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FAR and DFARS › FAR Part 52: Solicitation Provisions and Contract Clauses › Subpart 52.2

FAR 52.223-12 Maintenance, Service, Repair, or Disposal of Refrigeration Equipment and Air Conditioners.

The codified text (eCFR, as of 2026-10-02). Under the Revolutionary FAR Overhaul ↗, agencies follow class deviations with new text for many parts while the formal rules go through the Federal Register: check the solicitation and your contract's clauses, which rule.

In plain English

This clause requires contractors to comply with Clean Air Act sections 608 and 609 when maintaining, servicing, repairing, or disposing of refrigeration and air conditioning equipment. It also directs contractors to reduce the use, release, or emissions of high global warming potential hydrofluorocarbons by transitioning to alternatives, preventing leaks, implementing recovery and recycling, and using reclaimed refrigerants where feasible.

Applies to: Contractors performing maintenance, service, repair, or disposal of refrigeration equipment and air conditioners under this contract

What it requires

  • Comply with applicable requirements of Clean Air Act sections 608 and 609.
  • Reduce the use, release, or emissions of high global warming potential hydrofluorocarbons by transitioning to acceptable alternatives.
  • Prevent and repair refrigerant leaks through service and maintenance during contract performance.
  • Implement recovery, recycling, and responsible disposal programs to avoid release or emissions.

Key terms: Global warming potential · High global warming potential hydrofluorocarbons · Hydrofluorocarbons · EPA's Significant New Alternatives Policy (SNAP) program · Clean Air Act sections 608 and 609

Written by AI from this section's text. A guide, not legal advice: the text below rules.

The text

As prescribed in 23.109(d)(2), insert the following clause:

Maintenance, Service, Repair, or Disposal of Refrigeration Equipment and Air Conditioners (MAY 2024)

(a) Definitions. As used in this clause—

Global warming potential means how much a given mass of a chemical contributes to global warming over a given time period compared to the same mass of carbon dioxide. Carbon dioxide's global warming potential is defined as 1.0.

High global warming potential hydrofluorocarbons means any hydrofluorocarbons in a particular end use for which EPA's Significant New Alternatives Policy (SNAP) program has identified other acceptable alternatives that have lower global warming potential. The SNAP list of alternatives is found at 40 CFR part 82, subpart G, with supplemental tables of alternatives available at (https://www.epa.gov/snap/).

Hydrofluorocarbons means compounds that contain only hydrogen, fluorine, and carbon.

(b) The Contractor shall comply with the applicable requirements of sections 608 and 609 of the Clean Air Act (42 U.S.C. 7671g and 7671h) as each or both apply to this contract.

(c) Unless otherwise specified in the contract, the Contractor shall reduce the use, release, or emissions of high global warming potential hydrofluorocarbons under this contract by—

(1) Transitioning over time to the use of another acceptable alternative in lieu of high global warming potential hydrofluorocarbons in a particular end use for which EPA's SNAP program has identified other acceptable alternatives that have lower global warming potential.

(2) Preventing and repairing refrigerant leaks through service and maintenance during contract performance;

(3) Implementing recovery, recycling, and responsible disposal programs that avoid release or emissions during equipment service and as the equipment reaches the end of its useful life; and

(4) Using reclaimed hydrofluorocarbons to service and repair refrigeration and air conditioning equipment, where feasible.

(d) The Contractor shall refer to EPA's SNAP program to identify alternatives. The SNAP list of alternatives is found at 40 CFR part 82, subpart G, with supplemental tables available at https://www.epa.gov/snap/.

(End of clause)

Sections it refers to

  • 23.109 Solicitation provisions and contract clauses.

Sections that refer to it

  • 23.109 Solicitation provisions and contract clauses.
  • 52.212-5 Contract Terms and Conditions Required To Implement Statutes or Executive Orders—Commercial Products and Commercial Services.
  • 52.213-4 Terms and Conditions—Simplified Acquisitions (Other Than Commercial Products and Commercial Services).

← 52.223-11 Ozone-Depleting Substances and High Global Warming Potential Hydrofluorocarbons. · 52.223-13—52.223-18 [Reserved] →

Rule changes for FAR Part 52

Source: eCFR, 48 CFR chapters 1 and 2 (GPO GovInfo bulk data) ↗. Plain words for the terms: glossary.

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