California Code of Regulations › Title 17 - Public Health › Division 3 - Air Resources › Chapter 1 - Air Resources Board › Subchapter 10 - Climate Change › Article 4 - Regulations to Achieve Greenhouse Gas Emission Reductions › Subarticle 3 - Regulation for Reducing Sulfur Hexafluoride Emissions › Section 95341 - Applicability and Exemptions

Current through Register 2024 Notice Reg. No. 28, July 12, 2024
(a) This Subarticle applies to any person
						that uses, possesses, purchases, distributes, manufactures, offers for sale, or
						sells sulfur hexafluoride or products containing sulfur hexafluoride in
						California, with the exception that section
						95343 does not apply to the
						following uses:
(1) Use in chemical vapor
						deposition (CVD) chamber cleaning.
(2) Use in etching.
(3) Use as a dielectric medium including
						equipment containing sulfur hexafluoride for use as a dielectric
						medium.
(4) Use as an arc quenching
						medium including equipment containing sulfur hexafluoride for use as an arc
						quenching medium.
(5) Use in
						one-time testing per laboratory fume hood, provided that the use is in
						compliance with Cal/OSHA ventilation requirements for laboratory fume hood
						operations set forth in title 8, California Code of Regulations, section
						5154.1(c)(2)(B),
						for the purpose of reducing laboratory fume hood face velocity when the hood is
						unattended and realizing the associated energy savings.
(6) Medical uses, which includes only the
						following applications:
(A) Injection or other
						entry of sulfur hexafluoride into a human or animal body for the purpose of
						improving health,
(B) Use of sulfur
						hexafluoride in a diagnostic tool in order to either identify a disease or
						condition by its outward signs and symptoms or analyze the underlying
						physiological/biochemical cause(s) of a disease or condition,
(C) Use of sulfur hexafluoride in a medical
						treatment process for a disease or other medical condition.
(7) Use in testing nuclear power plant
						control room emergency ventilation systems every six years in compliance with
						the Technical Specifications Task Force (TSTF) Specification 448, January 2007,
						which is incorporated by reference herein.
(8) Use in equipment calibration and in
						testing to find alternatives to sulfur hexafluoride use.
(9) Use in testing hyperspectral remote
						sensing systems to detect toxic gases in the infrared portion of the
						spectrum.
(10) Use for research in
						a research facility. Use for tracer gas testing applications and magnesium
						casting is not included and is still subject to the provisions in sections
						95343 through
						95346. Research facilities
						planning to use sulfur hexafluoride for on- or off-site research in a use not
						covered by 95341(a)(1-9) must:
(A) Register
						with ARB in the form of a letter to the Executive Officer and must include the
						business name, physical address, contact name, telephone number, fax number,
						e-mail address, and web site address, as applicable.
(B) Monitor and report usage annually as
						defined in section
						95345(d).