[Federal Register Volume 62, Number 43 (Wednesday, March 5, 1997)]
[Notices]
[Page 10050]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 97-4884]


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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY
[PF-579A; FRL-5587-1]


Novartis; Pesticide Petition Withdrawal

AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

ACTION: Notice of withdrawal of pesticide petition.

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SUMMARY: EPA is withdrawing a pesticide petition from Novartis 
(formerly known as Ciba-Geigy Corporation) for the combined residues of 
the insecticide cyromazine, (N cyclopropyl-1,3,5-triazine-2,4,6-
triamine plus its major metabolite, melamine, 1,3,5-triazine-2,4-6-
triamine) for use in or on certain commodites.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: George T. LaRocca, Product Manager 
(PM) 13, Registration Division, (7505C), Office of Pesticide Programs, 
Environmental Protection Agency, 401 M. St., SW., Washington, DC 20460. 
Office location, telephone number and e-mail address: Rm. 200, CM#2, 
1921 Jefferson Davis Highway, Arlington, VA; 703-305-6100; e-mail: 
[email protected].

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: EPA in a notice issued in the Federal 
Register of August 18, 1993 (58 FR 43892), announced that Novartis, 
P.O. Box 18300, Greensboro, NC 27419, had filed a pesticide petition 
(PP) 6F3422 proposing to amend 40 CFR part 180.414 to establish 
tolerances for the combined residues of the insecticide cyromazine, (N 
cyclopropyl-1,3,5-triazine-2,4,6-triamine plus its major metabolite, 
melamine, 1,3,5-triazine-2,4-6-triamine) for use in or on cabbage, 
sweet potatoes, sugar beets (roots and tops), and sorghum (grain, 
forage and fodder). The tolerances were to cover residues resulting 
from the planting of these crops as rotational crops following the 
harvest of cyromazine treated crops. On August 26, 1996 Novartis 
notified EPA that it requests that the petition be withdrawn without 
prejudice to future filing. The Agency has withdrawn the subject 
pesticide petition.

List of Subjects

    Environmental protection, Administrative practice and procedure, 
Agricultural Commodities, Pesticides and pests, Reporting and 
recordkeeping requirements.

    Dated: February 17, 1997.

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

[FR Doc. 97-4884 Filed 3-4-97; 8:45 am]
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