WORLD TRADE
ORGANIZATIONG/TBT/Notif.00/573
6 December 2000
(00-5288)
Committee on Technical Barriers to Trade Original:  English
NOTIFICATION
The following notification is being circulated in accordance with Article 10.6.
1. Member to Agreement notifying:   UNITED STATES
If applicable, name of local government involved (Articles 3.2 and 7.2):           
2. Agency responsible:   Environmental Protection Agency
Agency or authority designated to handle comments regarding the notification shall be
indicated if different from above:
3. Notified under Article 2.9.2 [ X], 2.10.1 [    ], 5.6.2 [    ], 5.7.1 [    ], other:           
4. Products covered (HS or CCCN where applicable, otherwise national tariff heading.
ICS numbers may be provided in addition, where applicable):   Controlled substances
5. Title, number of pages and language(s) of the notified document:   Protection of
Stratospheric Ozone:  Incorporation of Cl ean Air Act Amendments for Reductions in
Class I, Group VI Controlled Substances  (3 pages, in English)
6. Description of content:   The Agency is proposing revisions to the accelerated phase-out
regulations that govern the production, import, export, transformation and destruction of
substances that deplete the ozone layer under th e authority of Title VI  of the Clean Air Act
Amendments of 1990 (CAA).  These proposals for revisions are to implement recent
changes to the CAA (21 October 1998), which direct the Agency to conform the
U.S. methyl bromide phasedown schedule to the schedule for industrialized nations underthe Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer (Protocol).  Specifically,
today’s proposed amendments reflect the Protocol’s reductions in the production and
consumption of Class I, Group VI controlled substances (methyl bromide) for the 2001
calendar year and subsequent calendar years, as follows:  beginning 1 January 2001, a
50 per cent reduction in baseline levels;  beginning 1 January 2003, a 70 per cent reduction
in baseline levels; and, beginning 1 January 2005, the complete phase-out of Class I, Group
VI controlled substances.
7. Objective and rationale, including the na ture of urgent problems where applicable:
Safety
8. Relevant documents:  65 FR 70825, 28 November 2000; 40 CFR Part 82.  Will appear in
the Federal Register when adopted.          
9. Proposed date of adoption:
Proposed date of entry into force: }To be determined.          
10. Final date for comments:   28 December 2000
11. Texts available from:  National enquiry point [     ] or address, e-mail and telefax
number of the other body:   http://www.access.gpo.gov/nara/index.html