Chlorofluorocarbon Audit Checklist
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Program Qualification
1 Does your facility own or operate any of the
following appliances and refrigerant equipment
types, using a CFC or HCFC refrigerant?
 Comfort cooling
 Other Refrigeration
 Industrial Process Refrigeration
 Commercial Refrigeration
 Small appliances < 5 pounds
 Trucks, buses, trains or planes with R-22
2 Does your facility use company employees to
service, maintain or repair appliances and
equipment involving refrigerant?
3 Do you own or lease EPA-certified refrigerant
recovery equipment?
Industrial Process Refrigeration, Comfort Cooling,Commercial and Other Refrigeration
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Are all recovery equipment units left unaltered?
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Have you submitted to EPA a recovery
equipment certification form?
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Do all your service technicians have the
appropriate certification under Section 608 of the
Clean Air Act:
 Type I for small appliances
 Type II for high or very high pressure
appliances, Type III for low pressure
appliances
 Universal for all types of equipment
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For each service technician do you have a record
of his/her name, certification level, certification
number, testing agency and the type of
equipment he or she services (e.g. small, high
pressure, low pressure)?
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Does your facility send used refrigerant to an
EPA-approved reclamation facility?
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Have you converted any of your equipment to a
new refrigerant?
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Are the new refrigerant(s) approved under EPA’s
Significant New Alternatives
Policy (SNAP) Program?
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Was a new refrigerant label installed on the
equipment?
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Do any of the refrigerant equipment types
checked in question 1 contain more than 50
pounds of refrigerant?
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Has each of the following been recorded for each
unit containing more than 50 pounds of
refrigerant:
 the location
 company
 designation
 manufacturer
 model #
 serial # from name plate
 refrigerant type
 refrigerant charge
 method used to determine full charge.
Does your facility keep service records on all
50+ pound units that document the date and type
of service as well as the quantity of refrigerant
added?
Does that facility calculate the leak rate on all
50+ pound units?
Note: The leak rate that triggers mandatory
repairs is 15%Comfort & Other and 35% for
Industrial Process & Commercial in a 12 month
period.
13 Are leaks above the allowable leak rate repaired
within 30 days, Or 120 days if
an industrial process shut down is required?
14 If no repairs were conducted or repairs failed,
was a retrofit or retirement plan prepared and
available for review?
FOR INDUSTRIAL PROCESS ONLY: If leak
repairs have been conducted, was an initial
verification test conducted?
15 A follow-up verification test conducted within 30
days of the successful initial verification test?
Motor Vehicles
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Does your facility service, maintain, or repair
motor vehicle air conditioners (MVAC)?
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List all refrigerant that the facility uses. – (e.g.
H-134A)
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Are the refrigerants other than CFC-12 listed
above approved under EPA’s Significant New
Alternatives Policy (SNAP) Program?
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Does the facility have a refrigerant identifier?
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Have the following been recorded for each piece
of recovery equipment:
 the manufacturer's name
 the model number
 type of machine (e.g. recover-only)
 rated refrigerants
 whether the equipment has been certified by
Underwriters Laboratory (UL) or ETL
Testing Laboratories, Inc.(ETL) to meet EPA
requirements.
For recovery-only equipment, is refrigerant
recycled on-site, or reclaimed off-site by an
approved reclaimer?
Have you submitted to EPA a recovery
equipment certification form?
Are your service technicians trained and certified
by an accredited program?
For each service technician do you have a record
of his/her name, certification
number, and training program.
Does the facility have in stock the following for
refrigerant listed other than CFC-12?
 Unique Service Fittings
 Permanent Labels
 Barrier Hoses (required only for blends that
contain R-22)
 Compressor Shutoff Switch (required only
for A/C systems that include a high-pressure
cutoff switch)
Has any of your recovery/recycling equipment
been converted to alternative (non-CFC-12)
refrigerant service?
Have unique fittings been permanently attached
to converted equipment?
Do you take the final step in the disposal process
of motor vehicle air conditioners (MVACs)?
Estimate your weekly volume of MVACs
received?
 0 – 10
 20 – 30
 40 - 50
 10 – 20
 30 – 40
 50+
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Do you accept MVACs with the refrigerant
charge intact?
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Who recovers the refrigerant from the MVAC at
your facility?
 owner, operator, employee of the disposal
facility
 contractor to the disposal facility
 technicians who service MVACs
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Does the facility own recovery equipment?
For each piece of recovery equipment have the
following been recorded:
 the manufacturer’s name
 the year manufactured
 the model number
 serial number
 the rated refrigerants?
Have you submitted to EPA a recovery
equipment certification form?
When you recover refrigerant from MVACs, do
you reduce the system pressure to or below 102
mm of mercury vacuum?
Does your facility send recovered refrigerant to
either:
 an EPA-approved reclamation facility
 a facility that services MVACs.
Is your recovery equipment certified under
Section 609 of the Clean Air Act?
Are you selling the refrigerant to technicians who
are trained and certified under Section 609 of the
Clean Air Act?
Do you retain invoices that indicate the name of
the purchaser, the date of sale, and the quantity of
the refrigerant purchased?
Do you allow MVAC service technicians to
recover (i.e., remove refrigerant in any condition
from an appliance and store it in a container
without testing or processing) refrigerant at your
facility?
Are the technicians trained and certified under
Section 609 of the Clean Air Act?
Are the technicians using recovery equipment
certified under Section 609 of the Clean Air Act?
Do you accept MVACs where the refrigerant has
been evacuated from the appliance previously?
Is it verified that the refrigerant has been
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evacuated from the appliance previously by
either:
 accepting a signed statement from the person
delivering the appliance that all refrigerant
that had not leaked previously has been
properly recovered from the appliance (This
statement must include the name and address
of the person who recovered the refrigerant
and the date the refrigerant was recovered)
 establishing a contract with suppliers that
refrigerant will be removed prior to delivery.
Have you notified the suppliers of your
appliances that refrigerant must be properly
removed before the delivery of the items to the
facility (e.g warning signs, letters to suppliers)?
Do you keep your verification statements and/or
contracts with suppliers at the facility for three
years?
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