Section 488.01. Applicability; purpose.

 

(1)   Applicability. This chapter applies to any person who salvages or dismantles mechanical vapor compression refrigeration equipment, any person who transports such equipment for salvaging or dismantling, any individual who uses or supervises the use of equipment to transfer regulated refrigerants from salvaged or dismantled mechanical vapor compression refrigeration equipment into storage tanks, any person who conducts a program to train operators of refrigerant recovery equipment and any person who conveys mechanical vapor compression refrigeration equipment to a scrap metal processor for metal recovery.

(2)   Purpose. The purpose of this chapter is to establish, pursuant to s. 285.59 , Stats., requirements for the recovery of regulated refrigerants from salvaged or dismantled mechanical vapor compression refrigeration equipment.