Refrigerant Management Program
Regulation for Non-Residential Refrigeration Systems

The Refrigerant Management Program (RMP) regulation requires facilities with refrigeration systems with more than 50 pounds of high-GWP refrigerant to conduct periodic leak inspections, promptly repair leaks, and keep service records on site.  These facilities should register and submit annual reports using the R3 tool.

The regulation also affects any person who installs, services, or disposes of any appliance using a high-GWP refrigerant; as well as refrigerant wholesalers, distributors, and reclaimers.  These facilities are also subject to registration and reporting requirements.  Facilities whose systems use only ammonia or carbon dioxide as refrigerants are not subject to the rule.
 
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Your system capacity can be determined by checking the equipment nameplate, reviewing the service records, contacting your service provider or manufacturer, or using a refrigerant charge calculator to calculate the amount of refrigerant in the system from the size of components of the system.

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What's New?

It is now time to register and file the Annual Report for 2012 at large facilities. The registration and reporting deadline for refrigeration system leak inspections, leak repairs, and refrigerant usage during the year 2012 at large facilities is March 1, 2013.  If you have a large facility with a system with 2,000 pounds of refrigerant or more you must register and report by March 1, 2013.  Registration information submitted in 2012 for the year 2011 should be reviewed, if there are no changes in the registration information, and all of your service records for the year 2012 are entered in R3, you are ready to submit the report and pay the fee. The R3 tool is available at: www.arb.ca.gov/rmp-r3.

Refrigerant Management Program R3 Webinar. ARB staff held a free on-line webinar on December 13, 2012 to review the requirements of the regulation and the procedures for filing Annual Reports and paying the Annual Implementation Fee using the on-line R3 tool.  This meeting also highlighted and demonstrated the recent updates of the R3 tool.  A recording of the webinar is now available (video only, no sound). The presentation for the webinar is also available as a pdf file.

Do not register systems used exclusively for comfort cooling. The registration, reporting, and fee payment provisions of the Refrigerant Management Program apply only to systems used wholly or in part for refrigeration and process cooling.  It does not apply to systems used solely for comfort cooling, i.e. air conditioning.

We want your feedback! A short survey has been developed to help us improve the R3 tool and service to users. Yes, I want to take the survey.

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For questions or to provide feedback on the rule please email the Refrigerant Management Program Staff or call us at (916) 324-2517