80 FR 73695 - Receipt of Several Pesticide Petitions Filed for Residues of Pesticide Chemicals in or on Various Commodities

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

Federal Register Volume 80, Issue 227 (November 25, 2015)

This document announces the Agency's receipt of several initial filings of pesticide petitions requesting the establishment or modification of regulations for residues of pesticide chemicals in or on various commodities.

[Federal Register Volume 80, Number 227 (Wednesday, November 25, 2015)]
[Proposed Rules]
[Pages 73695-73696]
From the Federal Register Online  [www.thefederalregister.org]
[FR Doc No: 2015-29893]



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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

40 CFR Part 180

[EPA-HQ-OPP-2015-0032; FRL-9937-14]


Receipt of Several Pesticide Petitions Filed for Residues of 
Pesticide Chemicals in or on Various Commodities

AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

ACTION: Notice of filing of petitions and request for comment.

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SUMMARY: This document announces the Agency's receipt of several 
initial filings of pesticide petitions requesting the establishment or 
modification of regulations for residues of pesticide chemicals in or 
on various commodities.

DATES: Comments must be received on or before December 28, 2015.

ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, identified by docket identification 
(ID) number and the pesticide petition number (PP) of interest as shown 
in the body of this document, by one of the following methods:
     Federal eRulemaking Portal: http://www.regulations.gov. 
Follow the online instructions for submitting comments. Do not submit 
electronically any information you consider to be Confidential Business 
Information (CBI) or other information whose disclosure is restricted 
by statute.
     Mail: OPP Docket, Environmental Protection Agency Docket 
Center (EPA/DC), (28221T), 1200 Pennsylvania Ave. NW., Washington, DC 
20460-0001.
     Hand Delivery: To make special arrangements for hand 
delivery or delivery of boxed information, please follow the 
instructions at http://www.epa.gov/dockets/contacts.html.
    Additional instructions on commenting or visiting the docket, along 
with more information about dockets generally, is available at http://www.epa.gov/dockets.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Robert McNally, Director, 
Biopesticides and Pollution Prevention Division (BPPD) (7511P), main 
telephone number: (703) 305-7090, email address: [email protected]; 
or Susan Lewis, Director, Registration Division (RD) (7505P), main 
telephone number: (703) 305-7090, email address: [email protected]. 
The mailing address for each contact person is: Office of Pesticide 
Programs, Environmental Protection Agency, 1200 Pennsylvania Ave. NW., 
Washington, DC 20460-0001. As part of the mailing address, include the 
contact person's name, division, and mail code. The division to contact 
is listed at the end of each pesticide petition summary.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

I. General Information

A. Does this action apply to me?

    You may be potentially affected by this action if you are an 
agricultural producer, food manufacturer, or pesticide manufacturer. 
The following list of North American Industrial Classification System 
(NAICS) codes is not intended to be exhaustive, but rather provides a 
guide to help readers determine whether this document applies to them. 
Potentially affected entities may include:
    [emsp14]Crop production (NAICS code 111).
    [emsp14]Animal production (NAICS code 112).
    [emsp14]Food manufacturing (NAICS code 311).
    [emsp14]Pesticide manufacturing (NAICS code 32532).
    If you have any questions regarding the applicability of this 
action to a particular entity, consult the person listed under FOR 
FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT for the division listed at the end of the 
pesticide petition summary of interest.

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 email. 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 preparing and submitting 
your comments, see the commenting tips at http://www.epa.gov/dockets/comments.html.
    3. Environmental justice. EPA seeks to achieve environmental 
justice, the fair treatment and meaningful involvement of any group, 
including minority and/or low-income populations, in the development, 
implementation, and enforcement of environmental laws, regulations, and 
policies. To help address potential environmental justice issues, the 
Agency seeks information on any groups or segments of the population 
who, as a result of their location, cultural practices, or other 
factors, may have atypical or disproportionately high and adverse human 
health impacts or environmental effects from exposure to the pesticides 
discussed in this document, compared to the general population.

II. What action is the agency taking?

    EPA is announcing its receipt of several pesticide petitions filed 
under section 408 of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (FFDCA), 
21 U.S.C. 346a, requesting the establishment or modification of 
regulations in 40 CFR part 180 for residues of pesticide chemicals in 
or on various food commodities. The Agency is taking public comment on 
the requests before responding to the petitioners. EPA is not proposing 
any particular action at this time. EPA has determined that the 
pesticide petitions described in this document contain the data or 
information prescribed in FFDCA section 408(d)(2), 21 U.S.C. 
346a(d)(2); however, EPA has not fully evaluated the sufficiency of the 
submitted data at this time or whether the data support granting of the 
pesticide petitions. After considering the public comments, EPA intends 
to evaluate whether and what action may be warranted. Additional data 
may be needed before EPA can make a final determination on these 
pesticide petitions.
    Pursuant to 40 CFR 180.7(f), a summary of each of the petitions 
that are the subject of this document, prepared by the petitioner, is 
included in a docket EPA has created for each rulemaking. The docket 
for each of the petitions is available at http://www.regulations.gov.
    As specified in FFDCA section 408(d)(3), 21 U.S.C. 346a(d)(3), EPA 
is publishing notice of the petition so that the public has an 
opportunity to comment on this request for the establishment or 
modification of regulations for residues of pesticides in or on food 
commodities. Further information on the petition may be obtained 
through the petition summary referenced in this unit.

New Tolerances

    1. PP 4F8249. (EPA-HQ-OPP-2014-0314). This notice is a revision to 
the notice published in the Federal Register of August 1, 2014 (79 FR 
44729) (FRL-9911-67). Dow AgroSciences, LLC, 9330 Zionsville Road, 
Indianapolis, IN 46268-1054, requests to establish a tolerance in 40 
CFR part 180 for

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residues of the herbicide, triclopyr [(3,5,6-trichloro-2-pyridinyl)oxy] 
acetic acid in or on the raw agricultural commodity milk, fat at 0.7 
parts per million (ppm); and to increase the tolerance in or on milk 
from 0.01 ppm to 0.6 ppm. The petitioner also requests to amend 40 CFR 
part 180.417 by establishing tolerances for residues of triclopyr 
[(3,5,6-trichloro-2-pyridinyl)oxy] acetic acid and its metabolite 
3,5,6-trichloro-2-pyridinol (TCP), calculated as the stoichiometric 
equivalent of triclopyr, in or on the raw agricultural commodities of 
cattle, goat, hog, horse, and sheep meat byproducts at 0.7 ppm; by 
increasing tolerances in cattle, goat, hog, horse, and sheep fat from 
0.05 ppm to 0.09 ppm; and by increasing tolerances in cattle, goat, 
hog, horse, and sheep meat from 0.05 ppm to 0.08 ppm. An analytical 
method using electron capture gas chromatography is used to measure and 
evaluate the chemical triclopyr. Contact: RD.
    2. PP 5E8402. (EPA-HQ-OPP-2015-0712). Interregional Research No. 4 
(IR-4), Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, 500 College Road 
East, Suite 201-W, Princeton, NJ 08540, requests to establish a 
tolerance in 40 CFR part 180 for residues of the herbicide, clomazone 
2-(2-chlorophenyl)methyl-4,4-dimethyl-3-isoxazolidinone in or on 
asparagus at 0.05 parts per million (ppm); and vegetable soybean 
(edamame) at 0.05 ppm. The analytical method consisting of an acid 
reflux, a C18 solid phase extraction (SPE), a Florisil SPE clean-up 
followed by gas chromatography (GC)-mass selective detection (MSD) is 
used to measure and evaluate the chemical clomazone. Contact: RD.
    3. PP 5F8381. (EPA-HQ-OPP-2015-0722). Bayer CropScience, P.O. Box 
12014, 2 T.W. Alexander Drive, Research Triangle Park, NC 27709, 
requests to establish a tolerance in 40 CFR part 180.626 for residues 
of the fungicide, prothioconazole in or on cotton, undelinted seed 
(crop subgroup 20C at 0.4 parts per million (ppm). The liquid 
chromatography/mass spectrometry (LC/MS/MS) is used to measure and 
evaluate the chemical prothioconazole. Contact: RD.
    4. PP 5F8381. (EPA-HQ-OPP-2015-0722). Bayer CropScience, P.O. Box 
12014, 2 T.W. Alexander Drive, Research Triangle Park, NC 27709, 
requests to amend the tolerance in 40 CFR 180.626 for residues of the 
fungicide, prothioconazole in or on sugar beet, roots at 0.3 parts per 
million (ppm). The LC/MS/MS is used to measure and evaluate the 
chemical prothioconazole. Contact: RD.
    5. PP 5F8361. (EPA-HQ-OPP-2015-0488). MacIntosh and Associates, 
Inc., 1203 Hartford Ave., St. Paul, MN 55116-1622 (on behalf of 
AgBiTech Pty Ltd, 8 Rocla Ct., Glenvale, Queensland 4350, Australia), 
requests to establish an exemption from the requirement of a tolerance 
in 40 CFR part 180 for residues of the microbial insecticide Spodoptera 
frugiperda Multiple Nucleopolyhedrovirus--3AP2 in or on food crops. The 
petitioner believes no analytical method is needed because the 
petitioner is requesting an exemption from tolerance. Contact: BPPD.

    Authority: 21 U.S.C. 346a.

    Dated: November 16, 2015.
Susan Lewis,
Director, Registration Division, Office of Pesticide Programs.
[FR Doc. 2015-29893 Filed 11-24-15; 8:45 am]
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