82 FR 44405 - Registration Review Proposed Interim Decisions for Several Pesticides; Notice of Availability
ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY Federal Register Volume 82, Issue 183 (September 22, 2017)
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[Federal Register Volume 82, Number 183 (Friday, September 22, 2017)] [Notices] [Pages 44405-44406] From the Federal Register Online [www.thefederalregister.org] [FR Doc No: 2017-20327] ======================================================================= ----------------------------------------------------------------------- ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY [EPA-HQ-OPP-2016-0729; FRL-9966-50] Registration Review Proposed Interim Decisions for Several Pesticides; Notice of Availability AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). ACTION: Notice. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- SUMMARY: This notice announces the availability of EPA's proposed interim registration review decisions and opens a 60-day public comment period on the proposed interim decisions for the following pesticides: Carfentrazone-ethyl, clodinafop-propargyl, copper compounds, cyclanilide, flumiclorac-pentyl, metaflumizone, nitrapyrin, noviflumuron, pendimethalin, spinetoram, spinosad, and sodium, calcium, and potassium hypochlorites. Registration review is EPA's periodic review of pesticide registrations to ensure that each pesticide continues to satisfy the statutory standard for registration, that is, that the pesticide can perform its intended function without unreasonable adverse effects on human health or the environment. Through this program, EPA is ensuring that each pesticide's registration is based on current scientific and other knowledge, including its effects on human health and the environment. DATES: Comments must be received on or before November 21, 2017. ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, identified by the docket identification (ID) number for the specific pesticide of interest provided in the table in Unit II, 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: For pesticide specific information, contact: The Chemical Review Manager for the pesticide of interest identified in the table in Unit II. For general information on the registration review program, contact: Dana Friedman, Pesticide Re-Evaluation Division (7508P), Office of Pesticide Programs, Environmental Protection Agency, 1200 Pennsylvania Ave. NW., Washington, DC 20460-0001; telephone number: (703) 347-8827; email 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, farm worker, 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 Chemical Review Manager for the pesticide of interest identified in the table in Unit II. 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 on 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. What action is the agency taking? Pursuant to 40 CFR 155.58, this notice announces the availability of EPA's proposed interim registration review decisions for the pesticides shown in the following table, and opens a 60-day public comment period on the proposed interim decisions. For noviflumuron, this notice also opens a comment period on the ecological risk assessment. Table--Registration Review Proposed Interim Decisions Being Issued ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Chemical review manager Registration review case name and No. Docket ID No. and contact information ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Carfentrazone-ethyl, Case Number 7422....... EPA-HQ-OPP-2010-0815..................... Jordan Page, [email protected], (703) 347-0467. Clodinafop-propargyl, Case Number 7250...... EPA-HQ-OPP-2012-0424..................... Wilhelmena Livingston, [email protected], (703) 308- 8025. Copper Compounds, Case Numbers 0636, 0649, EPA-HQ-OPP-2010-0212..................... Jordan Page, 4025, 4026. [email protected], (703) 347-0467, Kimberly Wilson, [email protected], (703) 347-0495. Cyclanilide, Case Number 7018............... EPA-HQ-OPP-2011-0153..................... Leigh Rimmer, [email protected], (703) 347-0553. [[Page 44406]] Flumiclorac-pentyl, Case Number 7232........ EPA-HQ-OPP-2009-0084..................... Christian Bongard, [email protected], (703) 347-0337. Metaflumizone, Case Number 7446............. EPA-HQ-OPP-2016-0417..................... Nathan Sell, [email protected], (703) 347-8020. Nitrapyrin, Case Number 0213................ EPA-HQ-OPP-2012-0170..................... Thomas Harty, [email protected], (703) 347-0338. Noviflumuron, Case Number 7434.............. EPA-HQ-OPP-2014-0566..................... Kyle Morford, [email protected], (703) 347-8895. Pendimethalin, Case Number 0187............. EPA-HQ-OPP-2012-0219..................... Nicole Zinn, [email protected], (703) 308-7076. Sodium, Calcium, and Potassium EPA-HQ-OPP-2012-0004 and EPA-HQ-OPP-2014- Jessica Bailey, Hypochlorites, Case Numbers 0029, 5076. 0157. [email protected] , (703) 347-0148. Spinetoram, Case Number 7448................ EPA-HQ-OPP-2011-0666..................... Roy Johnson, [email protected], (703) 347-0492. Spinosad, Case Number 7421.................. EPA-HQ-OPP-2011-0667..................... Maria Piansay, [email protected], (703) 308-8063. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The registration review docket for a pesticide includes earlier documents related to the registration review case. For example, the review opened with a Preliminary Work Plan, for public comment. A Final Work Plan was placed in the docket following public comment on the Preliminary Work Plan. The documents in the dockets describe EPA's rationales for conducting additional risk assessments for the registration review of the pesticides included in the table in Unit II, as well as the Agency's subsequent risk findings and consideration of possible risk mitigation measures. These proposed interim registration review decisions are supported by the rationales included in those documents. Following public comment, the Agency will issue interim or final registration review decisions for the pesticides listed in the table in Unit II. The registration review program is being conducted under congressionally mandated time frames, and EPA recognizes the need both to make timely decisions and to involve the public. Section 3(g) of the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA) (7 U.S.C. 136a(g)) required EPA to establish by regulation procedures for reviewing pesticide registrations, originally with a goal of reviewing each pesticide's registration every 15 years to ensure that a pesticide continues to meet the FIFRA standard for registration. The Agency's final rule to implement this program was issued in August 2006 and became effective in October 2006, and appears at 40 CFR part 155, subpart C. The Pesticide Registration Improvement Act of 2003 (PRIA) was amended and extended in September 2007. FIFRA, as amended by PRIA in 2007, requires EPA to complete registration review decisions by October 1, 2022, for all pesticides registered as of October 1, 2007. The registration review final rule at 40 CFR 155.58(a) provides for a minimum 60-day public comment period on all proposed interim registration review decisions. This comment period is intended to provide an opportunity for public input and a mechanism for initiating any necessary amendments to the proposed interim decision. All comments should be submitted using the methods in ADDRESSES, and must be received by EPA on or before the closing date. These comments will become part of the docket for the pesticides included in the table in Unit II. Comments received after the close of the comment period will be marked ``late.'' EPA is not required to consider these late comments. The Agency will carefully consider all comments received by the closing date and may provide a ``Response to Comments Memorandum'' in the docket. The interim registration review decision will explain the effect that any comments had on the interim decision and provide the Agency's response to significant comments. Background on the registration review program is provided at: http://www.epa.gov/pesticide-reevaluation. Authority: 7 U.S.C. 136 et seq. Dated: August 22, 2017. Charles Smith, Acting Director, Pesticide Re-Evaluation Division, Office of Pesticide Programs. [FR Doc. 2017-20327 Filed 9-21-17; 8:45 am] BILLING CODE 6560-50-P
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The filings in the above-referenced Through this program, EPA is ensuring wide range of stakeholders including
proceeding are accessible in the that each pesticide’s registration is environmental, human health, farm
Commission’s eLibrary system by based on current scientific and other worker, and agricultural advocates; the
clicking on the appropriate link in the knowledge, including its effects on chemical industry; pesticide users; and
above list. They are also available for human health and the environment. members of the public interested in the
electronic review in the Commission’s DATES: Comments must be received on sale, distribution, or use of pesticides.
Public Reference Room in Washington, or before November 21, 2017. Since others also may be interested, the
DC. There is an eSubscription link on ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, Agency has not attempted to describe all
the Web site that enables subscribers to identified by the docket identification the specific entities that may be affected
receive email notification when a (ID) number for the specific pesticide of by this action. If you have any questions
document is added to a subscribed interest provided in the table in Unit II, regarding the applicability of this action
docket(s). For assistance with any FERC by one of the following methods: to a particular entity, consult the
Online service, please email FERC • Federal eRulemaking Portal: http:// Chemical Review Manager for the
OnlineSupport@ferc.gov, or call (866) www.regulations.gov. Follow the online pesticide of interest identified in the
208–3676 (toll free). For TTY, call (202) table in Unit II.
instructions for submitting comments.
502–8659.
Do not submit electronically any B. What should I consider as I prepare
Dated: September 18, 2017. information you consider to be my comments for EPA?
Kimberly D. Bose, Confidential Business Information (CBI)
Secretary. or other information whose disclosure is 1. Submitting CBI. Do not submit this
[FR Doc. 2017–20196 Filed 9–21–17; 8:45 am] restricted by statute. information to EPA through
BILLING CODE 6717–01–P • Mail: OPP Docket, Environmental regulations.gov or email. Clearly mark
Protection Agency Docket Center (EPA/ the part or all of the information that
DC), (28221T), 1200 Pennsylvania Ave. you claim to be CBI. For CBI
ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION NW., Washington, DC 20460–0001. information on a disk or CD–ROM that
AGENCY • Hand Delivery: To make special you mail to EPA, mark the outside of the
arrangements for hand delivery or disk or CD–ROM as CBI and then
[EPA–HQ–OPP–2016–0729; FRL–9966–50] delivery of boxed information, please identify electronically within the disk or
follow the instructions at http:// CD–ROM the specific information that
Registration Review Proposed Interim
www.epa.gov/dockets/contacts.html. is claimed as CBI. In addition to one
Decisions for Several Pesticides;
Additional instructions on complete version of the comment that
Notice of Availability
commenting or visiting the docket, includes information claimed as CBI, a
AGENCY: Environmental Protection along with more information about copy of the comment that does not
Agency (EPA). dockets generally, is available at http:// contain the information claimed as CBI
ACTION: Notice. www.epa.gov/dockets. must be submitted for inclusion in the
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: public docket. Information so marked
SUMMARY: This notice announces the For pesticide specific information, will not be disclosed except in
availability of EPA’s proposed interim contact: The Chemical Review Manager accordance with procedures set forth in
registration review decisions and opens for the pesticide of interest identified in 40 CFR part 2.
a 60-day public comment period on the
the table in Unit II. 2. Tips for preparing your comments.
proposed interim decisions for the For general information on the
following pesticides: Carfentrazone- When preparing and submitting your
registration review program, contact: comments, see the commenting tips at
ethyl, clodinafop-propargyl, copper Dana Friedman, Pesticide Re-Evaluation
compounds, cyclanilide, flumiclorac- http://www.epa.gov/dockets/
Division (7508P), Office of Pesticide comments.html.
pentyl, metaflumizone, nitrapyrin, Programs, Environmental Protection
noviflumuron, pendimethalin, Agency, 1200 Pennsylvania Ave. NW., II. What action is the agency taking?
spinetoram, spinosad, and sodium, Washington, DC 20460–0001; telephone
calcium, and potassium hypochlorites. number: (703) 347–8827; email address: Pursuant to 40 CFR 155.58, this notice
Registration review is EPA’s periodic friedman.dana@epa.gov. announces the availability of EPA’s
review of pesticide registrations to proposed interim registration review
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
ensure that each pesticide continues to decisions for the pesticides shown in
satisfy the statutory standard for I. General Information the following table, and opens a 60-day
registration, that is, that the pesticide public comment period on the proposed
can perform its intended function A. Does this action apply to me? interim decisions. For noviflumuron,
without unreasonable adverse effects on This action is directed to the public this notice also opens a comment period
human health or the environment. in general, and may be of interest to a on the ecological risk assessment.
TABLE—REGISTRATION REVIEW PROPOSED INTERIM DECISIONS BEING ISSUED
Registration review case name Docket ID No. Chemical review manager and contact information
and No.
Carfentrazone-ethyl, Case Num- EPA–HQ–OPP–2010–0815 ..... Jordan Page, page.jordan@epa.gov, (703) 347–0467.
ber 7422.
Clodinafop-propargyl, Case Num- EPA–HQ–OPP–2012–0424 ..... Wilhelmena Livingston, livingston.wilhelmena@epa.gov, (703) 308–8025.
ber 7250.
Copper Compounds, Case Num- EPA–HQ–OPP–2010–0212 ..... Jordan Page, page.jordan@epa.gov, (703) 347–0467, Kimberly Wilson,
bers 0636, 0649, 4025, 4026. wilson.kimberly@epa.gov, (703) 347–0495.
Cyclanilide, Case Number 7018 .. EPA–HQ–OPP–2011–0153 ..... Leigh Rimmer, rimmer.leigh@epa.gov, (703) 347–0553.
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TABLE—REGISTRATION REVIEW PROPOSED INTERIM DECISIONS BEING ISSUED—Continued
Registration review case name Docket ID No. Chemical review manager and contact information
and No.
Flumiclorac-pentyl, Case Number EPA–HQ–OPP–2009–0084 ..... Christian Bongard, bongard.christian@epa.gov, (703) 347–0337.
7232.
Metaflumizone, Case Number EPA–HQ–OPP–2016–0417 ..... Nathan Sell, sell.nathan@epa.gov, (703) 347–8020.
7446.
Nitrapyrin, Case Number 0213 .... EPA–HQ–OPP–2012–0170 ..... Thomas Harty, harty.thomas@epa.gov, (703) 347–0338.
Noviflumuron, Case Number EPA–HQ–OPP–2014–0566 ..... Kyle Morford, morford.kyle@epa.gov, (703) 347–8895.
7434.
Pendimethalin, Case Number EPA–HQ–OPP–2012–0219 ..... Nicole Zinn, zinn.nicole@epa.gov, (703) 308–7076.
0187.
Sodium, Calcium, and Potassium EPA–HQ–OPP–2012–0004 Jessica Bailey, bailey.jessica@epa.gov, (703) 347–0148.
Hypochlorites, Case Numbers and EPA–HQ–OPP–2014–
0029, 5076. 0157.
Spinetoram, Case Number 7448 EPA–HQ–OPP–2011–0666 ..... Roy Johnson, johnson.roy@epa.gov, (703) 347–0492.
Spinosad, Case Number 7421 .... EPA–HQ–OPP–2011–0667 ..... Maria Piansay, piansay.maria@epa.gov, (703) 308–8063.
The registration review docket for a The registration review final rule at 40 ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION
pesticide includes earlier documents CFR 155.58(a) provides for a minimum AGENCY
related to the registration review case. 60-day public comment period on all
[EPA–HQ–OPP–2016–0242; EPA–HQ–OPP–
For example, the review opened with a proposed interim registration review 2016–0226; FRL–9965–80]
Preliminary Work Plan, for public decisions. This comment period is
comment. A Final Work Plan was intended to provide an opportunity for Pesticides; Final Guidance for
placed in the docket following public public input and a mechanism for Pesticide Registrants on Two Pesticide
comment on the Preliminary Work Plan. initiating any necessary amendments to Registration Notices Related to
The documents in the dockets Resistance Management
the proposed interim decision. All
describe EPA’s rationales for conducting
comments should be submitted using
additional risk assessments for the AGENCY: Environmental Protection
registration review of the pesticides the methods in ADDRESSES, and must be Agency (EPA).
included in the table in Unit II, as well received by EPA on or before the closing
ACTION: Notice of availability.
as the Agency’s subsequent risk findings date. These comments will become part
and consideration of possible risk of the docket for the pesticides included SUMMARY: The Environmental Protection
mitigation measures. These proposed in the table in Unit II. Comments Agency is announcing the availability of
interim registration review decisions are received after the close of the comment two final Pesticide Registration Notices
supported by the rationales included in period will be marked ‘‘late.’’ EPA is not (PRNs) entitled, ‘‘Guidance for Pesticide
those documents. required to consider these late Registrants on Pesticide Resistance
Following public comment, the comments. Management Labeling’’ and ‘‘Guidance
Agency will issue interim or final The Agency will carefully consider all for Herbicide Resistance Management
registration review decisions for the comments received by the closing date Labeling, Education, Training, and
pesticides listed in the table in Unit II. and may provide a ‘‘Response to Stewardship.’’ The Agency signed these
The registration review program is final PRNs, identified as 2017–1 and
Comments Memorandum’’ in the
being conducted under congressionally 2017–2 respectively, on August 24,
docket. The interim registration review
mandated time frames, and EPA 2017. PRNs are issued by the Office of
recognizes the need both to make timely decision will explain the effect that any Pesticide Programs (OPP) to inform
decisions and to involve the public. comments had on the interim decision pesticide registrants and other
Section 3(g) of the Federal Insecticide, and provide the Agency’s response to interested persons about important
Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA) significant comments. policies, procedures, and registration-
(7 U.S.C. 136a(g)) required EPA to Background on the registration review related decisions, and to provide
establish by regulation procedures for program is provided at: http:// guidance to pesticide registrants and
reviewing pesticide registrations, www.epa.gov/pesticide-reevaluation. OPP personnel. PRN 2017–1, which
originally with a goal of reviewing each updates PRN 2001–5, provides guidance
Authority: 7 U.S.C. 136 et seq.
pesticide’s registration every 15 years to for registrants to follow when
ensure that a pesticide continues to Dated: August 22, 2017. developing resistance management
meet the FIFRA standard for Charles Smith, information to include on their
registration. The Agency’s final rule to Acting Director, Pesticide Re-Evaluation pesticide labels. PRN 2017–2
implement this program was issued in Division, Office of Pesticide Programs. communicates the Agency’s current
August 2006 and became effective in [FR Doc. 2017–20327 Filed 9–21–17; 8:45 am] thinking and approach to address
October 2006, and appears at 40 CFR BILLING CODE 6560–50–P
herbicide-resistant weeds by providing
part 155, subpart C. The Pesticide guidance on labeling, education,
Registration Improvement Act of 2003 training, and stewardship for herbicides
(PRIA) was amended and extended in undergoing registration review or
September 2007. FIFRA, as amended by registration (i.e., new herbicide active
PRIA in 2007, requires EPA to complete ingredients, new uses proposed for use
registration review decisions by October on herbicide-resistant crops, or other
1, 2022, for all pesticides registered as case-specific registration actions). The
of October 1, 2007. Agency requested comment on both of
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