G/TBT/N/USA/295/Rev.1  
6 November 2019  
(19-7510) Page: 1/2 
Committee on Technical Barriers to Trade  Original:  English  
 
  
NOTIFICATION  
Revision  
The following notification is being circulated in accordance with Article 10.6.  
 
1. Notifying Member:  UNITED STATES OF AME RICA 
If applicable, name of local government involved (Articles 3.2 and 7.2):  State of 
California  
2. Agency responsible:  Environmental Protection Agency, Air Resources Board, State of 
California  
Name and address (including telephone and fax numbers, email and website 
addresses, if available) of  agency or authority designated to handle comments 
regarding t he notification shall be indicated if different from above:   
Please submit comments to: USA WTO TBT Enquiry Point, Email: usatbtep@nist.gov   
3. Notified under Article 2.9.2 [   ], 2.10.1 [   ], 5.6.2 [   ], 5.7.1 [   ], other : Technical 
Regulation - Local Government (Article 3.2), Conformity Assessment Procedure - Local 
Government (Article 7.2)   
4. Products covered (HS or CCCN where applicable, otherwise national tariff 
heading.  ICS numbers may be provided in addition,  where applicable):  Indoor air 
cleaners; Air conditioning machines, comprising a motor -driven fan and elements for 
changing the temperature and humidity, including those machines in which the humidity 
cannot be separately regulated (HS 8415); Machinery, plant or laboratory e quipment, 
whether or not electrically heated (excluding furnaces, ovens and other equipment of 
heading 85.14), for the treatment of materials by a process involving a change of 
temperature such as heating, cooking, roasting, distilling, rectifying, sterili sing, 
pasteurising, steaming, drying, evaporating, vaporising, condensing or cooling, other than 
machinery or plant of a kind used for domestic purposes; instantaneous or storage water 
heaters, non -electric (HS 8419); Dish washing machines; machinery for c leaning or drying 
bottles or other containers; machinery for filling, closing, sealing, or labelling bottles, 
cans, boxes, bags or other containers; machinery for capsuling bottles, jars, tubes and 
similar containers; other packing or wrapping machinery (i ncluding heat -shrink wrapping 
machinery); machinery for aerating beverages (HS 8422); Household or laundry -type 
washing machines, including machines which both wash and dry (HS 8450); 
Environmental protection (ICS 13.020), Air quality (ICS 13.040), Domesti c electrical 
appliances in general (ICS 97.030), Cleaning appliances (ICS 97.080), Automatic controls 
for household use (ICS 97.120), Miscellaneous domestic and commercial equipment (ICS 
97.180)  
5. Title, number of pages and language(s) of the notified document:  Ozone Emissions 
from Indoor Air Cleaning Devices (11 page(s), in English)  
6. Description of content:  Proposed rule - Amends rules to require the certification of 
electronic in -duct air cleaning devices and modify industrial use exemptio ns. G/TBT/N/USA/295/Rev.1  
 
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  7. Objective and rationale, including the nature of urgent problems where 
applicable:  Protection of human health or safety; Protection of the environment   
8. Relevant documents:   
• No. 43, California Regulatory Notice Register 25 October 2019 (pages 1483 -
1488):  
https://oal.ca.gov/wp -content/uploads/sites/166/2019/10/2019 -Notice -
Register -Number -43-Z-October -25-2019.pdf  
• California Code of Regulations, Title 17, Division 3, Chapter 1, Sub -chapter 8.7, 
Article 1, Sections 94800, 94801, 94802, 94803, 94804, 94805, 9480 6, 94807, 
94808, 94809  
9. Proposed date of adoption: To be determined  
Proposed date of entry into force: To be determined  
10. Final date for comments:  9 December 2019  
11. Texts available from:  National enquiry point [ ] or address, telephone or fax 
numbers  and email and website address es, if available , of other body:   
https://members.wto.org/crnattachments/2019/TBT/USA/19_6281_00_e.pdf