80 FR 48315 - Environmental Quality Issues and Pesticides Operations and Management State FIFRA Issues Research and Evaluation Group; Notice of Public Meeting

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

Federal Register Volume 80, Issue 155 (August 12, 2015)

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FR Document		2015-19824

The Association of American Pesticide Control Officials (AAPCO)/State FIFRA Issues Research and Evaluation Group (SFIREG), the Environmental Quality Issues (EQI) and the Pesticides Operations and Management (POM) committees will hold a joint 2-day meeting, beginning on September 21, 2015 and ending September 22, 2015. This notice announces the location and times for the meeting and sets forth the tentative agenda topics.

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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

[EPA-HQ-OPP-2015-0086; FRL-9931-20]


Environmental Quality Issues and Pesticides Operations and 
Management State FIFRA Issues Research and Evaluation Group; Notice of 
Public Meeting

AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: The Association of American Pesticide Control Officials 
(AAPCO)/State FIFRA Issues Research and Evaluation Group (SFIREG), the 
Environmental Quality Issues (EQI) and the Pesticides Operations and 
Management (POM) committees will hold a joint 2-day meeting, beginning 
on September 21, 2015 and ending September 22, 2015. This notice 
announces the location and times for the meeting and sets forth the 
tentative agenda topics.

DATES: The meeting will be held on Monday, September 21, 2015, from 8 
a.m. to 5 p.m. and 8:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Tuesday, September 22, 2015.
    To request accommodation of a disability, please contact the person 
listed in this notice under FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT. Please 
contact EPA 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 EPA, One Potomac Yard (South 
Bldg.) 2777 Crystal Dr., Arlington, Virginia, 1st Floor, South 
Conference Room.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Ron Kendall, Field and External 
Affairs Division (7506P), Office of Pesticide Programs, Environmental 
Protection Agency, 1200 Pennsylvania Ave. NW., Washington, DC 20460-
0001; telephone number: (703) 305-5561; fax number: (703) 305-5884; 
email address: [email protected] or Amy Bamber, SFIREG Executive 
Secretary, at [email protected].

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

I. General Information

A. Does this action apply to me?

    You may be potentially affected by this action if you are 
interested in pesticide regulation issues affecting states and any 
discussion between EPA and SFIREG on field implementation issues 
related to human health, environmental exposure to pesticides, and 
insight into EPA's decision-making process. You are invited and 
encouraged to attend the meetings and participate as appropriate. 
Potentially affected entities may include (but are not limited to) 
persons who are or may be required to conduct testing of chemical 
substances under the Federal Food, Drug and Cosmetics Act (FFDCA), or 
the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA) and 
those who sell, distribute or use pesticides, as well as any non-
government organization. If you have any questions regarding the 
applicability of this action to a particular entity, please consult the 
person in this notice listed under FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT.

B. How can I get copies of this document and other related information?

    The docket for this action, identified by docket identification 
(ID) number EPA-HQ-OPP-2015-0086, is available at http://www.regulations.gov or at the Office of Pesticide Programs Regulatory 
Public Docket (OPP Docket) in the Environmental Protection Agency 
Docket Center (EPA/DC), West William Jefferson Clinton Bldg., Rm. 3334, 
1301 Constitution Ave. NW., Washington, DC 20460-0001. The Public 
Reading Room is open from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., Monday through 
Friday, excluding legal holidays. The telephone number for the Public 
Reading Room is (202) 566-1744 and the telephone number for the OPP 
Docket is (703) 305-5805. Please review

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the visitor instructions and additional information about the docket 
available at http://www.epa.gov/dockets.

II. Tentative Agenda Topics

    1. Pollinator protection issues:

    a. Managed pollinator protection plans
    b. EPA pollinator policy public comment update
    c. Environmental hazard statement in relation to bees
    d. Follow-up on bee kill reporting on 5700 dashboard

    2. Briefing on a new system for data sharing that could provide 
opportunities for states to engage in meaningful data sharing.
    3. Results of the joint project with the National Marine Fisheries 
Service dealing with targeted monitoring for the Endangered Species Act 
Reasonable and Prudent Measures (RPMs) and Reasonable and Prudent 
Alternatives (RPAs) in final biological opinions for pesticides.
    4. Discuss final submittal of Pesticides of Interest National 
Tracking System (POINTS) recommendation paper.
    5. An update on EPA's stance on treated seed.
    6. Pesticide general permit reissuance update.
    7. Worker Protection Standard final rule status and further update 
on implementation strategy or staff to discuss specific inconsistencies 
of personal protective equipment between label and National Institute 
of Occupational Safety and Health.
    8. Safer Choice related discussion.
    9. Registrant agreement by EPA with Wellmark on methomyl.
    10. 2,4-D report from International Agency for Research on Cancer 
discussion.
    11. Pyrethroid re-evaluation.
    12. Cannabis follow-up and update.
    13. Distributor label follow-up-update on letter and enforcement by 
the agency.
    14. Demonstrate a field inspection tool developed by the National 
Pesticide.
    15. Information Retrieval System for use by inspectors.
    16. Performance measures update.
    17. Laboratory Discussion to increase regulatory awareness.

III. How can I request to participate in this meeting?

    This meeting is open for the public to attend. You may attend the 
meeting without further notification.

    Authority: 7 U.S.C. 136 et seq.

    Dated: August 3, 2015.
Patricia L. Parrott,
Acting, Director, Field and External Affairs Division, Office of 
Pesticide Protection.
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AAAS Congressional Science and Deputy Director of Analysis, she INFORMATION CONTACT. Please contact
Technology Fellow, her scientific oversees OHAT and the NTP Office of EPA at least 10 days prior to the
expertise was utilized to inform public the Report on Carcinogens. Before meeting, to give EPA as much time as
policy on Fetal Alcohol Syndrome, becoming director of OHAT, she held possible to process your request.
aging, and NIH research funding. The positions in the NTP Office of Liaison, ADDRESSES: The meeting will be held at
major focus of Dr. Sobrian’s research Policy, and Review, the NIEHS Office of EPA, One Potomac Yard (South Bldg.)
involves the behavioral, immunological, Risk Assessment Research and the NTP 2777 Crystal Dr., Arlington, Virginia, 1st
and neurotoxicological consequences of Center for the Evaluation of Risks to Floor, South Conference Room.
prenatal and neonatal drug Human Reproduction (CERHR). Prior to FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Ron
administration and drug and joining the NTP/NIEHS, she was a Kendall, Field and External Affairs
environmental stress-induced senior scientist at the World Wildlife Division (7506P), Office of Pesticide
alterations in behavioral and Fund and then at the Environmental Programs, Environmental Protection
immunological development. She has a Working Group. In addition to Agency, 1200 Pennsylvania Ave. NW.,
longstanding interest in sex differences, overseeing the development of OHAT Washington, DC 20460–0001; telephone
and her lab was the first to show that and ORoC monographs, she has research number: (703) 305–5561; fax number:
prenatal environmental and interests in the areas of understanding (703) 305–5884; email address:
psychological stress differentially the role of environmental exposures in kendall.ron@epa.gov or Amy Bamber,
altered immune parameters in rat male diabetes and obesity, evaluating the SFIREG Executive Secretary, at aapco-
and female offspring, research that she predictive utility of high throughput sfireg@comcast.net.
continued as a Fulbright Scholar at the screening data, and methods of SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Immunological Research Institute in exposure assessment. She is considered
Belgrade, Yugoslavia. Her current an expert on the application of I. General Information
research involves the life-span systematic review methods to A. Does this action apply to me?
consequences of prenatal exposure to environmental health topics.
cocaine and nicotine, alone and in You may be potentially affected by
Authority: 7 U.S.C. 136 et. seq.; 21 U.S.C. this action if you are interested in
combination, with an emphasis on drug 301 et seq.
addiction in the aging organism. In pesticide regulation issues affecting
developing animal models for Dated: August 5, 2015. states and any discussion between EPA
neuropsychiatric diseases, Dr. Sobrian is David Dix, and SFIREG on field implementation
currently exploring the role of prenatal Director, Office of Science Coordination and issues related to human health,
environmental noise stress [PENS] in Policy. environmental exposure to pesticides,
the etiology of autism and depression. [FR Doc. 2015–19828 Filed 8–11–15; 8:45 am] and insight into EPA’s decision-making
For her work in establishing an BILLING CODE 6560–50–P
process. You are invited and encouraged
environmentally-mediated to attend the meetings and participate as
neurodevelopmental animal model of appropriate. Potentially affected entities
depression, Dr. Sobrian was designated ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION may include (but are not limited to)
a L. Vernon Maddox NARSAD AGENCY persons who are or may be required to
investigator. conduct testing of chemical substances
[EPA–HQ–OPP–2015–0086; FRL–9931–20] under the Federal Food, Drug and
18. Kristina Thayer, Ph.D. Cosmetics Act (FFDCA), or the Federal
Environmental Quality Issues and
i. Expertise: Understanding the role of Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide
Pesticides Operations and
environmental exposures in diabetes Act (FIFRA) and those who sell,
Management State FIFRA Issues
and obesity, evaluating the predictive distribute or use pesticides, as well as
Research and Evaluation Group;
utility of high throughput screening any non-government organization. If
Notice of Public Meeting
data, and methods of exposure you have any questions regarding the
assessment. AGENCY: Environmental Protection applicability of this action to a
ii. Education: BS, Psychology, Agency (EPA). particular entity, please consult the
Pennsylvania State University; Ph.D., ACTION: Notice. person in this notice listed under FOR
Biological Sciences, University of FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT.
Missouri. SUMMARY: The Association of American
iii. Professional Experience: Kristina Pesticide Control Officials (AAPCO)/ B. How can I get copies of this document
Thayer, Ph.D. is Deputy Director of State FIFRA Issues Research and and other related information?
Analysis at the National Toxicology Evaluation Group (SFIREG), the The docket for this action, identified
Program (NTP) and Director of the NTP Environmental Quality Issues (EQI) and by docket identification (ID) number
Office of Health Assessment and the Pesticides Operations and EPA–HQ–OPP–2015–0086, is available
Translation (OHAT) at the National Management (POM) committees will at http://www.regulations.gov or at the
Institute for Environmental Health hold a joint 2-day meeting, beginning on Office of Pesticide Programs Regulatory
Sciences (NIEHS) located on the campus September 21, 2015 and ending Public Docket (OPP Docket) in the
of the National Institute for September 22, 2015. This notice Environmental Protection Agency
Environmental Health Sciences announces the location and times for Docket Center (EPA/DC), West William
(NIEHS). OHAT conducts evaluations to the meeting and sets forth the tentative Jefferson Clinton Bldg., Rm. 3334, 1301
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assess the evidence that environmental agenda topics. Constitution Ave. NW., Washington, DC
chemicals, physical substances, or DATES: The meeting will be held on 20460–0001. The Public Reading Room
mixtures (collectively referred to as Monday, September 21, 2015, from 8 is open from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.,
‘‘substances’’) may cause adverse health a.m. to 5 p.m. and 8:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. Monday through Friday, excluding legal
effects and provides opinions on on Tuesday, September 22, 2015. holidays. The telephone number for the
whether these substances may be of To request accommodation of a Public Reading Room is (202) 566–1744
concern given what is known about disability, please contact the person and the telephone number for the OPP
current human exposure levels. As listed in this notice under FOR FURTHER Docket is (703) 305–5805. Please review

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the visitor instructions and additional Dated: August 3, 2015. Greaver; telephone: 919–541–2435;
information about the docket available Patricia L. Parrott, facsimile: 919–541–1818; or email:
at http://www.epa.gov/dockets. Acting, Director, Field and External Affairs greaver.tara@epa.gov.
Division, Office of Pesticide Protection. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
II. Tentative Agenda Topics
[FR Doc. 2015–19824 Filed 8–11–15; 8:45 am]
1. Pollinator protection issues: I. Information About the Workshop
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a. Managed pollinator protection Section 109(d) of the Clean Air Act
plans (CAA) requires the U.S. EPA to conduct
ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION periodic reviews of the air quality
b. EPA pollinator policy public
AGENCY criteria for each air pollutant listed
comment update
[FRL–9931–96–ORD; Docket ID No. EPA– under section 108 of the Act. Based on
c. Environmental hazard statement in
HQ–ORD–2013–0620 and Docket ID No. such reviews, EPA is to retain or revise
relation to bees
EPA–HQ–OAR–2014–0128] the NAAQS for a given pollutant as
d. Follow-up on bee kill reporting on appropriate. As part of these reviews,
5700 dashboard Workshop To Review Initial Draft NCEA assesses newly available
2. Briefing on a new system for data Materials for the Nitrogen Oxides scientific information and develops ISA
sharing that could provide opportunities (NOX) and Sulfur Oxides (SOX) documents (formerly known as Air
for states to engage in meaningful data Integrated Science Assessment (ISA) Quality Criteria Documents) that
sharing. for Ecological Effects provide the scientific basis for the
3. Results of the joint project with the reviews of the NAAQS.
AGENCY: Environmental Protection
National Marine Fisheries Service NCEA is holding this workshop to
Agency (EPA).
dealing with targeted monitoring for the inform the Agency’s evaluation of the
Endangered Species Act Reasonable and ACTION: Notice of workshop. scientific evidence for the review of the
Prudent Measures (RPMs) and SUMMARY: As part of the review of the secondary NAAQS for NO2 and SO2.
Reasonable and Prudent Alternatives air quality criteria for nitrogen oxides Section 109(b)(2) of the CAA defines
(RPAs) in final biological opinions for (NOX) and sulfur oxides (SOX) secondary NAAQS must, ‘‘specify a
pesticides. secondary (welfare-based) National level of air quality the attainment and
4. Discuss final submittal of Pesticides Ambient Air Quality Standards maintenance of which, in the judgment
of Interest National Tracking System (NAAQS), the Environmental Protection of the Administrator, based on such
(POINTS) recommendation paper. Agency (EPA) is announcing a criteria, is requisite to protect the public
5. An update on EPA’s stance on teleconference workshop to evaluate welfare from any known or anticipated
treated seed. preliminary draft materials that will adverse effects associated with the
6. Pesticide general permit reissuance inform the development of the NOX and presence of [the] pollutant in the
update. SOX Integrated Science Assessment ambient air.’’ The purpose of the
(ISA) for ecological effects. The workshop is to obtain review of the
7. Worker Protection Standard final
workshop is being organized by EPA’s scientific content of preliminary draft
rule status and further update on
National Center for Environmental materials that will inform the
implementation strategy or staff to
Assessment (NCEA) within the Office of development of the draft ecological
discuss specific inconsistencies of
Research and Development and will be effects ISA. Workshop sessions will
personal protective equipment between
held by teleconference from August 25– include review and discussion of
label and National Institute of
27, 2015. The workshop will be open to preliminary draft materials on the
Occupational Safety and Health.
attendance by interested public atmospheric chemistry, including air
8. Safer Choice related discussion. quality/deposition, biogeochemistry,
9. Registrant agreement by EPA with observers on a first-come, first-served
basis and participation will be by terrestrial acidification, terrestrial
Wellmark on methomyl. eutrophication, freshwater acidification,
10. 2,4–D report from International teleconference only.
freshwater eutrophication, marine
Agency for Research on Cancer DATES: The workshop will be held on
eutrophication, and ecosystem services.
discussion. Tuesday, August 25, 2015, beginning at In addition, roundtable discussions will
11. Pyrethroid re-evaluation. 1:30 p.m. and ending at 4 p.m.; help identify key studies or concepts
Wednesday, August 26, 2015, beginning within each discipline to assist EPA in
12. Cannabis follow-up and update.
at 1 p.m. and ending at 4 p.m.; and integrating relevant literature within
13. Distributor label follow-up-update Thursday, August 27, 2015, beginning at
on letter and enforcement by the agency. and across disciplines. These
11:30 a.m. and ending at 2 p.m. preliminary materials are not being
14. Demonstrate a field inspection
ADDRESSES: The workshop will be held released as an external draft, but will be
tool developed by the National
by teleconference and webinar. The call used to guide workshop discussions and
Pesticide.
in number and Web site information for inform the development of the draft
15. Information Retrieval System for the teleconference are available to
use by inspectors. ecological effects ISA. This workshop is
registered participants. Please register planned to help ensure that the ISA,
16. Performance measures update. by going to https://nox-sox-eco-criteria- once developed, is up-to-date and
17. Laboratory Discussion to increase webinars.eventbrite.com. focuses on the key evidence to inform
regulatory awareness.
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FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: the scientific understanding for the
III. How can I request to participate in Please direct questions regarding review of the NOX and SOX secondary
this meeting? workshop registration or logistics to NAAQS. EPA is planning to release the
Canden Byrd at EPA_NAAQS_ first external review draft ecological
This meeting is open for the public to Workshop@icfi.com or by phone at (919) effects ISA for NOX and SOX for review
attend. You may attend the meeting 293–1660. Questions regarding the by the Clean Air Scientific Advisory
without further notification. scientific and technical aspects of the Committee and the public during the
Authority: 7 U.S.C. 136 et seq. workshop should be directed to Dr. Tara first quarter of 2016.

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Collection		Federal Register
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Publisher		Office of the Federal Register, National Archives and Records Administration
Section		Notices
Action		Notice.
Dates		The meeting will be held on Monday, September 21, 2015, from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. and 8:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Tuesday, September 22, 2015.
Contact		Ron Kendall, Field and External Affairs Division (7506P), Office of Pesticide Programs, Environmental Protection Agency, 1200 Pennsylvania Ave. NW., Washington, DC 20460- 0001; telephone number: (703) 305-5561; fax number: (703) 305-5884;
FR Citation		80 FR 48315