The federal Clean Air Act Amendments of 1990 require the Environmental Protection Agency to establish stricter standards for toxic air emissions. These standards will directly affect thousands of small business that use toxic chemicals in their production processes, such as printers, dry cleaners, chrome electroplates or manufacturers using paints and solvents. Current control technologies are expensive to purchase and operate.
New alternatives are essential for small electroplating shops.
Other research areas include reducing emissions from auto body shop painting and solvent cleaning. Cost-effective alternatives are essential for small businesses to meet new air emission requirements. A video public service announcement distributed to all state technical assistance programs. The PSA promotes technical assistance for small businesses and can be personalized by each state program. An auto body shop manual that identifies ways of reducing emissions through new spray techniques, application equipment and paint products.