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EPA Submits Proposed Rule to OMB on Methyl Bromide Critical Use Exemption

The Environmental Protection Agency has submitted to the Office of Management and Budget a proposed rule regarding stratospheric ozone, in order to authorize uses that will qualify for the 2012 critical use exemption from the phaseout of methyl bromide. The…

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proposed rule would also authorize the amount of methyl bromide that may be produced, imported, or supplied from inventory for those uses in 2012. Absent this rulemaking, production and import of methyl bromide for critical uses would be zero for 2012.