[Federal Register Volume 82, Number 67 (Monday, April 10, 2017)]
[Notices]
[Pages 17258-17260]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2017-07136]
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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY
[EPA-HQ-OPP-2017-0069; FRL-9959-67]
Notice of Receipt of Requests to Voluntarily Cancel Certain
Pesticide Registrations
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 registrants to voluntarily cancel certain pesticide registrations.
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 registrations have been
cancelled 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 October 10, 2017.
ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, identified by docket identification
(ID) number EPA-HQ-OPP-2017-0069, 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)
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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: 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. The affected products and the
registrants making the requests are identified in Tables 1-2 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 in the Federal
Register canceling the affected registrations.
Table 1--Registrations With Pending Requests for Cancellation
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Registration No. Company No. Product name Active ingredient
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42750-78................................ 42750 Picloram Acid Technical... Picloram.
42750-183............................... 42750 Picloram Acid Technical... Picloram.
66171-1................................. 66171 Advantage 256............. 2-Benzyl-4-chlorophenol; 4-
tert-Amylphenol; & o-
Phenylphenol (NO INERT
USE).
66171-2................................. 66171 Advantage 128............. 2-Benzyl-4-chlorophenol; 4-
tert-Amylphenol; & o-
Phenylphenol (NO INERT
USE).
OR-990007............................... 62719 Kerb 50W Herbicide in WSP. Propyzamide.
WA-060002............................... 62719 Kerb 50-W................. Propyzamide.
WA-960004............................... 279 Fyfanon ULV AG............ Malathion (NO INERT USE).
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Table 2 of this unit includes the names and addresses of record for
all registrants of the products in Table 1 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 of this
unit.
Table 2--Registrants Requesting Voluntary Cancellation
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EPA company No. Company name and address
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279............................... FMC Corporation, 2929 Walnut Street,
Philadelphia, PA 19104.
42750............................. Albaugh, LLC, P.O. Box 2127,
Valdosta, GA 31604-2127.
62719............................. Dow AgroSciences, LLC, 9330
Zionsville Rd. 308/2E,
Indianapolis, IN 46268-1054.
66171............................. Preserve International, 944 Nandino
Blvd., Lexington, KY 40511.
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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. 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
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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 2 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 Request
Registrants who choose to withdraw a request for product
cancellation 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 action, the effective date of
cancellation and all other provisions of any earlier cancellation
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
cancellation action. If the requests for voluntary cancellation 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 EPA proposes to include the following
provisions for the treatment of any existing stocks of the products
listed in Table 1 of Unit II.
For voluntary product cancellations, 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.
Persons other than registrants will generally be allowed to sell,
distribute, or use existing stocks until such stocks 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.
Authority: 7 U.S.C. 136 et seq.
Dated: March 2, 2017.
Delores Barber,
Director, Information Technology and Resources Management Division,
Office of Pesticide Programs.
[FR Doc. 2017-07136 Filed 4-7-17; 8:45 am]
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