[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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