Regulation & law · 03/11/2006

EPA Proposes Allocation of Essential Use Allowances for Stratospheric Ozone Depleting Substances in 2007

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is proposing to allocate essential use allowances for the import and production of class I stratospheric ozone depleting substances, enabling exemptions to the 1996 ban on production and import of these chemicals for specific purposes, including the production of 125.3 metric tons of chlorofluorocarbons for use in metered dose inhalers.