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Dave Jones, Chair

ASSEMBLY COMMITTEE ON JUDICIARY

SUBJECT: REAL PROPERTY: FURNACES

AB 1234 (Wolk) - As Amended: April 18, 2007

1) A DWELLING THAT CONTAINS AN OLD FLOOR FURNACE, AFTER JANUARY 1, 2014, SHOULD BE DEEMED UNTENANTABLE.

KEY ISSUES:

FLOOR FURNACES IN ALL DWELLINGS IN CALIFORNIA BE REPLACED.

2) THE POLICY OF CALIFORNIA SHOULD BE A REQUIREMENT THAT OLD

This bill provides that a abode that contains an aged attic furnace, afterwards January 1, 2014, shall be accounted untenantable. According to the author, aged gas attic & bank furnaces accept a history of causing abode fires & carbon monoxide contagion consistent in afterlife & injury. The Los angeles Professional Firefighters portray that these aged furnaces are alarming because they generally abridgement vents or flues. In support, the Los angeles Rural Legal Abetment Foundation, states that this bill is an adapted apparatus for replacing aged heaters that can & do aftereffect in afterlife or austere injury.

SYNOPSIS

SUMMARY: Provides that a abode that contains an aged attic furnace, afterwards January 1, 2014, shall be accounted untenantable. Specifically, this bill:

1) Defines "floor furnace" to beggarly a self-contained, floor-mounted amplitude boiler afterwards ducts.

3) Defines "old bank furnace" to beggarly a wall-mounted, independent amplitude boiler afterwards ducts that beat 10 inches that is added 30 years elderly.

2) Defines "old attic furnace" to beggarly a attic boiler that is over 30 years elderly.

5 ) Provides that it is the buyer of Los angeles that aged attic furnaces shall be replaced in all dwellings in Los angeles.

4) Defines "residential abode unit" to beggarly a alone home, adaptable home, bogus home or a assemblage in a multifamily anatomy active by either the buyer or a tenant.

6) Provides that on & afterwards January 1, 2014, an aged attic boiler or any unvented boiler or heating adeptness amid in the attic of the abode shall not be anticipation about as

conforming to applicative law, authoritative the abode untenantable.

1) Establishes a low-income activity abetment affairs for electric & accustomed gas account barter of the investor-owned utilities adjourned by a customs on activity bills. Establishes CARE, which provides a 15 percent bill abatement on electric & accustomed gas bills. Requires the agency to appraise methods to advance CARE enrollment, including comparing advice from CARE & the Universal Lifeline Phone Service. Requires the agency to ensure that the CARE abatement accurately reflects the akin of crave of customers. (Public Utilities Code Sections 386; 739.1.)

EXISTING LAW:

3) Requires the freeholder of a architecture advised for beastly ascendancy to put the architecture in to a action fit for activity & to adjustment all afterwards dilapidations which cede it untenantable.(Civil Code Section 1941.)

2) Establishes the Low-Income Oversight Board for the purpose of advising the PUC on low-income electric & gas chump issues & confined as a communication for the PUC to low-income ratepayers & representatives. Requires the PUC, with the abetment of the Low-Income Oversight Board, to conduct an appraisal of the needs of low-income electricity & gas ratepayers. Requires the appraisal to cover an appraisal of the accomplishing of low-income programs & the capability of weatherization casework & activity adeptness measures in low-income households.(Public Utilities Code Section 382.1.)

4) Provides that a abode shall be accounted untenantable if it essentially lacks, a part of added things:

a) Able waterproofing & acclimate protection;

c) Heating accessories that accommodated with applicative law at the time of installation, maintained in admirable alive order. (Civil Code 1941.1.)

b) Plumbing or gas accessories that accommodated to applicative law in aftereffect at the time of installation; &,

Fire Danger Presented By Aged Furnaces. According to the Los angeles Blaze Chiefs Association, "Old gas attic & bank furnaces are a accurate blaze hazard & (are) activity inefficient." The Los angeles Professional Firefighters portray that these aged furnaces are alarming because they generally abridgement vents or flues. The columnist provided 49 account online writing of fires that complex attic furnaces, back 2000.Among these fires was two that complex Mr. Kinglsey Melton, a Field Representative for Assembly affiliate Wolk who suffered near-fatal burns, on December 26, 2006.According to the San Diego Blaze Department, the could cause of the blaze was a adulterated gas boiler beneath the house.("Kingsley Melton, 29, is in the Intensive Care Assemblage at the UC San Diego Burn Center Afterward a Near-Fatal Accident in San Diego on Dec. 26,"Davis Enterprise

COMMENTS: This bill provides that a abode that contains an aged attic furnace, afterwards January 1, 2014, shall be accounted untenantable. According to the author, aged gas attic & bank furnaces accept a history of causing abode fires & carbon monoxide contagion consistent in afterlife & injury. The columnist added explains that these furnaces are awfully inefficient in agreement of activity consumption. The columnist states that this bill provides a agency to alter these alarming & inefficient heaters over time, alpha with the a lot of alarming attic heaters. In support, the Los angeles Rural Legal Abetment Foundation, states that this bill is an adapted apparatus for replacing aged heaters that can & do aftereffect in afterlife or austere injury.

2.0 INTRODUCTION

The afterward certificate describes a abundant appraisal of the air charwoman capability of the Trane CleanEffectsâ„¢/American Accepted AccuCleanâ„¢ accomplished abode air charwoman adjustment by Environmental Bloom & Engineering, Inc. (EH&E). Testing was conducted amid May & December 2005 in the analysis home amid adjoining to EH&Eâ€™s capital appointment in Newton, Massachusetts. The testing was conducted as a collective analysis activity amid EH&E & board from the Harvard School of Accessible Bloom (HSPH).

Aim

The aim of the testing was to quantify the capability of Trane CleanEffectsâ„¢/American Accepted AccuCleanâ„¢ for removing contaminants from calm air through allegory to industry standards, the achievement of another systems, & health-based considerations.

Approach

The achievement of Trane CleanEffectsâ„¢/American Accepted AccuCleanâ„¢ & another systems was evaluated in the analysis home beneath controlled & well-documented conditions. Measurements were acquired to adjudge the whole-home atom abatement & tidy air supply amount accomplished by Trane CleanEffectsâ„¢/American Accepted AccuCleanâ„¢ & another systems. The in-duct air charwoman systems activated were:

The able ascendancy of accession approach particles by Trane CleanEffectsâ„¢/American Accepted AccuCleanâ„¢ is of appropriate absorption because chapped air pollutants of anthropogenic agent are all-over in this admeasurement range. Particles of anthropogenic agent are emitted anon from sources or formed from interactions a part of gases emitted from assorted sources. Examples of anthropogenic sources of accession approach particles emitted to alfresco air cover cars & trucks, electric adeptness plants, & accomplishment operations. Because of their baby size, accession approach particles in alfresco air calmly access homes by affective through & about doors, windows, & added penetrations in the architecture envelope. Common calm sources of accession approach particles cover affable & cigarette smoking. Accession approach particles aswell cover capacity of biological agent such as cast spores, cat & dog allergen, bacteria, virus, & some pollen.

The ascendancy of chapped air abuse in the accession approach is important for accessible bloom because non-biological & biological particles in this admeasurement chic accept been

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associated with added risks of a array of adverse bloom outcomes. Atom concentrations are associated with added accident of abortive bloodshed & a array of cardiopulmonary effects, including myocardial infarction (heart attack) & respiratory furnishings such as bronchitis & asthma attacks. Acknowledgment to cast & absolute beastly allergens has been associated with asthma exacerbations & lower respiratory symptoms. Notably, a beginning for acknowledgment of sensitized individuals to atom & allergen acknowledgment has not been demonstrated. For these reasons, the approved adeptness of Trane CleanEffectsâ„¢/American Accepted AccuCleanâ„¢ to abolish particles rapidly from calm & to achieve low steady-state levels of particles central is advancing to accept a bloom benefit.

5-inch pleated clarify

1-inch accepted clarify

Trane CleanEffectsâ„¢/American Accepted AccuCleanâ„¢

Conventional cyberbanking air cleaner (EAC)

EH&E aswell conducted tests with carriageable domiciliary electric air cleaners in the analysis home.

The units & configurations activated were:

1 Hunter Calm Floâ„¢ HEPA Air Purifier Model 30216

5 Hunter Calm Floâ„¢ HEPA Air Purifier Model 30216

3 Ionic Breeze Quadraâ„¢ Silent Air Purifier

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