81 FR 1947 - Pesticide Product Registration; Fluopyram Receipt of Applications for New Food Uses

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

Federal Register Volume 81, Issue 9 (January 14, 2016)

EPA has received applications to register pesticide products containing an active ingredient, fluopyram included in currently registered pesticide products. Pursuant to the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA), EPA is hereby providing notice of receipt and opportunity to comment on these applications.

[Federal Register Volume 81, Number 9 (Thursday, January 14, 2016)]
[Notices]
[Pages 1947-1948]
From the Federal Register Online  [www.thefederalregister.org]
[FR Doc No: 2016-00535]


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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

[EPA-HQ-OPP-2015-0443; FRL-9941-23]


Pesticide Product Registration; Fluopyram Receipt of Applications 
for New Food Uses

AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: EPA has received applications to register pesticide products 
containing an active ingredient, fluopyram included in currently 
registered pesticide products. Pursuant to the Federal Insecticide, 
Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA), EPA is hereby providing notice 
of receipt and opportunity to comment on these applications.

DATES: Comments must be received on or before February 16, 2016.

ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, identified by docket identification 
(ID) number EPA-HQ-OPP-2015-0443 and the Registration Number 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: Susan Lewis, Registration Division 
(7505P), Office of Pesticide Programs, Environmental Protection Agency, 
1200 Pennsylvania Ave. NW., Washington, DC 20460-0001; main telephone 
number: (703) 305-7090; email address: [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 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:
     Crop production (NAICS code 111).
     Animal production (NAICS code 112).
     Food manufacturing (NAICS code 311).
     Pesticide manufacturing (NAICS code 32532).

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.

II. Registration Applications

    EPA has received applications to register pesticide products 
containing an active ingredient, fluopyram included in currently 
registered pesticide products. Pursuant to the provisions of FIFRA 
section 3(c)(4) (7 U.S.C. 136a(c)(4)), EPA is hereby providing notice 
of receipt and

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opportunity to comment on these applications. Notice of receipt of 264-
1078; 264-1084; 264-1085; 264-1090; 264-1091(end-use); 264-1077 
(technical).
    Docket ID number: EPA-HQ-OPP-2015-0443. Applicant: Bayer 
CropScience, 2 T.W. Alexander Drive, Research Triangle Park, NC 27709. 
These applications do not imply a decision by the Agency on these 
applications. Active ingredient: Fluopyram. Product type: Fungicide.
    Proposed uses: Artichoke, globe; aspirated grain fractions; peanut 
hay; hops; root vegetables, except beet, sugar, root, crop subgroup 1B; 
tuberous and corm vegetables, crop subgroup 1C; potato wet peel; 
vegetables, leaves of root and tuber, crop group 2; bulb vegetables, 
bulb onion (crop subgroup 3-07A); bulb vegetables, green onions (crop 
subgroup 3-07B); leafy greens (crop subgroup 4A), without spinach; 
leafy greens (crop subgroup 4A) spinach; leafy petioles subgroup, 
celery (crop subgroup 4B); brassica leafy vegetables: Head and stem 
(crop subgroup 5A); brassica leafy vegetables: Leafy greens (crop 
subgroup 5B); soybean forage; soybean hay; legume vegetables: Edible 
podded (crop subgroup 6A); legume vegetables: Succulent shelled peas 
and beans (crop subgroup 6B); legume vegetables: Dried shelled peas and 
beans (crop subgroup 6C); vegetable, foliage of legume vegetables, 
forage, hay and vines, forage (crop group 7); fruiting vegetables, 
tomato subgroup (crop subgroup 8-10A); fruiting vegetables, pepper/
eggplant subgroup (crop subgroup 8-10B); cucurbit vegetables (crop 
group 9A), melon subgroup; cucurbit vegetables (crop group 9B), 
cucumber/squash subgroup; citrus fruits (crop group 10-10); citrus oil; 
pome fruit (crop group 11-10); stone fruit (crop group 12-12A), cherry 
subgroup; stone fruit (crop group 12-12B), peach subgroup; stone fruit 
(crop group 12-12C), plum subgroup; berries and small fruit: Caneberry 
(crop subgroup 13-07A); berries and small fruit: Bushberry (crop 
subgroup 13-07B); raisins at 4.0 ppm; berries and small fruit, small 
fruit vine climbing, except fuzzy kiwi (crop subgroup 13-07F); berries 
and small fruit: Low growing berry (crop subgroup 13-07G); sorghum, 
grain; wheat milled by-products; grass forage, fodder and hay: Forage 
(crop group 17); herb crop (subcrop group 19A); dill seed; herbs, 
dried; oilseeds, rapeseed, canola (crop subgroup 20A); oilseeds, 
sunflower, seed (crop subgroup 20B); oilseeds: Cottonseed (crop 
subgroup 20C); chicken, meat byproducts; chicken, fat; chicken, meat; 
goat, fat; goat, meat; sugarcane, cane (indirect or inadvertent 
residues).

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

    Dated: January 7, 2016.
Susan Lewis,
Director, Registration Division, Office of Pesticide Programs.
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