[Federal Register: July 22, 2009 (Volume 74, Number 139)]
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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY
[EPA-HQ-OPP-2009-0503; FRL-8427-2]
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 section 6(f)(1) of the Federal Insecticide,
Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA), as amended, EPA is issuing a
notice of receipt of requests by registrants to voluntarily cancel
their registrations of products containing the pesticides disulfoton
and methamidophos. The requests would terminate the last disulfoton and
methamidophos 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 registrants withdraw their requests within this
period. Upon acceptance of these requests, any sale, distribution, or
use of products listed in this notice will be permitted 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 August 21, 2009.
ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, identified by docket identification
(ID) number: Disulfoton - EPA-HQ-OPP-2009-0054; Methamidophos - EPA-HQ-
OPP-2008-0842, 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 Facility'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 docket ID number EPA-HQ-OPP-
2009-0054 for disulfoton and to docket ID number EPA-HQ-OPP-2009-0842
for methamidophos. 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 at http://www.regulations.gov. 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 form. Publicly
available docket materials are available either in the electronic
docket 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
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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:
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Office location
Product Manager Pesticide for mail and Telephone Number Email Address
Special Courier
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Eric Olson Methamidophos Special Review and (703) 308-8067 olson.eric@epa.gov
Registration
Division, Office
of Pesticide
Programs,
Environmental
Protection Agency
1200 Pennsylvania
Ave., NW.,.
Washington, DC
20460-0001.
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Eric Miederhoff Disulfoton Special Review and (703) 347-8028 miederhoff.eric@ep
Registration a.gov
Division, Office
of Pesticide
Programs,
Environmental
Protection Agency
1200 Pennsylvania
Ave., NW.,.
Washington, DC
20460-0001.
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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. If you have any questions regarding the
applicability of this action to a particular entity, consult the person
listed under FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT.
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).
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. Background on the Receipt of Requests to Cancel Registrations
This notice announces receipt by EPA of requests from registrants
Bayer CropScience, Bayer Environmental Science, Bayer Advanced (these
registrants are collectively referred to henceforth as ``Bayer''), and
Amvac Chemical to cancel six disulfoton Section-3 product
registrations, five methamidophos Section-3 product registrations,
thirteen disulfoton Special Local Need registrations, and seventeen
methamidophos Special Local Need registrations. Disulfoton is an
organophosphate insecticide registered for use on asparagus, beans,
broccoli, Brussels sprouts, cabbage, cauliflower, cotton, coffee beans,
lettuce, radish grown for seed, Christmas trees, Easter lilies, and
residential ornamentals. Methamidophos is an organophosphate
insecticide registered for the control of a broad spectrum of insects
on cotton, potato, tomato, and alfalfa grown for seed. Bayer will amend
its product registrations by terminating the use of methamidophos on
cotton as of September 30, 2009. Existing stocks labeled for use on
cotton may be sold and distributed by persons other than the registrant
until July 31, 2010. Existing stocks labeled for use on cotton may be
used until September 30, 2010, provided that such use complies with the
EPA-approved label and labeling of the product.
In letters dated June 16, 2009 and June 18, 2009, Bayer requested
EPA cancel its remaining methamidophos and disulfoton pesticide product
registrations identified in Table 1 of this notice. In a letter dated
May 5, 2009, Amvac Chemical Corp. requested EPA cancel its disulfoton
pesticide product registration identified in Table 1 of this notice.
Cancelling these pesticide products will result in the termination of
all remaining disulfoton and methamidophos products registered for use
in the United States.
III. What Action is the Agency Taking?
This notice announces receipt by EPA of requests from registrants
to cancel disulfoton and methamidophos product registrations. The
affected products and the registrants making the requests are
identified in Tables 1 and 2 of this unit.
Under section 6(f)(1)(A) of FIFRA, registrants may request, at any
time, that their pesticide registrations be canceled or amended to
terminate one or more pesticide uses. Section 6(f)(1)(B) of FIFRA
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, section
6(f)(1)(C) of FIFRA 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 Administrator determines that continued use of the pesticide
would pose an unreasonable adverse effect on the environment.
The disulfoton and methamidophos registrants have requested that
EPA waive the 180-day comment period. EPA will provide a 30-day comment
period on the proposed requests.
Unless a request is withdrawn by the registrant within 30-days of
publication of this notice, or if the Agency determines that there are
substantive comments that warrant further review of this request, an
order will be issued canceling the affected registrations.
Table 1.--Disulfoton and Methamidophos Product Registrations with
Pending Requests for Cancellation
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Registration Number Product Name Active Ingredient
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264-723 Di-Syston 15% Disulfoton
Granular
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264-725 Disulfoton Disulfoton
Technical
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264-729 Monitor 4 Methamidophos
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264-734 Disulfoton 8 Disulfoton
Emulsifiable
Systemic
Insecticide
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264-741 Monitor Technical Methamidophos
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264-744 Monitor 60% Methamidophos
Concentrate
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264-1020 Monitor 4 Spray Methamidophos
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264-1021 Valent Monitor Methamidophos
Technical
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432-1286 Systemic 2 in 1 Disulfoton
Rose Care 10-10-
10 Rose Food with
Insecticide
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5481-8989 Terraclor Super-X Disulfoton
Soil Fungicide
With Di-Syston
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72155-49 Flower Rose and Disulfoton
Shrub Care
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AR970004 Monitor 4 Methamidophos
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CA050010 Di- Syston 8 Disulfoton
Emulsifiable
Systemic
Insecticide
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CA780163 Monitor 4 Methamidophos
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CA810044 Di- Syston 8 Disulfoton
Emulsifiable
Systemic
Insecticide
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CA840192 Di- Syston 8 Disulfoton
Emulsifiable
Systemic
Insecticide
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CA980013 Monitor 4 Methamidophos
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DE910002 Monitor 4 Methamidophos
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FL800046 Monitor 4 Methamidophos
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FL900003 Monitor 4 Methamidophos
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GA900001 Monitor 4 Methamidophos
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IN790001 Monitor 4 Methamidophos
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LA040011 Monitor 4 Liquid Methamidophos
Insecticide
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MD910009 Monitor 4 Methamidophos
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MI060002 Di- Syston 8 Disulfoton
Emulsifiable
Systemic
Insecticide
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NC860005 Di- Syston 8 Disulfoton
Emulsifiable
Systemic
Insecticide
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NC880001 Di-Syston 15% Disulfoton
Granular
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NC890007 Monitor 4 Methamidophos
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NC920011 Di-Syston 15% Disulfoton
Granular
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NJ960010 Monitor 4 Methamidophos
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OH790008 Monitor 4 Methamidophos
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OR040030 Di- Syston 8 Disulfoton
Emulsifiable
Systemic
Disulfoton
Insecticide
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OR050024 Di-Syston Disulfoton
Disulfoton 8
Emulsifiable
Systemic
Insecticide
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SC780007 Monitor 4 Liquid Methamidophos
Insecticide
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TN060002 Monitor 4 Liquid Methamidophos
Insecticide
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TX910016 Monitor 4 Methamidophos
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VA910005 Monitor 4 Methamidophos
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TX860007 Di-Syston 8 Disulfoton
Emulsifiable
Systemic
Insecticide
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WA040015 Di-Syston 8 Disulfoton
Emulsifiable
Systemic
Insecticide
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WA040028 Di-Syston 15% Disulfoton
Granular
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WA920026 Di-Syston 8 Disulfoton
Emulsifiable
Systemic
Insecticide
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Table 2 of this unit includes the names and addresses on record for
the registrants of the products listed in Table 1 of this unit.
Table 2.--Registrants Requesting Voluntary Cancellation
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EPA Company Number Company Name and Address
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264 Bayer CropScience,
2 T.W. Alexander Drive
Research Triangle Park,
North Carolina 27709
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432 Bayer Environmental Science,
2 T.W. Alexander Drive
PO Box 12014,
Research Triangle Park,
North Carolina 27709
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5481 Amvac Corporation
4695 Macarthur Court, Suite
1250,
Newport Beach, California
92660-1706
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72155 Bayer Advanced
2 T.W. Alexander Drive,
PO Box 12014,
Research Triangle Park,
North Carolina 27709
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IV. What is the Agency's Authority for Taking this Action?
Section 6(f)(1) of FIFRA 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. Thereafter,
following the public comment period, the Administrator may approve such
a request.
V. Procedures for Withdrawal of Request and Considerations for
Reregistration of Disulfoton and Methamidophos
Registrants who choose to withdraw a request for cancellation must
submit such withdrawal in writing to the person listed under FOR
FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT, postmarked before August 21, 2009. This
written withdrawal of the request for cancellation will apply only to
the applicable FIFRA section 6(f)(1) request listed in this notice. 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
which are currently in the United States and which were packaged,
labeled, and released for shipment prior to the effective date of the
cancellation action.
In any order issued in response to these requests for cancellation
of disulfoton and methamidophos product registrations, EPA proposes to
include the following provisions for the treatment of any existing
stocks of the products identified or referenced in Table 1 or 2 in Unit
III:
Bayer may sell and distribute such existing stocks for
registrations 264-725, 264-729, 264-734, 264-741, 264-744, 264-1020,
264-1021, and 432-1286 until December 31, 2010. Bayer may sell and
distribute such existing stocks for registration 264-723 and 72155-49
until June 30, 2011. Amvac Chemical Corp. may sell and distribute such
existing stocks for registration 5481-8989 until December 31, 2010.
If the request for voluntary cancellation is granted as discussed
in this unit, the Agency intends to issue a cancellation order that
will allow persons other than the registrant to continue to sell and/or
use existing stocks of canceled products until such stocks are
exhausted, provided that such use is consistent with the terms of the
previously approved labeling on, or that accompanied, the canceled
product. The order will specifically prohibit any use of existing
stocks that is not consistent with such previously approved labeling.
If, as the Agency currently intends, the final cancellation order
contains the existing stocks provision just described, the order will
be sent only to the affected registrants of the canceled products. If
the Agency determines that the final cancellation order should contain
existing stocks provisions different than the ones just described,
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the Agency will publish the cancellation order in the Federal Register.
List of Subjects
Environmental protection, Pesticides and pests.
Dated: July 10, 2009.
R. McNally,
Acting Director, Special Review and Reregistration Division, Office of
Pesticide Programs.
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