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SUBJECT: Mercury Ban Legislation Update
This bulletin is to provide an update on current and future mercury ban legislation in the United States, to outline the actions required of Distributors in states with legislation, and to provide information on mercury recycling programs and non-mercury alternatives.

Mercury Ban Legislation
States with mercury ban legislation do not allow the sale or installation of mercury-containing products, including mercury-switch thermostats.

States with active mercury-ban legislation
- California
- Connecticut
- Illinois

- Louisiana
- Maine
- Maryland
- Minnesota

- New Hampshire

- New York
- Ohio
- Oregon
- Rhode Island
- Vermont

States with future/high potential mercury-ban legislation

Iowa - Effective July 1, 2009
Pennsylvania - Proposed for October 1, 2009
Massachusetts - Proposed for 2009

Washington - Proposed for 2009

Montana - Proposed for 2009

Wisconsin - Proposed for 2009

States with active mercury-ban legislation exceptions
Michigan
Unless thermostat is a replacement for an existing thermostat containing mercury

Washington
Honeywell and other manufacturer's participating in mercury-recycling programs are exempt

Additional legislation information is available at: http://nema.org/gov/env_conscious_design/mercury/

Recommended Actions - Distributors in Mercury Ban States
Distributors with businesses or branches in these states are encouraged to consult each states legislation for labeling, product phase-out, notification and disposal ban requirements for mercury-containing products. It is also recommended that Distributors with branch locations in multiple states transfer any remaining stock of mercury-switch thermostats to locations in other states where no mercury ban exits. Distributors can also sell remaining mercury-switch thermostat inventory to contractors in states without mercury bans.

Recommended Actions - All Distributors
Honeywell is a proud partner and co-founder of the Thermostat Recycling Corporation (TRC), a not-for-profit corporation that facilitates the collection and recycling of all brands of mercury-switch thermostats. Honeywell encourages Distributor participation in mercury recycling through the TRC, and makes participation easy by supporting Distributors entry into the program, and purchase of recycling bins and containers with annual Marketing Development Funds (MDF) or Literature & Merchandising Funds (L&M). An order form is attached to this bulletin. For more information on the TRC, visit: www.nema.org/trc or call: 1-800-238-8192.

Mercury-Free Alternatives
As Honeywell continues to modernize our thermostats portfolio with innovations like our VisionPROIAQ®, VisionPRO®, FocusPRO™ and PRO series programmable and non-programmable thermostats, we have also modernized our electromechanical thermostats and have introduced mercury-free alternatives to our popular T87 Round® and T822, T834 Econostat.