[Federal Register Volume 75, Number 144 (Wednesday, July 28, 2010)]
[Notices]
[Pages 44256-44259]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2010-18377]
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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY
[EPA-HQ-OPP-2005-0494; FRL-8831-7]
Rotenone; Notice of Receipt of Requests to Voluntarily Cancel
Pesticide Registrations
AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
ACTION: Notice.
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SUMMARY: In accordance with section 6(f)(1) of the Federal Insecticide,
Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA), as amended, EPA is issuing a
notice of receipt of requests by the registrants to voluntarily cancel
their rotenone registrations. The requests would not terminate the last
rotenone 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 their 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 cancelled 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 August 27, 2010.
ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, identified by docket identification
(ID) number EPA-HQ-OPP-2005-0494, by one of the following methods:
Federal eRulemaking Portal: http://www.regulations.gov.
Follow the on-line instructions for submitting comments.
Mail: Office of Pesticide Programs (OPP) Regulatory Public
Docket (7502P), Environmental Protection Agency, 1200 Pennsylvania
Ave., NW., Washington, DC 20460-0001.
Delivery: OPP Regulatory Public Docket (7502P),
Environmental Protection Agency, Rm. S-4400, One Potomac Yard (South
Bldg.), 2777 S. Crystal Dr., Arlington, VA. Deliveries are only
accepted during the Docket Facility's normal hours of operation (8:30
a.m. to 4 p.m., Monday through Friday, excluding legal holidays).
Special arrangements should be made for deliveries of boxed
information. The Docket Facility telephone number is (703) 305-5805.
Instructions: Direct your comments to docket ID number EPA-HQ-OPP-
2005-0494. EPA's policy is that all comments received will be included
in the docket without change and may be made available on-line at
http://www.regulations.gov, including any personal information
provided, unless the comment includes information claimed to be
Confidential Business Information (CBI) or other information whose
disclosure is restricted by statute. Do not submit information that you
consider to be CBI or otherwise protected through regulations.gov or e-
mail. The regulations.gov website is an ``anonymous access'' system,
which means EPA will not know your identity or contact information
unless you provide it in the body of your comment. If you send an e-
mail comment directly to EPA without going through regulations.gov,
your e-mail address will be automatically captured and included as part
of the comment that is placed in the docket and made available on the
Internet. If you submit an electronic comment, EPA recommends that you
include your name and other contact information in the body of your
comment and with any disk or CD-ROM you submit. If EPA cannot read your
comment due to technical difficulties and cannot contact you for
clarification, EPA may not be able to consider your comment. Electronic
files should avoid the use of special characters, any form of
encryption, and be free of any defects or viruses.
Docket: All documents in the docket are listed in the docket index
available at http://www.regulations.gov. Although listed in the index,
some information is not publicly available, e.g., CBI or other
information whose disclosure is restricted by statute. Certain other
material, such as copyrighted material, is not placed on the Internet
and will be publicly available only in hard copy form. 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 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.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Veronica Dutch, Pesticide Re-
evaluation Division (7508P), Office of Pesticide
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Programs, Environmental Protection Agency, 1200 Pennsylvania Ave., NW.,
Washington, DC 20460-0001; telephone number: (703) 308-8585; e-mail
address: [email protected].
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. 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. 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 e-mail. 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. Background on the Receipt of Requests to Cancel
This notice announces receipt by EPA of requests from registrants
to cancel rotenone product registrations. Rotenone is an insecticide/
miticide/piscicide used to control flying and crawling insects and
invasive fish. In letters received by the Agency, the registrants
requested EPA to cancel affected pesticide product registrations
identified in Table 1 of Unit III. Specifically, the registrants have
requested voluntary cancellation of products containing rotenone. The
registrants' requests will not terminate the last rotenone product
registered in the United States.
III. What Action is the Agency Taking?
This notice announces receipt by EPA of requests from registrants
to cancel 16 rotenone product registrations. The affected products and
the registrants making the requests are identified in Tables 1 and 2 of
this unit, respectively.
Unless a request is withdrawn by the registrant or if the Agency
determines that there are substantive comments that warrant further
review of this request, EPA intends to issue an order canceling the
affected registrations.
Table 1.--Rotenone Product Registrations with Pending Requests for
Cancellation
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Registration Number Product Name Chemical Name(s)
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000004-00017 Rotenone 1.0% Dust Cube Resins other
than rotenone
Rotenone
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000004-00224 Rotenone 5% Insect Cube Resins other
Control than rotenone
Rotenone
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000004-00315 Bonide Liquid Cube Resins other
Rotenone/ than rotenone
Pyrethrins Spray. Rotenone
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000004-00404 Bonide Garden Cube Resins other
Rotenone Dust than rotenone
Rotenone
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000004-00423 Bonide Rotenone Cube Resins other
Garden Dust or than rotenone
Spray Rotenone
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000270-00275 Equi-Dust Cube Resins other
than rotenone
Pyrethrins
Rotenone
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000769-00414 Powdered Cube Piperonyl butoxide
Pyrethrins
Rotenone
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000769-00857 Science Red Arrow Piperonyl butoxide
Insect Spray Cube Resins other
than rotenone
Pyrethrins
Rotenone
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000869-00186 Green Light Cube Resins other
Rotenone than rotenone
Rotenone
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002217-00145 Garden Protector Cube Resins other
than rotenone
Rotenone
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008660-00050 1% Rotenone Garden Cube Resins other
Dust than rotenone
Rotenone
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028293-00042 Unicorn Ear Mite Cube Resins other
Control than rotenone
Rotenone
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030573-00002 Pyrellin E.C. Cube Resins other
than rotenone
Pyrethrins
Rotenone
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033955-00270 Acme 1% Rotenone Cube Resins other
Garden Guard than rotenone
Rotenone
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034911-00021 Hi-Yield Rotenone Rotenone
100 Insecticide
Dust
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047000-00026 Pet Dust Cube Resins other
than rotenone
Rotenone
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Table 2 of this unit includes the names and addresses of record for
the registrants of the products listed 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 Table 1
of this unit.
Table 2.--Registrants Requesting Voluntary Cancellation
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Company Number Company Name and Address
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4 Bonide Products, Inc.
P.O. Box 1019
Salem, VA 24153-3805
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270 Farnam Companies, Inc.
301 West Osborn Road
Phoenix, AZ 85013
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769 Value Gardens Supply, LLC
P.O. Box 585
Saint Joseph, MO 64502
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869 Green Light Company
1600 Riviera Avenue, Suite
200
Walnut Creek, CA 94596
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2217 PBI/Gordon Corp.
1217 West 12th St.
P.O. Box 014090
Kansas City, MO 64101-0090
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8660 United Industries
Corporation
P.O. Box 142642
St. Louis, MO 63114-0642
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28293 Phaeton Corporation
P.O. Box 1019
Salem, VA 24153
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30573 Wright Webb Corporation
P.O. Box 1572
Fort Myers, FL 33902
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33955 PBI/Gordon Corp
1217 West 12th. St.
P.O. Box 014090
Kansas City, MO 64101-0090
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34911 Hi-Yield Chemical Company
6860 N. Dallas Pkwy., Suite
200
Plano, TX 75024
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47000 Chem-Tech, LTD.
4515 Fleur Dr. 303
Des Moines, IA 50321
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IV. 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 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.
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 rotenone registrants have requested that EPA waive the 180-day
comment period. Accordingly, EPA will provide a 30-day comment period
on the proposed requests.
V. Procedures for Withdrawal of Requests
Registrants who choose to withdraw a request for product
cancellation or use deletion should submit the withdrawal in writing to
the person listed under FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT. If the
products(s) have been subject to a previous cancellation action, the
effective date of cancellation and all other provisions of any earlier
cancellation action are controlling.
VI. 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
action. If the requests for voluntary
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cancellation are granted, the Agency intends to publish the
cancellation order in the Federal Register.
In any order issued in response to these requests for cancellation
of product registrations, EPA proposes to include the following
provisions for the treatment of any existing stocks of the products
listed in Table 1 of Unit III.
Because the Agency has potential risk concerns associated with
these pesticide products, upon cancellation of the products identified
in Table 1 of Unit III., EPA anticipates allowing registrants to sell
and distribute existing stocks of these products until May 2011.
Thereafter, registrants will be prohibited from selling or distributing
the pesticides identified in Table 1 of Unit III., except for export
consistent with FIFRA section 17 or for proper disposal. Persons other
than registrants will generally be allowed to sell, distribute, or use
existing stocks until May 2011.
List of Subjects
Environmental protection, Pesticides and pests.
Dated: June 10, 2010.
Richard P. Keigwin,
Director, Pesticide Re-evaluation Division, Office of Pesticide
Programs.
[FR Doc. 2010-18377 Filed 7-27-10; 8:45 am]
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