EPA Section 608 Changes - Effective January 1, 2018

Posted By: Lydia Rodriguez (deleted) Education Corner, Industry, Membership,

"New record keeping requirements for appliances containing 5 to 50 pounds of refrigerant become effective. Technicians must keep records of; the location, date of recovery, and type of refrigerant recovered for each disposed appliance, the quantity of refrigerant by type recovered from disposed appliances in each calendar month. In addition, the quantity of refrigerant, and type, transferred for reclamation or destruction, the person to whom it was transferred, and the date of the transfer."

All requirements for the maintenance, service, repair and disposal of CFC and HCFC are extended to HFC and HFO refrigerants. 

 

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Written by: Howard Weiss, Executive Vice President