summit said:precaud said:summit, are there details on the new mandates anywhere?
I'm gonna try to find some. The HPBA trade mag had some charts, but I have been unable to locate it at the shop, and a google search does not find me any hard #'s... But the trade mag did say it had the potential to put many stove co's under because of the stricter mandates: new testing, retrofits, new UL listings, etc. think cali style emissions regs, no burn areas, etc.. The owner of Husdson River stoves was in a few weeks ago (we buy alot of pipe from their distribution co) and he was all worked up about it. 2014 was the target date for these, I believe.
It is called "New Source Performance Standards". Here is the presentation they saw at HPBA:
(broken link removed to http://www.epa.gov/burnwise/workshop2010/nsps.pdf)