2021-03713. Pesticide Product Registration; Receipt of Applications for New Uses

February 2021.

AGENCY:

Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

ACTION:

Notice.

SUMMARY:

EPA has received applications to register new uses for pesticide products containing currently registered active ingredients. 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 March 26, 2021.

ADDRESSES:

Submit your comments, identified by the docket identification (ID) number and the File Symbol of the EPA registration number of interest as shown in the body of this document, by using the Federal eRulemaking Portal at 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.

Due to the public health concerns related to COVID-19, the EPA Docket Center (EPA/DC) and Reading Room is closed to visitors with limited exceptions. The staff continues to provide remote customer service via email, phone, and webform. For the latest status information on EPA/DC services and docket access, visit https://www.epa.gov/​dockets.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Marietta Echeverria, Registration Division (7505P), main telephone number: [phone], email address: [e-mail]. 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).

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 https://www.epa.gov/​dockets/​commenting-epa-dockets.

II. Registration Applications

EPA has received applications to register new uses for pesticide products containing currently registered active ingredients. 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.

New Uses

1. EPA Registration Numbers: 100-758, 100-759, 100-953, 100-1242, 100-1454, and 100-1664. Docket ID number: EPA-HQ-OPP-2020-0419. Applicant: Syngenta Crop Protection, LLC, P.O. Box 18300, Greensboro, NC 27419. Active ingredient: Fludioxonil. Product type: Fungicide. Proposed use: Sugar apple (pre-harvest); post-harvest use on dragon fruit, Japanese persimmon, jackfruit, durian, and mangosteen; greenhouse uses on cucumber, pepper, and tomato; crop expansions for cottonseed subgroup 20C, sunflower subgroup 20B, and tropical and subtropical fruit, small fruit, inedible peel, subgroup 24A; crop group conversions for leaf petiole vegetable subgroup 22B, celtuce, fennel, Florence, fresh leaves and stalk, and leafy greens subgroup 4-16A; vegetable, legume, group 6, except bean, dry and bean, succulent; vegetable, root, except sugar beet, subgroup 1B, except carrot and ginseng; carrot, roots; vegetable, tuberous and corm, subgroup 1C, except yam, true, tuber; brassica, head and stem, group 5-16; kohlrabi; brassica, leafy greens, subgroup 4-16B, except watercress; and watercress. Contact: RD.

2. EPA Registration Numbers: 100-759, 100-1454, and 100-1603. Docket ID number: EPA-HQ-OPP-2021-0020. Applicant: Syngenta Crop Protection, LLC, P.O. Box 18300, Greensboro, NC 27419. Active ingredient: Fludioxonil. Product type: Fungicide. Proposed use: Tree nut crop group 14-12. Contact: RD.

3. EPA Registration Number: 100-1467, 100-1462, 100-1463 and 100-1465. Docket ID number: EPA-HQ-OPP-2019-0542. Applicant: Syngenta Crop Protection, LLC, P.O. Box 18300, Greensboro, NC 27419. Product name: Bicyclopyrone Technical, Bicyclopyrone Wet Paste Manufacturing Use Product, Bicyclopyrone Wet Paste II Manufacturing Use Product and SYN-A 16003 Herbicide. Active ingredient: Bicyclopyrone at 99.3% (Bicyclopyrone Technical), 94% (Bicyclopyrone Wet Paste Manufacturing Use Product), 89.6% (Bicyclopyrone Wet Paste II Manufacturing Use Product) and 18.5% (SYN-A 16003 Herbicide). Proposed use: Lemongrass, dried; Lemongrass, fresh; Rosemary, dried; Rosemary, fresh; Wormwood, dried and Wormwood, fresh. Contact: RD.

4. EPA Registration Number: 264-1077. Docket ID number: EPA-HQ-OPP-2020-0607. Applicant: Bayer CropScience, 800 N Lindbergh Blvd., St. Louis, MO 63167. Active ingredient: Fluopyram (N-[2-[3-chloro-5-(trifluoromethyl)-2-pyridinyl]ethyl]-2-(trifluoromethyl)benzamide). Product type: Fungicide. Proposed use: Coffee. Contact: RD.

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

Dated: February 11, 2021.

Delores Barber,

Director, Information Technology and Resources Management Division, Office of Program Support.