Handbooks and pamphlets developed for business/equipment operators are brief (15 to 25 pages), colorful and easy-to-read with helpful inspection checklists, flow charts, diagrams and illustrations.

Handbooks

• Aerospace Coating Industry (1.2MB) or (High Resolution 7.4MB)
• Agricultural Burning (English 986KB) or (High Resolution 10.6MB)
• Agricultural Burning (Spanish 1MB) or (High Resolution 5.6MB)
• Asbestos Demolition/Renovation (1.3MB) or (High Resolution 6.4MB)
• Automotive Refinishing (English 1MB) or (High Resolution 13.7MB)
• Automotive Refinishing (Spanish 1MB) or (High Resolution 7MB)
• Consumer Products (903KB) or (High Resolution 4.2MB)
• Dry Cleaning Industry Operations (English 5.9MB) Dry Cleaning Industry Checklists
• Forest Management Burning (1.1MB) or (High Resolution 5.7MB)
• Fugitive Dust Control (4MB)
• Gasoline Facilities Phase I and II Vapor Recovery (1.4MB) or (High Resolution 8.1MB)
• Graphic Arts Industry (English 1.3MB) or (High Resolution 6.9MB)
• Graphic Arts Industry (Spanish 1.4MB) or (High Resolution 7.5MB)
• Hot Mix Asphalt Facilities (1.3MB) or (High Resolution 7.3MB)
• Naturally-Occurring Asbestos (3MB)
• Oil Field Production (1.3MB) or (High Resolution 6.8MB)
• Solvent Cleaners (1MB) (High Resolution 5.1MB)
• Surface Coating of Metal & Plastic Parts & Products (English 952KB) or (High Resolution 5.1MB)
• Surface Coating of Metal & Plastic Parts & Products (Spanish 1MB) or (High Resolution 5.4MB)
• Visible Emissions Evaluation (1.9MB)
• Wood Product Coatings Industry (English 1.5MB) or (High Resolution 7.8MB)
• Wood Product Coatings Industry (Spanish 1.3MB) or (High resolution 7.1MB)
• Woodburning Handbook (961KB)

Pamphlets

• Asbestos - Containing Rock and Soil - What Homeowners and Renters Need to Know
• Baghouses
• Cleaners and Degreasers Used in Automotive Maintenance Repair
• Enhanced Vapor Recovery (EVR) Program
• Limits on Diesel-Fueled Commercial Motor Vehicle Idling
• Stationary Internal Combustion Engines
• Transport Refrigeration Units (TRU) ATCM #1 Overview (English) (Spanish)
• Transport Refrigeration Units (TRU) ATCM #2 Owners/Operators (English) (Spanish)
• The Training and Compliance Assistance Program Pamphlet

You may download any handbook or pamphlet highlighted above, or order hardcopies of many handbooks and pamphlets by contacting Marci Fenske at (916) 327-7211. You may also download a publication order form in Adobe Acrobat (PDF - 16KB) format.

Pamphlets are free. There is no charge for handbooks sent to California businesses and environmental government agencies. There is a $2.50 fee for each handbook sent to a business outside California.  

All of our publications are copyright protected; however, as long as you do not charge a fee, you may print and / or distribute downloaded copies. If you want to modify any portion of these documents you must request permission by contacting Mary Boyer, Chief, Training and Compliance Assistance Branch, at (916) 322-6037 or email at mboyer@arb.ca.gov.

In California, where over 90 percent of all manufacturing businesses have fewer than 100 employees, complying with air pollution regulations can strain a small business's staff and resources. The Air Resources Board's Compliance Assistance Program (CAP) helps businesses by producing and distributing self-help literature that explains air pollution rules in everyday terms.

A variety of publications are available through CAP. Also available are the techndbks.htm#woodburninghnical manuals which are more comprehensive reference documents written for the environmental engineer and local district air pollution inspector.

Click here to browse our CAP Technical Manuals list.