[Federal Register Volume 61, Number 43 (Monday, March 4, 1996)]
[Rules and Regulations]
[Pages 8221-8222]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 96-4829]
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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY
40 CFR Part 167
[OECA; FRL-5433-4]
Pesticide Reports for Pesticide-Producing Establishments; (EPA
Form 3540-16); Additional Time To Report
AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
ACTION: Time extension for submission of reports.
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SUMMARY: Because of delays in completing and distributing reporting
packages, EPA is announcing that it will extend the due date for
submission of annual pesticide production reports (EPA Form 3540-16)
for calendar year 1995 until two months after reporting packages are
mailed by EPA. These reports under Section 7 of the Federal
Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA) and supporting
regulations at 40 CFR Part 167 would otherwise be due on or before
March 1, 1996.
DATES: Annual pesticide production reports for calendar year 1995 will
be due May 1, 1996.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Carol L. Buckingham, (202) 564-5008,
fax (202) 564-0085, Environmental Protection Agency, Mail Code 2225A,
401 M Street, SW., Washington, D.C. 20460.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Background
Section 7 of the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide
Act (FIFRA) and the supporting regulations at 40 CFR Part 167 requires
certain facilities who manufacture, prepare, propagate, compound, or
process any pesticide, including any pesticide produced pursuant to
Section 5 of the Act, any active ingredient, or device, or to package,
repackage, label, relabel, or otherwise change the container of any
pesticide or device to report annually on the amounts and types, etc.
of pesticides produced.
Each year prior to the reporting deadline (March 1) EPA develops
and sends to facilities a reporting package containing the current
pesticide reporting forms (EPA Form 3540-16), and instructions for
reporting.
Because of delays in development of the reporting package, it will
not be distributed to the pesticide-producing establishments in time to
meet the March 1 reporting date. Therefore, EPA is extending the
reporting deadline to two (2) months after the packages are mailed out.
This allowance of additional time for reporting applies only to the
FIFRA section 7 and 40 CFR Part 167 reporting
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obligations for pesticide reports otherwise due on March 1, 1996,
covering calendar year 1995. Nothing in this Notice shall be construed
to apply to any other FIFRA reporting obligations, or to any pesticide
reports (EPA Form 3540-16) due for past or future reporting years.
Further, this allowance of additional time for reporting applies only
to the Federal FIFRA section 7 and 40 CFR Part 167 reporting
obligation; it does not apply to independent obligations under State
laws which may require pesticide-production type reports.
To the extent that this action might be construed as rulemaking
subject to section 553 of the Administrative Procedures Act, for the
reasons stated above, EPA has determined that notice and an opportunity
for public comment are impracticable and unnecessary. Providing for
public comment might further delay reporting, and, because there is no
substantive change in the reporting obligation, the public will
continue to receive the same information, though slightly delayed.
List of Subjects in 40 CFR Part 167
Registration of pesticide and active ingredient producing
establishments, Submission of pesticide reports.
Dated: February 23, 1996.
Steven A. Herman,
Assistant Administrator, Office of Enforcement and Compliance
Assurance.
[FR Doc. 96-4829 Filed 3-1-96; 8:45 am]
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