[Federal Register Volume 78, Number 123 (Wednesday, June 26, 2013)]
[Notices]
[Pages 38326-38328]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2013-15320]



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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

[EPA-HQ-OPP-2010-0014; FRL-9390-4]


Product Cancellation Order for Certain Pesticide Registrations

AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: This notice announces EPA's order for the cancellations, 
voluntarily requested by the registrants and accepted by the Agency, of 
the products listed in Table 1a and 1b of Unit II. pursuant to the 
Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA). This 
cancellation order follows a November 28, 2012 Federal Register Notice 
of Receipt of Requests from the registrants listed in Table 2 of Unit 
II. to voluntarily cancel these product registrations. In the November 
28, 2013 notice, EPA indicated that it would issue an order 
implementing the cancellations, unless the Agency received substantive 
comments within the 180-day comment period that would merit its further 
review of these requests, or unless the registrants withdrew their 
requests. The Agency received one comment on the notice but it did not 
merit its further review of the request. Further, the registrants did 
not withdraw their requests. Accordingly, EPA hereby issues in this 
notice a cancellation order granting the requested cancellations. This 
order includes the last resmethrin product registrations in the United 
States. Any distribution, sale, or use of the products subject to this 
cancellation order is permitted only in accordance with the terms of 
this order, including any existing stocks provisions.

DATES: The cancellations are effective June 26, 2013.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: John W. Pates, Jr., Pesticide Re-
Evaluation Division (7508P), Office of Pesticide Programs, 
Environmental Protection Agency, 1200 Pennsylvania Ave. NW., 
Washington, DC 20460-0001; telephone number: (703) 308-8195; email 
address: [email protected].

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

I. General Information

A. Does this action apply to me?

    This action is directed to the public in general, and may be of 
interest to a wide range of stakeholders including environmental, human 
health, and agricultural advocates; the chemical industry; pesticide 
users; and members of the public interested in the sale, distribution, 
or use of pesticides. Since others also may be interested, the Agency 
has not attempted to describe all the specific entities that may be 
affected by this action.

B. How can I get copies of this document and other related information?

    The docket for this action, identified by docket identification 
(ID) number EPA-HQ-OPP-2010-0014, is available at http://www.regulations.gov or at the Office of Pesticide Programs Regulatory 
Public Docket (OPP Docket) in the Environmental Protection Agency 
Docket Center (EPA/DC), EPA West Bldg., Rm. 3334, 1301 Constitution 
Ave. NW., Washington, DC 20460-0001. The Public Reading Room is open 
from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., Monday through Friday, excluding legal 
holidays. The telephone number for the Public Reading Room is (202) 
566-1744, and the telephone number for the OPP Docket is (703) 305-
5805. Please review the visitor instructions and additional information 
about the docket available at http://www.epa.gov/dockets.

II. What Action is the Agency Taking?

    This notice announces the cancellation, as requested by 
registrants, of 22 products, including the last resmethrin product 
registrations, registered under FIFRA section 3. These registrations 
are listed in sequence by registration number in Tables 1a and 1b of 
this unit.
    This notice also corrects a typographical error in the Federal 
Register issue of November 28, 2012 (77 FR 70998) (FRL-9370-3) 
regarding two EPA registration numbers and is corrected as follows:
    EPA registration numbers 062910-00032 and 062910-00035 are 
corrected to read 062190-00032 and 062190-00035, respectively. These 
corrected registration numbers are included below in Table 1a.

                     Table 1a--Product Cancellations
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     EPA registration No.           Product name        Chemical name
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000264-00977..................  Tops-MZ-Gaucho       Mancozeb
                                 Potato Seed-Piece    Thiophanate-methyl
                                 Treatment.           Imidacloprid.
000264-00978..................  Gaucho-MZ Potato     Mancozeb
                                 Seed-Piece           Imidacloprid.
                                 Treatment.
000264-00996..................  Raxil MD-W Seed      Metalaxyl
                                 Treatment.           Tebuconazole
                                                      Imidacloprid.
005383-00011..................  Troysan 174........  2-
                                                      ((Hydroxymethyl)am
                                                      ino) ethanol.
010466-00028..................  Ultrafresh DM-50...  Tributyltin
                                                      maleate.
040849-00072..................  Enforcer P002-       S-Methoprene/
                                 082797-RMP.          Permethrin.
042177-00009..................  Olympic Algaecide    Poly(oxy-1,2-
                                 20.                  ethanediyl(dimethy
                                                      limino)-1,2-
                                                      ethanediyl(dimethy
                                                      limino)-1,2-
                                                      ethanediyl
                                                      dichloride).
046043-00031..................  Suncoast's Pool      Poly(oxy-1,2-
                                 Algaecide 20.        ethanediyl
                                                      (dimethylimino)-
                                                      1,2-ethanediyl
                                                      (dimethylimino)-
                                                      1,2-ethanediyl
                                                      dichloride).
062190-00032..................  Arch CMIT/MIT......  5-Chloro-2-methyl-
                                                      3(2H)-
                                                      isothiazolone
                                                     2-Methyl-3(2H)-
                                                      isothiazolone.
062190-00035..................  Arch CMIT/MIT 14     2-Methyl-3(2H)-
                                 MUP.                 isothiazolone
                                                     5-Chloro-2-methyl-
                                                      3(2H)-
                                                      isothiazolone.
074601-00001..................  Chlorothalonil       Chlorothalonil.
                                 Technical
                                 Fungicide.
075449-00003..................  Sodium Bichromate    Dichromic acid,
                                 Solution 69%.        (H2Cr207),
                                                      disodium salt,
                                                      dihydrate.
AZ-030006.....................  Dual Magnum          S-Metolachlor.
                                 Herbicide.
AZ-070007.....................  Gramoxone Inteon...  Paraquat
                                                      dichloride.
AZ-090001.....................  Ethrel Brand         Ethephon.
                                 Ethephon Plant
                                 Regulator.
CO090004......................  Actara Insecticide.  Thiamethoxam.
CO120001......................  Gramoxone SL 2.0...  Paraquat
                                                      dichloride.
LA-110006.....................  Milestone VM.......  Triisopropanolamine
                                                      salt of
                                                      aminopyralid.
OR-070032.....................  DuPont Direx 4L      Diuron.
                                 Herbicide.
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               Table 1b--Resmethrin Product Cancellations
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       Registration No.             Product name        Chemical name
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000432-00667..................  Scourge Insecticide  Piperonyl butoxide/
                                 W/SBP-1382/          resmethrin.
                                 Piperonyl Butoxide
                                 18%+54% MF Form II.
000432-00716..................  Scourge Insecticide  Piperonyl butoxide/
                                 W/SBP-1382/          resmethrin.
                                 Piperonyl Butoxide
                                 4%+12% MF FII.
073049-00086..................  SBP-1382 Technical   Resmethrin.
                                 with Antioxidant.
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    Table 2 of this unit includes the names and addresses of record for 
all registrants of the products in Table 1a and 1b of this unit, in 
sequence by EPA company number. This number corresponds to the first 
part of the EPA registration numbers of the products listed in Table 1a 
and 1b of this unit.

               Table 2--Registrants of Cancelled Products
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            EPA company No.                 Company name and address
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264...................................  Bayer Cropscience, LP, 2 T.W.
                                         Alexander Dr., P.O. Box 12014,
                                         Research Triangle Park, NC
                                         27709.
432...................................  Bayer Environmental Science, 2
                                         T.W. Alexander Dr., P.O. Box
                                         12014, Research Triangle Park,
                                         NC 27709.
5383..................................  Troy Chemical Corp., 8 Vreeland
                                         Rd., P.O. Box 955, Florham
                                         Park, NJ 07932-4200.
10466.................................  Thomas Research Associates,
                                         Shenstone Estates, 17804
                                         Braemar Pl., Leesburg, VA 20176-
                                         7046.
40849.................................  ZEP Commercial Sales & Services,
                                         4196 Merchant Plaza, 344, Lake Ridge, VA 22192.
42177.................................  Alliance Trading, Inc., 1150
                                         18th St. NW., Suite 1000,
                                         Washington, DC 20036.
46043.................................  Suncoast Chemicals Company,
                                         14480 62nd St. N., Clearwater,
                                         FL 33760.
62190.................................  Arch Wood Protection, Inc., 5660
                                         New Northside Dr., Suite 1100,
                                         Atlanta, GA 30328.
73049.................................  Valent Biosciences Corporation,
                                         870 Technology Way,
                                         Libertyville, Ill 60048-6316.
74601.................................  Oxon Italia S.P.A., Agent: Lewis
                                         & Harrison, LLC, 122 C St. NW.,
                                         Suite 740, Washington, DC
                                         20001.
75449.................................  Elementis Chromium, LP, 5408
                                         Holly Shelter Rd., Castle
                                         Hayne, NC 28429.
AZ030006, AZ070007, CO090004, CO120001  Syngenta Crop Protection, LLC,
                                         410 Swing Rd., P.O. Box 18300,
                                         Greensboro, NC 27419-8300.
LA110006..............................  DOW Agrosciences, LLC, 9330
                                         Zionsville Rd., 308/2E,
                                         Indianapolis, IN 46268-1054.
OR070032..............................  E.I. Dupont de Nemours and
                                         Company, (S300/419), Manager,
                                         Registration & Regulatory
                                         Affairs, 1007 Market St.,
                                         Wilmington, Delaware 19898-
                                         0001.
AZ090001..............................  Bayer Cropscience, LP, 2 T.W.
                                         Alexander Dr., P.O. Box 12014,
                                         Research Triangle Park, NC
                                         27709.
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III. Summary of Public Comments Received and Agency Response to 
Comments

    The Agency received one comment, but the Agency does not believe 
that the comment submitted during the comment period merits further 
review or a denial of the request for voluntary cancellation.

IV. Cancellation Order

    Pursuant to FIFRA section 6(f), EPA hereby approves the requested 
cancellations of the registrations identified in Table 1a and 1b of 
Unit II. Accordingly, the Agency hereby orders that the product 
registrations identified in Table 1a and 1b of Unit II. are canceled. 
The effective date of the cancellations that are the subject of this 
notice is June 26, 2013. Any distribution, sale, or use of existing 
stocks of the products identified in Table 1a and 1b of Unit II. in a 
manner inconsistent with any of the provisions for disposition of 
existing stocks set forth in Unit VI. will be a violation of FIFRA.

V. What is the agency's authority for taking this action?

    Section 6(f)(1) of FIFRA provides that a registrant of a pesticide 
product may at any time request that any of its pesticide registrations 
be canceled or amended to terminate one or more uses. FIFRA further 
provides that, before acting on the request, EPA must publish a notice 
of receipt of any such request in the Federal Register. Thereafter, 
following the public comment period, the EPA Administrator may approve 
such a request. The notice of receipt for this action was published for 
comment in the Federal Register of November 28, 2012 (77 FR 70998) 
(FRL-9370-3). The comment period closed on May 28, 2013.

VI. Provisions for Disposition of Existing Stocks

    Existing stocks are those stocks of registered pesticide products 
which are currently in the United States and which were packaged, 
labeled, and released for shipment prior to the effective date of the 
cancellation action. The existing stocks provisions for the products 
subject to this order are as follows.

A. For All Products Listed in Table 1a in Unit II

    The registrants may continue to sell and distribute existing stocks 
of products listed in Table 1a of Unit II. until June 26, 2014, which 
is 1-year after the publication of the Cancellation Order in the 
Federal Register. Thereafter, the registrants are prohibited from 
selling or distributing products listed in Table 1a, except for export 
in accordance with FIFRA section 17, or proper disposal. Persons other 
than the registrants may sell, distribute, or use existing stocks of 
products listed in Table 1a of Unit II. until existing stocks are 
exhausted, provided that such sale, distribution, or use is consistent 
with the terms of the previously approved labeling on, or that 
accompanied, the canceled products.

B. For All Products Listed in Table 1b in Unit II

    After December 31, 2015, registrants will be prohibited from 
selling, or distributing, existing stocks of products, containing 
resmethrin labeled for all uses. After December 31, 2015, persons other 
than the registrants will be allowed to sell, distribute, or use

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existing stocks of products, containing resmethrin until supplies are 
exhausted, provided that such sale, distribution, or use is consistent 
with the terms of the previously approved labeling on, or that 
accompanied, the canceled products.

List of Subjects

    Environmental protection, Pesticides and pests.

    Dated: June 18, 2013.
Michael Goodis,
Acting Director, Pesticide Re-Evaluation Division, Office of Pesticide 
Programs.
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