Protection of Stratospheric Ozone: Allocation of Essential Use Allowances for Calendar Year 2001: Allocation for Metered Dose Inhalers and the Space Shuttle and Titan Rockets

With this action, EPA is allocating essential use allowances for stratospheric ozone depleting substances for calendar year 2001. EPA allocates essential use allowances to an applicant for exempted production or import of a specific quantity of class I ozone depleting substances solely for the designated essential use. Essential use allowances permit a person to obtain controlled substances as an exemption to the January 1, 1996 regulatory phase-out of production and import of these substances. Today, EPA is allocating essential use allowances for the production and/or import of class I substances for use in medical devices for the treatment of asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, and for use in the Space Shuttle and Titan Rockets for calendar year 2001. With today's action, EPA is also amending the regulations to allow essential use allowances for medical devices to be transferred among essential use allowance holders. The essential use exemption for class I ODSs for laboratory and analytical applications will be addressed in a separate rulemaking.