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California Business and Professions Code Section 19164

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19164.  The bureau may, by regulation, establish insulation material
standards governing the quality of all insulation material sold or
installed within this state, including those properties that affect
the safety and thermal performance of insulation material during
application and in the use intended. The standards shall specify the
initial performance of the insulation material and the performance
expected during the design life of the insulation material. Until the
bureau has adopted these regulations, the regulations of the State
Energy Resources Conservation and Development Commission in effect on
the effective date of this section relating to those standards shall
remain in full force and effect. However, wherever those regulations
specify that the commission shall perform an act, the bureau instead
shall perform the act.
   Prior to establishing the standards and procedures required by
this chapter, the bureau shall conduct at least two public hearings,
and shall invite the State Energy Resources Conservation and
Development Commission, the State Fire Marshal, manufacturers,
distributors, and licensed installers of insulation materials, and
appropriate members of the public to participate in the hearings.
Immediately upon adoption of the standards and procedures, the bureau
shall provide a copy of the standards to the State Energy Resources
Conservation and Development Commission, and the Contractors' State
License Board. Within 30 days after receipt of the bureau's
standards, the Contractors' State License Board shall notify all
state licensed contractors who install insulation of the standards.
   Insulation standards adopted by the bureau, pursuant to this
section, and by the State Energy Resources Conservation and
Development Commission, pursuant to Section 25402 of the Public
Resources Code, which are building standards, as defined in Section
25488.5 of the Public Resources Code, shall be submitted to the
California Building Standards Commission for approval pursuant to,
and are governed by, the California Building Standards Law (Part 2.5
(commencing with Section 18901) of Division 13 of the Health and
Safety Code). The building standards adopted by the bureau and
published in the California Building Standards Code shall comply
with, and be enforced as provided in, this section.

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