Illegal to vent CFCs or HFCs
July 1st, 1992
All persons opening appliances(besides small and auto) and disposing of appliances must have atleast 1 piece of self contained recovery equipment
July 13, 1993
Required low loss fittings
November 15, 1993
Recovery equipment made after ____ must be certified by epa
After November 15, 1993
Techs must be certified in recovery
November 14th, 1994
CFCs can no longer be manufactured or imported
December 31st 1995. Jan 1st 1996
Illegal to vent any refrigerants or substitutes
November 15th, 1995
Recovery made before ____ with small appliances must be capable of 80 percent recovery weather or not compresser is operational
Before November 15th, 1993
Small appliance equipment must be able to recover 80% is compressor failed, 90% if operational.
After November 15th,1993
Small appliances must be equipped with a process stub
After November 15th 1993
Techs servicing small appliances must be epa certified
November 14th, 1994
All appliances (besides small) must be equipped with services aperture
November 15th, 1993
When using recovery equipment BEFORE November 15th, 1993 techs must evacuate appliance containing 10 pounds of CFC 500 to the following level
4 inches mercury
After November 15th 1993 technicians must evacuate an appliance containing less then 200 lbs of CFC 12 to ___ of Mercury vacuum
10 inches