222 records

What is the VOC limit for this coating where I am?

Across 222 records covering 193 coating categories, VOC limit (g/L) runs from 50 (14 coating categories) to 870 (Nonferrous ornamental metal lacquers and surface protectants), and 350 is the most common — 29 of them. Every value is transcribed from the source that states it and carries the sentence it was taken from: 3 sources across 3 sites, last checked 2026-11-13, due for re-check by 2027-08-06. Every record is listed below, each linking the page its value came from.

About this data

Maximum volatile organic compound (VOC) content limits for architectural coatings (paint, primer, stain, sealant, varnish) by regulatory jurisdiction. Each record is one coating category under one jurisdiction, stating the VOC limit in grams per liter and the effective date. Covers four jurisdictions: US federal (40 CFR 59 Subpart D), California CARB SCM, SCAQMD Rule 1113, and Texas (30 TAC §115.421). The same category can range from 50 g/L (SCAQMD) to 700 g/L (federal). Answers 'what is the VOC limit for industrial maintenance coatings in California', 'SCAQMD Rule 1113 flat coating VOC limit', and 'federal vs Texas VOC limit for primers'. OTC Model Rule, LADCO and Massachusetts limits are not yet covered — no source with the actual tables has been harvested.

The data

Where this came from

Every record above links the page it was taken from and quotes the sentence that states it. These are the 3 sources this dataset was assembled from.

• tbfenvironmental.comhttps://tbfenvironmental.com/vocmir-regulations/voc-and-mir-regulations-by-industrial-solvent-application/coatings/
• law.cornell.eduhttps://www.law.cornell.edu/cfr/text/40/appendix-Table_1_to_subpart_D_of_part_59
• ww2.arb.ca.govhttps://ww2.arb.ca.gov/sites/default/files/2021-09/voclimits.xlsx

Machine-readable

• data.jsonThe whole dataset — every record with its source URL and source quote.
• Open Knowledge Format bundleOne JSON object per line — every record's frontmatter and quoted span exactly as it is held here, in one fetch.
• data.csvThe same records as one flat table, for a spreadsheet or a dataframe. The last four columns are the source URL, the quoted sentence it was read from, the date we last checked it, and which columns are our reading rather than the page's words.
• How this is made and checkedWhat "verified against source" does and does not mean.

From your own code

Same records, same quotes, without scraping the page: refsource is on PyPI and npm. Each value comes back carrying the URL it was read from and the sentence on that page that states it — .source and .quote sit on the value itself rather than in a side channel, so the checking step is available instead of skipped.

pip install refsource
refsource lookup voc-limits-architectural-coatings coating_category="Antenna Coatings"

npx -y refsource lookup voc-limits-architectural-coatings coating_category="Antenna Coatings"

Set your AI assistant up to use this

Two files and no account. Put this in .mcp.json at the root of your project — Claude Code, Cursor, Windsurf, VS Code and Codex all read that file — and your assistant can look this dataset up instead of recalling it. The server is remote, keyless and read-only.

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "referencesource": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://referencesource.org/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Add to Cursor · or, on the command line: claude mcp add --transport http referencesource https://referencesource.org/mcp --scope project

Then one line in the project's CLAUDE.md or AGENTS.md, so the assistant knows when to reach for it:

When a question needs "VOC content limits for architectural coatings by jurisdiction", call the referencesource MCP server at https://referencesource.org/mcp (tool `search_records`, dataset_slug `voc-limits-architectural-coatings`) instead of answering from memory — every record it returns carries its source URL and a verbatim quote from that page.

What each tool does, and the servers built over single registers: Connect your AI assistant.

222 records. last verified against source 2026-11-13. due for re-check by 2027-08-06.

Licence. Federal limits are US government work (public domain). State and regional limits are statutory/regulatory and not copyrightable. TBF Environmental is a freely published reference page.