California Air Resources Board

CARB is conducting the 2025 Personal Fragrance Products Technical Assessment to evaluate the continued feasibility of meeting the 50% VOC standard using existing or new technologies.

All reporting for the 2025 Personal Fragrance Products Technical Assessment (2025 PFP Tech Assessment) must be submitted to CARB by March 31, 2026. For ease of reporting, an interactive Personal Fragrance Products Reporting Tool (PFP-RT) for Responsible Parties will be posted as available. CARB staff will send out the Personal Fragrance Products Reporting Tool for Formulators (PFP- RTF) to product Formulators listed in the submitted PFP-RTs. 

When reporting fragrance ingredients, please keep in mind the definition for “Fragrance” as defined in sections 94501(f) and 94508(a)(55) of the Consumer Products Regulation: “Fragrance” means a substance or complex mixture of aroma chemicals, natural essential oils, and other functional components with a combined vapor pressure not in excess of 2 mm of Hg at 20 degree C, the sole purpose of which is to impart an odor or scent, or to counteract a malodor. 

All reported data will be treated as confidential. The 2025 PFP Tech Assessment reporting tools, instructions, and a sample Table of Contents for the written report will be available soon.

Personal Fragrance Products Reporting Tool – Coming Soon 

• The PFP-RT along with instructions will be available for download soon.  

Background  

In 2021, CARB amended the Consumer Products Regulation to lower the volatile organic compound (VOC) standard for non-aerosol PFPs that contain 7% or less fragrance, with an initial VOC standard of 70% instead of the previous 75%. By January 1, 2031, non-aerosol PFPs that contain 10% or less fragrance must meet a 50% VOC standard. CARB will also require aerosol PFPs made on or after January 1, 2031, to meet the 50% VOC standard. 

For more information, on the 2021 Consumer Products Amendments, please visit the Formal Rulemaking Documents page. 

The Consumer Products Regulation is available to read online. 

Pursuant to the requirements of Assembly Bill (AB) 2289, California’s Bureau of Automotive Repair (BAR), in cooperation with California Air Resources Board (CARB), performs certain analyses of Smog Check or Inspection and Maintenance (I/M) related data and periodically reports the results of these analyses to the public. Specific requirements of the bill include estimation of excess emissions associated with vehicles initially passing a Smog Check that subsequently fails a Random Roadside (RR) Inspection and reasons for the failures.

EMFAC characterizes the emissions from the California fleet, which includes vehicles that both pass and fail Smog Check. Although some vehicles that are high-emitting and fail Smog Check are included in EMFAC, it cannot explicitly model the emissions from vehicles failing Smog Check or calculate the emissions benefits of the Smog Check Program. This test program, in collaboration with BAR, will procure failing vehicles from BAR’s RR inspection program and facilitate deriving explicit emission rates for vehicles in the higher emission regimes (typically I/M failures) to update EMFAC. Data collected from this test plan will enable calculation of the emission rates based on passing and failing emissions in place of the current methodology that determines the emission rates based on low, medium and high emission regimes.

In addition, the test program will also provide BAR the emission rates of test vehicles that fail SMOG check for the purpose of determining the effectiveness of the Smog Check Program.

If you have questions, please contact the Project Engineer, Sanika Nishandar (sanika.nishandar@arb.ca.gov) at (951) 717-6000 or Section Manager, Satya Sardar (satya.sardar@arb.ca.gov) at (951) 542-3376.

CARB Consumer and Commercial Products Survey Responding Companies

The 2023 Survey extended reporting deadline of September 22, 2025, has expired.

A list of 2023 Survey participating companies will be posted upon completion of the QA/QC of all submittals.

Click here to access the PDF version of this Community Engagement plan.

7/28/2025

This community engagement effort supports the development of the Reducing Emissions from Operational Practices of Commercial Aircraft regulation, which includes strategies such as transitioning to zero-emission ground support equipment, requiring aircraft plug-in at gates, and reducing emissions from aircraft taxiing, takeoff, and landing. For more information about CARB’s regulatory development concepts to reduce emissions from aviation, click here.

Expected impact from the engagement: CARB staff strives for community engagement to foster trust and transparency, and to help build public understanding of the need for emissions reductions. At the same time, input from community members, airport workers, and local organizations can help inform and strengthen the overall regulatory design. Their insights can guide the development of responsive regulations that address the most pressing concerns.

Overall engagement goals/objectives: to build awareness, gather local insights, and ensure community concerns, technical feasibility, and equity considerations are thoroughly considered in the rulemaking process.

Specific goals:

Goal 1: Provide comprehensive information to stakeholders on the planned upcoming rulemaking and related context.
• Present background on current aviation emissions.
• Present information on existing technologies and the planned regulatory approach.
• Present measured pollutants concentration levels on airport airfield and in surrounding communities, if and when they become available.
• Present how this regulation fits into CARB’s broader efforts, including both air quality and climate programs.
• Present the timeline, scope, and potential benefits and costs associated with any potential future proposed regulations.

Goal 2: Seek specific feedback on key regulatory provisions with an emphasis on issues that are most relevant to each stakeholder group.
• Understand how stakeholders prioritize aviation emissions compared to other pollution sources.
• Identify stakeholders’ specific concerns — such as noise, air pollution, or lead emissions, and gather as much detail as possible to inform regulatory development.

Goal 3: Expand engagement to include historically marginalized groups, particularly residents living in communities located near emission sources, i.e., airports.
• Promote a better understanding and acceptance of the draft regulatory concepts by those most impacted.

Engagement Scale and Decisionmakers

We are planning a two-year engagement process starting from August 2025 to support the development of the regulation, which is targeted for first Board hearing around 2027.

CARB staff plans to include the following detailed engagement opportunities:
• Conduct two (2) Environmental Justice (EJ)-focused workshops with EJ organizations as well as residents who live near airports to inform the rulemaking plans and current technologies. Staff will begin early outreach with EJ organizations before scheduling these workshops.
• Leverage existing community meetings and AB 617 meetings, such as the one hosted by CARB’s Mobile Source Control Division (MSCD) Link here, conduct presentations to inform the community about our aviation regulations in those meetings.
• Partner with EJ organizations on efforts related to reducing airport emission impacts on EJ communities.
• Participate in community engagement meetings under the CARB contract with University of California Los Angeles (contract number: 24RD014 PI: Suzanne Paulson).

Examples of Engagement and Outreach