[Federal Register Volume 75, Number 96 (Wednesday, May 19, 2010)]
[Notices]
[Pages 28019-28021]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2010-11697]
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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY
[EPA-HQ-OPP-2010-0306; FRL-8825-7]
Resmethrin; 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 the registrants to voluntarily cancel
their registrations of certain products containing the pesticide
resmethrin. The requests would terminate resmethrin products registered
for use as a wide area mosquito abatement adulticide 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. 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. Resmethrin users or anyone
else that desires the retention of a resmethrin registration should
contact the applicable registrants during the comment period.
DATES: Comments must be received on or before November 15, 2010.
ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, identified by docket identification
(ID) number EPA-HQ-OPP-2010-0306, 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-
2010-0306. 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: Tom Myers, Pesticide Re-evaluation
Division (7508P), Office of Pesticide Programs, Environmental
Protection Agency, 1200 Pennsylvania Ave., NW., Washington, DC 20460-
0001; telephone number: (703) 308-8589; 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
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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
to cancel certain resmethrin product registrations. Resmethrin is a
member of the pyrethroid class of pesticides. It is a broad spectrum,
non-systemic, synthetic pyrethroid insecticide. Resmethrin is
registered for use as a wide area mosquito abatement insecticide for
use in industrial, recreational, and residential areas to control
flying and crawling insects. All remaining resmethrin end use products
not listed in this notice will be proposed for cancellation in a
subsequent Federal Register notice.
The registrants have requested voluntary cancellation of these
resmethrin containing products based on the fact that the costs to
fulfill the data call-in requirements from the 2006 Resmethirn
Reregistration Eligibility Decision (RED), coupled with the costs to
satisfy the recently issued Endocrine Disrupter Screening Program
(EDSP) testing orders are not justified by the market opportunity in
the vector control business segment. Resmethrin users or anyone else
that desires the retention of a resmethrin registration should contact
the applicable registrants during the comment period. The data required
to support the resmethrin wide area mosquito abatement use are
identified in Table 1.
Table 1.--Data Required to Support for the Mosquito Abatement Use of
Resmethrin
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2006 Resmethrin RED Data Call-In
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810.3400 Mosquito, black fly, and
biting midge (sand fly)
treatments
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830.7050 UV/Visible absorption
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835.2410 Photodegradation of parent
and degradates in soil
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850.1300 Daphnid chronic toxicity test
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850.1350 Mysid chronic toxicity test
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Non-guideline Chronic freshwater sediment
testing - special study
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Non-guideline Chronic estuarine/marine
sediment testing - special
study
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870.6200 Neurotoxicity screening
battery
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870.6300 Developmental neurotoxicity
study
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EDSP testing orders
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2.1.1 Amphibian metamorphosis
(frog)
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2.1.2 Androgen receptor binding
(rat prostate)
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2.1.3 Aromatase (human recombinant)
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2.1.4 Estrogen receptor binding
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2.1.5 Estrogen receptor
transcriptional activation
(human cell line - HeLa-
9903)
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2.1.6 Fish short-term reproduction
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2.1.7 Hershberger (rat)
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2.1.8 Female Pubertal (rat)
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2.1.9 Male pubertal (rat)
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2.1.10 Steroidogenesis (human cell
line - H295R)
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2.1.11 Uterotrophic
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In letters received by the Agency, the registrants requested EPA to
cancel certain pesticide product registrations identified in this
notice in Table 2. This action would terminate the use of resmethrin
products registered in the United States as a wide area mosquito
abatement insecticide.
III. What Action is the Agency Taking?
This notice announces receipt by EPA of requests from registrants
to cancel certain resmethrin product registrations. The affected
products and the registrants making the requests are identified in
Tables 2 and 3 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.
Table 2.--Resmethrin Product Registrations with Pending Requests for
Cancellation
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Registration Number Product Name Chemical
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432-595 SBP-1382 Insecticide Resmethrin
Concentrate 40% Formula
I
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432-596 SBP-1382 Insecticide 40 Resmethrin
MF Solvent Dilutable
Concentrate Formula I
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432-667 SCOURGE Insecticide w/ Resmethrin
SBP-1382/PBO 18%+54% MF Piperonyl
Formula II butoxide
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432-716 SCOURGE Insecticide w/ Resmethrin
SBP-1382/PBO 4%+12% MF Piperonyl
Formula II butoxide
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432-1246 Aqua-SCOURGE Resmethrin
Piperonyl
butoxide
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73049-78 SBP-1382 Concentrate 40 Resmethrin
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73049-79 SBP-1382 Insecticide Resmethrin
Concentrate 15%
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73049-80 SBP-1382 Pressurized Resmethrin
Wasp and Hornet Spray
0.15%
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73049-86 SBP-1382 Technical with Resmethrin
Antioxidant
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73049-95 SBP-1382 Bioallethrin/ Resmethrin
Insecticide Concentrate S-Bioallethrin
10%-6.25% Formula I
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73049-101 SBP-1382 T.E.C. 6% Resmethrin
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73049-134 SBP-1382 Insecticide Resmethrin
Concentrate 40% Formula
II
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73049-372 Synthrin Technical with Resmethrin
Antioxidant Insecticide
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Table 3 of this unit includes the names and addresses of record for
the registrants of the products listed in Table 2 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 above.
Table 3.--Registrants Requesting Voluntary Cancellation
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EPA Company Number Company Name and Address
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000432 Bayer Environmental Science
P.O. Box 12014
Research Triangle Park, NC
27709
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073049 Valent BioSciences Corporation
870 Technology Way
Libertyville, IL 60048
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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.
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
2. The Administrator determines that continued use of the pesticide
would pose an unreasonable adverse effect on the environment.
The resmethrin registrants have not requested that EPA waive the
180-day comment period. Accordingly, EPA will provide a 180-day comment
period on the proposed requests.
V. Procedures for Withdrawal of Requests
Registrants who choose to withdraw a request for product
cancellation should submit the withdrawal in writing to the person
listed under FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT. If the products(s) 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 2.
After December 31, 2012, registrants are prohibited from selling or
distributing existing stocks of products containing resmethrin for all
uses, including the use of resmethrin as a wide area mosquito abatement
insecticide.
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.
List of Subjects
Environmental protection, Pesticides and pests.
Dated: May 7, 2010.
Richard P. Keigwin, Jr.,
Director, Pesticide Re-evaluation Division, Office of Pesticide
Programs.
[FR Doc. 2010-11697 Filed 5-18-10; 8:45 am]
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