[Federal Register Volume 84, Number 108 (Wednesday, June 5, 2019)]
[Notices]
[Pages 26104-26106]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2019-11675]
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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY
[EPA-HQ-OPP-2018-0014; FRL-9994-17]
Notice of Receipt of Requests to Voluntarily Cancel Certain
Pesticide Registrations and 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 cancel certain pesticide product
registrations and to amend certain product registrations to terminate
uses. 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 their requests. If
these requests are granted, any sale, distribution, or use of products
listed in this notice will be permitted after the registrations have
been cancelled and uses terminated 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 2, 2019.
ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, identified by docket identification
(ID) number EPA-HQ-OPP-2018-0014, 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.
Submit written withdrawal request by mail to: Information
Technology and Resources Management Division (7502P), Office of
Pesticide Programs, Environmental Protection Agency, 1200 Pennsylvania
Ave. NW, Washington, DC 20460-0001. ATTN: Christopher Green.
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: Christopher Green, Information
Technology and Resources Management Division (7502P), Office of
Pesticide Programs, Environmental Protection Agency, 1200 Pennsylvania
Ave. NW, Washington, DC 20460-0001; telephone number: (703) 347-0367;
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. What action is the Agency taking?
This notice announces receipt by EPA of requests from registrants
to cancel certain pesticide products and amend product registrations to
terminate certain uses registered under FIFRA section 3 (7 U.S.C. 136a)
or 24(c) (7 U.S.C. 136v(c)). The affected products and the registrants
making the requests are identified in Tables 1-3 of this unit.
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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 in the Federal
Register canceling and amending the affected registrations.
Table 1--Product Registrations With Pending Requests for Cancellation
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Registration No. Company No. Product name Active ingredients
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5481-79.............................. 5481 Alco Sta-Gon Insecticidal Boric acid.
Dust.
5481-132............................. 5481 Cryolite 93................. Cryolite.
39967-82............................. 39967 Preventol PTAP.............. 4-tert-Amylphenol.
73049-9.............................. 73049 DeVine Mycoherbicide........ Live Chlamydospores of
Phytophthora palmivora
MWV.
CA-070018............................ 60256 Lorsban 30 Flowable......... Chlorpyrifos.
WY-070004............................ 400 Acramite-4SC................ Bifenazate.
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Table 2--Product Registrations With Pending Requests for Amendment
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Active
Registration No. Company No. Product name ingredient Uses to be terminated
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81964-4................... 81964 Tide Triadimefon Triadimefon..... Pineapple use.
Technical.
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Table 3 of this unit includes the names and addresses of record for
all the registrants of the products listed in Table 1 and Table 2 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 and Table 2 of this unit.
Table 3--Registrants Requesting Voluntary Cancellation and/or Amendments
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EPA company No. Company name and address
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400........................ Macdermid Agricultural Solutions, Inc., C/O
Arysta LifeScience North America, LLC,
15401 Weston Parkway, Suite 150, Cary, NC
27513.
5481....................... Amvac Chemical Corporation, 4695 Macarthur
Court, Suite 1200, Newport Beach, CA 92660-
1706.
39967...................... Lanxess Corporation, 111 RIDC Park West
Drive, Pittsburgh, PA 15275-1112.
60256...................... California Seed Association, 1521 ``I''
Street, Sacramento, CA 95814.
73049...................... Valent U.S.A., LLC, 1600 Riviera Avenue,
Suite 200, Walnut Creek, CA 94596-8025.
81964...................... Chemstarr, LLC, Agent Name: Pyxis
Regulatory Consulting, Inc., 4110 136TH
Street Ct., NW, Gig Harbor, WA 98332.
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III. What is the Agency's authority for taking this action?
Section 6(f)(1) of FIFRA (7 U.S.C. 136d(f)(1)) 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 (7 U.S.C. 136d(f)(1)(B)) 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)
(7 U.S.C. 136d(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 registrants listed in Table 3 of Unit II have not requested
that EPA waive the 180-day comment period. Accordingly, EPA will
provide a 180-day comment period on the proposed requests.
IV. Procedures for Withdrawal of Requests
Registrants who choose to withdraw a request for product
cancellation or use termination should submit the withdrawal in writing
to the person listed under FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT. If the
products have been subject to a previous cancellation or termination
action, the effective date of cancellation or termination and all other
provisions of any earlier cancellation or termination action are
controlling.
V. 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 voluntary cancellation and amendments to
terminate 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 cancellation
of product registrations and for amendments to terminate uses, EPA
proposes to include the following provisions for the treatment of any
existing stocks of the products listed in Tables 1 and 2, of Unit II.
For voluntary product cancellations, identified in Table 1 of Unit
II, registrants will be permitted to sell and distribute existing
stocks of voluntarily canceled products for 1 year after the effective
date of the cancellation, which will be the date of publication of the
cancellation order in the Federal Register. Thereafter, registrants
will be prohibited from selling or distributing the products identified
in Table 1 of Unit II, except for export consistent with FIFRA section
17 (7 U.S.C. 136o) or for proper disposal.
Once EPA has approved product labels reflecting the requested
amendments to terminate uses,
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identified in Table 2 of Unit II, 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 terminated uses identified in
Table 2 of Unit II, 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 canceled products and products whose labels include
the terminated 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 canceled
products and terminated uses.
Authority: 7 U.S.C. 136 et seq.
Dated: May 23, 2019.
Delores Barber,
Director, Information Technology and Resources Management Division,
Office of Pesticide Programs.
[FR Doc. 2019-11675 Filed 6-4-19; 8:45 am]
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