WASHINGTON - The South Coast Air Quality Management District's re-adoption of stringent VOC-content limits on a number of architectural and industrial maintenance coatings categories was quickly met with a new court challenge from the NPCA.
The limits had originally been enacted in 1999 as part of the SCAQMD's revisions to its Rule 1113 on architectural and industrial-maintenance coatings, but those revisions were voided following a previous court challenge mounted by the NPCA and coatings manufacturers. The district in December re-adopted VOC limits that are nearly identical to the 1999 limits.