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AGENCY:
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
ACTION:
Notice.
SUMMARY:
This notice announces EPA's order for the cancellation of registrations, voluntarily requested by the registrants and accepted by the Agency, of certain rodenticide products containing the pesticides bromadiolone, bromethalin, cholecalciferol, diphacinone (and its sodium salt), warfarin (and its sodium salt), and zinc phosphide, pursuant to section 6(f)(1) of the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA), as amended. This cancellation order follows a December 24, 2008 Federal Register Notice of Receipt of Requests from several registrants to voluntarily cancel certain bromadiolone, bromethalin, cholecalciferol, diphacinone (and its sodium salt), warfarin (and its sodium salt), and zinc phosphide product registrations. These are not the last bromadiolone, bromethalin, cholecalciferol, diphacinone (and its Start Printed Page 50195sodium salt), warfarin (and its sodium salt), and zinc phosphide products registered for use in the United States. In the December 24, 2008 notice, EPA indicated that it would issue an order cancelling the products unless the Agency received substantive comments within the 180-day comment period that would merit its further review of these requests, or unless the registrants withdrew their requests within this period. The Agency did not receive any comments on the notice. Further, the registrants did not withdraw their requests. Accordingly, EPA hereby issues in this notice a cancellation order granting the requested cancellations. Any distribution, sale, or use of the bromadiolone, bromethalin, cholecalciferol, diphacinone (and its sodium salt), warfarin (and its sodium salt), and zinc phosphide products subject to this cancellation order is permitted only in accordance with the terms of this order, including any existing stocks provisions.
DATES:
The cancellations are effective September 30, 2009.
Start Further InfoFOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Rusty Wasem, Pesticide Re-evaluation Division, Office of Pesticide Programs, Environmental Protection Agency, 1200 Pennsylvania Ave., NW., Washington, DC 20460-0001; telephone number: 703-305-6979; fax number: 703-308-7070; e-mail address: wasem.russell@epa.gov.
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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. 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 person listed under FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT.
B. How Can I Get Copies of this Document and Other Related Information?
1. Docket. EPA has established a docket for this action under docket identification (ID) number EPA-HQ-OPP-2006-0955. Publicly available docket materials are available either in the electronic docket at http://www.regulations.gov, or, if only available in hard copy, at the Office of Pesticide Programs (OPP) Regulatory Public Docket in Rm. S-4400, One Potomac Yard (South Bldg.), 2777 S. Crystal Dr., Arlington, VA. The hours of operation of this Docket Facility are from 8:30 a.m. to 4 p.m., Monday through Friday, excluding legal holidays. The Docket Facility telephone number is 703-305-5805.
2. Electronic access. You may access this Federal Register document electronically through the EPA Internet under the “Federal Register” listings at http://www.epa.gov/fedrgstr.
II. What Action is the Agency Taking?
This notice announces the cancellation, as requested by registrants, of certain end-use and manufacturing-use rodenticide products registered under section 3 of FIFRA. These registrations are listed by registration number in Table 1 of this unit.
Table 1.—Rodenticide Product Cancellations
EPA Registration Number Product Name Cholecalciferol (PC Code 202901) 3240-28 Rampage Mouse Seed 3240-42 Rampage Rat & Mouse Bait 12455-57 Quintox Mouse Seed Bromadiolone (PC Code 112001) 12455-68 Contrac Mouse Bait Station 12455-103 Contrac Bait Trays 12455-104 Contract Mouse Control Kit Bromethalin (PC Code 112802) 12455-100 Fastrac Mouse Seed Place Pac 47629-10 Bromethalin Manufacturing Concentrate Diphacinone (PC Code 067701) 3487-26 Eagles-14 Diphacinone Rat Bait 11885-12 Master Mix Blue Death-D Rat & Mouse Bait 11885-15 Master Mix Blue Death-D Rat & Mouse Hide-A-Pack 12455-67 Ditrac Mouse Bait Station Diphacinone, Sodium Salt (PC Code 067705) 3240-17 Motomco Water Soluble Diphacinone Rodenticide Concentrate Kills Rats & Mice Warfarin (PC Code 086002) 3487-19 Eagles-7 Rat Bait 5887-51 Black Leaf Warf Pellets 5887-98 Black Leaf Warf Pellets Mouse Killer 12455-15 Warfarin Rat and Mouse Bait 62577-7 Echols Mouse & Rat Pellets 72500-7 Kaput Mouse Blocks Warfarin, Sodium Salt (PC Code 086003) 12455-22 Liqua-Tox Liquid Concentrate Zinc Phosphide (PC Code 088601) 12455-59 ZP Rodent Bait Place Pac 12455-85 Mole and Gopher Bait 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 ascending order sequence by EPA company number.
Table 2.—Registrants of Cancelled Rodenticide Products
EPA Company Number Company Name and Address 3240 Motomco Ltd. 3699 Kinsman Blvd. Madison, WI 53704 3487 Bacon Products Corp. P.O. Box 22187 Chattanooga, TN 37422 5887 Value Gardens Supply LLC 9100 W. Bloomington Fwy. Ste. 113 Bloomington, MN 55431 Start Printed Page 50196 11185 ADM Alliance Nutrition, Inc. P.O. Box C1 Quincy, IL 62305 12455 Bell Laboratories 3699 Kinsman Blvd. Madison, WI 53704 47629 Woodstream Corp. 69 N. Locust St. P.O. Box 324 Lititz, PA 17543 62577 Kittrich Corporation 4940 Top Line Dr. Dallas, TX 75247 72500 Scimetrics Ltd. Corp. c/o Regwest Co. LLC 30856 Rocky Rd. Greeley, CO 80631 III. Summary of Public Comments Received and Agency Response to Comments
During the public comment period provided, EPA received no comments in response to the December 24, 2008 Federal Register notice (73 FR 79104) (FRL-8394-5) announcing the Agency's receipt of the requests for voluntary cancellations of certain rodenticide products.
IV. Cancellation Order
Pursuant to FIFRA section 6(f), EPA hereby approves the requested cancellations of rodenticide registrations identified in Table 1. Accordingly, the Agency orders that the rodenticide product registrations identified in Table 1 are hereby cancelled effective June 4, 2011. Any distribution, sale, or use of the cancelled products inconsistent with the Provisions for Disposition of Existing Stocks set forth in Unit VI. will be considered a violation of FIFRA.
V. 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 cancelled or amended to terminate one or more uses. FIFRA further provides that, before acting on the request, EPA must publish a notice of receipt of any such request in the Federal Register. Thereafter, following the public comment period, the Administrator may approve such a request.
VI. Provisions for Disposition of Existing Stocks
Existing stocks are those stocks of registered pesticide products which are currently in the United States and which were packaged, labeled, and released for shipment prior to the effective date of the cancellation action. The cancellation order issued in this notice includes the following existing stocks provisions.
The cancellation of products identified in Table 1 is effective June 4, 2011. The registrants of these products may continue to produce, sell and distribute the rodenticide products identified in Table 1 until the cancellation date of June 4, 2011. After June 4, 2011, registrants may no longer distribute or sell new or existing stocks of products listed in Table 1. After June 4, 2011, persons other than the registrants may distribute, sell or use existing stocks of the products listed in Table 1 until such existing stocks are depleted.
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- Environmental protection
- Pesticides and pests
Dated: September 18, 2009.
Richard P. Keigwin, Jr.
Director, Pesticide Re-evaluation Division, Office of Pesticide Programs.
[FR Doc. E9-23452 Filed 9-29-09; 8:45 am]
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Document Information
- Comments Received:
- 0 Comments
- Effective Date:
- 9/30/2009
- Published:
- 09/30/2009
- Department:
- Environmental Protection Agency
- Entry Type:
- Notice
- Action:
- Notice.
- Document Number:
- E9-23452
- Dates:
- The cancellations are effective September 30, 2009.
- Pages:
- 50194-50196 (3 pages)
- Docket Numbers:
- EPA-HQ-OPP-2006-0955, FRL-8438-6
- PDF File:
- e9-23452.pdf
- Supporting Documents:
- » Letter to Hal Ambuter, Director, Regulatory and Government Affairs, Reckitt Benckiser, Inc. from Lisa Garcia, Associate Assistant Administrator, Environmental Justice, Office of Enforcement and Compliance Assurance, et al. on 6/7/12
- » 5/8/12 - Brittany Campbell to Steven Bradbury Re Cancel Dangerous Rodenticides
- » 2/7/12 - John Lublinkhoff, Bell Laboratories, to Richard Keigwin Re Poison Control Center Data – 12 Month Comparisons – Domestic Animals
- » 8/31/11 - EPA to Hacco Re Cancellation Order and Correction of Existing Stocks
- » 6/21/11 - Joseph Manuppello, PETA, to Steven Bradbury
- » 6/10/11 - Lawrence Cullen to Steven Bradbury Letter Regarding Cancellation
- » 6/8/11 - EPA Response to Michael Fry
- » 5/26/11 - EPA to Hacco Inc. Re Response to March 30 Letter Regarding the RMD
- » 5/16/11 - Michael Fry, American Bird Conservancy Rodenticides Risk Mitigation Sign On Letter
- » 4/24/12 - Hal Ambuter, Reckitt Benckiser Director Regulatory and Government Affairs N.A. to Lisa Garcia EPA Assistant Administrator for Environmental Justice