A new Clean Air Act amendment will likely cause owners and operators of equipment that contains ozone-depleting refrigerant charges in excess of 50 pounds to review and re-evaluate their leak rate calculation methods.
The actual impact of the Environmental Protection Agency's changes in Section 608 of the act, which are scheduled to become effective March 14, 2005, will not be known for some time. What is clear is the agency is making a significant attempt to address the growing number of new refrigerants that are entering the marketplace.