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The California Air Resources Board (CARB) is holding a webinar, on December 5, 2024 at 9:00 AM PST, to provide guidance on the reporting tool for the 2023 Consumer and Commercial Products Survey (2023 Survey). The 2023 Survey will launch on December 3, 2024. At this webinar, CARB staff will discuss how to use the CPRT and submit data to CARB. This webinar will be conducted via Zoom:
Date: December 5, 2024
Time: 9:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. PST
Call-In #: (888) 363-4734
Passcode: 350021
Location: Zoom Webinar
The CPRT and reporting process include updates for efficiency, ease of reporting, and confidentiality. The updated CPRT contains “guard rails” to help guide Responsible Parties through reporting. To expedite the reporting process, CARB will not require Responsible Parties to contact Formulators. Instead, CARB staff will contact Formulators on behalf of the Responsible Parties to obtain any necessary formulation data via a customized version of the tool called the Consumer Products Reporting Tool for Formulators (CPRTF). To guarantee that Formulators have enough time to submit Formulation Data, Responsible Parties must submit contact information to CARB through the 2023 Survey help box by January 14, 2025. This includes formulator name, contact name, and email address.
Video modules and instructional documents will be provided online at Survey launch on December 3, 2024 and prior to this webinar. The instructional documents will include information on who is subject to reporting, CARB’s authority to conduct surveys, survey category definitions, and a list of error codes. These materials will be available on the 2023 Consumer and Commercial Products Webinars and Materials webpage.
The CPRT webinar on December 5, 2024 will be the second webinar held by CARB on the 2023 Survey. Following comments and feedback from the first webinar, held on October 29, 2024, CARB staff are considering stakeholder input on the list of product categories to be surveyed. CARB will release the finalized category list by December 3, 2024. These categories were selected to maximize coverage of product categories contributing the most to ozone formation and also focus on product categories using toxic chemicals. The finalized category list will be available under the Materials section of the 2023 Survey webpage.
CARB’s Consumer Products Program is a key part of overall efforts to reduce the amount of smog-forming volatile organic compounds, toxic air contaminants, and greenhouse gases that are emitted from the use of chemically formulated consumer products in California. CARB’s Consumer Products Regulations have resulted in reduced statewide emissions from consumer products by an estimated 50 percent since 1990, relative to uncontrolled levels. CARB’s 2023 Survey is an important step in collecting information on consumer products that are sold or supplied for use in California. The data collected from the 2023 Survey will support the statewide consumer product inventory, speciation profiles used in criteria pollutant modelling, future rulemakings, risk assessments, and development of air quality plans (i.e. State Implementation Plans). For more general information, go to the Consumer Products Program webpage.
If you have any questions about the material posted or have general questions regarding the Consumer Products Program, please email Moslem Hossein Mardi or the 2023 Consumer Products Survey’s help box. If contact information for a Responsible Party needs to be updated, please email the 2024 Consumer Products Survey help box by November 27, 2024.
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