S 872 · 101th Congress · Environmental Protection
Upper-Ozone Chemicals Act of 1989
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EnactedLatest: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works.(1989-05-01)
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Upper-Ozone Chemicals Act of 1989 - Directs the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency to list manufactured substances known or reasonably anticipated to cause stratospheric ozone depletion and to assign an ozone depletion potential to each substance (the priority list). Requires the Administrator to list simultaneously and update annually other manufactured substances meeting the same criteria, assigning ozone depletion potentials for each. Includes specified chlorofluorocarbons on each list. Imposes reporting requirements on producers or importers of listed substances. Phases out, five years after this Act's enactment, the production of priority-listed substances for any use other than medical purposes. Prohibits the use or introduction into interstate commerce of a priority-listed substances five years after this Act's enactment except for medical purposes or, until January 1, 2005, to maintain and service household appliances. Directs the Administrator to require a producer of a listed substance to reduce production of such substance more rapidly if new information indicates that expedition is necessary for the protection of human health or the environment or the …
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