[Federal Register Volume 84, Number 164 (Friday, August 23, 2019)]
[Notices]
[Pages 44296-44297]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2019-18151]


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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

[EPA-HQ-OPP-2019-0369; FRL-9998-37]


Pesticide Product Registrations; Receipt of Applications for a 
New Site

AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: EPA has received applications to add a new site (hemp) to the 
labeling of currently registered pesticide products that contain active 
ingredients with established tolerance exemptions. Due to EPA's 
expectation that these initial applications involving hemp may be of 
significant interest to the public and to enhance transparency, EPA is 
hereby providing notice of receipt and opportunity to comment, although 
not required pursuant to the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and 
Rodenticide Act (FIFRA).

DATES: Comments must be received on or before September 23, 2019.

ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, identified by the EPA Registration 
Number of interest as shown in the body of this document, 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.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: Robert McNally, Biopesticides and 
Pollution Prevention Division (BPPD) (7511P), main telephone number: 
(703) 305-7090, email address: [email protected]; or Michael 
Goodis, Registration Division (RD) (7505P), main telephone number: 
(703) 305-7090, email address: [email protected]. The mailing address 
for each contact person is: 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. The division to contact is listed at the 
end of each application summary.

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).
    If you have any questions regarding the applicability of this 
action to a particular entity, consult the person listed under FOR 
FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT for the division listed at the end of the 
application summary of interest.

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

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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.
    3. Environmental justice. EPA seeks to achieve environmental 
justice, the fair treatment and meaningful involvement of any group, 
including minority and/or low-income populations, in the development, 
implementation, and enforcement of environmental laws, regulations, and 
policies. To help address potential environmental justice issues, EPA 
seeks information on any groups or segments of the population who, as a 
result of their location, cultural practices, or other factors, may 
have atypical or disproportionately high and adverse human health 
impacts or environmental effects from exposure to the pesticides 
discussed in this document, compared to the general population.

II. Registration Applications

    When the Agriculture Improvement Act of 2018 (2018 Farm Bill) was 
signed into law on December 20, 2018, hemp, defined therein as the 
plant Cannabis sativa L. and any part of that plant with a delta-9-
tetrahydrocannabinol concentration of not more than 0.3% on a dry 
weight basis, was removed from the Controlled Substances Act. 
Consequently, interest in hemp production has substantially increased 
over the last several months and the availability of particular tools, 
such as pesticides registered under FIFRA, will likely be essential to 
supporting the success of this industry going forward.
    Because of these recent developments with regard to hemp, EPA has 
received applications to add hemp as a new site to the labeling of some 
currently registered pesticide products. These registered pesticide 
products contain active ingredients for which EPA previously determined 
the residues will be safe under any reasonably foreseeable 
circumstances and, pursuant to the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act 
(FFDCA), established tolerance exemptions, as indicated below, for 
those residues in or on all raw agricultural or food commodities. As 
these initial applications that involve hemp may be of significant 
interest to the public and to enhance transparency, 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 EPA on these applications.
    FIFRA section 3(c)(4) requires EPA to ``publish in the Federal 
Register [. . .] a notice of each application for registration of any 
pesticide [. . .] if it would entail a changed use pattern.'' As 
terrestrial outdoor and residential outdoor use patterns (40 CFR 
158.100) were previously assessed and approved for the active 
ingredients listed below and because hemp, as proposed for addition to 
the labels of the products below, falls under these use patterns, EPA 
does not consider the use patterns to be changed with these 
applications. Thus, EPA is not statutorily required to provide an 
opportunity to comment and is doing so here because of the potential 
significant interest from the public in these initial applications and 
in furtherance of being completely transparent about these 
applications. For future pesticide registration applications that are 
similar to these applications and that are expected to be submitted 
with more regularity, EPA is not planning to notify the public of their 
receipt.
    1. EPA Registration Number: 70310-5. Applicant: Agro Logistic 
Systems, Inc., P.O. Box 5799, Diamond Bar, CA 91765. Active 
ingredients: Azadirachtin and Neem Oil. Product type: Insecticide, 
Miticide, Fungicide, and Nematicide. FFDCA clearances: 40 CFR 180.1119 
and 40 CFR 180.1291. Contact: BPPD.
    2. EPA Registration Number: 70310-7. Applicant: Agro Logistic 
Systems, Inc., P.O. Box 5799, Diamond Bar, CA 91765. Active 
ingredients: Azadirachtin and Neem Oil. Product type: Insecticide, 
Miticide, Fungicide, and Nematicide. FFDCA clearances: 40 CFR 180.1119 
and 40 CFR 180.1291. Contact: BPPD.
    3. EPA Registration Number: 70310-8. Applicant: Agro Logistic 
Systems, Inc., P.O. Box 5799, Diamond Bar, CA 91765. Active 
ingredients: Azadirachtin and Neem Oil. Product type: Insecticide, 
Miticide, Fungicide, and Nematicide. FFDCA clearances: 40 CFR 180.1119 
and 40 CFR 180.1291. Contact: BPPD.
    4. EPA Registration Number: 70310-11. Applicant: Agro Logistic 
Systems, Inc., P.O. Box 5799, Diamond Bar, CA 91765. Active ingredient: 
Neem Oil. Product type: Insecticide, Miticide, and Fungicide. FFDCA 
clearance: 40 CFR 180.1291. Contact: BPPD.
    5. EPA Registration Number: 84059-3. Applicant: Marrone Bio 
Innovations, D/B/A Marrone Bio Innovations, Inc., 1540 Drew Ave., 
Davis, CA 95618. Active ingredient: Extract of Reynoutria 
sachalinensis. Product type: Fungicide and Fungistat. FFDCA clearance: 
40 CFR 180.1259. Contact: BPPD.
    6. EPA Registration Number: 84059-28. Applicant: Marrone Bio 
Innovations, D/B/A Marrone Bio Innovations, Inc., 1540 Drew Ave., 
Davis, CA 95618. Active ingredient: Bacillus amyloliquefaciens strain 
F727. Product type: Fungicide. FFDCA clearance: 40 CFR 180.1347. 
Contact: BPPD.
    7. EPA Registration Number: 91865-1. Applicant: Hawthorne 
Hydroponics LLC, D/B/A General Hydroponics, 2877 Giffen Ave., Santa 
Rosa, CA 95407. Active ingredients: Soybean Oil, Garlic Oil, and 
Capsicum Oleoresin Extract. Product type: Insecticide and Repellent. 
FFDCA clearances: 40 CFR 180.950(c) and 40 CFR 180.1165. Contact: BPPD.
    8. EPA Registration Number: 91865-2. Applicant: Hawthorne 
Hydroponics LLC, D/B/A General Hydroponics, 2877 Giffen Ave., Santa 
Rosa, CA 95407. Active ingredient: Potassium Salts of Fatty Acids. 
Product type: Insecticide, Fungicide, and Miticide. FFDCA clearance: 40 
CFR 180.1068. Contact: RD.
    9. EPA Registration Number: 91865-3. Applicant: Hawthorne 
Hydroponics LLC, D/B/A General Hydroponics, 2877 Giffen Ave., Santa 
Rosa, CA 95407. Active ingredient: Bacillus amyloliquefaciens strain 
D747. Product type: Fungicide and Bactericide. FFDCA clearance: 40 CFR 
180.1308. Contact: BPPD.
    10. EPA Registration Number: 91865-4. Applicant: Hawthorne 
Hydroponics LLC, D/B/A General Hydroponics, 2877 Giffen Ave., Santa 
Rosa, CA 95407. Active ingredient: Azadirachtin. Product type: Insect 
Growth Regulator and Repellent. FFDCA clearance: 40 CFR 180.1119. 
Contact: BPPD.

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

    Dated: August 13, 2019.
Robert McNally,
Director, Biopesticides and Pollution Prevention Division, Office of 
Pesticide Programs.
[FR Doc. 2019-18151 Filed 8-22-19; 8:45 am]
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