83 FR 678 - Pesticide Product Registration; Receipt of Applications for New Active Ingredients

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

Federal Register Volume 83, Issue 4 (January 5, 2018)

Page Range		678-679
FR Document		2018-00021

EPA has received applications to register pesticide products containing active ingredients not included in any 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.

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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

[EPA-HQ-OPP-2017-0007; FRL-9971-45]


Pesticide Product Registration; Receipt of Applications for New 
Active Ingredients

AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: EPA has received applications to register pesticide products 
containing active ingredients not included in any 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 5, 2018.

ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, identified by the Docket 
Identification (ID) Number and the File Symbol of interest as show 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, Biopesticides and 
Pollution Prevention Division (7511P), 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 application 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:
     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 active ingredients not included in any 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 
opportunity to comment on these applications. Notice of receipt of 
these applications does not imply a decision by the Agency on these 
applications.

III. Notice of Receipt--New Active Ingredients

    1. File Symbol: 10163-GLI. Docket ID number: EPA-HQ-OPP-2017-0565. 
Applicant: Gowan Company LLC, P.O. Box 5569, Yuma, AZ 85366-5569. 
Product name: EcoSwing Technical. Active ingredient: Biochemical 
fungicide--Extract of Swinglea glutinosa at 100%. Proposed use: 
Biochemical manufacturing-use product. Contact: BPPD.
    2. File Symbol: 10163-GLT. Docket ID number: EPA-HQ-OPP-2017-0565. 
Applicant: Gowan Company LLC, P.O. Box 5569, Yuma, AZ 85366-5569. 
Product name: EcoSwing Botanical Fungicide. Active ingredient: 
Biochemical fungicide--Extract of Swinglea glutinosa at 82%. Proposed 
use: Biochemical end-use product/fungicide. Contact: BPPD.
    3. File Symbol: 91810-E. Docket ID number: EPA-HQ-OPP-2017-0316. 
Applicant: Technology Sciences Group Inc., 712 Fifth St., Suite A, 
Davis, CA 95616 (on behalf of Lesaffre Yeast

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Corporation, 7475 W. Main St., Milwaukee, WI 53214). Product name: 
Romeo[supreg]. Active ingredient: Systemic resistance inducer (SRI)--
Cerevisane (cell walls of Saccharomyces cerevisiae strain LAS117) at 
94.1%. Proposed use: End-use product that is a systemic resistance 
inducer. Contact: BPPD.
    4. File Symbol: 91810-R. Docket ID number: EPA-HQ-OPP-2017-0316. 
Applicant: Technology Sciences Group Inc., 712 Fifth St., Suite A, 
Davis, CA 95616 (on behalf of Lesaffre Yeast Corporation, 7475 W. Main 
St., Milwaukee, WI 53214). Product name: Cerevisane Technical. Active 
ingredient: Systemic resistance inducer (SRI)--Cerevisane (cell walls 
of Saccharomyces cerevisiae strain LAS117) at 94.1%. Proposed use: For 
manufacturing use. Contact: BPPD.

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

    Dated: December 4, 2017.
Delores Barber,
Director, Information Technology and Resources Management 
Division,Office of Pesticide Programs.
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Corporation, 7475 W. Main St., ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION must use the adequate budgets in future
Milwaukee, WI 53214). Product name: AGENCY transportation conformity analyses.
Romeo®. Active ingredient: Systemic DATES: This finding is effective January
resistance inducer (SRI)—Cerevisane [EPA–R09–OAR–2017–0490; FRL–9972–80– 22, 2018.
(cell walls of Saccharomyces cerevisiae Region 9] FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
strain LAS117) at 94.1%. Proposed use: Wienke Tax, EPA, Region IX, Air
End-use product that is a systemic Adequacy Status of Motor Vehicle Division AIR–2, 75 Hawthorne Street,
resistance inducer. Contact: BPPD. Emissions Budgets in Submitted PM2.5 San Francisco, CA 94105–3901; (415)
Serious Area Plan for South Coast; 947–4192 or tax.wienke@epa.gov.
4. File Symbol: 91810–R. Docket ID California
number: EPA–HQ–OPP–2017–0316. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Applicant: Technology Sciences Group AGENCY: Environmental Protection Throughout this document, whenever
Inc., 712 Fifth St., Suite A, Davis, CA Agency (EPA). ‘‘we,’’ ‘‘us,’’ or ‘‘our’’ is used, we mean
95616 (on behalf of Lesaffre Yeast ACTION: Notice of adequacy. EPA.
Corporation, 7475 W. Main St., Today’s notice is simply an
Milwaukee, WI 53214). Product name: SUMMARY: The Environmental Protection announcement of a finding that we have
Cerevisane Technical. Active ingredient: Agency (EPA or ‘‘Agency’’) is notifying already made. EPA Region IX sent a
Systemic resistance inducer (SRI)— the public that the Agency has found letter to CARB on December 19, 2017,
Cerevisane (cell walls of Saccharomyces that the motor vehicle emissions stating that the MVEBs in the 2016
cerevisiae strain LAS117) at 94.1%. budgets (MVEBs or ‘‘budgets’’) for the PM2.5 Plan for the reasonable further
Proposed use: For manufacturing use. years 2017 and 2019 in the 2016 South progress (RFP) milestone year of 2017
Coast Serious Area Plan for the 2006 24- and attainment year of 2019 are
Contact: BPPD.
hour fine particulate matter (PM2.5) adequate. The finding is available at the
Authority: 7 U.S.C. 136 et seq. National Ambient Air Quality Standards EPA’s conformity website: https://
Dated: December 4, 2017. (NAAQS) (‘‘2016 PM2.5 Plan’’ or ‘‘Plan’’) www.epa.gov/state-and-local-
Delores Barber,
are adequate for transportation transportation/adequacy-review-state-
conformity purposes. The California Air implementation-plan-sip-submissions-
Director, Information Technology and Resources Board (CARB) submitted the conformity. We announced the
Resources Management Division,Office of
2016 PM2.5 Plan to the EPA on April 27, availability of the Plan and related
Pesticide Programs.
2017, as a revision to the California budgets on the EPA’s conformity
[FR Doc. 2018–00021 Filed 1–4–18; 8:45 am]
State Implementation Plan (SIP). Upon website on October 18, 2017. We
BILLING CODE 6560–50–P the effective date of this notice of received no comments in response to
adequacy, the Southern California this announcement. The adequate
Association of Governments (SCAG) and budgets are provided in the following
the U.S. Department of Transportation table:

ADEQUATE MOTOR VEHICLE EMISSIONS BUDGETS IN SOUTH COAST 2006 PM2.5 SERIOUS AREA PLAN
[Annual average tons per day]

Volatile Directly
Nitrogen
Budget Year organic emitted
oxides
compounds PM2.5

2017 ............................................................................................................................................. 99 200 21
2019 ............................................................................................................................................. 83 169 20

Transportation conformity is required SIP budgets in our July 1, 2004 final rule we are not taking action on the 2020
by CAA section 176(c). The EPA’s (69 FR 40004, 40038), and we used the budgets at this time.
Transportation Conformity Rule at 40 information in these resources in The Transportation Conformity Rule
CFR part 93, subpart A requires that making our adequacy determination. requires that control strategy SIPs,
transportation plans, transportation Please note that an adequacy review is including the RFP plans and attainment
improvement programs, and projects separate from the EPA’s completeness plans required for Serious PM2.5
conform to SIPs and establishes the review and should not be used to nonattainment areas,1 contain MVEBs
criteria and procedures for determining prejudge the EPA’s ultimate action on for direct PM2.5 and PM2.5 precursors
whether or not they do. Conformity to the SIP. Even if we find a budget subject to transportation conformity
a SIP means that transportation adequate, the SIP could later be analyses for each milestone year
activities will not produce new air disapproved. addressed in the control strategy.2
quality violations, worsen existing
violations, or delay timely attainment of Consistent with the requirements set 1 See 40 CFR 93.101 (defining ‘‘control strategy

the NAAQS. forth in the Fine Particulate Matter implementation plan revision’’).
The criteria we use to determine National Ambient Air Quality 2 See 40 CFR 93.101 (defining ‘‘motor vehicle
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whether a SIP’s motor vehicle emission Standards: State Implementation Plan emissions budget’’), 93.102(b)(2)(iv) and (v)
Requirements, Final Rule (81 FR 58010, (establishing applicability of part 93 requirements
budgets are adequate for conformity to PM2.5 precursor pollutants) and 93.118(a)
purposes are outlined in 40 CFR August 24, 2016) (‘‘PM2.5 SIP (requiring that each transportation plan, TIP, or
93.118(e)(4), promulgated on August 15, Requirements Rule’’), the 2016 PM2.5 project not from a conforming transportation plan
Plan contains RFP budgets for 2020, and TIP be consistent with the motor vehicle
1997 (62 FR 43780, 43781–43783). We emissions budget(s) in the applicable
further described our process for which is the year following the implementation plan (or implementation plan
determining the adequacy of submitted attainment year. As explained below, submission)).

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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		Comments must be received on or before February 5, 2018.
Contact		Robert McNally, Biopesticides and Pollution Prevention Division (7511P), main telephone number: (703)
FR Citation		83 FR 678