[Federal Register Volume 75, Number 159 (Wednesday, August 18, 2010)]
[Notices]
[Pages 51048-51049]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2010-20448]
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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY
[EPA-HQ-OPP-2010-0649; FRL-8840-2]
Notice of Receipt of Request to Voluntarily Cancel a Pesticide
Registration
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 request by the registrant to voluntarily cancel a
pesticide registration.
DATES: Comments must be received on or before September 17, 2010.
ADDRESSES: Submit your comments and your withdrawal request, identified
by docket identification (ID) number EPA-HQ-OPP-2010-0649, 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's telephone number is (703) 305-5805.
Instructions: Direct your comments to docket ID number EPA-HQ-OPP-
2010-0649. 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's
telephone number is (703) 305-5805.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Leonard Cole, Biopesticides and
Pollution Prevention Division (7511P), Office of Pesticide Programs,
Environmental Protection Agency, 1200 Pennsylvania Ave., NW.,
Washington, DC 20460-0001; telephone number: (703) 305-5412; 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. Although this
action may be of particular interest to persons who produce or use
pesticides, 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 information in this notice, 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. What Action is the Agency Taking?
This notice announces receipt by the Agency of an application from
the registrant to cancel a technical grade active ingredient pesticide
product registered under section 3 or 24(c) of FIFRA. This registration
is listed by registration number, product and chemical name in Table 1
of this unit.
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Table 1.--Registration with Pending Request for Cancellation
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Registration No. Product Name Chemical Name
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70127-4 Beetleball 4-Allyl Anisole
Technical (Estragole)
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Unless this request is withdrawn by the registrant within 30 days
of publication of this notice, orders will be issued canceling this
registration. Users of this pesticide or anyone else desiring the
retention of this registration should contact the registrant directly
during this 30-day period.
Table 2 of this unit includes the name and address of record for
the registrant listed in Table 1 of this unit by the EPA company
number.
Table 2.--Registrant Requesting Voluntary Cancellation
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EPA Company No. Company Name and Address
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70127 Novozymes Biologicals, Inc.
5400 Corporate Circle
Salem, Virginia 24153
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III. 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. FIFRA further provides that, before acting on the request,
EPA must publish a notice of receipt of request in the Federal
Register. Thereafter, the Administrator may approve the request.
IV. Procedures for Withdrawal of Request
Registrants who choose to withdraw a request for cancellation must
submit withdrawal in writing to the person listed under FOR FURTHER
INFORMATION CONTACT, postmarked before September 17, 2010. 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
product has been subject to a previous cancellation action, the
effective date of cancellation and all other provisions of any earlier
cancellation action are controlling. The withdrawal request must also
include a commitment to pay any reregistration fees due, and to fulfill
any applicable unsatisfied data requirements.
V. Provisions for Disposition of Existing Stocks
Existing stocks are those stocks of registered pesticide products
currently in the United States and were packaged, labeled, and released
for shipment prior to the effective date of the cancellation action.
EPA's existing stocks policy (56 FR 29362) provides that: ``If a
registrant requests to voluntarily cancel a registration where the
Agency has identified no particular risk concerns, the registrant has
complied with all applicable conditions of reregistration, conditional
registration, and data call ins, and the registration is not subject to
the Registration Standard, Label Improvement Program, or reregistration
decision. The Agency will generally permit a registrant to sell or
distribute existing stocks for 1 year after the cancellation request
was received. Persons other than registrants will generally be allowed
to sell, distribute, or use existing stocks until such stocks are
exhausted.''
Upon cancellation of the pesticide identified in Table 1 of Unit
II., EPA anticipates allowing sale, distribution, and use as described
in this unit. Exception to this general policy will be made in specific
cases when more stringent restrictions on sale, distribution, or use of
the products or their ingredients have already been imposed, as in a
special review action, or where the Agency has identified significant
potential risk concerns associated with a particular chemical.
List of Subjects
Environmental protection, Pesticides and pests.
Dated: August 5, 2010.
W. Michael McDavit,
Acting Director, Biopesticides and Pollution Prevention Division,
Office of Pesticide Programs.
[FR Doc. 2010-20448 Filed 8-17-10; 8:45 am]
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