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

Résumé

Through this notice, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is requesting applications for consideration at the Eighth Meeting of the Parties to the Montreal Protocol to be held in late 1996 for exemptions to the production and import phase-out for ozone-depleting substances in 1997 and subsequent years (including halons, 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 or importation in 1996 and beyond for Class I substances were solicited in previous Federal Register Notices (58 FR 29410, May 20, 1993; 59 FR 52544, October 18, 1994) and recommendations by the Montreal Protocol Technology and Economics Assessment Panel have been forwarded to the Parties for consideration at the Seventh Meeting of the Parties, to be held December 5-7, 1995. The results of the previous solicitations and subsequent actions taken by the Protocol Parties are described in this Notice.