[Federal Register: August 22, 2007 (Volume 72, Number 162)]
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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY
[EPA-HQ-OPP-2006-0936; FRL-8142-5]
Notice of Filing of Pesticide Petitions for Residues of Pesticide
Chemicals in or on Various Commodities
AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
ACTION: Notice.
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SUMMARY: This notice announces the initial filing of pesticide
petitions proposing the establishment or modification of regulations
for residues of pesticide chemicals in or on various commodities.
DATES: Comments must be received on or before September 21, 2007.
ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, identified by docket identification
(ID) number and the pesticide petition number (PP) of interest, by one
of the following methods:
Federal eRulemaking Portal: http://www.regulations.gov.
Follow the on-line instructions for submitting comments.
Mail: Office of Pesticide Programs (OPP) Regulatory Public
Docket (7502P), Environmental Protection Agency, 1200 Pennsylvania
Ave., NW., Washington, DC 20460-0001.
Delivery: OPP Regulatory Public Docket (7502P),
Environmental Protection Agency, Rm. S-4400, One Potomac Yard (South
Bldg.), 2777 S. Crystal Dr., Arlington, VA. Deliveries are only
accepted during the Docket's normal hours of operation (8:30 a.m. to 4
p.m., Monday through Friday, excluding legal holidays). Special
arrangements should be made for deliveries of boxed information. The
Docket Facility telephone number is (703) 305-5805.
Instructions: Direct your comments to the assigned docket ID number
and the pesticide petition number of interest. EPA's policy is that all
comments received will be included in the docket without change and may
be made available on-line at http://www.regulations.gov, including any
personal information provided, unless the comment includes information
claimed to be Confidential Business Information (CBI) or other
information whose disclosure is restricted by statute. Do not submit
information that you consider to be CBI or otherwise protected through
regulations.gov or e-mail. The regulations.gov website is an
``anonymous access'' system, which means EPA will not know your
identity or contact information unless you provide it in the body of
your comment. If you send an e-mail comment directly to EPA without
going through regulations.gov, your e-mail address will be
automatically captured and included as part of the comment that is
placed in the docket and made available on the Internet. If you submit
an electronic comment, EPA recommends that you include your name and
other contact information in the body of your comment and with any disk
or CD-ROM you submit. If EPA cannot read your comment due to technical
difficulties and cannot contact you for clarification, EPA may not be
able to consider your comment. Electronic files should avoid the use of
special characters, any form of encryption, and be free of any defects
or viruses.
Docket: All documents in the docket are listed in the docket index
available in regulations.gov. To access the electronic docket, go to
http://www.regulations.gov, select ``Advanced Search,'' then ``Docket
Search.'' Insert the docket ID number where indicated and select the
``Submit'' button. Follow the instructions on the regulations.gov
website to view the docket index or access available documents.
Although listed in the index, some information is not publicly
available, e.g., CBI or other information whose disclosure is
restricted by statute. Certain other material, such as copyrighted
material, is not placed on the Internet and will be publicly available
only in hard copy. Publicly available docket materials are available
electronically at http://www.regulations.gov, or, if only available in
hard copy, at the OPP Regulatory Public Docket in Rm. S-4400, One
Potomac Yard (South Bldg.), 2777 S. Crystal Dr., Arlington, VA. The
hours of operation of this Docket Facility are from 8:30 a.m. to 4
p.m., Monday through Friday, excluding legal holidays. The Docket
Facility telephone number is (703) 305-5805.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: The person listed at the end of the
pesticide petition summary of interest.
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.
Potentially affected entities may include, but are not limited to:
Crop production (NAICS code 111).
Animal production (NAICS code 112).
Food manufacturing (NAICS code 311).
Pesticide manufacturing (NAICS code 32532).
This listing is not intended to be exhaustive, but rather provides
a guide for readers regarding entities likely to be affected by this
action. Other types of entities not listed in this unit could also be
affected. The North American Industrial Classification System (NAICS)
codes have been provided to assist you and others in determining
whether this action might apply to certain entities. If you have any
questions regarding the applicability of this action to a particular
entity, consult the person listed at the end of the pesticide petition
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 e-mail. 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 submitting comments,
remember to:
i. Identify the document by docket ID number and other identifying
information (subject heading, Federal Register date and page number).
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ii. Follow directions. The Agency may ask you to respond to
specific questions or organize comments by referencing a Code of
Federal Regulations (CFR) part or section number.
iii. Explain why you agree or disagree; suggest alternatives and
substitute language for your requested changes.
iv. Describe any assumptions and provide any technical information
and/or data that you used.
v. If you estimate potential costs or burdens, explain how you
arrived at your estimate in sufficient detail to allow for it to be
reproduced.
vi. Provide specific examples to illustrate your concerns and
suggest alternatives.
vii. Explain your views as clearly as possible, avoiding the use of
profanity or personal threats.
viii. Make sure to submit your comments by the comment period
deadline identified.
II. Docket ID Numbers
When submitting comments, please use the docket ID number and the
pesticide petition number of interest, as shown in the table.
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PP Number Docket ID Number
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PP 6E7074 EPA-HQ-OPP-2007-0536
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PP 6E7120 EPA-HQ-OPP-2007-0541
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PP 6F7115 EPA-HQ-OPP-2007-0541
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PP 7E7213 EPA-HQ-OPP-2007-0472
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PP 7E7230 EPA-HQ-OPP-2007-0604
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PP 7E7233 EPA-HQ-OPP-2007-0555
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PP 6F7123 EPA-HQ-OPP-2007-0539
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PP 7F7171 EPA-HQ-OPP-2007-0539
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III. What Action is the Agency Taking?
EPA is printing notice of the filing of pesticide petitions
received under section 408 of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act
(FFDCA), 21 U.S.C. 346a, proposing the establishment or modification of
regulations in 40 CFR part 180 for residues of pesticide chemicals in
or on various food commodities. EPA has determined that the pesticide
petitions described in this notice contain data or information
regarding the elements set forth in FFDCA section 408(d)(2); however,
EPA has not fully evaluated the sufficiency of the submitted data at
this time or whether the data support granting of the pesticide
petitions. Additional data may be needed before EPA rules on these
pesticide petitions.
Pursuant to 40 CFR 180.7(f), a summary of each of the petitions
included in this notice, prepared by the petitioner, is included in a
docket EPA has created for each rulemaking. The docket for each of the
petitions is available on-line at http://www.regulations.gov.
New Tolerances
1. PP 6E7074. (EPA-HQ-OPP-2007-0536). Interregional Research
Project Number 4 (IR-4), 500 College Road East, Suite 201W, Princeton,
NJ 08540-6635, proposes to establish a tolerance for residues of the
fungicide fenarimol [alpha-(2-chlorophenyl)-alpha-(4-chlorophenyl)-5-
pyrimidinemethanol] in or on food commodity hop at 1.0 parts per
million (ppm). Analytical methodologies used for hop are slight
modifications of the basic pesticide analytical manual (PAM) II method
for fenarimol (method R039). Residues are extracted with methanol.
Aqueous sodium chloride (5%) is added and the extract is partitioned
with dichloromethane. Residues are cleaned up on a florisil or alumina
column and detected by gas chromatography with electron capture
detection (GC/ECD). In hop samples, method validation recoveries ranged
from 72% to 94%, and the limit of detection was 0.04 ppm. Contact:
Shaja R. Brothers, telephone number: (703) 308-3194; e-mail address:
brothers.shaja@epa.gov.
2. PP 6E7120 and 6F7115. (EPA-HQ-OPP-2007-0541). Syngenta Crop
Protection, Inc., P.O. Box 18300, Greensboro, NC 27419, proposes to
establish a tolerance for residues of the fungicide difenoconazole (1-
[2-[2-chloro-4-(4-chlorophenoxy)phenyl]-4-methyl-1,3-dioxolan-2-
ylmethyl]-1H-1,2,4-triazole) in or on food commodities fruit, pome,
group 11 at 0.6 ppm; vegetable, fruiting, group 8 at 0.5 ppm;
vegetables, tuberous and corm, subgroup 1C at 0.02 ppm; sugar beet
roots at 0.3 ppm; sugar beet tops at 7.0 ppm; and imported whole papaya
fruit at 0.3 ppm.
i. Food. Syngenta Crop Protection, Inc., has submitted a practical
analytical method (AG-575B, master record identification (MRID) 428065-
04) for detecting and measuring levels of difenoconazole in or on food
with a limit of quantitation (LOQ) that allows monitoring of food with
residues at or above the levels set in the proposed tolerances. EPA has
validated this method and copies have been provided to FDA for
insertion into PAM II. The method is available to anyone who is
interested, and may be obtained from the Field Operations Division,
Office of Pesticide Programs.
ii. Livestock. Syngenta Crop Protection, Inc., has submitted a
practical analytical method (AG-544A, MRID 432924-01) for detecting and
measuring levels of difenoconazole in or on cattle tissues, milk,
poultry tissues and eggs, with a LOQ that allows monitoring of food
with residues at or above the levels set in the proposed tolerances.
EPA has validated this method and copies have been provided to FDA for
insertion into PAM II. The method is available to anyone who is
interested, and may be obtained from the Field Operations Division,
Office of Pesticide Programs. Tolerances in meat, milk, poultry or eggs
were established for enforcement purposes. Contact: Janet Whitehurst,
telephone number: (703) 305-6129; e-mail address:
whitehurst.janet@epa.gov.
3. PP 7E7213. (EPA-HQ-OPP-2007-0472). Interregional Research
Project Number 4 (IR-4), 500 College Road East, Suite 201W, Princeton,
NJ 08540-6635, proposes to establish a tolerance for residues of the
herbicide thiobencarb in or on food commodity rice, wild at 0.2 ppm.
Adequate methods are available for enforcement and data collection
purposes for both plant and animal commodities. Successful
radiovalidation of the enforcement methods, using samples from the
metabolism studies, has also been conducted. Residues of thiobencarb
are completely recovered using multi-residue method section 302 (Luke
method; Protocol D), and variably recovered using method section 304
(Mills, Onley, Gaither method; fatty food). Contact: Shaja R. Brothers,
telephone number: (703) 308-3194; e-mail address:
brothers.shaja@epa.gov.
4. PP 7E7230. (EPA-HQ-OPP-2007-0604). Interregional Research
Project Number 4 (IR-4), 500 College Road East, Suite 201W, Princeton,
NJ 08540-6635, proposes to establish a tolerance for residues of the
herbicide dichlobenil, 2,6-dichlorobenzonitrile and its metabolite 2,6-
dichlorobenzamide in or on food commodities rhubarb at 0.15 ppm;
caneberry, subgroup 13A and wild raspberry at 0.1 ppm; and bushberry,
subgroup 13B; aronia berry; blueberry, lowbush; buffalo currant;
chilian guava; European barberry; highbush cranberry; honeysuckle;
jostaberry; Juneberry; lingonberry; native currant; salal; and sea
buckthorn at 0.15 ppm. Dichlobenil and 2,6-dichlorobenzamide (BAM) are
extracted with a solution of ethyl acetate in hexane. A cleanup system
utilizes an alumina column. Detection and quantitation are achieved by
a gas chromatograph equipped with an electron capture detector. The
lowest limit of method validation for dichlobenil and BAM is 0.05 and
0.01 ppm, respectively. Contact: Susan
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Stanton, telephone number: (703) 305-5218; e-mail address:
stanton.susan@epa.gov.
5. PP 7E7233. (EPA-HQ-OPP-2007-0555). Syngenta Crop Protection,
Inc., P.O. Box 18300, Greensboro, NC 27419, proposes to establish a
tolerance for residues of the inert safener, cloquintocet-mexyl,
(acetic acid, [(5-chloro-8-quniolinyl)oxy]-, 1-methylhexyl ester) (CAS
Reg. No. 99607-70-2) and its acid metabolite (5-chloro-8-
quinlinoxyacetic acid, also known as Syngenta Code CGA-153433)] when
used as an inert ingredient (safener) in pesticide formulations
containing either the herbicide clodinafop-propargyl or pinoxaden in a
1:4 ratio of safener to active ingredient in or on food commodities
wheat, forage at 0.20 ppm and wheat, hay at 0.50 ppm. Syngenta Crop
Protection, Inc., has submitted practical analytical methodology for
detecting and measuring combined levels of cloquintocet-mexyl and its
acid metabolite (5-chloro-8-quinlinoxyacetic acid). The method is based
upon acid hydrolysis extraction, which converts the parent and all
conjugates to the acid metabolite. The acid metabolite is subject to
commodity specific cleanup procedures and high performance liquid
chromatography (HPLC) determination with triple stage quadruple mass
spectrometry (LC/MS/MS). The LOQ as demonstrated by the lowest
acceptable recovery samples, is 0.01 ppm for grain, and 0.02 ppm for
forage, hay and straw. Contact: Tracy H. Ward, telephone number: (703)
308-9361; e-mail address: ward.tracyH@epa.gov.
6. PP 6F7123 and 7F7171. (EPA-HQ-OPP-2007-0539). Bayer CropScience,
P.O. Box 12014, 2 T. W. Alexander Drive, Research Triangle Park, NC
27709, proposes to establish a tolerance for residues of the fungicide
trifloxystrobin and the free form of its acid metabolite (CGA- 32113)
in or on food commodities in PP 6F7123: Fruit, citrus, group 10 at 0.4
ppm; citrus, oil at 36.0 ppm; citrus, dry pulp at 1.0 ppm; and in PP
7F7171: Strawberry at 1.1 ppm. A practical analytical methodology for
detecting and measuring levels of trifloxystrobin in or on raw
agricultural commodities has been submitted. The limit of detection
(LOD) for each analyte of this method is 0.08 ng injected, and the LOQ
is 0.02 ppm. The method is based on crop specific cleanup procedures
and determination by gas chromatography with nitrogen-phosphorus
detection. Contact: Janet Whitehurst, telephone number: (703) 305-6129;
e-mail address: whitehurst.janet@epa.gov.
List of Subjects
Environmental protection, Agricultural commodities, Feed additives,
Food additives, Pesticides and pests, Reporting and recordkeeping
requirements.
Dated: August 14, 2007.
Lois Rossi,
Director, Registration Division, Office of Pesticide Programs.
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