[Federal Register Volume 62, Number 1 (Thursday, January 2, 1997)]
[Notices]
[Page 99]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 96-33298]
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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY
[OPP-30072M; FRL-5579-1]
Pesticide Tolerance Processing Fees Deposit Fund
AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency.
ACTION: Notice.
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SUMMARY: EPA announces that, as a result of the passage of the Food
Quality Protection Act on August 3, 1996, all fees related to pesticide
tolerance activities are being deposited in the Reregistration and
Expedited Processing Fund. The current fee schedule for tolerance
activities has not been changed.
EFFECTIVE DATE: January 2, 1997.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: By mail: Iantha Gilmore, Resource
Management Staff, Office of Pesticide Programs (7501C), Environmental
Protection Agency, 401 M St., SW., Washington, DC 20460. Office
Location and telephone number: Room 700-D, CM #2, 1921 Jefferson Davis
Highway, Arlington, Virginia, (703-305-6127); e-mail:
gilmore.iantha@epamail.epa.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: In accordance with section 408(m) of the
Federal, Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (FFDCA), as amended by the Food
Quality Protection Act of August 3, 1996, the EPA announces that all
fees related to tolerance activities collected under 40 CFR 180.33 are,
as of the date of this notice, being deposited in the Reregistration
and Expedited Processing Fund.
The current tolerance fee regulations (40 CFR 180.33) were
promulgated under the former section 408(o) of the FFDCA and were
deposited to the Tolerance Fee Fund. The new section 408(m) uses almost
identical language to that used in the earlier section 408(o), except
that section 408(m) specifies that tolerance fees are to be deposited
into the Reregistration and Expedited Processing Fund. Because the two
sections are otherwise nearly identical, tolerance fees will continue
for now to be subject to the existing fee schedule in 40 CFR 180.33.
EPA anticipates that this fee schedule will be sufficient to
provide, equip, and maintain an adequate tolerance assessment program
over the short term. For the longer term, EPA is currently engaged in a
public process to determine how best to implement all the provisions of
the new FFDCA section 408. If, at the completion of this process, EPA
concludes that any changes in EPA's tolerance assessment program
requires a change in the existing tolerance fee structure, EPA will
revise the fee schedule accordingly.
Until the above public process is completed, the current procedure
for increasing the fee structure to reflect the annual increase for
civilian Federal General Schedule (GS) employees working in the
Washington, DC/Baltimore, MD metropolitan area will continue. When
these automatic adjustments are made, a new fee schedule will be
published as a final rule in the Federal Register to become effective
30 days or more after publication.
In the meantime, all deposits and fees required by the regulations
in 40 CFR part 180 must be paid by money order, bank draft, or
certified check drawn to the order of the Environmental Protection
Agency. All deposits and fees must be forwarded to the Environmental
Protection Agency, Headquarters Accounting Operations Branch, Office of
Pesticide Programs (Tolerance Fees), P. O. Box 360277M, Pittsburgh, PA
15251. The payments should be labeled ``Tolerance Petition Fees'' and
should be accompanied only by a copy of the letter or petition
requesting the tolerance.
The actual letter or petition along with supporting data, shall be
forwarded within 30 days of payment to the Environmental Protection
Agency, Office of Pesticide Programs, Registration Division, (7505C)
Washington, DC 20460. A petition will not be accepted for processing
until the required fees have been submitted. A petition for which a
waiver of fees has been requested will not be accepted for processing
until the fee has been waived or, if the waiver has been denied, the
proper fee is submitted after notice of denial. A request for waiver or
refund will not be accepted after scientific review has begun on a
petition.
Dated: December 19, 1996.
Lynn R. Goldman,
Assistant Administrator for Prevention, Pesticides and Toxic
Substances.
[FR Doc. 96-33298 Filed 12-31-96; 8:45 am]
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