42 USC 7671b - Monitoring and reporting requirements

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§ 7671b.

Monitoring and reporting requirements

(a)

Regulations

(b)

Production, import, and export level reports

(c)

Baseline reports for class I substances

(d)

Monitoring and reports to Congress

(1)

The Administrator shall monitor and, not less often than every 3 years following November 15, 1990, submit a report to Congress on the production, use and consumption of class I and class II substances. Such report shall include data on domestic production, use and consumption, and an estimate of worldwide production, use and consumption of such substances. Not less frequently than every 6 years the Administrator shall report to Congress on the environmental and economic effects of any stratospheric ozone depletion.

(2)

The Administrators of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration shall monitor, and not less often than every 3 years following November 15, 1990, submit a report to Congress on the current average tropospheric concentration of chlorine and bromine and on the level of stratospheric ozone depletion. Such reports shall include updated projections of—

(A)

peak chlorine loading;

(B)

the rate at which the atmospheric abundance of chlorine is projected to decrease after the year 2000; and

(C)

the date by which the atmospheric abundance of chlorine is projected to return to a level of two parts per billion.

Such updated projections shall be made on the basis of current international and domestic controls on substances covered by this subchapter as well as on the basis of such controls supplemented by a year 2000 global phase out of all halocarbon emissions (the base case). It is the purpose of the Congress through the provisions of this section to monitor closely the production and consumption of class II substances to assure that the production and consumption of such substances will not:

(i)

increase significantly the peak chlorine loading that is projected to occur under the base case established for purposes of this section;

(ii)

reduce significantly the rate at which the atmospheric abundance of chlorine is projected to decrease under the base case; or

(iii)

delay the date by which the average atmospheric concentration of chlorine is projected under the base case to return to a level of two parts per billion.

(e)

Technology status report in 2015

(f)

Emergency report

(July 14, 1955, ch. 360, title VI, § 603, as added Pub. L. 101–549, title VI, § 602(a), Nov. 15, 1990, 104 Stat. 2653.)

cite as: 42 USC 7671b