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. (a) For purposes of this section, the following terms have
the following meaning:
(1) "Consumer product" means a chemically formulated product used
by household and institutional consumers, including, but not limited
to, detergents; cleaning compounds; polishes; floor finishes;
cosmetics; personal care products; home, lawn, and garden products;
disinfectants; sanitizers; aerosol paints; and automotive specialty
products; but does not include other paint products, furniture
coatings, or architectural coatings.
(2) "Health benefit product" means an antimicrobial product
registered with the Environmental Protection Agency.
(3) "Maximum feasible reduction in volatile organic compounds
emitted" means at least a 60-percent reduction in the emissions of
volatile organic compounds resulting from the use of aerosol paints,
calculated with respect to the 1989 baseline year, including acetone
in that baseline year.
(4) "Medical expert" means a physician, including a pediatrician,
a microbiologist, or a scientist involved in research related to
infectious disease and infection control.
(b) The state board shall adopt regulations to achieve the maximum
feasible reduction in volatile organic compounds emitted by consumer
products, if the state board determines that adequate data exists to
establish both of the following:
(1) The regulations are necessary to attain state and federal
ambient air quality standards.
(2) The regulations are commercially and technologically feasible
and necessary.
(c) A regulation shall not be adopted which requires the
elimination of a product form.
(d) The state board shall not adopt regulations pursuant to
subdivision (b) unless the regulations are technologically and
commercially feasible, and necessary to carry out this division. The
state board shall consider the effect that the regulations proposed
for health benefit products will have on the efficacy of those
products in killing or inactivating agents of infectious diseases
such as viruses, bacteria, and fungi, and the impact the regulations
will have on the availability of health benefit products to
California consumers.
(e) Prior to adopting regulations pursuant to this section
governing health benefit products, the state board shall consider any
recommendations received from federal, state, or local public health
agencies and medical experts in the field of public health.
(f) A district shall adopt no regulation pertaining to
disinfectants, nor any regulation pertaining to a consumer product
that is different than any regulation adopted by the state board for
that purpose.
(g) A consumer product manufactured prior to each effective date
specified in regulations adopted by the state board pursuant to this
section that applies to that consumer product may be sold, supplied,
or offered for sale for a period of three years from the specified
effective date if the date of manufacture or a representative date
code is clearly displayed on the product at the point of sale. An
explanation of the date code shall be filed with the state board.
(h) (1) It is the intent of the Legislature that, prior to January
1, 2000, air pollution control standards affecting the formulation
of aerosol adhesives and limiting emissions of reactive organic
compounds resulting from the use of aerosol adhesives be set solely
by the state board to ensure uniform standards applicable on a
statewide basis.
(2) The Legislature recognizes that the current state board
volatile organic compound (VOC) limit for aerosol adhesives is 75
percent by weight. Effective January 1, 1997, the state board's
75-percent standard shall apply to all uses of aerosol adhesives,
including consumer, industrial, and commercial uses, and any district
regulations limiting the VOC content of, or emissions from, aerosol
adhesives, are null and void. After that date, a district may adopt
and enforce the state board's 75-percent standard for aerosol
adhesives, or a subsequently adopted state board standard, in the
same manner as a district regulation limiting the issuance of air
contaminants.
(3) Notwithstanding any other provision of this section, on and
after January 1, 2000, a district may adopt and enforce a regulation
setting an emission standard or standards for VOC emissions for the
use of aerosol adhesives that is more stringent than the standards
adopted by the state board.
(i) (1) It is the intent of the Legislature that air pollution
control standards affecting the formulation of aerosol paints and
limiting the emissions of volatile organic compounds resulting from
the use of aerosol paints be set solely by the state board to ensure
uniform standards applicable on a statewide basis. A district shall
not adopt or enforce any regulation regarding the volatile organic
compound content of, or emissions from, aerosol paints until the
state board has adopted a regulation regarding those paints, and any
district regulation shall not be different than the state board
regulation. A district may observe and enforce a state board
regulation regarding aerosol paints in the same manner as a district
regulation limiting the issuance of air contaminants. This
subdivision shall not apply to any district that has adopted a rule
or regulation regarding aerosol paints pursuant to an order of a
federal court, until the federal court has authorized the district to
observe and enforce the state board regulation in lieu of the
district regulation.
(2) The state board shall adopt regulations requiring the maximum
feasible reduction in volatile organic compounds emitted from the use
of aerosol paints. The regulations shall establish final limits and
require full compliance, and shall establish interim limits prior to
that date resulting in reductions in reactive organic compounds.
(3) The state board shall conduct a public hearing on the
technological or commercial feasibility of achieving full compliance
with the final limits. If the state board determines that a
60-percent reduction in emissions of reactive organic compounds from
the use of aerosol paints is not technologically or commercially
feasible, the state board may grant an extension of time not to
exceed five years. During any extension of time, the most stringent
interim limits shall be applicable. Any regulation adopted by the
state board shall include a provision authorizing the time extension
and requiring a public hearing on technological or commercial
feasibility consistent with this subdivision. The state board shall
seek to ensure that the final limits for aerosol paints established
pursuant to this subdivision do not become federally enforceable
prior to the effective date established by the state board for these
limits, including any extension granted under this subdivision.
(4) Reductions required for aerosol paints under this subdivision
are not intended to apply to any other consumer product.
(j) The state board shall not adopt a regulation pertaining to
disinfectants any sooner than December 1, 2003.
(k) The state board shall comply with its volatile organic
compound emission reduction obligations under the 1994 State
Implementation Plan, or any amendments thereto, and shall ensure that
there is no loss of emission reductions as a result of its
compliance with subdivision (j).