---
kind: "section"
citation: "40 C.F.R. § 82.8"
title: "40"
number: "82.8"
heading: "Grant of essential use allowances and critical use allowances."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/40/82.8"
---

# §82.8. Grant of essential use allowances and critical use allowances.

- (a) Effective January 1, 1996, persons in the following list are allocated essential-use allowances or exemptions for quantities of a specific class I controlled substance for a specific essential-use (the Administrator reserves the right to revise the allocations based on future decisions of the Parties).
- (b) There is a global exemption for the production and import of class I controlled substances for essential laboratory and analytical uses, subject to the restrictions in appendix G of this subpart, and subject to the recordkeeping and reporting requirements at [§ 82.13(u) through (x)](/cfr/40/82.13.md?p=u..x). There is no amount specified for this exemption.
- (c) Effective January 1, 2005, critical use allowances are apportioned as set forth in [paragraph (c)(1)](#c-1) of this section for the exempted production and import of class I, Group VI controlled substances specifically for those approved critical uses listed in appendix L to this subpart for the applicable control period. Every kilogram of production and import in excess of the total number and type of unexpended critical use allowances held for a particular type of use constitutes a separate violation of this subpart.
  - (1) **Allocated critical use allowances granted for specified control period.**
  - (2) [Reserved]

## Notes

### Amendments

[69 FR 77003, Dec. 23, 2004]

### Source

Source: 60 FR 24986, May 10, 1995, unless otherwise noted.

### Authority

Authority: 42 U.S.C. 7414, 7601, 7671-7671q.

### Source

Source: 57 FR 33787, July 30, 1992, unless otherwise noted.

### Amendments

[69 FR 77003, Dec. 23, 2004]