Refrigerant Register

Under AB 32, the Air Resources Board (ARB) requires registration and annual reporting for facilities that are subject to the act. Companies are required to register, providing information about the company, each facility, their refrigeration systems, Automatic Leak Detection (ALD) systems, and annual reporting of refrigeration system service and leak repair information.

To assist in automating data entry to the R3 program, companies may upload data directly into the program for registration and for facility annual reporting. To test the import of data into the R3 program, ARB provides a test location for companies and developers to test the upload of their XML data document.

A vx Suite web service is provided to generate the XML document and download it to your machine.

The following tasks are needed to implement the web service and associated components:

• Create a data mapping of the R3 XML document to the data source from the vx Suite database.

• Create a web service to extract refrigerant data from the vx Suite database and create a customer-specific XML file.

• An hta program will be provided by vx Suite to initiate a web service request to the vx Suite web service to download the XML data.

• You will initiate web service requests to download the XML data using the hta program that resides on your machine.

• An html test program will be created to test the web service and show the generated XML document.

• A browser-based URL will be provided by California Air Resources to provide an upload method for you to send the XML file from your local machine to the ARB R3 program.

The California Air Resource Board has a site to test the data XML for upload. It may be found at the following URL: http://www.arb.ca.gov/r3test

This URL contains a way to upload and test the generated XML, as well as links to download the latest XSD and sample XML.

The system does not expect a company profile in the XML document—since the company profile is already established during the initial account creation process, the user will be logged in under that company or a facility of the company. Therefore, the company information is never needed. Facility data can be uploaded to create the facilities under the company in addition to refrigeration systems and service records.

https://ssl.arb.ca.gov/rmp-r3//r3test is a test platform. The sample XSD and XML should come from the production site. You can use the test platform for testing your design, but real data should be verified and uploaded through the production site.

Refrigerant Reporting Web Service Test Programs

Client programs have been created for testing web service GetRefrigerantReportingEvents.

HTA programs

Refrigerant Registration and Reporting System HTA Flat File

Several HTTP request options are available to control the XML output.

Parameter names and description:

• name="Retail Co": Required. Client Name

• client_id=1234": Required. Client ID

• ein_code="0": Optional. EIN code. If the value is "0", this field will be ignored.

• sic_code="123456": Required

• naics_code="123456": Required

• site_name="A0140": Optional. Enter a site name to limit the XML output to a specific Site.

• site_state="CA": Required. Site state from addresses (default "CA")

• full_charge="50": Required. Minimum full charge in pounds of refrigerant systems (default "50")

• validate_xml="true | false": Optional. If the value is True, then validate the generated R3 XML. The validation results are appended to the XML output stream. For debugging only. (default "false")

• show_errors="true | false": Optional. If the value is True, then show data errors at end of XML output (default "false"). For debugging only.

• include_service_record_list="true | false": Required. If the value is True, then include service records in the XML output.

To run a test program, you need the Client's web service userid and password.

To run a test program, open an internet browser and enter the following URL: