Document ID: EPA-HQ-OAR-2005-0538-0051
Agency: epa
Document Type: Supporting & Related Material
Title: 
Posted Date: 2006-07-06T04:00Z

REPORT
FROM
THE
16TH
MEETING
OF
THE
PARTIES
Annex
II
Reporting
accounting
framework
for
critical
uses
of
methyl
bromide
(
all
quantities
expressed
in
metric
tonnes)

Party:
___
United
States
of
America_________________

A
B
C
D
E
(
C
+
D)
F
(
B
­
E)
G
H
(
E
+
G)
I
J
K
L
(
E
­
I
 
J
­
K)
d
Quantity
acquired
for
critical
use
by
import
&

countr(
y)(
ies)
of
Manufacture
Year
of
critical
use
Quantity
exempted
for
year
of
critical
use
1
Quantity
acquired
by
productio
n
for
critical
use
Amount
Country(
s)
Total
quantity
acquired
for
U.
S.
critical
use
Quantity
authorized
but
not
acquired
Amount
on
hand
at
start
of
year
2
Amount
available
for
use
in
current
year
Amount
used
for
critical
use
Amount
exported
Amount
destroyed
Amount
on
hand
at
end
of
year
3
2005
7,659
a
6,359
1,254
Israel
7,613
46
Stock
data
is
treated
as
CBI
pending
further
legal
resolution
Stock
data
is
treated
as
CBI
pending
further
legal
resolution
7,170b
0c
0c
443e
1
Exempted
by
the
Parties
to
the
Montreal
Protocol.
Note
that
the
critical
use
for
a
particular
year
may
be
the
sum
of
quantities
authorized
by
decision
in
more
than
one
year.

2
Where
possible,
national
Governments
should
include
quantities
on
hand
as
of
1
January
2005
and
for
each
year
thereafter.
National
Governments
that
are
not
able
to
estimate
quantities
on
hand
as
of
1
January
2005
can
track
the
subsequent
inventory
of
methyl
bromide
produced
for
critical
uses
(
column
L).

3
Carried
forward
as
"
Amount
on
hand
at
start
of
year"
for
next
year.

a
Total
allowable
new
production
and
imports
for
2005
critical
uses
was
7,659
MT;
additional
amounts
of
stocks
were
allowable
for
critical
use
in
2005
in
the
amount
of
1,893
MT
b
This
figure
would
have
been
higher
but
due
to
the
lateness
of
the
decision
on
supplemental
authorizations
for
2005,
quantities
of
exempted
material
were
not
made
available
to
the
domestic
market
in
time
for
scheduled
fumigations.

c
There
is
no
destruction
or
export
of
U.
S.
critical
use
methyl
bromide.

d
The
original
formula
in
column
L
as
per
Annex
II
of
the
Meeting
Report
is
"
H­
I­
J­
K."
The
USG
could
not
apply
this
formula
because
the
confidentiality
of
data
in
column
G,
and
therefore
column
H,
awaits
legal
resolution
in
domestic
courts.
Thus,
the
"
amount
on
hand
at
end
of
year"
in
column
L
does
not
include
the
amount
that
would
otherwise
be
inserted
in
column
G;
rather,
it
only
refers
to
methyl
bromide
produced
or
imported
under
the
critical
use
exemption
program.

e
US
regulations
do
not
permit
the
accumulation
of
stocks
through
the
critical
use
exemption.
Amounts
on
hand
at
end
of
year
are
deducted
in
the
year
after
the
year
in
which
the
data
was
reported.
The
443
MT
of
CUE
methyl
bromide
on
hand
at
the
end
of
2005
will
be
deducted
from
allowable
new
production/
import
in
2007.
This
figure
does
not
include
pre­
2005
supplies
of
methyl
bromide.