[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.
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