Brake Pad Documents & Fact Sheets

Final Rulemaking

• Final Regulation Language
• Redline Version of the Final Regulation Language
• Final Statement of Reasons Update (includes the 45-day and 15-day responses to comments)
• Final Statement of Reasons
• Final Statement of Reasons (FSOR)
• Appendix A 1: Code of Federal Law Regulations Searches
• Appendix A2: Westlaw Searches
• 15-Day Public Comment Period
• Revised Draft Regulations (Clean Version)
• Revised Draft Regulations (Redlined Version)
• Written comments
  
• 45-Day Public Comment Period
• 45-Day Public Notice and Comment Period
• Draft Regulation Text
• Public Hearing Video
• All written comments
• Initial Statement of Reasons (ISOR)
• Initial Statements of Reasons
• Appendix A1: Code of Federal Law Regulations Searches
• Appendix A2: Westlaw Searches
• Form 399
• Economic and Fiscal Impact Statement
  
• Economic and Fiscal Impact
• Regulatory, Fiscal, and Economic Analyses Report
  
• Appendix A:

• Appendix B:

• California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA)
• Updated Informative Digest
  
  

Questions Regarding the Brake Pad Law

• May 26, 2011 Interpretation Letter to Industry
• June 14, 2011 Interpretation Letter to Industry
• September 20, 2011 Interpretation Letter to Industry
  
  

Informal Draft Regulation

• Informal Draft Regulations Issued June 16, 2014
  
• Comments Received on the June 16, 2014 Informal Draft Regulations 
  
• Response to Common Comments on the June 16, 2014 Informal Draft Regulations
  
• Revised Informal Draft Regulations Issued on November 14, 2014
• Revised Informal Draft Regulations Issued on November 14, 2014 (redline version)
  
• Comments Received on the November 14, 2014 Informal Draft Regulations
• Response to Comments Received on the November 14, 2014 Informal Draft Regulations
  
  

Material for Workshops on the Informal Draft Regulations

• California's Proposed Brake Pad Regulation Presentation (July/August 2014 workshops on draft informal regulations)
• Meeting notes on the California Only Exemption Mark Discussion
• Diagram on the California Exemptions versus the State of Washington Exemptions
• Information Sheet on the State of Washington Exemption Process and the California Extension Process
• Graphs Depicting the Phase In of the Exemptions (g) and (h) in Health and Safety Code section 25250.55
  
  

Other Resources/Documents

• Copper-Free Brakes Initiative
• Chaptered Senate Bill No. 346, Article 13.5: Motor Vehicle Brake Friction Materials, California Health and Safety Code section 25250.50 through 25250.65
• State of California 2013 Vehicle Code
• Society of Automotive Engineers Standard J866 – Friction Coefficient Identification and Environmental Marking System for Brake Linings (this document needs to be purchased from SAE)
• Society of Automotive Engineers Standard J2975 – Measurement of Copper and Other Elements in Brake Friction Materials (this document needs to be purchased from SAE)
• Assessment of the Capacity of XRF Analysis as a Tool for the Screening of Brake Pad Friction Materials (file size: 4.6 MB)
• Guidelines for Selecting a Brake Friction Material Testing Certification Agency
• Motor Vehicle Brake Friction Materials - Senate Bill 346 (Presentation by DTSC for the Bureau of Automotive Repair Advisory Group)
• California's Brake Pad Proposed Regulations (Presentation by DTSC for the Society of Automotive Engineers Brake Colloquium)