more pounds of substitute refrigerants. Included in the proposed rule was a request for comments on other Section 608 provisions, including the possibility of allowing anyone to purchase, handle, charge, and recover substitute refrigerants.

“ACCA thanks the EPA for the opportunity to comment on these issues, which raise serious safety concerns with our members,” said Barton James, ACCA interim president and CEO. “A special thanks to ACCA’s Advocacy and Political Action Committee members whose input, guidance, and first-hand knowledge of the dangers of mishandling refrigerants was critical to our feedback to the EPA.”

Martin Hoover, president, Empire Heating and Air Conditioning, Decatur, Georgia, and chairman, ACCA Advocacy & Political Action Committee, said: “The prospect of allowing the general public to purchase and handle refrigerants will create a whole host of problems for contractors. Contractors and technicians would face the even more likely prospect of servicing equipment with dangerous mixes of refrigerants, which increase system pressures and temperatures and could cause explosions. As the industry moves toward flammable refrigerants, this problem becomes an even more serious, and dangerous prospect. ACCA members urge the EPA to maintain and strengthen the Section 608 requirement to purchase and handle refrigerants.”

Associations Contractors & Installers EPA HVAC Industry Community News Safety
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