[Federal Register Volume 61, Number 153 (Wednesday, August 7, 1996)]
[Notices]
[Pages 41153-41154]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 96-19968]


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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY
[PF-667; FRL-5388-7]


Pesticide Tolerance Petitions; Notice of Filings

AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: This notice announces initial filings of pesticide petitions 
(PP) and food/feed additive petitions (FAP) proposing the establishment 
of regulations for residues of certain pesticide chemicals in or on 
various agricultural commodities.

DATES: Comments, identified by the docket number [PF-667], must be 
received on or before September 6, 1996.

ADDRESSES: By mail, submit written comments to: Public Response and 
Program Resources Branch, Field Operations Division (7506C), Offices of 
Pesticide Programs, Environmental Protection Agency, 401 M St., SW., 
Washington, DC 20460. In person, bring comments to: Rm. 1132, CM #2, 
1921 Jefferson-Davis Hwy., Arlington, VA 22202. Comments and data may 
also be submitted electronically by sending electronic mail (e-mail) 
to: [email protected]. Electronic comments must be submitted 
as an

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ASCII file avoiding the use of special characters and any form of 
encryption. Comments and data will also be accepted on disks in 
WordPerfect 5.1 file format or ASCII file format. All comments and data 
in electronic form must be identified by the docket number [PF-663]. 
Electronic comments on this notice may be filed online at many Federal 
Depository Libraries. Additional information on electronic submissions 
can be found below in this document.
    Information submitted as a comment concerning this document may be 
claimed confidential by marking any part or all of that information as 
``Confidential Business Information'' (CBI). CBI should not be 
submitted through e-mail. Information marked as CBI will not be 
disclosed except in accordance with procedures set forth in 40 CFR part 
2. A copy of the comment that does not contain CBI must be submitted 
for inclusion in the public record. Information not marked confidential 
may be disclosed publicly by EPA without prior notice. All written 
comments will be available for public inspection in Rm. 1132 at the 
address given above, from 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., Monday through Friday, 
excluding legal holidays.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: By mail: Registration Division 
(7505C), Office of Pesticide Programs, Environmental Protection Agency, 
401 M St., SW., Washington, DC 20460. In person, contact Robert J. 
Taylor, Product Manager (PM-25), Rm. 241, CM #2, 703-305-6027 or by e-
mail: [email protected].

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: EPA has received pesticide petitions and 
food/feed additive petitions as follows proposing the amendment of 
regulations for residues of certain pesticide chemicals in or on 
various agricultural commodities.

Intial Filings
    1.  PP 4F4346. Monsanto Co., 700 14th St., NW., Suite 1100, 
Washington, DC 20005, proposes to amend 40 CFR part 180 by establishing 
a regulation to permit residues of the plant growth regulator 
(hybridizing agent) clofencet [MON 21200] (2-(4-chlorophenyl)-3-ethyl-
2,5-dihydro-5-oxo-4-pyridazinecarboxylic acid, potassium salt) in or on 
the following raw agricultural commodities (RACs): wheat, grain at 250 
(parts per million) (ppm); wheat, hay at 40 ppm; wheat, straw at 50 
ppm; wheat,forage at 10 ppm; milk at 0.02 ppm; meat* (*cattle, goats, 
hogs, horses and sheep) at 0.15 ppm; meat byproducts* (except kidney) 
at 0.5 ppm; fat* at 0.04 ppm; kidney* at 10 ppm; eggs at 1.0 ppm; 
poultry meat at 0.15 ppm; poultry meat byproducts at 0.20 and poultry 
fat at 0.04 ppm. In addition, rotational grain crop tolerances in the 
cereal grain crop group for grain at 20 ppm; straw at 4.0 ppm; forage 
at 4.0 ppm; stover (fodder) at 1.0 ppm and hay at 15.00 ppm; soybeans 
at 30 ppm; soybean, forage at 10 ppm and soybean, hay at 10.0 ppm. The 
analytical method is gas chromatography.
    2.  PP 5F4449. Quimica Agronomica de Mexico S. de R.L. MI. c/o 
Technology Sciences Group, Inc. 1101 17th St., NW., Washington, DC 
20036, proposes to amend 40 CFR part 180 by establishing a regulation 
to permit residues of the fungicide/bactericide gentamicin sulfate in 
or on the following raw agricultural commodities (RACs): apples at 0.1 
ppm. The analytical method is HPLC.
    3.  FAP 4H5694. Monsanto Co., 700 14th St., NW., Suite 1100, 
Washington, DC 20005, proposes to amend 40 CFR part 186 by establishing 
a regulation to permit residues of the plant growth regulator 
(hybridizing agent) clofencet [MON 21200] (2-(4-chlorophenyl)-3-ethyl-
2,5-dihydro-5-oxo-4-pyridazinecarboxylic acid, potassium salt) in or on 
wheat milling fractions (excluding flour) at 600 ppm.
    A record has been established for this document under docket number 
[PF-667] (including any comments and data submitted electronically as 
described below). A public version of this record, including printed, 
paper versions of electronic comments, which does not include any 
information claimed as CBI, is available for inspection from 8 a.m. to 
4:30 p.m., Monday through Friday, excluding legal holidays. The public 
record is located in Rm. 1132 of the Public Response and Program 
Resources Branch, Field Operations Division (7506C), Office of 
Pesticide Programs, Environmental Protection Agency, Crystal Mall #2, 
1921 Jefferson-Davis Hwy., Arlington, VA.
    Electronic comments can be sent directly to EPA at:
    opp-D[email protected].


    Electronic comments must be submitted as an ASCII file avoiding the 
use of special characters and any form of encryption.

    The official record for this rulemaking, as well as the public 
version, as described above, will be kept in paper form. Accordingly, 
EPA will transfer all comments received electronically to printed, 
paper form as they are received and will place the paper copies in the 
official rulemaking record which will also include all comments 
submitted directly in writing. The official rulemaking record is the 
paper record maintained at the address in ADDRESSES at the beginning of 
this document.

List of Subjects

    Environmental protection, Agricultural commodities, Feed additives, 
Food additives, Pesticides and pests, Reporting and recordkeeping 
requirements.

    Authority: 7 U.S.C. 136a.

    Dated: July 26, 1996.

Stephen L. Johnson,
Director, Registration Division, Office of Pesticide Programs.

[FR Doc. 96-19968 Filed 8-6-96; 8:45 am]
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