Environment Canada will be addressing volatile organic compound (VOC) reactivity limits in aerosol coatings, and has scheduled a stakeholder meeting March 7, in Toronto, Canada to discuss the agency’s proposed action plan for aerosol coatings.
ACA and several of its Spray Paint Manufacturer Committee members met with Environment Canada in December 2011 to provide the agency with an update on the California Air Resources Board (ARB) reactivity regulation and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) reactivity regulation. At that time Environment Canada indicated that it was seriously examining both of these models.
The purpose of the March 7 stakeholder meeting is to present background information and discuss elements of the proposed regulation which will set mandatory VOC reactivity limits for aerosol coatings.
In conversations with Environment Canada, the agency has indicated that aerosol coatings may be a source category that is better addressed by an alternative regulatory option, rather than a traditional regulation. At the March 7 stakeholder meeting, the agency will discuss these alternative regulatory options.
In June 2010, Environment Canada published a discussion paper on the proposed renewal of the Federal Agenda for the Reduction of VOCs from Consumer and Commercial Products. The discussion paper outlines several initiatives for the Government of Canada to take in order to reduce VOC emissions from consumer and commercial products during the year 2010 to year 2020 period. The Aerosol Coating category has been identified as one in the preferred next focus for the development of control and reduction measures by the Government of Canada.
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