[Federal Register Volume 62, Number 156 (Wednesday, August 13, 1997)]
[Notices]
[Pages 43327-43328]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 97-21411]
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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY
[OPP-66243; FRL-5736-2]
Vinclozolin; Voluntary Deletion of Uses to Obtain Another Use
While Maintaining Acceptable Acute Dietary Risk
AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
ACTION: Notice of receipt of request to delete uses.
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SUMMARY: This notice, pursuant to section 6(f)(1) of the Federal
Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA), announces EPA's
receipt of requests from BASF Corporation to delete certain uses from
its products containing 3-(3,5-Dichlorophenyl)-5-ethenyl-5-methyl-2,4-
oxazolidinedione), or vinclozolin, in order to obtain a new
registration for succulent beans.
DATES: Public comment will be accepted until September 12, 1997.
ADDRESSES: By mail, submit comments to: Public Information and Records
Integrity Branch, Information Resources and Services Division (7506C),
Office of Pesticide Programs, 401 M St., SW., Washington, DC 20460. In
person deliver comments to: Rm. 1132, Crystal Mall #2, 1921 Jefferson
Davis Highway, Arlington, VA.
Comments and data may also be submitted electronically by following
the instructions under Unit VII. of this
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document. No Confidential Business Information (CBI) should be
submitted through e-mail.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: By mail: Mark Wilhite, Special Review
Branch (7508W), Special Review and Reregistration Division,
Environmental Protection Agency, 401 M St., SW., Washington, DC 20046.
Office location, telephone number, and e-mail address: Special Review
Branch, 3rd floor, 2800 Crystal Drive, Arlington, VA, (703) 308-8586,
e-mail: [email protected].
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
I. Background Information
Vinclozolin (trade names Ronilan, Curalan, and Ornilan) is a
fungicide first registered in 1981 to control various types of rot
caused by Botrytis spp., Sclerotinia spp, and other types of mold and
blight causing organisms, on strawberries, lettuce (all types),
stonefruit, tomatoes, grapes, raspberries, onions, succulent beans,
residential turf, recreational areas, golf courses, commercial and
industrial sites. Vinclozolin is also registered for use on ornamental
plants in green houses and nurseries. BASF, the sole registrant of
vinclozolin used on food commodities, sought a new section 3
registration for use of vinclozolin on succulent beans. EPA was unable
to make the ``reasonable certainty of no harm'' finding mandated by
section 408(b)(2) of the FFDCA for a new succulent beans use and
associated tolerances if all existing uses remained in place. To reduce
aggregate risk posed by exposure to vinclozolin, and thereby enable the
Agency to make a ``reasonable certainty of no harm'' finding for
succulent beans and the related tolerances, BASF requested the
voluntary cancellation of some registered uses.
II. BASF Request to Amend Registrations
On April 30, 1997, BASF submitted a written request to EPA seeking
to amend the registrations for vinclozolin. Specifically, BASF
requested that EPA delete from registration numbers 7969-53, 7969-57,
7969-62, and 7969-85 the use of vinclozolin on plums, including plums
grown for prunes, grapes, tomatoes, residential turf, and turf in
parks, school grounds, and recreational areas.
III. Deletions Pursuant to Voluntary Requests
Under section 6(f)(1) of FIFRA, registrants may request at any time
that EPA amend a pesticide registration to delete one or more uses (7
U.S.C. 136d(f)(1)). Consistent with 6(f)(1) of FIFRA, EPA is publishing
a notice of receipt of the request and allowing 30 days for public
comment.
IV. Existing Stocks
Effective immediately, all vinclozolin products being manufactured
must reflect the changes described in this notice. Retailers,
distributors, and end-users may sell, distribute, or use products with
the previously approved labeling which are already in channels of trade
until such supplies are exhausted.
V. Proposed Use Deletion
The use deletions will take effect on October 14, 1997 unless
before that date EPA publishes a notice in the Federal Register
modifying this proposed order.
EPA approves BASF's request to delete plums, including plums grown
for prunes, grapes, tomatoes, residential turf, and turf in parks,
school grounds, and recreational areas from vinclozolin products with
EPA registration numbers 7969-53, 7969-57, 7969-62, and 7969-85.
VI. Public Comment Procedures
EPA invites interested parties to submit written comments in
response to this notice. Comments must be submitted by September 12,
1997. Comments must bear a document control number. Three copies of the
comments should be submitted to either location under ``ADDRESSES'' at
the beginning of this notice.
Information submitted as a comment concerning this notice may be
claimed confidential by marking any or all that information as
Confidential Business Information (CBI). EPA will not disclose
information so marked, except in accordance with procedures set forth
in 40 CFR part 2. A second copy of such comments, with the CBI deleted,
also must be submitted for the public for inclusion in the public
record. EPA may publicly disclose without prior notice information not
marked confidential.
VII. Rulemaking Record
The official record for this notice, as well as the public version,
has been established for this document under docket number ``OPP-
66243'' (including 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 8:30 a.m.
to 4 p.m., Monday through Friday, excluding legal holidays. The
official record is located at the address in ``ADDRESSES'' at the
beginning of this document.
Electronic comments can be sent directly to EPA at:
[email protected]
Electronic comments must be submitted as an ASCII file avoiding the
use of special characters and any form of encryption. Comment 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 OPP-66243. Electronic comments on this
document may be filed online at many Federal Depository Libraries.
List of Subjects
Environmental protection, Administrative practice and procedure,
Agricultural commodities, Pesticides and pests, Use deletions.
Dated: August 7, 1997.
Jack E. Housinger,
Acting Director, Special Review and Reregistration Division, Office of
Pesticide Programs.
[FR Doc. 97-21411 Filed 8-12-97; 8:45 am]
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