[Federal Register Volume 70, Number 193 (Thursday, October 6, 2005)]
[Notices]
[Pages 58406-58407]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 05-20099]


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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

[OPP-2005-0274; FRL-7740-3]


AAPCO/SFJREG WC WQ/PD and POM Joint Meeting

AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: The Association of American Pesticide Control Officials 
(AAPCO)/State FIFRA Issues Research and Evaluation Group (SFIREG) 
Working Committees on Water Quality and Pesticide Disposal (WC/WQPD) 
and Pesticide Operations and Management Working Committee (POM) will 
hold a joint 1-day meeting on October 31, 2005 and simultaneously the 
two committees will hold separate meetings on November 1, 2005. This 
notice announces the location and times for the meetings and sets forth 
the tentative agenda topics.

DATES: The meetings will be held on October 31, 2005 from 8:30 a.m. to 
5:15 p.m. and November 1, 2005 from 8:30 a.m. to 12 noon.

ADDRESSES: The meetings will be held at the Doubletree Hotel, 300 Army 
Navy Drive, Arlington, VA 22202
    Requests to participate in the meetings may be submitted to the 
person listed under FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Georgia McDuffie, FEAD (7506C), Office 
of Pesticide Programs, Environmental Protection Agency, 1200 
Pennsylvania Ave., NW., Washington, DC 20460-0001; telephone number: 
(703) 605-0195; fax number: (703) 308-1850; e-mail address: 
[email protected] or Philip H. Gray, (SFIREG) Executive 
Secretary, P.O. Box 1249, Hardwick, VT 05843-1249; telephone number: 
(802) 472-6956; fax (802) 472-6957; e-mail address: 
[email protected].

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

I. General Information

A. Does this Action Apply to Me?

    You may be potentially affected by this action if you are an 
agricultural producer, food manufacturer, or pesticide manufacturer, or 
if you are required to conduct testing of chemical substances under the 
Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (FFDCA), or the Federal 
Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA). Potentially 
affected entities may include, but are not limited to:
     Crop production (NAICS code 111)
     Animal production (NAICS code 112)
     Food manufacturing (NAICS code 311)

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     Pesticide manufacturing (NAICS code 32532)
    This listing is not intended to be exhaustive, but rather provides 
a guide for readers regarding entities likely to be affected by this 
action. Other types of entities not listed in this unit could also be 
affected. The North American Industrial Classification System (NAICS) 
codes have been provided to assist you and others in determining 
whether this action might apply to certain entities. If you have any 
questions regarding the applicability of this action to a particular 
entity, consult the person listed under FOR FURTHER INFORMATION 
CONTACT.

B. How Can I Get Copies of this Document and Other Related Information?

    1. Docket. EPA has established an official public docket for this 
action under docket identification (ID) number OPP-2005-0274. The 
official public docket consists of the documents specifically 
referenced in this action, any public comments received, and other 
information related to this action. Although, a part of the official 
docket, the public docket does not include Confidential Business 
Information (CBI) or other information whose disclosure is restricted 
by statute. The official public docket is the collection of materials 
that is available for public viewing at the Public Information and 
Records Integrity Branch (PIRIB), Rm. 119, Crystal Mall 2, 
1801 S. Bell St., Arlington, VA. 22202. This docket facility is open 
from 8:30 a.m. to 4 p.m., Monday through Friday, excluding legal 
holidays. The docket telephone number is (703) 305-5805.
    2. Electronic access. You may access this Federal Register document 
electronically through the EPA internet under the ``Federal Register'' 
listings at http://www.epa.gov/fedrgstr/.
     An electronic version of the public docket is available through 
EPA's electronic public docket and comment system, EPA Dockets. You may 
use EPA Dockets at http://www.epa.gov/edocket/ to view public comments, 
access the index listing of the contents of the official public docket, 
and to access those documents in the public docket that are available 
electronically. Although, not all docket materials may be available 
electronically, you may still access any of the publicly available 
docket materials through the docket facility identified in Unit I.B.1. 
Once in the system, select ``search,'' then key in the appropriate 
docket ID number.

II. Tentative Agenda

    The tentative agenda for the meeting(s) includes the following:
    1. Synchronizing SFIREG issue actions with EPA budget and planning 
cycles.
    2. OPP performance measures - Goals, overview of process, 
timetables, discussions on draft performance measures to date, and 
SFIREG and EPA representatives on the performance measure working 
group.
    3. EPA plans to address pesticide drift.
    4. Pesticide container recycling.
    5. Pesticide container/containment rule.
    6. Underground trickle irrigation.
    7. Label review committee priorities.
    8. Office of Pesticide Programs and Office of Enforcement and 
Compliance Assurance Report.
    9. Water Quality (WQ) Committee - State Reports: Emerging issues 
and process revisions.
    10. WQ Committee -- Water quality performance measures: Continuing 
discussion.
    11. WQ Committee - New directions for the pesticide water quality 
program.
    12. WQ Committee - End of year reporting for water quality programs 
and mechanisms to provide state water quality data to EPA.
    13. WQ Committee - OPP-Office of Water program interactions: 
Progress report.
    14. WQ Committee - Pesticide degradates: Unregulated contaminant 
monitoring regulation.
    15. Pesticide Operations and Management Committee (POM) - Pesticide 
labels with unclear endangered species language.
    16. POM Committee -- Standardized process for section 18 requests 
with national concerns.
    17. POM Committee - Copyright label issue.
    18. POM Committee - Rodenticide labels and 2(ee).
    19. POM Committee - Mosquito misting products.
    20. POM Committee - Issue papers, identify assignments.

List of Subjects

    Environmental protection, Office of Pesticide Programs.

    Dated: September 28, 2005.
William R. Diamond,
Director, Field and External Affairs Division, Office of Pesticide 
Programs.

[FR Doc. 05-20099 Filed 10-5-05; 8:45 am]
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