# Protection of Stratospheric Ozone: The 2009 Critical Use Exemption From the Phaseout of Methyl Bromide
> **Rule** · Final rule. · Published 2009-04-30 · Effective 2009-04-30 · 74 FR 19878
## Document
- **Document number:** E9-9966
- **Category:** air-emissions
- **Federal Register citation:** 74 FR 19878
- **CFR reference:** 40 CFR 82
- **Publication date:** 2009-04-30
- **Effective date:** 2009-04-30
- **EPA docket:** EPA-HQ-OAR-2008-0009
## Abstract

This final rule authorizes uses of methyl bromide that qualify for the 2009 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 2009. EPA is taking action under the authority of the Clean Air Act to reflect a consensus decision taken at the Nineteenth Meeting of by the Parties to the Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer.

## Source
- [Federal Register document](https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2009/04/30/E9-9966/protection-of-stratospheric-ozone-the-2009-critical-use-exemption-from-the-phaseout-of-methyl)
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