[Federal Register Volume 77, Number 216 (Wednesday, November 7, 2012)]
[Notices]
[Pages 66832-66834]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2012-27197]


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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

[EPA-HQ-OPP-2012-0390; FRL-9367-3]


Notice of Receipt of Pesticide Products; Registration 
Applications To Register New Uses

AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

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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. This 
notice provides the public with an opportunity to comment on the 
applications.

DATES: Comments must be received on or before December 7, 2012.

ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, identified by docket identification 
(ID) number and the EPA Registration Number or EPA File Symbol of 
interest as specified in Unit II., 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), (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, email, or mail. Mail correspondence to the Registration 
Division (7505P), Office of Pesticide Programs, Environmental 
Protection Agency, 1200 Pennsylvania Ave. NW., Washington, DC 20460-
0001. As part of the mailing address, include the contact person's 
name, division, and mail code.

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. 
The following list of North American Industrial Classification System 
(NAICS) codes is not intended to be exhaustive, but rather provides a 
guide to help readers determine whether this document applies to them. 
Potentially affected entities may include:
     Crop production (NAICS code 111).
     Animal production (NAICS code 112).
     Food manufacturing (NAICS code 311).
     Pesticide manufacturing (NAICS code 32532).

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).
    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

    EPA has received applications to register new uses for pesticide 
products containing currently registered active ingredients. Pursuant 
to the provisions of FIFRA section 3(c)(4), EPA is hereby providing 
notice of receipt and opportunity to comment on these applications. 
Notice of receipt of these applications does not imply a decision by 
the Agency on these applications. For actions being evaluated under the 
Agency's public participation process for registration actions, there 
will be an additional opportunity for a 30-day public comment period on 
the proposed decision. Please see the Agency's public participation Web 
site for additional information on this process (http://www.epa.gov/pesticides/regulating/registration-public-involvement.html). EPA 
received the following applications to register new uses for pesticide 
products containing currently registered active ingredients:
    1. EPA Registration Numbers: 524-421, 524-475, and 524-537. Docket 
ID Number: EPA-HQ-OPP-2012-0132. Applicant: Monsanto Company, 1300 I 
Street NW., Suite 450 East, Washington, DC 20005. Active ingredient: 
Glyphosate. Product Type: Herbicide. Proposed Uses: Add wiper 
applicator use over the top to carrot and sweet potato, add preharvest 
use to oilseed crop group 20, add the use Teff (forage and hay), and 
conversion of the following old crop groups to the following new crop 
groups: Vegetable, bulb, group 3 to vegetable, bulb, group 3-07; 
vegetable, fruiting, group 8 to vegetable, fruiting, group 8-10; fruit, 
citrus, group 10 to fruit, citrus, group 10-10; fruit, pome, group 11 
to fruit, pome, group 11-10; and berry group 13 to berry and small 
fruit, group 13-07. Contact: Erik Kraft, (703) 308-9358, email address: 
[email protected].
    2. EPA Registration Numbers: 6836-107 and 71096-13. Docket ID 
Number: EPA-HQ-OPP-2012-0706. Applicant: Lonza, Inc., 90 Boroline Road, 
Allendale, NJ 07401; OR-CAL, Inc., 29454 Meadowview Road, Junction 
City, OR 97448. Active ingredient: Metaldehyde. Product Type: 
Molluscicide. Proposed Uses: Grass (forage and hay); leaf petioles 
subgroup 4B; peppermint and spearmint (tops and oil); berry subgroups 
13-07 A, B, and G; taro (corm and leaves); corn (sweet and field); and 
soybean. Contact: Marianne Lewis, (703) 308-8043, email address: 
[email protected].
    3. EPA Registration Numbers: 7969-185, 7969-186, 7969-187, 7969-
199, 7969-258, and 7969-289. Docket ID Number: EPA-HQ-OPP-2012-0549. 
Applicant: BASF Corporation, P.O. Box 13528, 26 Davis Drive, Research 
Triangle Park, NC 27709. Active ingredient: Pyraclostrobin. Product 
Type: Fungicide. Proposed Uses: Artichoke, globe; endive, Belgium;

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persimmon; vegetable, bulb, group 3-07; vegetable, fruiting, group 8-
10; fruit, citrus, group 10-10; fruit, pome, group 11-10; oilseed, 
group 20; caneberry subgroup 13-07A; bushberry subgroup 13-07B; small 
fruit, vine climbing, subgroup (except fuzzy kiwi) 13-07F; and low 
growing, berry, subgroup 13-07G. Contact: Dominic Schuler, (703) 347-
0260, email address: [email protected].
    4. EPA Registration Numbers: 7969-197, 7969-198, and 7969-199. 
Docket ID Number: EPA-HQ-OPP-2012-0713. Applicant: BASF Corporation, 
P.O. Box 13528, 26 Davis Drive, Research Triangle Park, NC 27709. 
Active ingredient: Boscalid. Product Type: Fungicide. Proposed Uses: 
Artichoke; endive, Belgium; persimmon; vegetable, bulb, group 3-07; 
vegetable, fruiting, group 8-10; fruit, citrus, group 10-10; fruit, 
pome, group 11-10; berry subgroups 13-07 A, B, F and G; oilseed, group 
20; turnip, greens; and vegetable, root, subgroup 1B. Contact: Heather 
Garvie, (703) 308-0034, email address: [email protected].
    5. EPA Registration Numbers: 61842-22, 61842-23, and 61842-24. 
Docket ID Number: EPA-HQ-OPP-2012-0791. Applicant: Syngenta Crop 
Protection, LLC, P.O. Box 18300, Greensboro, NC 27419-8300. Active 
ingredient: Linuron. Product Type: Herbicide. Proposed Uses: Celeriac; 
coriander (cilantro); dill; horseradish; parsley; pea (dry); and 
rhubarb. Contact: Mindy Ondish, (703) 605-0723, email address: 
[email protected].
    6. EPA Registration Numbers: 62719-99, 62719-131, and 62719-250. 
Docket ID Number: EPA-HQ-OPP-2012-0304. Applicant: Dow AgroSciences 
LLC, 9330 Zionsville Road, Indianapolis, IN 46268-1054. Active 
ingredient: Trifluralin. Product Type: Herbicide. Proposed Uses: 
Oilseed crop, group 20 (borage, calendula, camelina, Chinese 
tallowtree, cuphea, echium, euphorbia, evening primrose, Hare's ear 
mustard, jojoba, lesquerella, lunaria, meadowfoam, milkweed, mustard 
seed, Niger seed, oil radish, poppy seed, rose hip, sesame, Stokes 
aster, sweet rocket, tallow wood, tea oil plant, and vernonia). 
Contact: Bethany Benbow, (703) 347-8072, email address: 
[email protected].
    7. EPA Registration Numbers: 62719-132, 62719-184, and 62719-188. 
Docket ID Number: EPA-HQ-OPP-2012-0303. Applicant: Dow AgroSciences 
LLC, 9330 Zionsville Road, Indianapolis, IN 46268-1054. Active 
ingredient: Ethalfluralin. Product Type: Herbicide. Proposed Uses: 
Oilseed crop, group 20 (borage, calendula, Camelina, Chinese 
tallowtree, Cuphea, Echium, Euphorbia, Evening primrose, Flaxseed, 
Hare's ear mustard, jojoba, lesquerella, lunaria, meadowfoam, milkweed, 
mustard seed, Niger seed, oil radish, poppy seed, rose hip, sesame, 
Stokes aster, sweet rocket, tallow wood, tea oil plant, and vernonia). 
Contact: Bethany Benbow, (703) 347-8072, email address: 
[email protected].

List of Subjects

    Environmental protection, Pesticides and pest.

    Dated: October 26, 2012.
Daniel J. Rosenblatt,
Acting Director, Registration Division, Office of Pesticide Programs.
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