82 FR 59599 - Registration Review Proposed Interim Decisions for Several Pesticides; Notice of Availability
ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY Federal Register Volume 82, Issue 240 (December 15, 2017)
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[Federal Register Volume 82, Number 240 (Friday, December 15, 2017)] [Notices] [Pages 59599-59600] From the Federal Register Online [www.thefederalregister.org] [FR Doc No: 2017-27100] ----------------------------------------------------------------------- ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY [EPA-HQ-OPP-2016-0729; FRL-9970-52] 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: Cloransulam-methyl, cymoxanil, cyprodinil, diethylene glycol monomethyl ether (DGME), dimethomorph, fomesafen, kresoxim-methyl, metalaxyl & mefenoxam, and the mineral acids. 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 February 13, 2018. 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 [[Page 59600]] 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 cloransulam- methyl, this notice also opens a comment period on the draft human health and ecological risk assessments. Table--Registration Review Proposed Interim Decisions Being Issued ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Chemical review manager and Registration review case name and No. Docket ID No. contact information ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Cloransulam-methyl, Case 7243........ EPA-HQ-OPP-2010-0855 Patricia Biggio, [email protected], 703- 347-0547. Cymoxanil, Case 7023................. EPA-HQ-OPP-2012-0148 Moana Appleyard, [email protected], 703- 308-8175. Cyprodinil, Case 7025................ EPA-HQ-OPP-2011-1008 Cathryn Britton, [email protected], 703- 308-0136. Diethylene Glycol Monomethyl Ether EPA-HQ-OPP-2010-0694 Stephen Savage, (DGME), Case 5010. [email protected], 703- 347-0345. Dimethomorph, Case 7021.............. EPA-HQ-OPP-2013-0045 Linsey Walsh, [email protected], 703- 347-8030. Fomesafen, Case 7211................. EPA-HQ-OPP-2006-0239 Leigh Rimmer, [email protected], 703- 347-0553. Kresoxim-methyl, Case 7026........... EPA-HQ-OPP-2012-0861 Bilin Basu, [email protected], 703-347- 0455. Metalaxyl and Mefenoxam, Case 0081... EPA-HQ-OPP-2009-0863 Leigh Rimmer, [email protected], 703- 347-0553. Mineral Acids, Case 4064............. EPA-HQ-OPP-2008-0766 Rachel Ricciardi, [email protected], 703-347-0465. Cathryn Britton, [email protected], 703- 308-0136. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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: November 27, 2017. Charles Smith, Acting Director, Pesticide Re-Evaluation Division, Office of Pesticide Programs. [FR Doc. 2017-27100 Filed 12-14-17; 8:45 am] BILLING CODE 6560-50-P
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numbers of the products listed in Table
1 of this unit.
TABLE 2—REGISTRANTS OF CANCELLED PRODUCTS
EPA company No. Company name and address
279 ..................................................................................... FMC Corporation, 2929 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, PA 19104.
42750 ................................................................................. Albaugh, LLC, P.O. Box 2127, Valdosta, GA 31604–2127.
62719 ................................................................................. Dow AgroSciences, LLC, 9330 Zionsville Rd., 308/2E, Indianapolis, IN 46268–1054.
66171 ................................................................................. Preserve International, 944 Nandino Blvd., Lexington, KY 40511.
III. Summary of Public Comments which were packaged, labeled, and (DGME), dimethomorph, fomesafen,
Received and Agency Response to released for shipment prior to the kresoxim-methyl, metalaxyl &
Comments effective date of the cancellation action. mefenoxam, and the mineral acids.
During the public comment period The existing stocks provisions for the Registration review is EPA’s periodic
provided, EPA received no comments in products subject to this order are as review of pesticide registrations to
response to the Federal Register notice follows. ensure that each pesticide continues to
The registrants may continue to sell satisfy the statutory standard for
of April 10, 2017 (82 FR 17258) (FRL–
and distribute existing stocks of registration, that is, that the pesticide
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products listed in Table 1 of Unit II can perform its intended function
receipt of the requests for voluntary
until December 17, 2018, which is 1 without unreasonable adverse effects on
cancellations of products listed in Table
year after the publication of the human health or the environment.
1 of Unit II.
Cancellation Order in the Federal Through this program, EPA is ensuring
IV. Cancellation Order Register. Thereafter, the registrants are that each pesticide’s registration is
Pursuant to FIFRA section 6(f) prohibited from selling or distributing based on current scientific and other
(7 U.S.C. 136d(f)), EPA hereby approves products listed in Table 1, except for knowledge, including its effects on
the requested cancellations of the export in accordance with FIFRA human health and the environment.
registrations identified in Table 1 of section 17 (7 U.S.C. 1360), or proper DATES: Comments must be received on
Unit II. Accordingly, the Agency hereby disposal. Persons other than the or before February 13, 2018.
orders that the product registrations registrants may sell, distribute, or use
ADDRESSES: Submit your comments,
identified in Table 1 of Unit II are existing stocks of products listed in
Table 1 of Unit II until existing stocks identified by the docket identification
canceled. The effective date of the (ID) number for the specific pesticide of
cancellations that are the subject of this are exhausted, provided that such sale,
distribution, or use is consistent with interest provided in the table in Unit II,
notice is December 15, 2017. Any by one of the following methods:
distribution, sale, or use of existing the terms of the previously approved
labeling on, or that accompanied, the • Federal eRulemaking Portal: http://
stocks of the products identified in www.regulations.gov. Follow the online
Table 1 of Unit II in a manner canceled products.
instructions for submitting comments.
inconsistent with any of the provisions Authority: 7 U.S.C. 136 et seq. Do not submit electronically any
for disposition of existing stocks set Dated: November 14, 2017. information you consider to be
forth in Unit VI will be a violation of Hamaad A. Syed, Confidential Business Information (CBI)
FIFRA. Acting Director, Information Technology and or other information whose disclosure is
V. What is the Agency’s authority for Resources Management Division, Office of restricted by statute.
taking this action? Pesticide Programs. • Mail: OPP Docket, Environmental
[FR Doc. 2017–27093 Filed 12–14–17; 8:45 am] Protection Agency Docket Center (EPA/
Section 6(f)(1) of FIFRA (7 U.S.C. DC), (28221T), 1200 Pennsylvania Ave.
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136d(f)(1)) provides that a registrant of NW, Washington, DC 20460–0001.
a pesticide product may at any time • Hand Delivery: To make special
request that any of its pesticide ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION arrangements for hand delivery or
registrations be canceled or amended to AGENCY delivery of boxed information, please
terminate one or more uses. FIFRA follow the instructions at http://
further provides that, before acting on [EPA–HQ–OPP–2016–0729; FRL–9970–52]
www.epa.gov/dockets/contacts.html.
the request, EPA must publish a notice Additional instructions on commenting
of receipt of any such request in the Registration Review Proposed Interim
Decisions for Several Pesticides; or visiting the docket, along with more
Federal Register. Thereafter, following information about dockets generally, is
the public comment period, the EPA Notice of Availability
available at http://www.epa.gov/
Administrator may approve such a AGENCY: Environmental Protection dockets.
request. The notice of receipt for this Agency (EPA).
action was published for comment in ACTION: Notice. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
the Federal Register of April 10, 2017. For pesticide specific information,
SUMMARY: This notice announces the contact: The Chemical Review Manager
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The comment period closed on October
10, 2017. availability of EPA’s proposed interim for the pesticide of interest identified in
registration review decisions and opens the table in Unit II.
VI. Provisions for Disposition of a 60-day public comment period on the For general information on the
Existing Stocks proposed interim decisions for the registration review program, contact:
Existing stocks are those stocks of following pesticides: Cloransulam- Dana Friedman, Pesticide Re-Evaluation
registered pesticide products which are methyl, cymoxanil, cyprodinil, Division (7508P), Office of Pesticide
currently in the United States and diethylene glycol monomethyl ether Programs, Environmental Protection
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Agency, 1200 Pennsylvania Ave. NW, to a particular entity, consult the must be submitted for inclusion in the
Washington, DC 20460–0001; telephone Chemical Review Manager for the public docket. Information so marked
number: (703) 347–8827; email address: pesticide of interest identified in the will not be disclosed except in
friedman.dana@epa.gov. table in Unit II. accordance with procedures set forth in
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 40 CFR part 2.
B. What should I consider as I prepare
2. Tips for preparing your comments.
I. General Information my comments for EPA?
When preparing and submitting your
1. Submitting CBI. Do not submit this comments, see the commenting tips at
A. Does this action apply to me?
information to EPA through http://www.epa.gov/dockets/
This action is directed to the public regulations.gov or email. Clearly mark comments.html.
in general, and may be of interest to a the part or all of the information that
wide range of stakeholders including you claim to be CBI. For CBI II. What action is the Agency taking?
environmental, human health, farm information on a disk or CD–ROM that Pursuant to 40 CFR 155.58, this notice
worker, and agricultural advocates; the you mail to EPA, mark the outside of the announces the availability of EPA’s
chemical industry; pesticide users; and disk or CD–ROM as CBI and then proposed interim registration review
members of the public interested in the identify electronically within the disk or decisions for the pesticides shown in
sale, distribution, or use of pesticides. CD–ROM the specific information that the following table, and opens a 60-day
Since others also may be interested, the is claimed as CBI. In addition to one public comment period on the proposed
Agency has not attempted to describe all complete version of the comment that interim decisions. For cloransulam-
the specific entities that may be affected includes information claimed as CBI, a methyl, this notice also opens a
by this action. If you have any questions copy of the comment that does not comment period on the draft human
regarding the applicability of this action contain the information claimed as CBI health and ecological risk assessments.
TABLE—REGISTRATION REVIEW PROPOSED INTERIM DECISIONS BEING ISSUED
Registration review case name and No. Docket ID No. Chemical review manager and contact information
Cloransulam-methyl, Case 7243 ...................... EPA–HQ–OPP–2010–0855 Patricia Biggio, biggio.patricia@epa.gov, 703–347–0547.
Cymoxanil, Case 7023 ..................................... EPA–HQ–OPP–2012–0148 Moana Appleyard, appleyard.moana@epa.gov, 703–308–8175.
Cyprodinil, Case 7025 ...................................... EPA–HQ–OPP–2011–1008 Cathryn Britton, britton.cathryn@epa.gov, 703–308–0136.
Diethylene Glycol Monomethyl Ether (DGME), EPA–HQ–OPP–2010–0694 Stephen Savage, savage.stephen@epa.gov, 703–347–0345.
Case 5010.
Dimethomorph, Case 7021 ............................... EPA–HQ–OPP–2013–0045 Linsey Walsh, walsh.linsey@epa.gov, 703–347–8030.
Fomesafen, Case 7211 .................................... EPA–HQ–OPP–2006–0239 Leigh Rimmer, rimmer.leigh@epa.gov, 703–347–0553.
Kresoxim-methyl, Case 7026 ........................... EPA–HQ–OPP–2012–0861 Bilin Basu, basu.bilin@epa.gov, 703–347–0455.
Metalaxyl and Mefenoxam, Case 0081 ............ EPA–HQ–OPP–2009–0863 Leigh Rimmer, rimmer.leigh@epa.gov, 703–347–0553.
Mineral Acids, Case 4064 ................................ EPA–HQ–OPP–2008–0766 Rachel Ricciardi, ricciardi.rachel@epa.gov, 703–347–0465.
Cathryn Britton, britton.cathryn@epa.gov, 703–308–0136.
The registration review docket for a (7 U.S.C. 136a(g)) required EPA to the methods in ADDRESSES, and must be
pesticide includes earlier documents establish by regulation procedures for received by EPA on or before the closing
related to the registration review case. reviewing pesticide registrations, date. These comments will become part
For example, the review opened with a originally with a goal of reviewing each of the docket for the pesticides included
Preliminary Work Plan, for public pesticide’s registration every 15 years to in the table in Unit II. Comments
comment. A Final Work Plan was ensure that a pesticide continues to received after the close of the comment
placed in the docket following public meet the FIFRA standard for period will be marked ‘‘late.’’ EPA is not
comment on the Preliminary Work Plan. registration. The Agency’s final rule to required to consider these late
The documents in the dockets implement this program was issued in comments.
describe EPA’s rationales for conducting August 2006 and became effective in The Agency will carefully consider all
additional risk assessments for the October 2006, and appears at 40 CFR comments received by the closing date
registration review of the pesticides part 155, subpart C. The Pesticide and may provide a ‘‘Response to
included in the table in Unit II, as well Registration Improvement Act of 2003 Comments Memorandum’’ in the
as the Agency’s subsequent risk findings (PRIA) was amended and extended in docket. The interim registration review
and consideration of possible risk September 2007. FIFRA, as amended by decision will explain the effect that any
mitigation measures. These proposed PRIA in 2007, requires EPA to complete comments had on the interim decision
interim registration review decisions are registration review decisions by October
supported by the rationales included in and provide the Agency’s response to
1, 2022, for all pesticides registered as significant comments.
those documents. of October 1, 2007.
Following public comment, the Background on the registration review
Agency will issue interim or final The registration review final rule at 40 program is provided at: http://
registration review decisions for the CFR 155.58(a) provides for a minimum www.epa.gov/pesticide-reevaluation.
60-day public comment period on all
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pesticides listed in the table in Unit II. Authority: 7 U.S.C. 136 et seq.
The registration review program is proposed interim registration review
being conducted under congressionally decisions. This comment period is Dated: November 27, 2017.
mandated time frames, and EPA intended to provide an opportunity for Charles Smith,
recognizes the need both to make timely public input and a mechanism for Acting Director, Pesticide Re-Evaluation
decisions and to involve the public. initiating any necessary amendments to Division, Office of Pesticide Programs.
Section 3(g) of the Federal Insecticide, the proposed interim decision. All [FR Doc. 2017–27100 Filed 12–14–17; 8:45 am]
Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA) comments should be submitted using BILLING CODE 6560–50–P
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