EPA Delays Import Certifications for Composite Wood Formaldehyde Standards Until March 2019
The Environmental Protection Agency will delay deadlines for compliance with new Toxic Substances Control Act formaldehyde emissions standards and import certification requirements for composite wood products, it said in a pre-publication copy of an upcoming final rule. Formaldehyde emissions standards,…
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recordkeeping and labeling requirements are postponed one year, now taking effect Dec. 12, 2018, except for emissions standards, certification and testing requirements for laminated products, which take effect March 22, 2024, a delay of about four months. The compliance date for import certification provisions of the new regulations now is March 22, 2019, also a four month delay. EPA is also extending until March 2019 the transitional period during which California Air Resources Board (CARB) Third Party Certifiers (TPC) may certify composite wood products under TSCA without being accredited by EPA. The extension largely mirrors a delay announced in May but subsequently withdrawn (see 1705230019 and 1707060021). EPA issued its composite wood formaldehyde regulations in December 2016 (see 1607280021 and 1612120022).