[Federal Register Volume 74, Number 59 (Monday, March 30, 2009)]
[Notices]
[Pages 14122-14125]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E9-7043]
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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY
[EPA-HQ-OPP-2009-0123; FRL-8405-9]
Pentachloronitrobenzene (PCNB); Notice of Receipt of Requests to
Amend Registrations to Terminate Uses of 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 the registrants to voluntarily amend
their registrations to terminate uses of certain products containing
the pesticide pentachloronitrobenzene, or PCNB. The requests would
terminate PCNB use on golf course roughs (i.e., use on golf courses
will be limited to tees, greens, and fairways); residential sites
including lawns, yards, and ornamental plants and gardens around homes
and apartments; grounds around day care facilities; school yards; parks
(except industrial parks); playgrounds; and athletic fields (except
professional and college fields). The requests would not terminate the
last PCNB 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.
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DATES: Comments must be received on or before April 29, 2009.
ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, identified by docket identification
(ID) number EPA-HQ-OPP-2009-0123, 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-
2009-0123. 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 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: Jill Bloom, Special Review and
Reregistration Division (7508P), Office of Pesticide Programs,
Environmental Protection Agency, 1200 Pennsylvania Ave., NW.,
Washington, DC 20460-0001; telephone number: (703) 308-8019; fax
number: (703) 308-7070; e-mail 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. 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 Amend Registrations to
Delete Uses
This notice announces receipt by EPA of requests from the
registrants, Amvac Chemical Corporation and Chemtura Corporation, to
amend 31 PCNB product registrations to terminate certain uses. PCNB is
a fungicide used to control diseases of turf, ornamentals, cole crops,
potatoes, cotton, and other agricultural and horticultural crops. In
letters dated February 10, 2009, Amvac and Chemtura each requested that
EPA amend the pesticide product registrations identified in this notice
to terminate certain uses. Specifically, Amvac and Chemtura requested
the termination of the uses of PCNB on golf course roughs; residential
sites including lawns, yards, and ornamental plants and gardens around
homes and apartments; grounds around day care facilities; school yards;
parks (except industrial parks); playgrounds; and athletic fields
(except professional and college fields). The registrants' requests
will not terminate the last PCNB products registered in the United
States for these uses. The Amvac and Chemtura products include
manufacturing-use products from which
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other U.S.-registered PCNB products are formulated; after the relevant
existing stocks provisions have expired, end-use products formulated
from those manufacturing-use products must bear labeling consistent
with the revised labeling on the Amvac and Chemtura products.
III. What Action is the Agency Taking?
This notice announces receipt by EPA of requests from the
registrants to amend certain PCNB product registrations to terminate
the uses detailed in Unit II. 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 for minor
uses, or
2. The Administrator determines that continued use of the pesticide
would pose an unreasonable adverse effect on the environment.
The PCNB 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 amending the affected registrations.
Table 1.--PCNB Product Registrations with Pending Requests for Amendment
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Registration Number Product Name Product Type Company
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400-399 Terraclor 75W Wettable End-use Chemtura Corporation
Powder
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400-401 Terraclor Technical Manufacturing-use Chemtura Corporation
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400-402 Terraclor 10% Granular, End-use Chemtura Corporation
Revere 10% Granular
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400-403 Greenback Lawn End-use Chemtura Corporation
Fungicide
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400-404 Turfcide Emulsifiable End-use Chemtura Corporation
Fungicide
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400-407 Turfcide 10% Granular End-use Chemtura Corporation
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400-414 Terraclor 90% Dust Manufacturing-use Chemtura Corporation
Concentrate
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400-453 Terraclor Flowable End-use Chemtura Corporation
Fungicide
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400-454 Turfcide 4F, Turfcide End-use Chemtura Corporation
400, Terraclor 400,
Revere 4,000
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400-457 Turfcide 15G End-use Chemtura Corporation
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400-458 Terraclor 15G End-use Chemtura Corporation
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400-459 Terrazan PCNB Technical Manufacturing-use Chemtura Corporation
99%
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400-460 Terrazan 24% End-use Chemtura Corporation
Emulsifiable
Concentrate
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400-479 Turfcide WDG End-use Chemtura Corporation
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400-504 Terraclor Tech 96 Manufacturing-use Chemtura Corporation
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5481-197 Technical Grade PCNB Manufacturing-use Amvac Chemical
95% Corporation
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5481-211 PCNB 10% Granules Soil End-use Amvac Chemical
Fungicide Corporation
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5481-214 PCNB Soil & Turf Liquid End-use Amvac Chemical
Drench Corporation
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5481-279 PCNB 75% Wettable End-use Amvac Chemical
Powder Corporation
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5481-419 PCNB 75W Turf and End-use Amvac Chemical
Ornamental Soil Corporation
Fungicide
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5481-438 80% PCNB Manufacturing-use Amvac Chemical
Corporation
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5481-441 PCNB 75 DG End-use Amvac Chemical
Corporation
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5481-443 PCNB 2 Flowable Turf & End-use Amvac Chemical
Ornamental Soil Corporation
Fungicide
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5481-444 PCNB 10 G Turf & End-use Amvac Chemical
Ornamental Soil Corporation
Fungicide
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5481-450 PCNB 20% WDG Soil End-use Amvac Chemical
Fungicide Corporation
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5481-453 PCNB 75 WSP End-use Amvac Chemical
Corporation
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5481-457 Turfpro WSP Turf & End-use Amvac Chemical
Ornamental Soil Corporation
Fungicide
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5481-464 Par-Flo 6F End-use Amvac Chemical
Corporation
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5481-465 Par-Flo End-use Amvac Chemical
Corporation
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5481-471 Win-Flo 6F End-use Amvac Chemical
Corporation
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5481-472 Win-Flo End-use Amvac Chemical
Corporation
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Table 2 of this unit includes the names and addresses of record for
the registrants 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 Number Company Name and Address
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400 Chemtura Chemical
Corporation, 1995 Benson
Road, Middlebury, CT 06749
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5481 Amvac Chemical Corporation,
4695 MacArthur Court, Suite
1250, Newport Beach, CA
92660
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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
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 April 29, 2009. This
written withdrawal of the request for cancellation will apply only to
the applicable FIFRA section 6(f)(1) requests 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 amendments to
terminate uses, the Agency proposes to include the following provisions
for the treatment of any existing stocks of the products identified or
referenced in Table 1 in Unit III.
Amvac Corporation and Chemtura Chemical Corporation will be
permitted to sell or distribute existing stocks of the manufacturing-
use products referenced in Table 1 of Unit III. with labels that are
not revised per their request as described in Unit III. (i.e.,
``previously approved labeling''), until 6 months after the effective
date of cancellation. Persons other than Amvac Corporation or Chemtura
Chemical Corporation may continue to use existing stocks of the
manufacturing-use products referenced in Table 1 of Unit III. with
previously approved labeling, for formulation into end-use products
until 18 months after the effective date of cancellation.
Amvac Corporation and Chemtura Chemical Corporation will be
permitted to sell or distribute existing stocks of the end-use products
referenced in Table 1 of Unit III. with previously approved labeling,
until 18 months after the effective date of cancellation. Users will be
allowed to use existing stocks of the affected PCNB end-use products
with previously approved labeling until such stocks are exhausted,
provided such use is in a manner consistent with the previously
approved labeling for that product.
If the requests for use termination are granted, the Agency intends
to publish the cancellation order in the Federal Register.
List of Subjects
Environmental protection, Pesticides and pests.
Dated: March 18, 2009.
Richard P. Keigwin, Jr.,
Director, Special Review and Reregistration Division, Office of
Pesticide Programs.
[FR Doc. E9-7043 Filed 3-27-09; 8:45 am]
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