The proposed amendments to the rules governing architectural coatings will add new categories of coatings that will be subject to new volatile organic compound (VOC) content limits and will lower the VOC content limits for some of the existing categories.
The amendments will discontinue 15 of the existing categories for products manufactured on or after the VOC content limit compliance date, and products previously subject to those categories will be subject to the VOC limit of one of the remaining categories.
They also will update various provisions of the rules including revisions to the methods used to calculate VOC content, test methods, and definitions. Finally, the proposed rulemaking includes amendments to the penalty provisions at N.J.A.C. 7:27A-3.10 that correspond to the amendments at N.J.A.C. 7:27-23.
The proposal also constitutes a revision to New Jersey’s State Implementation Plan (SIP) for the attainment and maintenance of the National Ambient Air Quality Standards for ozone.
See a copy of the rule changes here.
A public hearing on the proposal will be conducted virtually via the Department’s video conferencing software on October 15, 2024 at 9:00 A.M.
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