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substitutes available to the user that are
acceptable from the standpoint of
environment and health and are suitable to
the crops and circumstances of the
nomination.
(b) That production and consumption,
if any, of methyl bromide for a critical
use should be permitted only if:
(i) All technically and economically
feasible steps have been taken to minimize
the critical use and any associated emission
of methyl bromide;
(ii) Methyl bromide is not available in
sufficient quantity and quality from existing
stocks of banked or recycled methyl bromide,
also bearing in mind the developing
countries’ need for methyl bromide;
(iii) It is demonstrated that an appropriate
effort is being made to evaluate,
commercialize and secure national regulatory
approval of alternatives and substitutes,
taking into consideration the circumstances
of the particular nomination. * * * NonArticle 5 Parties [e.g., developed countries,
including the U.S.] must demonstrate that
research programs are in place to develop
and deploy alternatives and substitutes.
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EPA has defined ‘‘critical use’’ in its
regulations at 40 CFR 82.3 in a manner
similar to Decision IX/6 paragraph (a).
III. How will the U.S. implement the
critical use exemption in 2013 and
beyond?
EPA regulations at 40 CFR 82.4
prohibit the production and import of
methyl bromide in excess of the amount
of unexpended critical use allowances
held by the producer or importer, unless
authorized under a separate exemption.
Methyl bromide produced or imported
by expending critical use allowances
may be used only for the appropriate
category of approved critical uses as
listed in Appendix L to the regulations
(40 CFR 82.4(p)(2)). The use of methyl
bromide that was produced or imported
through the expenditure of production
or consumption allowances prior to
2005 is not confined to critical uses
under EPA’s phaseout regulations;
however, other restrictions may apply.
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A. What is the timing for applications
for the 2013 control period?
There is both a domestic and
international component to the critical
use exemption process. The following
outline projects a timeline for the
process for the 2013 critical use
exemption.
July 15, 2010: Solicit applications for
the methyl bromide critical use
exemption for 2013.
September 13, 2010: Deadline for
submitting critical use exemption
applications to EPA.
Fall 2010: U.S. Government (through
EPA, Department of State, U.S.
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Department of Agriculture, and other
interested Federal agencies) prepares
U.S. Critical Use Nomination package.
January 24, 2011: Deadline for U.S.
Government to submit U.S. nomination
package to the Protocol Parties.
Early 2011: Technical and Economic
Assessment Panel (TEAP) and Methyl
Bromide Technical Options Committee
(MBTOC) reviews Parties’ nominations
for critical use exemptions.
Mid 2011: Parties consider TEAP/
MBTOC recommendations.
November 2011: Parties decide
whether to authorize critical use
exemptions for methyl bromide for
production and consumption in 2013.
Mid 2012: EPA publishes proposed
rule for allocating critical use
exemptions in the U.S. for 2013.
Late 2012: EPA publishes final rule
allocating critical use exemptions in the
U.S. for 2013.
January 1, 2013: Critical use
exemption permits the limited
production and import of methyl
bromide for specified uses for the 2013
control period.
B. How might EPA implement the
critical use exemption after the 2013
control period?
U.S. consumption of methyl bromide
in the U.S. has declined significantly
over the last 20 years. Production and
import was phased out in 2005 in the
U.S. and all other developed countries
under the Montreal Protocol. Since
then, consumption by developed
country Parties has been subject to
limited annual exceptions for critical
uses, which have declined steadily from
year to year. In 1991, the baseline year,
the U.S. consumption was
approximately 25,500 metric tons of
methyl bromide. In 2010, the amount
authorized for critical uses declined to
approximately 3,000 metric tons; for
2012, the U.S. nominated only
approximately 1,200 metric tons. This
transition from methyl bromide—
formerly one of the most commonly
used pesticides in the U.S.—to ozonesafe alternatives has been a remarkable
achievement for U.S. agriculture.
The critical use exemption program
has, thus far, provided U.S.
manufacturers and growers six
additional years (2005–2010) beyond
the January 1, 2005, phaseout date to
develop and market alternatives and
implement practices that reduce the
need for fumigants in general. The
Parties have already approved a U.S.
critical use amount for 2011, and the
U.S. submitted a nomination for 2012
this January. EPA expects that the U.S.
will submit a nomination for 2013 based
on applications received in response to
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this notice. However, the international
context for consideration of critical use
exemption requests from developed
country Parties is an important
consideration for the program’s future,
since annual approval by the Parties is
required for any additional production
and consumption of otherwise banned
ozone depleting substances. In 2006,
there were 20 countries with approved
CUEs. In 2010, that number has
decreased to five: the United States,
Australia, Canada, Israel, and Japan.
Israel has announced that 2011 will be
its last year of CUE methyl bromide use
and Japan has indicated that 2013 will
be the last year for which it will seek a
critical use exemption authorization for
soil fumigation. Australia and Canada
each use only 1 percent of CUE MeBr.
Further, developing countries face
their own phaseout deadline for methyl
bromide under the Montreal Protocol in
2015. While the Protocol contains a
provision allowing the Parties to permit
critical use exemptions for developing
countries, the extent to which
developing countries will request such
exemptions is not yet known. By 2008,
the last year for which data are
available, developing countries had
already reduced methyl bromide
consumption for soil and post-harvest
uses by 66% relative to their baselines.
Furthermore, of the 86 developing
countries that have baselines, only 34
continued to use methyl bromide as of
2008.
Given this international context and
that the critical use exemption process
for a particular control period takes
three years, as shown in the schedule in
Section III.A above, EPA believes it is
appropriate at this time to consider a
year in which the U.S. Government will
stop requesting applications for critical
use exemptions. EPA is not making a
final decision at this time whether to
accept applications for subsequent
control periods. EPA will seek comment
on this issue in the proposed rule for the
2011 critical use exemption.
Authority: 42 U.S.C. 7414, 7601, 7671–
7671q.
Dated: July 1, 2010.
Gina McCarthy,
Assistant Administrator, Office of Air and
Radiation.
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SUMMARY: Section 1323(a)(1) of the
Federal Housing Enterprises Financial
Safety and Soundness Act of 1992
STATUS: This meeting will be closed to
(Safety and Soundness Act), as
the public.
amended, requires the Federal Housing
ITEMS TO BE DISCUSSED: Compliance
Finance Agency (FHFA) to make
matters pursuant to 2 U.S.C. 437g.
available to the public the nonAudits conducted pursuant to 2 U.S.C.
proprietary single-family and
437g, 438(b), and Title 26, U.S.C.
multifamily loan-level mortgage data
Matters concerning participation in civil
elements submitted to FHFA by the
actions or proceedings or arbitration.
Federal National Mortgage Association
Internal personnel rules and procedures
(Fannie Mae) and the Federal Home
or matters affecting a particular
Loan Mortgage Corporation (Freddie
employee.
Mac) (collectively, the Enterprises) in
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their mortgage reports required under
DATE AND TIME: Thursday, July 15, 2010,
their charter acts. This responsibility to
at 10 a.m.
maintain a public use database (PUDB)
for such mortgage data was transferred
PLACE: 999 E Street, NW., Washington,
to FHFA from the U.S. Department of
DC (ninth floor).
Housing and Urban Development (HUD)
STATUS: This meeting will be open to the
pursuant to sections 1122, 1126 and
public.
1127 of the Housing and Economic
ITEMS TO BE DISCUSSED: Correction and
Recovery Act of 2008 (HERA), and was
Approval of Minutes.
expanded to include data elements
Draft Advisory Opinion 2010–09:
required to be reported under the Home
Club for Growth, by its counsel, Carol A. Mortgage Disclosure Act of 1975
Laham, Esq., and D. Mark Renaud, Esq., (HMDA).
of Wiley Rein LLP.
Specifically, section 1126 of HERA
Draft Advisory Opinion 2010–10:
amended section 1323 of the Safety and
National Right to Life Political Action
Soundness Act by requiring that the
Committee, by its counsel, Barry A.
Enterprises’ mortgage reports include
Bostrom, Esq., James Bopp, Jr., Esq., and the data elements required to be
Zachary S. Kester, Esq., of Bopp,
reported under HMDA at the census
Coleson & Bostrom.
tract level, and that such data elements
Draft Advisory Opinion 2010–11:
be disclosed to the public. In addition,
Commonsense Ten, by its counsel, Marc section 1127 of HERA amended section
E. Elias, Esq., and Ezra Reese, Esq., of
1326 of the Safety and Soundness Act
Perkins Coie LLP.
by requiring that, subject to privacy
Management and Administrative
considerations as described in section
Matters.
304(j) of HMDA, the Director of FHFA
Individuals who plan to attend and
shall, by regulation or order, provide
require special assistance, such as sign
that certain information relating to
language interpretation or other
single-family mortgage data of the
reasonable accommodations, should
Enterprises shall be disclosed to the
contact Darlene Harris, Deputy
public in order to make available to the
Commission Secretary, at (202) 694–
public—(1) the same data from the
1040, at least 72 hours prior to the
Enterprises that is required of insured
hearing date.
depository institutions under HMDA;
and (2) information collected by the
PERSON TO CONTACT FOR INFORMATION:
Judith Ingram, Press Officer; Telephone: Director of FHFA under section
1324(b)(6) of the Safety and Soundness
(202) 694–1220.
Act, as amended, for the purpose of
Shawn Woodhead Werth,
comparing the characteristics of highSecretary and Clerk of the Commission.
cost securitized loans.
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FHFA provided each Enterprise with
an opportunity to review and comment
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on FHFA’s proposed revisions to the
single-family and multifamily PUDB
matrices which describe the data fields
FEDERAL HOUSING FINANCE
provided in the PUDB. FHFA has taken
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the Enterprises’ comments into
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consideration, and has adopted an
Order that implements certain changes
Notice of Order: Revisions to
required by HERA to the Enterprises’
Enterprise Public Use Database
mortgage loan data reporting and the
disclosure of such data in the PUDB.
AGENCY: Federal Housing Finance
The Order also makes technical changes
Agency.
to the single-family and multifamily
ACTION: Notice of order.
data matrices of the PUDB to conform
PLACE:
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the data fields to long-standing PUDB
data reporting practice, to provide
greater clarity, or to conform to the new
statutory requirements. The Notice of
Order sets forth FHFA’s Order with
accompanying Appendix containing the
revised matrices, and describes the
changes made to the data fields in the
matrices. Changes to the PUDB matrices
required by HERA relating to high-cost
securitized loans, as well as the
Enterprise housing goals for 2010 and
beyond, will be implemented by the
issuance of subsequent Orders.
DATES: Effective Date of the Order: The
Order with accompanying Appendix is
effective on July 1, 2010.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For
questions on data or methodology,
contact Paul Manchester, Principal
Economist, Office of Housing Mission
and Goals, Quantitative Analysis and
Goals, 1625 Eye Street, NW.,
Washington, DC 20006, (202) 408–2946,
Paul.Manchester@fhfa.gov; or Ian Keith,
Program Analyst, 1625 Eye Street, NW.,
Washington, DC 20006, (202) 408–2949,
Ian.Keith@fhfa.gov. For legal questions,
contact Sharon Like, Associate General
Counsel, OGC–Housing Mission and
Goals, 1700 G Street, NW., Washington,
DC 20552, (202) 414–8950,
Sharon.Like@fhfa.gov. (These are not
toll-free numbers.) The telephone
number for the Telecommunications
Device for the Hearing Impaired is
(800) 877–8339.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
I. Background
A. Establishment of FHFA
Effective July 30, 2008, Division A of
HERA, Public Law 110–289, 122 Stat.
2654 (2008), amended the Safety and
Soundness Act and created FHFA as an
independent agency of the Federal
Government. HERA transferred the
safety and soundness supervisory and
oversight responsibilities over the
Enterprises, the Federal Home Loan
Banks (Banks), and the Office of Finance
from the Office of Federal Housing
Enterprise Oversight (OFHEO) and the
Federal Housing Finance Board,
respectively, to FHFA. HERA also
transferred the charter compliance
authority, the responsibility to establish,
monitor and enforce the affordable
housing goals, the responsibility to
maintain the PUDB, and the
responsibility to oversee Enterprise data
reporting, from HUD to FHFA.
FHFA is responsible for ensuring that
the Enterprises operate in a safe and
sound manner, including maintenance
of adequate capital and internal
controls, that their operations and
activities foster liquid, efficient,
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Date and Time: Wednesday, July 14, 2010, at 10 a.m.
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Place: 999 E Street, NW., Washington, DC.
Status: This meeting will be closed to the public.
Items To Be Discussed: Compliance matters pursuant to 2 U.S.C. 437g.
Audits conducted pursuant to 2 U.S.C. 437g, 438(b), and Title 26,
U.S.C. Matters concerning participation in civil actions or proceedings
or arbitration. Internal personnel rules and procedures or matters
affecting a particular employee.
* * * * *
Date and Time: Thursday, July 15, 2010, at 10 a.m.
Place: 999 E Street, NW., Washington, DC (ninth floor).
Status: This meeting will be open to the public.
Items To Be Discussed: Correction and Approval of Minutes.
Draft Advisory Opinion 2010-09: Club for Growth, by its counsel,
Carol A. Laham, Esq., and D. Mark Renaud, Esq., of Wiley Rein LLP.
Draft Advisory Opinion 2010-10: National Right to Life Political
Action Committee, by its counsel, Barry A. Bostrom, Esq., James Bopp,
Jr., Esq., and Zachary S. Kester, Esq., of Bopp, Coleson & Bostrom.
Draft Advisory Opinion 2010-11: Commonsense Ten, by its counsel,
Marc E. Elias, Esq., and Ezra Reese, Esq., of Perkins Coie LLP.
Management and Administrative Matters.
Individuals who plan to attend and require special assistance, such
as sign language interpretation or other reasonable accommodations,
should contact Darlene Harris, Deputy Commission Secretary, at (202)
694-1040, at least 72 hours prior to the hearing date.
Person to Contact For Information: Judith Ingram, Press Officer;
Telephone: (202) 694-1220.
Shawn Woodhead Werth,
Secretary and Clerk of the Commission.
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