Nominations for Exemptions to the Production and Import Phaseout of Ozone Depleting Substances for Uses Satisfying the Montreal Protocol ``Essential Use'' Criteria

Resumen

Through this notice, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is requesting applications for consideration at the Seventh Meeting of the Parties to the Montreal Protocol to be held in late 1995 for exemptions to the production and import phase-out for ozone-depleting substances including halons in 1996 and subsequent years, and for all other Class I substances for production in 1997 and subsequent years (including CFC-11, CFC-12, CFC-113, CFC-114, CFC-115, CFC-13, CFC-111, CFC-112, CFC-211, CFC-212, CFC-213, CFC-214, CFC-215, CFC-216, CFC-217, Carbon Tetrachloride, and Methyl Chloroform). Nominations for essential use exemptions for production in 1996 for Class I substances other than halon were solicited in a previous Federal Register Notice (58 FR 29410; May 20, 1993) and recommendations by the Montreal Protocol Technology and Economics Assessment Panel have been forwarded to the Parties for consideration at the Sixth Meeting of the Parties, to be held October 3-5, 1994. Therefore no additional applications for essential uses for these Class I substances in 1996 will be considered in this data call. The results of the previous solicitations and subsequent actions taken by the Pro