Lots of cryptic talk about april 21, but I can’t find anything concrete about it. Blame my poor search skills (april 21 brings up nothing on the forum search).
Anyone care to enlighten me? Sounds big.
well, on 4/20, everyone finishes off their stash. then, they gotta re-stock. 4/21 is “call your pot dealer day”.
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Lots of cryptic talk about april 21, but I can’t find anything concrete about it. Blame my poor search skills (april 21 brings up nothing on the forum search).
Anyone care to enlighten me? Sounds big.
Theres information in the Moonlight strikes back thread below.
Ok, the moonlight strikes back thread is talking about california laws, or even just local county laws… In the eskimo foam thread, a couple of cryptic (and not so cryptic) comments make it sound much bigger than that…
Bert:
and just as the foam arrives , april 21 , black friday …
only the backyarders will have the advantage , if there neighbors dont complain …
government workers , doing spot checks with VOC meters …
rumour has it , that every local council authority now has one for the introduction of the upcoming laws …
some large chemical manufacturers have already made some major changes to there production range …
why make chemicals that will be illegal to use …
seems some businesses are planning ahead …
Am I missing something, or is this primarily about california surfboard manufacture? Not that that wouldn’t be a great tragedy, but it wouldn’t necessarily wipe the US shaper off the face of the map.
J.
apparantly new rulings(laws/regs whatever) go into effect then making the use of poly resin very difficult and expensive for production shops. Bert, Greg and others have interpreted it as the regs that will fianlly shut down the use of poly resin in surfboard operations without alot of enviro protection measures and is what Grubby saw coming down the line to hit the industry even after his own TDA battles and lawsuits,
Regs may not impact production ops in text as Keith has stated but they give fruit to personal injury lawsuits(lots of scrupulous personal injury lawyers out there) and escalating workmans comp and business insurance to make the business owner wonder if the battle is worth it(like Grubby did). Especially if compensation for their great craftsmanship like Moonlight said is unprofitable. will people pay $1000 for a custom poly to compensate the trouble required is the question.
If the buyer doesn’t change his purchasing habit(being cheap) or the market remains the same for customs then the regs will apply enough pressure to drive more business offshore or to very large industrial operation with the required systems…
When Congress ammended the Clean Air Act (CAA) in 1990, it directed the EPA to list categories of sources that emit any of 189 hazardous air pollutants (HAP).
On April 21, 2003, the EPA published new control standards for the air emissions from composites manufacturing plants in the Federal Register. The EPA listed Reinforced Plastics Composites production as a category of sources emitting HAP.
The official EPA NESHAP (National Emissions Standards for Hazardous Air Pollutants ), (MACT standard) codefied 40 CFR part 63 Subpart WWWW.
Maimum achievable control technology (MACT) compliances is required by April 21, 2006
The final rule can be found at www.epa.gov/ttn/atw/rpc/rpcpg.html
The CAA requires major sources to comply with MACT on time even if their state or local permitting authorities are late in issuing permits or developing state MACT programs.
The CAA does not allow state and local air polution authorities to waive, lessen or delay MACT requirements.
For the purposes of the MACT rule, a reinforced plastic composites production facility is one in which reinforced and/or non reinforced plastic coposites products or moulding compounds are manufactured using thermoset resins and/or gel coats that contain styrene.
Any reinforced plastic composites production operation located at a “major source” must comply with NESHAP. A “major source” is a facility with the potential to emit 10 tons per year of any single HAP.
Plants that use less than 1.2 ton per year resin are not required to comply ( see, 40 CFR 63.5785) Certain othe exemptions are provided in 40 CFR 63.5790(c) & (d)
SOURCE; the American Compsites Manufactures Association (ACMA), Guidence for complying with EPA’s MACT standard for composites Manufaturing revised on October 27, 2005 newsletter.
In the newsletter ACMA strongly urges owners and managers of composite manufacturing companies to read and understand the official EPA NESHAP (National Emissions Standards for Hazardous Air Pollutants ), (MACT standard) codefied 40 CFR part 63 Subpart WWWW.
swhuz, hope this is of some help, Nik
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This means that if you use less than 5 drums a year you are under the compliance minimum. If your over that you can expect to be visited. If you use over 40 drums a year you’ll probably have to buy permits … and perhaps contain emissions.
This stuff is hard to read and understand but things will probably change in regard to owning a surfboard factory in the future…
swuz, pm PetroChem, seems they found that april 21 thing or plusone, he found it also
lol@420 its funny because the eskimo thread has a 420 analogy in the hemp blank post.
I’d look for it but I’m tired of Matrix analogies, during that short interlude . oh snap I found it.
Google MACT. There’s more than enough to chew on.
Sounds like an excellent time to open up a new standard 100% eps/epoxy facility in California, if only someone would lead the charge.
They are already there. Do you need a list or something of all the epoxy shops. At least you can open a ice cream shop next to an epoxy factory. Your website talks about the smell of polyurethane resin in the air as a religious experience, something cool to be a part of. Makes me sick to my stomach. Call 911!!!
I thought when people said you where an SOB they meant something else.
Now that I see you life threatening epoxy story it obviously means Short Of Breath.
when in doubt, blame epoxy from a reaction 25 years ago.