[Federal Register Volume 77, Number 100 (Wednesday, May 23, 2012)]
[Notices]
[Pages 30524-30526]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2012-12492]


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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

[EPA-HQ-OPP-2012-0012; FRL-9347-7]


Pesticide Products; Receipt of Applications To Register New Uses

AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: This notice announces receipt of applications to register new 
uses for pesticide products containing currently registered active 
ingredients, pursuant to the provisions of section 3(c) of the Federal 
Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA), as amended. EPA is 
publishing this notice of such applications, pursuant to section 
3(c)(4) of FIFRA.

DATES: Comments must be received on or before June 22, 2012.

ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, identified by docket identification 
(ID) number EPA-HQ-OPP-2012-0012 by one of the following methods:
     Federal eRulemaking Portal: http://www.regulations.gov. 
Follow the online instructions for submitting comments. Do not submit 
electronically any information you consider to be Confidential Business 
Information (CBI) or other information whose disclosure is restricted 
by statute.
     Mail: OPP Docket, Environmental Protection Agency Docket 
Center (EPA/DC), Mail Code: 28221T, 1200 Pennsylvania Ave. NW., 
Washington, DC 20460-0001.
     Hand Delivery: To make special arrangements for hand 
delivery or delivery of boxed information, please follow the 
instructions at http://www.epa.gov/dockets/contacts.htm.

Additional instructions on commenting or visiting the docket, along 
with more information about dockets generally, is available at http://www.epa.gov/dockets.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: A contact person is listed at the end 
of each registration application summary and may be contacted by 
telephone or email. The mailing address for each contact person listed 
is: Biopesticides and Pollution Prevention Division (7511P) or 
Registration Division (7505P), Office of Pesticide Programs, 
Environmental Protection Agency, 1200 Pennsylvania Ave. NW., 
Washington, DC 20460-0001.

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

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producer, food manufacturer, or pesticide manufacturer. 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).
     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. What should I consider as I prepare my comments for EPA?

    1. Submitting CBI. Do not submit this information to EPA through 
regulations.gov or email. Clearly mark the part or all of the 
information that you claim to be CBI. For CBI information in a disk or 
CD-ROM that you mail to EPA, mark the outside of the disk or CD-ROM as 
CBI and then identify electronically within the disk or CD-ROM the 
specific information that is claimed as CBI. In addition to one 
complete version of the comment that includes information claimed as 
CBI, a copy of the comment that does not contain the information 
claimed as CBI must be submitted for inclusion in the public docket. 
Information so marked will not be disclosed except in accordance with 
procedures set forth in 40 CFR part 2.
    2. Tips for preparing your comments. When submitting comments, 
remember to:
    i. Identify the document by docket ID number and other identifying 
information (subject heading, Federal Register date and page number). 
If you are commenting on a docket that addresses multiple products, 
please indicate to which registration number(s) your comment applies. 
If you are commenting on a docket that addresses multiple products, 
please indicate to which registration number(s) your comment applies.
    ii. Follow directions. The Agency may ask you to respond to 
specific questions or organize comments by referencing a Code of 
Federal Regulations (CFR) part or section number.
    iii. Explain why you agree or disagree; suggest alternatives and 
substitute language for your requested changes.
    iv. Describe any assumptions and provide any technical information 
and/or data that you used.
    v. If you estimate potential costs or burdens, explain how you 
arrived at your estimate in sufficient detail to allow for it to be 
reproduced.
    vi. Provide specific examples to illustrate your concerns and 
suggest alternatives.
    vii. Explain your views as clearly as possible, avoiding the use of 
profanity or personal threats.
    viii. Make sure to submit your comments by the comment period 
deadline identified.

II. Registration Applications for New Uses

    EPA received applications as follows to register pesticide products 
containing currently publishing this notice of such applications 
pursuant to section 3(c)(4) of FIFRA. Notice of receipt of these 
applications does not imply a decision by the Agency on the 
applications.
    1. Registration Numbers: 100-864 and 100-1226. Docket Number: EPA-
HQ-OPP-2012-0177. Company name and address: Syngenta Crop Protection, 
LLC, P.O. Box 18300, Greensboro, NC 27419. Active ingredient: 
Cyproconazole. Proposed Classification/Use: peanuts. Contact: Shaunta 
Hill, (703) 347-8961, email address: [email protected].
    2. Registration Numbers: 100-907, 100-909, and 100-1173. Docket 
Number: EPA-HQ-OP-2012-0202. Company name and address: Syngenta Crop 
Protection, LLC, P.O. Box 18300, Greensboro, NC 27419. Active 
ingredient: Clodinafop-propargyl. Proposed Classification/Use: Wheat 
grain. Contact: Tracy White, (703) 308-0042, email address: 
[email protected].
    3. Registration Numbers: 100-921 and 100-1363. Docket Number: EPA-
HQ-OPP-2012-0215. Company name and address: Syngenta Crop Protection, 
LLC, P.O. Box 18300, Greensboro, NC 27419. Active ingredient: 
Acibenzolar-S-Methyl. Proposed Classification/Use: Sunflower seed 
treatment. Contact: Rose Kearns, (703) 305-5611, email address: 
[email protected].
    4. Registration Numbers: 100-1098, 100-1119, 100-1120, and 100-
1220. Docket Number: EPA-HQ-OPP-2012-0282. Company name and address: 
Syngenta Crop Protection, LLC, P.O. Box 18300, Greensboro, NC 27419. 
Active ingredient: Azoxystrobin. Proposed Classification/Uses: Oats and 
Rye. Contact: Erin Malone, (703) 347-0253, email address: 
[email protected].
    5. Registration Numbers: 100-1178 and 100-1324. Docket Number: EPA-
HQ-OPP-2012-0282. Company name and address: Syngenta Crop Protection, 
LLC, P.O. Box 18300, Greensboro, NC 27419. Active ingredient: 
Azoxystrobin/Propiconazole. Proposed Classification/Uses: Oats and rye. 
Contact: Erin Malone, (703) 347-0253, email address: 
[email protected].
    6. Registration Numbers: 100-1119 and 100-1120. Docket Number: EPA-
HQ-OPP-2012-0283. Company name and address: Syngenta Crop Protection, 
LLC, P.O. Box 18300, Greensboro, NC 27419. Active ingredient: 
Azoxystrobin. Proposed Classification/Use: Barley. Contact: Erin 
Malone, (703) 347-0253, email address: [email protected].
    7. Registration Numbers: 264-1049, 264-1050, 264-1051, and 264-065. 
Docket Number: EPA-HQ-OPP-2012-0107. Company name and address: Bayer 
CropScience, P.O. Box 12014, 2 T. W. Alexander Drive, Research Triangle 
Park, NC 27709. Active ingredient: Spirotetramat. Proposed 
Classification/Uses: Banana and plantain; bushberry subgroup, crop 
subgroups 13-07B and 13-07H including aronia berry, bearberry, 
bilberry, blueberry (highbush and lowbush), Chilean guava, cloudberry, 
cranberry, currant (black, buffalo, native, and red), elderberry, 
European barberry, gooseberry, edible honeysuckle, jostaberry, 
juneberry, muntries, lingonberry, partridgeberry, salal, sea buckthorn, 
including cultivars, varieties and/or hybrids of these; additional 
citrus fruits, crop group 10-10 including Australian lime (desert, 
finger, and round), Brown River finger lime, Japanese summer 
grapefruit, Mediterranean mandarin, Mount White lime, New Guinea wild 
lime, Russell River lime, sweet lime, tachibana orange, Tahiti lime, 
trifoliate orange, uniq fruit including cultivars, varieties, and/or 
hybrids of these; coffee; pineapple; additional pome fruits, crop group 
11-10 including azarole, Chinese quince, Japanese quince, medlar, 
tejocote including cultivars, varieties, and/or hybrids of these; 
pomegranate; bulb vegetables, crop subgroup 3-07A including daylily 
(bulb), fritillaria (bulb), garlic (bulbs of common, great-headed, 
serpent), lily (bulb), onion (bulbs of common, Chinese, pearl, potato), 
shallot (bulb) plus cultivars, varieties and/or hybrids of these; bulb 
vegetables, crop subgroup 3-07B including Chinese chive (fresh leaves), 
chive (fresh leaves), elegans hosta, fritillaria (leaves), kurrat, wild 
leek, lady's leek, Beltsville bunching onion, fresh onion, green onion, 
macrostem

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onion, tree onion tops, Welsh onion tops, shallot fresh leaves plus 
cultivars, varieties and/or hybrids of these; additional fruiting 
vegetables, crop group 8-10 including African eggplant, bush tomato, 
cocona, currant tomato, garden huckleberry, goji berry, martynia, 
naranjilla, okra, pea eggplant, roselle, scarlet eggplant, sunberry, 
tree tomato, pepper (cayenne, chili, habanero, jalapeno, pablano, 
pimento, serrano), including cultivars, varieties and/or hybrids of 
these; globe artichoke; taro leaves; and watercress. Contact: Rita 
Kumar, (703) 308-8291, email address: [email protected].
    8. Registration Numbers: 499-526, 499-527, 499-531, and 86203-8. 
Docket Number: EPA-HQ-OPP-2012-0092. Company name and address: Whitmire 
Micro-Gen Research Laboratories, Inc., 3568 Tree Court Industrial 
Blvd., St. Louis, MO 63122; and Mitsui Chemicals Agro, Inc., c/o Landis 
International, Inc., P. O. Box 5126, Valdosta, GA 31603. Active 
ingredient: Dinotefuran. Proposed Classification/Use: Food/Feed 
Handling Establishments. Contact: Rita Kumar, (703) 308-8291, email 
address: [email protected].
    9. Registration File Symbols: 7969-EOI and 7969-EOO. Docket Number: 
EPA-HQ-OPP-2012-0185. Company name and address: BASF Corporation, 26 
Davis Dr., Research Triangle Park, NC 27709. Active ingredient: Alpha-
cypermethrin. Proposed Classification/Uses: Alfalfa, cotton, tree nut 
crop group, citrus fruits crop group, cereal grains crop group, 
Brassica (cole) leafy vegetables, leafy vegetables, fruiting 
vegetables, cucurbit vegetables, legume vegetables (succulent or 
dried), foliage of legume vegetables, root and tuber vegetables. 
Contact: Bewanda Alexander, (703) 305-7560, email address: 
[email protected].
    10. Registration File Symbol: 7969-GET. Docket Number: EPA-HQ-OPP-
2012-0310. Company name and address: BASF Corporation, 26 Davis Dr., 
Research Triangle Park, NC 27709. Active ingredient: Topramezone, 
Proposed Classification/Use: Turf (Golf Courses, Sod Farms, and 
Residential Turf Sites). Contact: Kathryn Montague, (703) 305-1243, 
email address: [email protected].
    11. Registration Numbers: 59639-97, 59639-99, and 59639-119. Docket 
Number: EPA-HQ-OPP-2012-0139. Company name and address: Valent U.S.A. 
Corporation, 1600 Riviera Ave., Suite 200, Walnut Creek, CA 94596. 
Active ingredient: Flumioxazin. Proposed Classification/Uses: For 
formulation into technical and end-use herbicide products used on: 
Artichoke, Cabbage, and Chinese cabbage (tight headed varieties only), 
Cactus (Agave and Prickly Pear), Olive, and Pomegranate. Contact: Grant 
Rowland, (703) 347-0254, email address: [email protected].
    12. Registration Number and Registration File Symbol: 62719-640 and 
62719-AUO. Docket Number: EPA-HQ-OPP-2011-0835. Company name and 
address: Dow AgroSciences LLC, 9330 Zionsville Rd., Indianapolis, IN 
46268. Active ingredients: 2,4=D choline salt and glyphosate. Proposed 
Classification/Use: Enlist AAD-1 Corn (Trait Code: DAS-40278-9). 
Contact: Michael Walsh, (703) 308-2972, email address: 
[email protected].
    13. Registration File Symbol: 62719-AGO. Docket Number: EPA-HQ-OPP-
2011-0835. Company name and address: Dow AgroSciences LLC, 9330 
Zionsville Rd., Indianapolis, IN 46268. Active ingredient: 2, 4,D= 
choline salt. Proposed Classification/Use: Enlist AAD-1 Corn (Trait 
Code: DAS-40278-9). Contact: Michael Walsh, (703) 308-2972, email 
address: [email protected].
    14. Registration File Symbol: 62719-AUU. Docket Number: EPA-HQ-OPP-
2012-0306. Company name and address: Dow AgroSciences LLC, 9330 
Zionsville Rd., Indianapolis, IN 46268. Active ingredient: 2, 
4,D=choline salt. Proposed Classification/Use: Enlist AAD-12 Soybeans 
(Trait Code: DAS-68416-4). Contact: Michael Walsh, (703) 308-2972, 
email address: [email protected].
    15. Registration Numbers: 63588-91, 63588-92, and 63588-93. Docket 
Number: EPA-HQ-OPP-2012-0308. Applicant: K-I Chemical U.S.A., Inc., c/o 
Landis International, Inc., 3185 Madison Highway, P.O. Box 5126, 
Valdosta, GA 31603-5126. Active Ingredient: Pyroxasulfone. Proposed 
Classification/Use: Soybeans. Contact: Michael Walsh, (703) 308-2972, 
email address: [email protected].
    16. Registration File Symbols: 69969-G. Docket Number: EPA-HQ-OPP-
2011-0276, Applicant: Interregional Research Project Number 4 (IR-4), 
500 College Road East, Suite 201 W., Princeton, NJ 08540 on behalf of 
Arkion Life Sciences, 551 Mews Dr., Suite J, New Castle, DE 19720. 
Product Name: Avipel. Active Ingredient: Biochemical Bird Repellent 
with 9, 10-Anthraquinone at 50%. Proposed Classification/Use: End Use 
product applied as a seed treatment to corn to repel blackbirds, 
cranes, geese, grackles and pheasants. Contact: Chris Pfeifer, 
Biopesticides and Pollution Prevention Division, (703) 308-0031, email 
address: [email protected].
    17. Registration Numbers: 71512-11 and 71512-12. Docket Number: 
EPA-HQ-OPP-2012-0297. Applicant: ISK Biosciences Corporation, 7470 
Auburn Rd., Suite A, Concord, OH 44077. Active Ingredient: 
Flazasulfuron herbicide. Proposed Classification/Use: Residential Use 
(spot treatment). Contact: Hope Johnson, (703) 305-5410, email address: 
[email protected].
    18. Registration Numbers: 86203-8 and 86203-25. Docket Number: EPA-
HQ-OPP-2012-0060. Company name and address: Mitsui Chemicals Agro, 
Inc., c/o Landis International, Inc., P. O. Box 5126, Valdosta, GA 
31603. Active ingredient: Dinotefuran. Proposed Classification/Use: 
Rice. Contact: Rita Kumar, (703) 308-8291, email address: 
[email protected].
    19. Registration File Symbols: 88867-E and 88867-R. Docket Number: 
EPA-HQ-OPP-2012-0204. Company name and address: Willapa-Grays Harbor 
Oyster Growers Association, P.O. Box 3, Ocean Park, WA 98640. Active 
ingredient: Imidacloprid. Proposed Classification/Use: Intertidal 
oyster beds to control burrowing shrimp. Contact: Jennifer Urbanski, 
(703) 347-0156, email address: [email protected].

List of Subjects

    Environmental protection, Pesticides and pest.

    Dated: April 27, 2012.
Daniel J. Rosenblatt,
Acting Director, Registration Division, Office of Pesticide Programs.
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