2013-21021. Notice of Receipt of Requests To Voluntarily Cancel Certain Pesticide Registrations

AGENCY:

Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

ACTION:

Notice.

SUMMARY:

In accordance with the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA), EPA is issuing a notice of receipt of requests by registrants to voluntarily cancel certain pesticide registrations. Included in this notice is a request from Nufarm SA to voluntarily cancel the last three remaining amitrole products registered for use in the United States. EPA intends to grant these requests at the close of the comment period for this announcement unless the Agency receives substantive comments within the comment period that would merit its further review of the requests, or unless the registrants withdraw its requests. If these requests are granted, any sale, distribution, or use of products listed in this notice will be permitted after the registration has been canceled only if such sale, distribution, or use is consistent with the terms as described in the final order.

DATES:

Comments must be received on or before February 24, 2014.

ADDRESSES:

Submit your comments, identified by docket identification (ID) number EPA-HQ-OPP-2010-0014, 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.

Submit written withdrawal request by mail to: Pesticide Re-Evaluation Division (7508P), Office of Pesticide Programs, Environmental Protection Agency, 1200 Pennsylvania Ave. NW., Washington, DC 20460-0001. ATTN: John W. Pates, Jr.

• 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.htm.

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:

John W. Pates, Jr., Pesticide Re-Evaluation Division (7508P), Office of Pesticide Programs, Environmental Protection Agency, 1200 Pennsylvania Ave. NW., Washington, DC 20460-0001; telephone number: [phone]; email address: [e-mail].

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, and agricultural advocates; the chemical industry; pesticide users; and members of the public interested in the sale, distribution, or use of pesticides.

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 submitting comments, remember to:

i. Identify the document by docket ID number and other identifying information (subject heading, Federal Register date and page number).

ii. Follow directions. The Agency may ask you to respond to specific questions or organize comments by referencing a Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) part or section number.

iii. Explain why you agree or disagree; suggest alternatives and substitute language for your requested changes.

iv. Describe any assumptions and provide any technical information and/or data that you used.

v. If you estimate potential costs or burdens, explain how you arrived at your estimate in sufficient detail to allow for it to be reproduced.

vi. Provide specific examples to illustrate your concerns and suggest alternatives.

vii. Explain your views as clearly as possible, avoiding the use of profanity or personal threats.

viii. Make sure to submit your comments by the comment period deadline identified.

II. What action is the agency taking?

This notice announces receipt by the Agency of requests from registrants to cancel 17 pesticide products registered under FIFRA section 3 or 24(c). These registrations are listed in sequence by registration number (or company number and 24(c) number) in Table 1 of this unit.

This notice announces receipt by EPA of a request from the registrant Nufarm SA to cancel the last three remaining amitrole product registrations. Amitrole is a triazole-containing herbicide registered for use for outdoor general weed control to non-agricultural rights-of-way, industrial and construction sites, fencerows, and other uncultivated areas. Tolerances are not currently established for amitrole as there are no registered food or feed uses. There are no residential uses currently registered for amitrole. The registration review process for amitrole began in June 2011, with the issuance of the Preliminary Work Plan for Registration Review in the docket EPA-HQ-OPP-2011-0105 for a 60-day public comment period. The Amitrole Final Work Plan for Registration Review was completed and placed in the docket in December 2011, and the registration review data-call-in was issued in November 2012. Nufarm SA is the only current registrant of amitrole products. In a letter to EPA, dated May 30, 2013, Nufarm SA requested voluntary cancellation of the amitrole technical product (EPA Registration No. 33688-5) and the two remaining amitrole end-use products (EPA Registration Nos. 33688-6 and 33688-10). These are the last three amitrole products registered for use in the United States.

Unless the Agency determines that there are substantive comments that warrant further review of the requests or the registrants withdraw their requests, EPA intends to issue an order in the Federal Register canceling all of the affected registrations listed in Table 1 of this unit.

Table 1—Registrations With Pending Requests for Cancellation

Registration No.	Product name	Chemical name
000100-00736	Banner GL	Propiconazole.
000100-00737	Tilt Gel Fungicide	Propiconazole.
000400-00587	Technical Orthosulfamuron	Orthosulfamuron.
000400-00588	Percutio GR	Orthosulfamuron.
000400-00589	Percutio WG	Orthosulfamuron.
000400-00590	Percutio XT	Orthosulfamuron.
012455-00134	Technical Hydramethylnon	Hydramethylnon.
033688-00005	Technical Amitrole	Amitrole.
033688-00006	Maxata Brand Industrial Herbicide	Amitrole.
033688-00010	Maxata Water Soluble Granules	Amitrole.
062190-00008	Wolman Concentrate 72%	Arsenic Oxide (As2O5), Chromic Acid, Cupric Oxide.
CA-100005	Terad 3 Ag Pellets	9,10-Secocholesta-5,7,10(19)-trien-3-ol, (3 beta.,5Z,7E)-.
NC-090005	Milestone VM	Triisoprpoanolamine salt of aminopyralid.
NC-100004	Milestone VM	Triisoprpoanolamine salt of aminopyralid.
WA-980019	Agri-Mek 0.15 EC, Miticide/Insecticide	Abamectin.
WI-110003	Lorsban 15G	Chlorpyrifos.
WI-110005	Spartan 4F	Sulfentrazone.

Table 2 of this unit includes the names and addresses of record for all registrants of the products in Table 1 of this unit, in sequence by EPA company number. This number corresponds to the first part of the EPA registration numbers of the products listed in this unit.

Table 2—Registrants Requesting Voluntary Cancellation

EPA Company No.	Company name and address
100 WA-980019	Syngenta Crop Protection, LLC, 410 Swing Road, P.O. Box 18300, Greensboro, NC 27419-8300.
400	Chemtura Corporation, 199 Benson Road, Middlebury, CT 06749.
12455, CA-100005	Bell Laboratories, Inc., 3699 Kinsman Blvd., Madison, WI 53704.
33688	Nufarm SA, Agent: Nufarm Americas, Inc., 4020 Aerial Center Parkway, Suite 101, Morrisville, NC 27560.
62190	Arch Wood Protection, Inc., 5660 New Northside Drive NW., Suite 1100, Atlanta, GA 30328.
NC-090005, NC-100004, WI-110003	Dow AgroSciences LLC, 9330 Zionsville Rd, 308/2E, Indianapolis, IN 46268-1054.
WI-110005	FMC Corp., Agricultural Products Group, ATTN: Michael C. Zucker, 1735 Market St., Room 1978, Philadelphia, PA 19103.

III. What is the agency's authority for taking this action?

Section 6(f)(1) of FIFRA provides that a registrant of a pesticide product may at any time request that any of its pesticide registrations be canceled. FIFRA further provides that, before acting on the request, EPA must publish a notice of receipt of any such request in the Federal Register.

Section 6(f)(1)(B) of FIFRA requires that before acting on a request for voluntary cancellation, EPA must provide a 30-day public comment period on the request for voluntary cancellation or use termination. In addition, FIFRA section 6(f)(1)(C) requires that EPA provide a 180-day comment period on a request for voluntary cancellation or termination of any minor agricultural use before granting the request, unless:

1. The registrants request a waiver of the comment period, or

2. The EPA Administrator determines that continued use of the pesticide would pose an unreasonable adverse effect on the environment.

The registrants in Table 2 of Unit II. have not requested that EPA waive the 180-day comment period. Accordingly, EPA will provide a 180-day comment period on the proposed requests.

IV. Procedures for Withdrawal of Request

Registrants who choose to withdraw a request for cancellation should submit such withdrawal in writing to the person listed under FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT. If the products have been subject to a previous cancellation action, the effective date of cancellation and all other provisions of any earlier cancellation action are controlling.

V. Provisions for Disposition of Existing Stocks

Existing stocks are those stocks of registered pesticide products that are currently in the United States and that were packaged, labeled, and released for shipment prior to the effective date of the cancellation action, because the Agency has identified no significant potential risk concerns associated with these pesticide products, upon cancellation of the products identified in Table 1 of Unit II., EPA anticipates allowing registrants to sell and distribute existing stocks of these products for 1 year after publication of the Cancellation Order in the Federal Register. Thereafter, registrants will be prohibited from selling or distributing the pesticides identified in Table 1 of Unit II., except for export consistent with FIFRA section 17 or for proper disposal persons other than the registrants will generally be allowed to sell, distribute, or use existing stocks until such stocks are exhausted, provided that such sale, distribution, or use is consistent with the terms of the previously approved labeling on, or that accompanied, the canceled products.

List of Subjects

Environmental protection, Pesticides and pests.

Dated: August 21, 2013.

Linda Arrington,

Acting Director, Pesticide Re-Evaluation Division, Office of Pesticide Programs.