Yesterday the OMB’s Office of Information and Regulatory
Affairs (OIRA) announced
that it had received EPA’s draft NPRM for Protection
of Stratospheric Ozone: The 2014 Critical Use Exemption From the Phaseout of
Methyl Bromide, This rule is an annual requirement to authorize the
production and importation of methyl bromide for use as a fumigant.
With the NPRM just now going to OMB it will be some time
next summer when the EPA final rule will actually be published allowing the
2014 production or importation of methyl
bromide for use in areas where there is no suitable substitute. This means that
EPA will again have to issue an extra-legal written authorization for such
production or importation pending the publication of the final rule.
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