[Federal Register Volume 73, Number 206 (Thursday, October 23, 2008)]
[Proposed Rules]
[Pages 63112-63113]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E8-25350]
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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY
40 CFR Parts 158 and 161
[EPA-HQ-OPP-2008-0110; FRL-8388-7]
Pesticides; Data Requirements for Antimicrobial Pesticides;
Notice of Public Workshop
AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
ACTION: Proposed rule; supplemental information about public workshop;
availability of web conference.
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SUMMARY: This notice provides supplemental information to the notice
published on October 10, 2008, that announced the scheduling of a
November 6, 2008, public workshop to explain the provisions of its
recently proposed rule to update and revise the data requirements for
registration of antimicrobial pesticides. EPA has arranged for a web
conference for those persons who cannot attend in-person the public
workshop. The workshop is intended to provide an opportunity for
members of the public to ask questions about the proposed rule and seek
any clarification they believe may assist them in submitting comments
to the docket for the proposed rule. Any person wishing to comment on
the proposed rule must submit any comments to the docket within the
timeframe set forth in the Notice of Proposed Rulemaking.
DATES: The meeting will be held on November 6, 2008, from 8:30 a.m. to
4 p.m.
To request accommodation of a disability, please contact the person
listed under FOR FURTHER INFORMATON CONTACT, preferably at least 10
days prior to the meeting, to give EPA as much time as possible to
process your request.
ADDRESSES: The meeting will be held at the Office of Pesticide Programs
(OPP), First Floor Conference Center, One Potomac Yard (South Bldg.),
2777 S. Crystal Dr., Arlington, VA 22202.
To facilitate the Agency's planning, your intention to participate
in the web conference for the Antimicrobials Workshop, may be submitted
to the person listed under FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT.
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FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Amaris Johnson, Field and External
Affairs Division, Office of Pesticide Programs, Environmental
Protection Agency, 1200 Pennsylvania Ave., NW., Washington, DC 20460-
0001; telephone number: (703) 305-9542; fax number: (703) 305-5884; e-
mail address:[email protected].
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
I. General Information
A. Does this Action Apply to Me?
You may be affected by this action if you are a producer of
pesticide products (NAICS 32532), antifoulants (NAICS 32551),
antimicrobial pesticides (NAICS 32561) or wood preservatives (NAICS
32519), importers of such products, or any person or company who seeks
to register an antimicrobial, antifoulant coating, ballast water
treatment, or wood preservative pesticide or to obtain a tolerance for
such a pesticide. 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 above 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, please contact Norm Cook, Chief of the Risk
Assessment and Science Support Branch in the Antimicrobials Division of
the Office of Pesticide Programs at (703) 308-8253 or via email,
[email protected].
B. How Can I Get Copies of this Document and Other Related Information?
1. Docket. EPA has established a docket for this action under
docket ID number EPA-HQ-OPP-2008-0110. Publicly available docket
materials are available either in the electronic docket athttp://www.regulations.gov, or, if only available in hard copy, at the Office
of Pesticide Programs (OPP) Regulatory Public Docket in Rm. S-4400, One
Potomac Yard (South Bldg.), 2777 S. Crystal Dr., Arlington, VA 22202.
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.
2. Electronic access. You may access this Federal Register document
electronically through the EPA Internet under the ``Federal Register''
listings athttp://www.epa.gov/fedrgstr.
II. Background
EPA is convening a public workshop to explain the proposed
revisions to the data requirements for the registration of
antimicrobial pesticides. Under the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and
Rodenticide Act (FIFRA) and the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act
(FFDCA), anyone seeking to register a pesticide product is required to
provide information to EPA to demonstrate that their products can be
used without posing ``unreasonable adverse effects on the environment''
as defined by FIFRA section 2(bb).
The public workshop will include presentations by staff from the
Antimicrobial, and the Field and External Affairs Divisions of the
Office of Pesticide Programs. The proposed revisions are directed at
antimicrobial pesticides, not conventional pesticides, biochemical and
microbial pesticides or product performance data requirements.
Nonetheless, all interested parties are welcome and may benefit from
the discussions since two areas not addressed in the conventional
pesticide (72 FR 60934, October 26, 2007) (FRL-8106-5), or biochemical
and microbial pesticide (72 FR 60988, October 26, 2007) (FRL-8109-8)
data requirements final rules are addressed in the antimicrobial data
requirements proposed rule. These two areas are: Down-the-drain data
requirements and the Program's use of structure-activity-relationship
(SAR).
During the workshop, persons in attendance will be able to ask
questions regarding the proposed rule and/or material being presented
and seek any clarification they believe may assist them in submitting
comments to the docket for the proposed rule. Any person wishing to
comment on the proposed rule must submit any comments to the docket
within the timeframe set forth in the Notice of Proposed Rulemaking.
The proposed revisions were issued in the Federal Register of
October 8, 2008 (73 FR 59382) (FRL-8358-2). A 90-day comment period
will end on January 6, 2008. The notice of the workshop was published
on October 10, 2008 (73 FR 60211) (FRL-8383-6). A limited number of
copies of the proposed rule will be available at the workshop.
Attendees are encouraged to access the electronic version of the
proposed rule from the regulations.gov website under Docket ID number
EPA-HQ-OPP-2008-0110.
The Agency has arranged for a web conference to serve as an
alternate means of participating in the workshop. You can join the web
conference starting at 8 a.m. on November 6, 2008. To access the web
conference go to http://portal.epa.gov/webconference, and complete the
Join Conference box on the right of the screen using the following
information: Conference ID: 309742 and Conference Key: 12345. Type in
your full name and then select: Join Conference. For the audio portion
call (866) 299-3188 and then use code 7033056304. Additional
information on web conferencing can be accessed from the
regulations.gov website under Docket ID number EPA-HQ-OPP-2008-0110.
List of Subjects
Environmental protection, Administrative practice and procedure,
Agricultural commodities, Pesticides and pests, Reporting and
recordkeeping requirements.
Dated: October 17, 2008.
Martha Monell,
Acting Director, Office of Pesticide Programs.
[FR Doc. E8-25350 Filed 10-22-08; 8:45 am]
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