# Protection of Stratospheric Ozone: The 2012 Critical Use Exemption From the Phaseout of Methyl Bromide
> **Rule** · Final rule. · Published 2012-05-17 · Effective 2012-05-17 · 77 FR 29218
## Document
- **Document number:** 2012-11972
- **Category:** air-emissions
- **Federal Register citation:** 77 FR 29218
- **CFR reference:** 40 CFR 82
- **Publication date:** 2012-05-17
- **Effective date:** 2012-05-17
- **EPA docket:** EPA-HQ-OAR-2009-0277
## Abstract

EPA is authorizing uses that qualify for the 2012 critical use exemption and the amount of methyl bromide that may be produced, imported, or supplied from existing pre-phaseout inventory for those uses in 2012. EPA is taking this action under the authority of the Clean Air Act to reflect a recent consensus decision by the Parties to the Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer at the Twenty-Second Meeting of the Parties.

## Source
- [Federal Register document](https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2012/05/17/2012-11972/protection-of-stratospheric-ozone-the-2012-critical-use-exemption-from-the-phaseout-of-methyl)
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