[Federal Register Volume 79, Number 78 (Wednesday, April 23, 2014)]
[Notices]
[Pages 22669-22670]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2014-09244]
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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY
[EPA-HQ-OPP-2005-0123; FRL-9909-29]
Methyl Bromide; Cancellation Order for Certain Pesticide
Registrations and Amendment To Terminate a Certain Use; Amendment to
Existing Stocks Provision
AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
ACTION: Notice.
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SUMMARY: EPA issued a cancellation order in the Federal Register of May
20, 2011 to, among other things, terminate use of products containing
methyl bromide on golf courses. The effective date of cancellation for
that use was December 31, 2013. The order provided that existing stocks
of methyl bromide products that include the use on golf courses could
be sold and distributed for 120 days after the effective date of
cancellation, that is, until April 30, 2014. Two registrants have
requested that EPA revise the cancellation order for the pesticide
product registrations identified in Table 1 of Unit II to extend the
last allowable date for sale and distribution of existing stocks of
those products from April 30, 2014 to November 30, 2014 to allow sale
and distribution of those existing stocks for golf course resurfacing
during the 2014 use season. In this notice, EPA is amending the
existing stocks provisions in the May 20, 2011 order to allow the sale
or distribution of existing stocks of the identified methyl bromide
products only for use on golf courses through November 30, 2014, and to
limit the use of existing stocks of those products that are purchased
after April 30, 2014 to use only on golf courses.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Susan Bartow, Pesticide Re-Evaluation
Division (7508P), Office of Pesticide Programs, Environmental
Protection Agency, 1200 Pennsylvania Ave. NW., Washington, DC 20460-
0001; telephone number: (703) 603-0065; fax number: (703) 308-8005;
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
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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-2005-0123, 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?
Methyl bromide is a broad-spectrum fumigant chemical that can be
used as an acaricide, fungicide, herbicide, insecticide, nematicide,
and vertebrate control agent. It is used most prevalently as a soil
fumigant, but is also used as a postharvest treatment of commodities.
In the Federal Register of May 20, 2011 (76 FR 29238) (FRL-8872-2), EPA
published a cancellation order that terminated various uses of methyl
bromide products. In letters dated January 20, 2014, two registrants,
Soil Chemicals Corporation D/B/A Cardinal Professional Products and
Trical, Inc., asked EPA to revise the provisions for existing stocks of
certain products subject to that order. These registrations are listed
in sequence by registration number in Table 1 of this unit.
Table 1--Methyl Bromide Product Cancellations Subject to This Notice
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Registration No. Product name Company
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8536-19..................... Methyl Bromide 98%.. Soil Chemicals
Corporation D/B/A
Cardinal
Professional
Products.
11220-17.................... Methyl Bromide 89.5% Trical, Inc.
11220-32 (previously MBC Concentrate Soil Trical, Inc.
identified as 8853-1). fumigant (previously
(previously identified as
identified as MBC Hendrix and Dail,
Soil fumigant). Incorporated).
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Table 2 of this unit includes the names and addresses of record for
the registrants of the products listed in Table 1 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 1
of this unit.
Table 2--Registrants Requesting Revision of the Cancellation Order
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EPA Company No. Company name and address
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8536............................... Soil Chemicals Corporation D/B/A
Cardinal Professional Products,
P.O. Box 782, Hollister, CA 95024-
0782.
11220.............................. Trical, Inc., P.O. Box 1327,
Hollister, CA 95024-1327.
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Soil Chemicals Corporation D/B/A Cardinal Professional Products,
and Trical, Inc. have asked EPA to extend the last allowable date for
the sale and distribution of existing stocks of the products identified
above (as defined in the May 20, 2011 order) for use on golf courses
from April 30, 2014 to November 30, 2014 to allow sale and distribution
during the 2014 golf course use season.
EPA hereby modifies the May 20, 2011 cancellation order to permit
the sale and distribution of existing stocks of the methyl bromide
registrations identified in Table 1 of Unit II for use on golf courses.
This notice:
1. Allows sale and distribution of existing stocks of the affected
products until November 30, 2014;
2. Allows use of existing stocks of the products purchased prior to
April 30, 2014 according to the directions on the label for the product
until those stocks are exhausted; and
3. Allows use of existing stocks that were purchased after April
30, 2014 only on golf courses according to the directions for that use
on the label for the product until those stocks are exhausted.
Provisions in the May 20, 2011 cancellation order that do not
relate to use on golf courses are not affected by this revision.
III. What is the agency's authority for taking this action?
Section 6(a)(1) of FIFRA provides that the Administrator may permit
the continued sale and use of existing stocks of a pesticide whose
registration is canceled to such extent, under such conditions, and for
such uses as the Administrator determines that such sale or use is not
inconsistent with the purposes of the Act. In the May 20, 2011
cancellation order, EPA established various conditions and expiration
dates for sale and use of existing stocks of methyl bromide products
based on different use sites. This authority also allows EPA to revise
those conditions so long as the continued sale and use of existing
stocks of the canceled pesticides will not be inconsistent with the
purposes of FIFRA.
List of Subjects
Environmental protection, Pesticides and pests.
Dated: April 16, 2014.
Michael Goodis,
Acting Director, Pesticide Re-Evaluation Division, Office of Pesticide
Programs.
[FR Doc. 2014-09244 Filed 4-22-14; 8:45 am]
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