[Federal Register Volume 79, Number 214 (Wednesday, November 5, 2014)]
[Notices]
[Pages 65656-65658]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2014-26176]


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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

[EPA-HQ-OPP-2010-0751; FRL-9918-46]


Methomyl; Notice of Receipt of Requests To Voluntarily Amend 
Registrations To Terminate Certain Uses

AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: In accordance with the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and 
Rodenticide Act (FIFRA), EPA is issuing a notice of receipt of requests 
by the registrants to voluntarily to amend their methomyl product 
registrations to delete one or more uses. The requests would delete 
methomyl use in or on barley, oats, and rye. The requests would not 
terminate the last methomyl products registered for use in the United 
States. EPA intends to grant these requests at the close of the comment 
period for this announcement unless the Agency receives substantive 
comments within the comment period that would merit its further review 
of the requests, or unless the registrants withdraw its requests. If 
these requests are granted, any sale, distribution, or use of products 
listed in this notice will be permitted after the use is deleted only 
if such sale, distribution, or use is consistent with the terms as 
described in the final order.

DATES: Comments must be received on or before December 5, 2014.

ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, identified by docket identification 
(ID) number EPA-HQ-OPP-2010-0751, by one of the following methods:

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     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.html. 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: Tom Myers, Pesticide Re-Evaluation 
Division (7508P), Office of Pesticide Programs, Environmental 
Protection Agency, 1200 Pennsylvania Ave. NW., Washington, DC 20460-
0001; telephone number: (703) 308-8589; 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. 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 preparing and submitting 
your comments, see the commenting tips at http://www.epa.gov/dockets/comments.html.

II. Background on the Receipt of Requests To Amend Registrations to 
Delete Uses

    This notice announces receipt by EPA of requests from registrants 
to delete certain uses of methomyl product registrations. Methomyl is a 
broad-spectrum carbamate insecticide registered for use on a wide range 
of field crops, vegetables, fruits, and turf. In letters to EPA, the 
registrants have requested EPA to amend their methomyl product labels 
to delete certain uses of their pesticide product registrations 
identified in Table 1 of Unit III. Specifically, the registrants have 
submitted letters to EPA to voluntarily amend their methomyl product 
registrations to delete the use of methomyl in or on barley, oats, and 
rye. This action on the registrant's requests will terminate the last 
methomyl pesticide products registered in the United States for these 
uses.

III. What action is the Agency taking?

    This notice announces receipt by EPA of requests from registrants 
to delete certain uses of methomyl product registrations. The affected 
products and the registrants making the requests are identified in 
Tables 1 and 2 of this unit.
    Unless a request is withdrawn by the registrant or if the Agency 
determines that there are substantive comments that warrant further 
review of this request, EPA intends to issue an order amending the 
affected registrations.

                   Table 1--Methomyl Product Registrations With Pending Requests for Amendment
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        Registration No.               Product name               Company               Uses to be deleted
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352-342........................  Dupont Lannate SP        Dupont................  Barley, Oats, Rye.
                                  Insecticide.
352-361........................  Dupont Methomyl          Dupont................  Barley, Oats, Rye.
                                  Composition.
352-366........................  Dupont Methomyl          Dupont................  Barley, Oats, Rye.
                                  Technical.
352-384........................  Dupont Lannate LV        Dupont................  Barley, Oats, Rye.
                                  Insecticide.
400-597........................  Annihilate LV..........  MacDermid Agricultural  Barley, Oats, Rye.
                                                           Solutions.
400-598........................  Annihilate SP..........  MacDermid Agricultural  Barley, Oats, Rye.
                                                           Solutions.
70552-2........................  Methomyl Technical.....  Sinon Corporation.....  Barley, Oats, Rye.
81598-9........................  Rotam Methomyl           Rotam Limited.........  Barley, Oats, Rye.
                                  Technical.
82557-2........................  Methomyl 29% SL          Sinon USA Inc.........  Barley, Oats, Rye.
                                  Insecticide.
82557-3........................  Methomyl 90% SP........  Sinon USA Inc.........  Barley, Oats, Rye.
83100-27.......................  Rotam Methomyl 29 LV     Rotam Agrochemical      Barley, Oats, Rye.
                                  Insecticide.             Company, Ltd.
83100-28.......................  Rotam Methomyl 90 SP     Rotam Agrochemical      Barley, Oats, Rye.
                                  Insecticide.             Company, Ltd.
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    Table 2 of this unit includes the names and addresses of record for 
the registrants of the products listed in sequence by EPA company 
number. This corresponds to EPA registration numbers in Table 1 of this 
unit.

          Table 2--Registrants Requesting Voluntary Amendments
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            EPA Company No.                 Company name and address
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352...................................  E. I. Du Pont de Nemours and
                                         Company, 1007 Market Street,
                                         Wilmington, DE 19898-0001.
400...................................  MacDermid Agricultural
                                         Solutions, Inc., c/o Chemtura
                                         Corporation, 199 Benson Road,
                                         Middlebury, CT 06749.
70552.................................  Sinon Corporation, c/o Biologic,
                                         Inc., 115 Obtuse Hill Road,
                                         Brookfield, CT 06804.
81598.................................  Rotam Limited, c/o Wagner
                                         Regulatory Associates, Inc.,
                                         P.O. Box 640, 7217 Lancaster
                                         Pike, Suite A, Hockessin, DE
                                         19707.
82557.................................  Sinon USA Inc., c/o Biologic,
                                         Inc., 115 Obtuse Hill Road,
                                         Brookfield, CT 06804.

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83100.................................  Rotam Agrochemical Company,
                                         Ltd., c/o Wagner Regulatory
                                         Associates, Inc., P.O. Box 640,
                                         7217 Lancaster Pike, Suite A,
                                         Hockessin, DE 19707.
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IV. 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.
    Section 6(f)(1)(B) of FIFRA requires that before acting on a 
request for voluntary cancellation, EPA must provide a 30-day public 
comment period on the request for voluntary cancellation or use 
termination. In addition, FIFRA section 6(f)(1)(C) requires that EPA 
provide a 180-day comment period on a request for voluntary 
cancellation or termination of any minor agricultural use before 
granting the request, unless:
    1. The registrants request a waiver of the comment period, or
    2. The EPA Administrator determines that continued use of the 
pesticide would pose an unreasonable adverse effect on the environment.
    The methomyl registrants have requested that EPA waive the 180-day 
comment period. Accordingly, EPA will provide a 30-day comment period 
on the proposed requests.

V. Procedures for Withdrawal of Requests

    Registrants who choose to withdraw a request for product 
cancellation or use deletion should submit the withdrawal in writing to 
the person listed under FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT. If the 
products(s) have been subject to a previous cancellation action, the 
effective date of cancellation and all other provisions of any earlier 
cancellation action are controlling.

VI. Provisions for Disposition of Existing Stocks

    Existing stocks are those stocks of registered pesticide products 
that are currently in the United States and that were packaged, 
labeled, and released for shipment prior to the effective date of the 
action. If the requests for amendments to delete uses are granted, the 
Agency intends to publish the cancellation order in the Federal 
Register.
    In any order issued in response to these requests for amendments to 
delete uses, EPA proposes to include the following provisions for the 
treatment of any existing stocks of the products listed in Table 1 of 
Unit III.
    Once EPA has approved product labels reflecting the requested 
amendments to delete uses, registrants will be permitted to sell or 
distribute products under the previously approved labeling for a period 
of 18 months after the date of Federal Register publication of the 
cancellation order, unless other restrictions have been imposed. 
Thereafter, registrants will be prohibited from selling or distributing 
the products whose labels include the deleted uses identified in Table 
1 of Unit III., except for export consistent with FIFRA section 17 or 
for proper disposal.
    Persons other than the registrant may sell, distribute, or use 
existing stocks of products whose labels include the deleted uses 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 deleted uses.

    Authority: 7 U.S.C. 136 et seq.

    Dated: October 24, 2014.
Richard P. Keigwin, Jr.,
Director, Pesticide Re-Evaluation Division, Office of Pesticide 
Programs.
[FR Doc. 2014-26176 Filed 11-4-14; 8:45 am]
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