[Federal Register Volume 90, Number 65 (Monday, April 7, 2025)]
[Proposed Rules]
[Pages 14954-14955]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2025-05915]
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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY
40 CFR Parts 174 and 180
[EPA-HQ-OPP-2025-0028; FRL-12474-01-OCSPP]
Receipt of Pesticide Petitions Filed for Residues of Pesticide
Chemicals in or on Various Commodities--January 2025
AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
ACTION: Filing of petitions and request for comment.
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SUMMARY: This document announces the Agency's receipt of initial
filings of pesticide petitions requesting the establishment or
modification of regulations for residues of pesticide chemicals in or
on various commodities. EPA is hereby providing notice of receipt and
opportunity to comment on these petitions.
DATES: Comments must be received on or before May 7, 2025.
ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, identified by docket identification
(ID) number and the pesticide petition (PP) of interest identified in
Unit II. of this document, online at https://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. Additional instructions on commenting and visiting the
docket, along with more information about dockets generally, is
available at https://www.epa.gov/dockets.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Each application summary in Unit II.
specifies a contact division. The appropriate division contacts are
identified as follows:
BPPD (Biopesticides and Pollution Prevention Division)
(Mail Code 7511M); Madison Le; main telephone number: (202) 566-1400;
email address: [email protected].
RD (Registration Division) (Mail Code 7505T); Charles
Smith; main telephone number: (202) 566-1030; email address:
[email protected].
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
I. Executive Summary
A. Does this action apply to me?
This action provides information that is directed to the public in
general.
B. What is the Agency's authority for taking this action?
EPA regulations for residues of pesticide chemicals in or on
various food commodities are established under section 408 of the
Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (FFDCA), 21 U.S.C. 346a. FFDCA
section 408(d)(3), 21 U.S.C. 346a(d)(3), requires EPA to publish a
notice of receipt of these petitions in the Federal Register and
provide an opportunity for public comment on the requests.
C. What action is the Agency taking?
As specified in FFDCA section 408(d)(3), 21 U.S.C. 346a(d)(3), EPA
is publishing notice of the receipt of pesticide petitions filed under
FFDCA section 408 that request the establishment or modification of
regulations for residues of pesticide chemicals in or on various food
commodities. The Agency is taking public comment on the requests before
responding to the petitioner. Pursuant to 40 CFR 180.7(f), a summary of
the petition identified in this document, prepared by the petitioner,
is included in a docket. EPA has determined that the pesticide
petitions described in this document contain data or information
prescribed in FFDCA section 408(d)(2), 21 U.S.C. 346a(d)(2), and 40 CFR
180.7(b); however, EPA has not fully evaluated the sufficiency of the
submitted data at this time or whether the data supports granting the
pesticide petitions. After considering the public comments, EPA intends
to evaluate whether and what action may be warranted. Additional data
may be needed before EPA can make a final determination on these
pesticide petitions.
Based upon review of the data supporting these petitions and in
accordance with its authority under FFDCA section 408(d)(4)(A)(i), EPA
may establish a final tolerance or tolerance exemption that ``may vary
from that sought by the petitioner.'' For example, EPA may determine
that it is appropriate to vary the commodity name for consistency with
EPA's Food and Feed Commodity Vocabulary, which is located here https://www.epa.gov/pesticide-tolerances/food-and-feed-commodity-vocabulary,
or vary the tolerance level based on available data, harmonization
interests, or the trailing zeros policy. In addition, when evaluating a
petition's requests for a tolerance or exemption, EPA will consider how
use of the pesticide on a crop for which a tolerance is requested may
result in residues in or on commodities related to that requested
commodity (e.g., whether use on sugar beets for which a tolerance was
requested on sugar beet root also requires a tolerance on sugar beet
tops or whether use on a cereal grain for which a grain tolerance was
requested also requires a tolerance on related animal feed commodities
derived from that cereal grain). Public commenters should consider the
possibility of such revisions in preparing comments on these petitions.
D. What should I consider as I prepare my comments for EPA?
1. Submitting CBI. Do not submit CBI to EPA through https://www.regulations.gov or email. If you wish to include CBI in your
comment, please follow the applicable instructions at https://www.epa.gov/dockets/commenting-epa-dockets#rules and clearly mark the
information that you claim to be CBI. In addition to one complete
version of the comment that
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includes CBI, a copy of the comment without CBI must be submitted for
inclusion in the public docket. Information marked as CBI 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 https://www.epa.gov/dockets/commenting-epa-dockets.
II. Petitions Received
This unit provides the following information about the petitions
received during this period: The Pesticide Petition (PP) Identification
(IN) number; EPA docket ID number for the petition; Information about
the petition (i.e., name of the petitioner, name of the pesticide
chemical residue and the commodities for which a tolerance or exemption
is sought); The analytical method available to detect and measure the
pesticide chemical residue or the petitioner's statement about why such
a method is not needed; and the division to contact for that petition.
Additional information on the petitions may be obtained through the
petition summaries that were prepared by the petitioners pursuant to 21
U.S.C. 346a(d)(2)(A)(i)(I) and 40 CFR 180.7(b)(1), which are included
in the related docket for the petition as identified in this unit.
Notice of Filing--Amended Tolerances for Non-Inerts
PP 4F9136. (EPA-HQ-OPP-2024-0323). BASF Corporation, 26
Davis Drive, P.O. Box 13528, Research Triangle Park, NC 27709, requests
to amend the existing commodity definitions in 40 CFR 180.649(a)(1) for
residues of the herbicide saflufenacil, including its metabolites and
degradates, in or on ``Grain, cereal, forage, hay, stover, and straw
group 16-22, forage, except corn, field, forage'' to ``Grain, cereal,
forage, hay, stover, and straw group 16, forage, except corn, field,
pop and sweet, forage''; ``Grain, cereal, forage, hay, stover, and
straw group 16-22, hay'' to ``Grain, cereal, forage, hay, stover, and
straw group 16, hay''; ``Grain, cereal, forage, hay, stover, and straw
group 16-22, stover, except corn, field, stover'' to ``Grain, cereal,
forage, hay, stover, and straw group 16, stover, except corn, field,
pop, and sweet, stover''; and ``Grain, cereal, forage, hay, stover, and
straw group 16-22, straw, except barley, chia, and wheat, straw'' to
``Grain, cereal, forage, hay, stover, and straw group 16, straw, except
barley, chia, and wheat, straw'' unchanged at 0.1 parts per million
(ppm); and ``Vegetable, foliage of legume, group 7 (except pea, hay)''
to ``Vegetable, foliage of legume, group 7 (except pea, hay, soybean,
forage, and soybean, hay)'' unchanged at 0.10 ppm. Adequate enforcement
methodology (liquid chromatography/mass spectrometry/mass spectrometry
(LC/MS/MS)) methods for plant and livestock commodities are available
to enforce the tolerance expression. Contact: RD.
Notice of Filing--New Tolerance Exemptions for PIPS
PP 4F9142. (EPA-HQ-OPP-2025-0047). Syngenta Seeds, LLC.--
Field Crops--NAFTA, 9 Davis Drive, Research Triangle Park, NC 27709,
requests to establish an exemption from the requirement of a tolerance
in 40 CFR part 174 for residues of the insecticidal plant-incorporated
protectant (PIP) Bacillus thuringiensis eCry1Gb.1Ig protein and the
genetic material (vector pSYN24795) necessary for its production in
MZIR260 Corn (SYN-[Oslash][Oslash]260[Oslash]-3) in or on corn, field;
corn, sweet; and corn, pop. The petitioner believes no analytical
method is needed because this petition is an exemption from the
requirement of a tolerance without numerical limitation. Contact: BPPD.
Authority: 21 U.S.C. 346a.
Dated: February 27, 2025.
Kimberly Smith,
Acting Director, Information Technology and Resources Management
Division, Office of Program Support.
[FR Doc. 2025-05915 Filed 4-4-25; 8:45 am]
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