[Federal Register Volume 83, Number 115 (Thursday, June 14, 2018)]
[Notices]
[Pages 27765-27766]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2018-12815]
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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY
[EPA-HQ-OPP-2015-0769; FRL-9978-37]
Difenacoum; 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 the registrant to voluntarily cancel its registrations of products
containing the pesticide difenacoum. The requests would terminate the
last difenacoum products registered for use in the United States. 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 registrant withdraws its requests. If these
requests are granted, any sale, distribution, or use of products listed
in this notice will be permitted after the registration has 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 July 16, 2018.
ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, identified by docket identification
(ID) number EPA-HQ-OPP-2015-0769, 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: Julie Javier, Pesticide Re-Evaluation
Division (7508P), Office of Pesticide Programs, Environmental
Protection Agency, 1200 Pennsylvania Ave. NW, Washington, DC 20460-
0001; telephone number: (703) 347-0790; 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. Background on the Receipt of Requests To Cancel Registrations
This notice announces receipt by EPA of requests from registrant
Woodstream Corporation to cancel all their difenacoum product
registrations. Difenacoum is a second generation anticoagulant
rodenticide used in and around homes, buildings, and in commercial
transportation vehicles. It is formulated as ready-to-use pelleted bait
to control rats and mice. In letters dated October 19, 2017 and April
4, 2018, Woodstream Corporation requested EPA to cancel the pesticide
product registrations identified in Table 1 of Unit III. They also
requested that the timeframe for the existing stocks provisions be two
years from the date of the 90-day response to the GDCI, i.e., to
October 18, 2019. (The 90-day response to the DCI is dated October 19,
2017, where the registrant requested to cancel EPA Registration Nos.
36488-66 and 47629-12. They followed this up with a request dated April
4, 2018, to cancel the rest of the registrations identified in Table 1
of Unit III.) The registrant does not expect any significant adverse
effects to public health or the environment as a result. The
registrant's request will terminate the last difenacoum products
registered in the United States.
III. What action is the Agency taking?
This notice announces receipt by EPA of requests from a registrant
to cancel all difenacoum product registrations. The affected products
and the registrant making the requests are identified in Tables 1 and 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 canceling the
affected registrations.
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Table 1--Difenacoum Product Registrations With Pending Requests for Cancellation
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Registration No. Product name Company
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36488-63........................... Difenacoum Rat and Mouse Block Woodstream Corporation.
IV.
36488-64........................... Difenacoum Rat and Mouse Place Woodstream Corporation.
Packs IV.
36488-65........................... Difenacoum Rat and Mouse Woodstream Corporation.
Pellets IV.
36488-66........................... Technical Difenacoum.......... Woodstream Corporation.
47629-12........................... Difenacoum Technical.......... Woodstream Corporation.
47629-14........................... Difenacoum Rat and Mouse Woodstream Corporation.
Pellets.
47629-16........................... Difenacoum Rat and Mouse Block Woodstream Corporation.
47629-17........................... Difenacoum Rat and Mouse Place Woodstream Corporation.
Packs.
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Table 2 of this unit includes the names and addresses of record for
the registrant of the products listed 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 and/or Amendments
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EPA Company No. Company name and address
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36488............................. Woodstream Corporation, 69 N Locust
St., P.O. Box 327, Lititz, PA
17543.
47629............................. Woodstream Corporation, 69 N Locust
St., P.O. Box 327, Lititz, PA
17543.
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IV. 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.
Since difenacoum is not registered for minor agricultural use, the
provision for a 180-day comment period does not apply. Accordingly, EPA
will provide a 30-day comment period on the proposed requests.
V. Procedures for Withdrawal of Requests
Registrants who choose to withdraw a request for product
cancellation or use deletion 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.
VI. 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 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 III.
For these voluntary product cancellations, the registrant will be
permitted to sell and distribute existing stocks of voluntarily
canceled products until October 18, 2019, which is two years from the
date of the 90-day response to the GDCI, as requested by the
registrant. Thereafter, the registrant will be prohibited from selling
or distributing the products identified in Table 1 of Unit III., except
for export consistent with FIFRA section 17 (7 U.S.C. 136o) or for
proper disposal.
Persons other than the registrant may sell, distribute, or use
existing stocks of canceled products 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.
Authority: 7 U.S.C. 136 et seq.
Dated: June 4, 2018.
Yu-Ting Guilaran,
Director, Pesticide Re-Evaluation Division, Office of Pesticide
Programs.
[FR Doc. 2018-12815 Filed 6-13-18; 8:45 am]
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