# Protection of Stratospheric Ozone: Extension of the Laboratory and Analytical Use Exemption for Essential Class I Ozone-Depleting Substances
> **Rule** · Final rule. · Published 2021-08-23 · Effective 2021-09-22 · 86 FR 46992
## Document
- **Document number:** 2021-17745
- **Category:** air-emissions
- **Federal Register citation:** 86 FR 46992
- **CFR reference:** 40 CFR 82
- **Publication date:** 2021-08-23
- **Effective date:** 2021-09-22
- **EPA docket:** EPA-HQ-OAR-2020-0084
## Abstract

The Environmental Protection Agency is taking final action to revise regulations governing the production and import of class I ozone-depleting substances in the United States to indefinitely extend the global essential laboratory and analytical use exemption. This exemption currently expires on December 31, 2021, and this final action allows for continued production and import of class I substances in the United States solely for laboratory and analytical uses that have not been identified by the Environmental Protection Agency as nonessential. This final action is taken under the Clean Air Act, and is consistent with a decision by the Parties to the Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer to extend the global laboratory and analytical use exemption indefinitely beyond 2021. The proposed rule associated with this final action was published on August 7, 2020, and we received no adverse comments.

## Source
- [Federal Register document](https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2021/08/23/2021-17745/protection-of-stratospheric-ozone-extension-of-the-laboratory-and-analytical-use-exemption-for)
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