The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) indicated that it will initiate a rulemaking to amend the national rule for volatile organic compound (VOC) emission standards for aerosol coatings1. The rulemaking was listed in the agency's Spring 2021 Regulatory Agenda. Although a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking has not been released yet, the agency said it expects a final rule by the end of 2021. Notably, ACA has urged EPA to amend the national VOC rule for aerosol coatings to update its table of Maximum Incremental Reactivity (MIR) values to align with California's aerosol coatings rule, adjust the default value, and add several compounds to the rule's Table 2A2. ACA submitted two petitions for rulemaking to EPA in 2017. Since then, ACA has continued to discuss this issue with various offices at EPA.
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