[Federal Register Volume 77, Number 180 (Monday, September 17, 2012)]
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SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

Sunshine Act Meeting.

    Notice is hereby given, pursuant to the provisions of the
Government in the Sunshine Act, Public Law 94-409, that the Securities
and Exchange Commission will hold a Closed Meeting on Thursday,
September 20, 2012 at 2:00 p.m.
    Commissioners, Counsel to the Commissioners, the Secretary to the
Commission, and recording secretaries will attend the Closed Meeting.
Certain staff members who have an interest in the matters also may be
present.
    The General Counsel of the Commission, or his designee, has
certified that, in his opinion, one or more of the exemptions set forth
in 5 U.S.C. 552b(c)(3), (5), (7), 9(B) and (10) and 17 CFR
200.402(a)(3), (5), (7), 9(ii) and (10), permit consideration of the
scheduled matters at the Closed Meeting.
    Commissioner Paredes, as duty officer, voted to consider the items
listed for the Closed Meeting in closed session, and determined that no
earlier notice thereof was possible.
    The subject matter of the Closed Meeting scheduled for Thursday,
September 20, 2012 will be:

institution and settlement of injunctive actions; institution and
settlement of administrative proceedings; an adjudicatory matter; and

    other matters relating to enforcement proceedings.At times, changes
in Commission priorities require alterations in the scheduling of
meeting items.
    For further information and to ascertain what, if any, matters have
been added, deleted or postponed, please contact:
    The Office of the Secretary at<PHONE_NUMBER>.

    Dated: September 13, 2012.
Elizabeth M. Murphy,
Secretary.
[FR Doc. 2012-22968 Filed 9-13-12; 4:15 pm]
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Quantitative Usage Analysis for Linuron Case Number: 0047 PC Code: 35506 Date: October 22, 2001 Analyst: Frank Hernandez Based on available usage information from pesticide surveys for the years of 1992 through 2000, total annual domestic usage of linuron averaged approximately over four hundred thousand pounds of active ingredient (a. i.) for just under four hundred thousand acres treated. Linuron is a herbicide with its largest markets in terms of total pounds of active ingredient allocated to carrots (35%), potatoes (20%), and cotton (17%). Most of the usage is in IL, IN, MD, MI, OH, and WA. Crops with a high percentage of the total U. S. planted acres treated include carrots (75%), celery (24%), asparagus (20%), and potatoes (7%). Crops with less than 1 percent of the crop treated include alfalfa, barley, dry beans, corn, cotton, lettuce, melons, peanuts, rice, rye, sorghum, soybeans, sweet corn, and wheat.

Site Acres Grown (000) Acres Treated (000) % of Crop Treated LB AI Applied (000) Average Application Rate States of Most Usage Wtd Avg Est Max Wtd Avg Est Max Wtd Avg Est Max lb ai/ A/ yr #appl / yr lb ai/ A/ appl (% of total lb ai used on this site)

Alfalfa 23,701 1 4 0.00 0.02 1 2 0.7 1.0 0.7 MO KS CA 100%

Asparagus 90 18 30 20.39 33.29 18 36 1.0 1.0 1.0 CA WA 85%

Barley 7,326 0 0 0.00 0.00 0 0 0.5 1.0 0.5 ID MT ND 85%

Beans/ Peas, Dry 2,190 3 12 0.14 0.54 2 10 0.8 2.5 0.3 OH WA 88%

Beans/ Peas, Green 709 1 2 0.10 0.28 0 1 0.4 1.0 0.4 MN MD 80%

Carrots 104 79 104 75.31 100.00 145 210 1.8 1.0 1.8 CA MI FL WA TX 83%

Celery 34 8 11 23.67 32.54 4 8 0.5 1.0 0.5 MI CA TX 84%

Corn 72,425 7 10 0.01 0.01 15 29 2.1 1.3 1.7 KY NC OH IN PA MI 58%

Cotton 12967 88 233 0.68 1.80 72 123 0.8 1.0 0.8 MS AR SC NC LA TN 83% Site Acres Grown (000) Acres Treated (000) % of Crop Treated LB AI Applied (000) Average Application Rate States of Most Usage Wtd Avg Est Max Wtd Avg Est Max Wtd Avg Est Max lb ai/ A/ yr #appl / yr lb ai/ A/ appl (% of total lb ai used on this site)

Lettuce 274 2 8 0.61 2.98 1 5 0.6 1.0 0.6 CA FL 86%

Melons 375 1 2 0.25 0.5051 1 2 1.0 1.0 1.0 TX 89%

Oats/ Rye 6,184 0 1 0.01 0.01 0 1 0.7 1.0 0.7 ME MI 93%

Parsley 5 0 0 3.00 6.00 0 2 2.7 3.5 0.8 CA 60%

Parsnips 4 0 0 1.55 2.33 0 0 1.0 1.0 1.0 CA FL 70%

Peanuts 1,582 0 1 0.03 0.06 1 1 1.1 1.0 1.1 SC FL 100%

Potatoes 1,433 100 158 6.98 11.03 85 180 0.8 1.0 0.8 ND MI RI ME NY MN 71%

Rice 2,992 5 20 0.18 0.66 3 13 0.5 1.1 0.5 TX CA LA 91%

Rye 4,364 0 1 0.01 0.02 0 1 0.7 1.0 0.7 ME MI 93%

Sorghum 11,140 33 107 0.30 0.96 13 52 0.4 1.0 0.4 TX KS 80%

Soybeans 63,141 25 41 0.04 0.07 53 100 2.1 1.1 2.0 MI OH IN MD IL VA 67%

Sweet Corn 732 3 10 0.47 1.37 4 8 1.19 1.6 0.8 PA MA OH 81%

Wheat, Spring 21,311 0 2 0.00 0.01 0 1 0.5 1.0 0.5 MN 100%

Wheat, Winter 44,907 7 13 0.01 0.03 3 6 0.4 2.0 0.2 MD MS DE AL WA TN 78%

Total 383 577 421 605 COLUMN HEADINGS Wtd Avg = Weighted average the most recent years and more reliable data are weighted more heavily. Est Max = Estimated maximum, which is estimated from available data. Average application rates are calculated from the weighted averages. NOTES ON TABLE DATA Usage data primarily covers 1992  2000. Calculations of the above numbers may not appear to agree because they are displayed as rounded to the nearest 1000 for acres treated or lb. a. i. (therefore 0 = < 500), and to two decimal percentage points for % of crop treated.

Other/ Crop Groups Melons include cantaloupe, watermelon, honeydew, muskmelon, and winter melon.

SOURCES: EPA data, USDA, and National Center for Food and Agricultural Policy.

cc: JSPunzi (RRB2), Linuron Reg. Std. File, Linuron SF, RF, LAN. RD/ I: RRB2 Chem Review Team (12/ 10/ 2001), Alan Nielsen (12/ 30/ 2001), ChemSac (12/ 12/ 2001), DeSac (12/ 18/ 2001). 7509C: RRB2: John S. Punzi: CM2: Rm 804E: 703 305 7727: 12/ 20/ 2001.