The effective date of the Environmental Protection Agency’s rule on formaldehyde emissions standards for composite wood products has been delayed from March 21 to May 22, according to the EPA.
The EPA’s announcement did not stipulate whether the rule’s Dec. 12 compliance date would also change.
“EPA is taking this action to give recently arrived agency officials the opportunity to learn more about these regulations and to decide whether they would like to conduct a substantive review of any of those regulations,” the EPA said.
The effective date was pushed back once before, in compliance with President Donald Trump’s 60-day regulatory freeze issued Jan. 20.
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