[Federal Register Volume 81, Number 2 (Tuesday, January 5, 2016)]
[Notices]
[Pages 236-238]
[FR Doc No: 2015-33179]

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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

[EPA-HQ-OPP-2015-0741; FRL-9937-07]

Notice of Receipt of Requests To Voluntarily Cancel Pesticide
Registrations and Amend Registrations To Terminate Certain Uses

AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: In accordance with the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and
Rodenticide Act (FIFRA), EPA is issuing a notice of receipt of requests
by the registrants to voluntarily cancel their registrations of certain
products containing the pesticides alachlor, atrazine, fludioxonil,
glyphosate, POE isooctadecanol, pyrithiobac, quizalofop-p-ethyl,
thiamethoxam, and thiophanate methyl, and to amend three dodine product
registrations to terminate use on strawberries. The requests would not
terminate the last atrazine, fludioxonil, glyphosate, POE
isooctadecanol, pyrithiobac, quizalofop-p-ethyl, thiamethoxam, and
thiophanate methyl products registered for use in the United States.
One request, if granted, would terminate the last alachlor 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 registrations have been cancelled and uses
terminated 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 4, 2016.

ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, identified by docket identification
(ID) number EPA-HQ-OPP-2015-0741, 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.
     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.html.
    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: Miguel Zavala, Pesticide Re-Evaluation
Division (7508P), Office of Pesticide Programs, Environmental
Protection Agency, 1200 Pennsylvania Ave. NW., Washington, DC 20460-
0001; telephone number:<PHONE_NUMBER>; email address:
<EMAIL_ADDRESS>
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.

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 http://www.epa.gov/dockets/comments.html.

II. Background on the Receipt of Requests To Cancel and/or Amend
Registrations To Delete Uses

    This notice announces receipt by EPA of requests from ADAMA
Agricultural Solutions, Gowan Company, Syngenta Crop Protection, BASF
Corporation, and Monsanto Company to cancel certain product
registrations and from Agriphar S.A. to amend certain registrations to
terminate uses on strawberry.
    Alachlor is an herbicide registered for on beans, corn, peanuts,
sorghum, and soybeans. There are no non-agricultural use sites.
Atrazine is an herbicide registered for use on corn, sorghum, and
sugarcane. In a letter dated October 13, 2015, Monsanto requested that
EPA cancel all alachlor product registrations identified in Table 1 of
Unit III. Several of these alachlor products also contain atrazine.
Such action would terminate the last alachlor pesticide products
registered in the United States, but would not terminate the last
atrazine

pesticide products registered in the United States.
    Dodine is a fungicide registered for use on almonds, apples,
bananas, cherries, nectarines, peaches, peanuts and pecans. There are
no non-agricultural use sites. In a letter dated June 22, 2015, Ceres
International LLC requested on behalf of Agriphar S.A. that EPA amend
certain registrations identified in Table 2 of Unit III to delete the
use of dodine on strawberry. This request would delete the strawberry
use site from all dodine product labels registered for use in the
United States, but would not terminate the last dodine pesticide
products registered in the United States.
    Fludioxonil is a broad spectrum contact fungicide and antimicrobial
that is used on a variety of crops, berries, fruit trees, grasses,
herbs, ornamentals, and residential turf, as a preservative for mold
remediation and other non-food uses. Thiamethoxam is a broad spectrum
nitroguanidine insecticide that is registered for use on several
agricultural and non-agricultural commodities. In a letter dated
November 19, 2015, Syngenta requested that EPA cancel one pesticide
product registration containing both fludioxonil and thiamethoxam
identified in Table 1 of Unit III. This action will not terminate the
last fludioxonil or thiamethoxam pesticide products registered in the
United States.
    Glyphosate is a non-selective herbicide registered for use on many
food and non-food crops as well as in non-crop and residential areas.
Quizalofop-p-ethyl is a systemic herbicide registered for use to
control annual and perennial weeds in various food/feed and non-food/
feed crops. In a letter dated September 23, 2015, Monsanto Company
requested that EPA cancel one pesticide product registration containing
both glyphosate and quizalofop-p-ethyl identified in Table 1 of Unit
III. This action will not terminate the last glyphosate or quizalofop-
p-ethyl pesticide products registered in the United States.
    POE isooctadecanol is registered for insect control including
mosquitos as a larvicide and pupicide in flooded areas, swamps, sewage,
irrigation and drainage systems, and other aquatic sites. In letters
dated October 16, 2015, BASF Corporation requested that EPA cancel
certain POE isooctadecanol product registrations identified in Table 1
of Unit III. This action will not terminate the last POE isooctadecanol
pesticide products registered in the United States.
    Pyrithiobac is a selective pre- and post-emergent herbicide used to
control a variety of broadleaf weeds in cotton fields. In a letter
dated October 1, 2015, ADAMA Agricultural Solutions requested that EPA
cancel one pyrithiobac product registration identified in Table 1 of
Unit III. This action will not terminate the last pyrithiobac pesticide
products registered in the United States.
    Thiophanate methyl is a systemic benzimidazole fungicide registered
for use on row, field and orchard crops, greenhouses, nurseries, and
for commercial seed and bulb dip treatment. In a letter dated May 19,
2015, Gowan Company requested that EPA cancel certain thiophanate
methyl product registrations identified in Table 1 of Unit III. This
action will not terminate the last thiophanate methyl pesticide
products registered in the United States.

III. What action is the Agency taking?

    This notice announces receipt by EPA of requests from registrants
to cancel certain product registrations of alachlor, atrazine,
fludioxonil, glyphosate, POE isooctadecanol, pyrithiobac, quizalofop-p-
ethyl, thiamethoxam, and thiophanate methyl, and terminate uses on
strawberries for certain dodine registrations. The affected products
and the registrants making the requests are identified in Tables 1-3 of
this unit.
    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 and amending to terminate certain uses the
affected registrations for which the Agency received use termination
requests.

        Table 1--Alachlor, Atrazine, Fludioxonil, Glyphosate, POE
   Isooctadecanol, Pyrithiobac, Quizalofop-p-ethyl, Thiamethoxam, and
 Thiophanate Methyl Product Registrations With Requests for Cancellation
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        Registration No.             Product name      Active ingredient
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100-1249 \a\....................  Adage Maxim 4FS     Fludioxonil and
                                   Twin-Pak.           Thiamethoxam.
524-314.........................  Lasso Herbicide...  Alachlor.
524-316.........................  Lasso 94%           Alachlor.
                                   Stabilized
                                   Technical.
524-329.........................  Lariat Herbicide..  Alachlor and
                                                       Atrazine.
524-344.........................  Micro-Tech          Alachlor.
                                   Herbicide.
524-418.........................  Bullet Herbicide..  Alachlor and
                                                       Atrazine.
524-523 \a\.....................  MON 78746           Glyphosate-
                                   Herbicide.          isopropylammonium
                                                       and Quizalofop-p-
                                                       ethyl.
7969-333........................  Agnique MMF         POE
                                   Mosquito            Isooctadecanol.
                                   Larvicide &
                                   Pupicide.
7969-334........................  Agnique MMF-GR      POE
                                   Mosquito,           Isooctadecanol.
                                   Larvicide, &
                                   Pupicide.
7969-340........................  Cando Poly          POE
                                   Mosquito Film.      Isooctadecanol.
10163-291 \a\...................  Thiophanate Methyl  Thiophanate
                                   Technical 98.4.     Methyl.
10163-292 \a\...................  Thiophanate Methyl  Thiophanate
                                   Technical.          Methyl.
83558-11........................  Pyrithiobac-sodium  Pyrithiobac-
                                   Technical.          Sodium.
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\a\ There are no existing stocks of these product registrations and no
  requests for existing stocks provisions. Therefore, no existing stocks
  provision will be provided for these product registrations.

         Table 2--Dodine Product Registrations With Requests for Amendment To Terminate One or More Uses
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           Registration No.                  Product name          Active ingredient        Use to be deleted
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55260-4..............................  Dodine Technical.......  Dodine.................  Strawberries.
55260-6..............................  Syllit Flow Fungicide..  Dodine.................
55260-11.............................  Syllit 65WG............  Dodine.................
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    Table 3 of this unit includes the names and addresses of record for
the registrants of the products listed in Table 1 and Table 2 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 and Table 2 of this unit.

Table 3--Registrants Requesting Voluntary Cancellation and/or Amendments
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              EPA Company No.                 Company name and address
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100.......................................  Syngenta Crop Protections,
                                             LLC, 410 Swing Road, P.O.
                                             Box 18300, Greensboro, NC
                                             27419-8300.
524.......................................  Monsanto Company, 1300 I
                                             Street NW., Suite 450 East,
                                             Washington, DC 20005-7211.
7969......................................  BASF Corporation, 26 Davis
                                             Drive, P.O. Box 13528,
                                             Research Triangle Park, NC
                                             27709-3528.
10163.....................................  Gowan Company, P.O. Box
                                             5569, Yuma, AZ 85366-5569.
55260.....................................  Agriphar S.A., 15401 Weston
                                             Parkway, Suite 150, Cary,
                                             NC 27513.
83558.....................................  ADAMA Celsius Property B.V.
                                             Amsterdam (NL), 3120
                                             Highwoods Blvd., Suite 100,
                                             Raleigh, NC 27604.
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IV. What is the Agency's authority for taking this action?

    Section 6(f)(1) of FIFRA (7 U.S.C. 136d(f)(1)) 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 (7 U.S.C. 136d(f)(1)(B)) 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)
(7 U.S.C. 136d(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 alachlor, atrazine, dodine, fludioxonil, glyphosate,
pyrithiobac, POE isooctadecanol, quizalofop-p-ethyl, thiamethoxam, and
thiophanate methyl 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
product(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 cancellation and amendments to
delete uses 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 and for amendments to delete uses, EPA
proposes to include the following provisions for the treatment of any
existing stocks of the products listed in Tables 1 and 2 of Unit III.

A. For Products 524-523, 10163-291, 10163-292, and 100-1249 in Table 1
of Unit III

    The registrants reported to the Agency via written correspondence
that there are no existing stocks of these products. Therefore, no
existing stocks provision was requested by or is needed for these
registrants. The registrants will be prohibited from selling or
distributing these products upon cancellation of these products, except
for export consistent with FIFRA section 17 (7 U.S.C. 136o) or for
proper disposal.

B. For All Other Products Identified in Table 1 of Unit III

    Because the Agency has identified no significant potential risk
concerns associated with these pesticide products, upon cancellation,
EPA anticipates allowing the registrants to sell and distribute
existing stocks these products for 1 year after the effective date of
the cancellation; i.e., one year after the date of publication of the
cancellation order in the Federal Register. Thereafter, registrants
will be prohibited from selling or distributing the products identified
in Table 1 of Unit III, except for export consistent with FIFRA section
17 (7 U.S.C. 136o) or for proper disposal.
    Persons other than the registrant will generally be allowed to
sell, distribute, or use existing stocks of the affected canceled
products 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.

C. For All Products Identified in Table 2 of Unit III

    Once EPA has approved product labels reflecting the requested
amendments to terminate uses, registrants will be permitted to sell or
distribute products under the previously approved labeling for a period
of 18 months after the date of Federal Register publication of the
cancellation order, unless other restrictions have been imposed.
Thereafter, registrants will be prohibited from selling or distributing
the products whose labels include the terminated uses identified in
Table 2 of Unit III, except for export consistent with FIFRA section 17
or for proper disposal.
    Persons other than the registrant may sell, distribute, or use
existing stocks of the products whose labels include the terminated
uses until supplies are exhausted, provided that such sale,
distribution, or use is consistent with the terms of the previously
approved labeling on, or that accompanied, the products with the
terminated uses.

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

     Dated: December 23, 2015.
Richard P. Keigwin, Jr.,
Director, Pesticide Re-Evaluation Division, Office of Pesticide
Programs.
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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION

National Highway Traffic Safety Administration

[U.S. DOT Docket Number NHTSA-2008-0162]

Reports, Forms, and Recordkeeping Requirements

AGENCY: National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), United
States Department of Transportation.

ACTION: Request for public comment on proposed collection of
information.

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SUMMARY: Before a Federal agency can collect certain information from
the public, it must receive approval from the Office of Management and
Budget (OMB). Under procedures established by the Paperwork Reduction
Act of 1995, before seeking OMB approval, Federal agencies must solicit
public comment on proposed collections of information, including
extensions and reinstatement of previously approved collections. This
document describes one collection of information for which NHTSA
intends to seek OMB approval.

DATES: Comments must be received on or before December 22, 2008.

ADDRESSES: Comments must refer to the docket notice numbers cited at
the beginning of this notice and be submitted to Docket Management
Facility, West Building, Room W12-140, 1200 New Jersey Avenue, SE.,
Washington, DC 20590. The Docket Management office is open on weekdays,
except Federal holidays, from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. You may call the office
at<PHONE_NUMBER>. You may also submit comments electronically at http://
www.regulations.gov. Please identify the proposed collection of
information for which a comment is provided, by referencing its OMB
clearance Number. It is requested, but not required, that 2 copies of
the comment be provided.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Complete copies of each request for
collection of information may be obtained at no charge from Mr.
Santiago Navarro, Office of Crash Avoidance Standards, 1200 New Jersey
Avenue, SE., Washington, DC 20590. Mr. Navarro's telephone number is
(202) 493-0248. His FAX number is (202)

493-2739. Please identify the relevant collection of information by
referring to its OMB Control Number.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Under the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995,
before an agency submits a proposed collection of information to OMB
for approval, it must first publish a document in the Federal Register
providing a 60-day comment period and otherwise consult with members of
the public and affected agencies concerning each proposed collection of
information. The OMB has promulgated regulations describing what must
be included in such a document. Under OMB's regulation (at 5 CFR
1320.8(d)), an agency must ask for public comment on the following:
    (i) Whether the proposed collection of information is necessary for
the proper performance of the functions of the agency, including
whether the information will have practical utility;
    (ii) The accuracy of the agency's estimate of the burden of the
proposed collection of information, including the validity of the
methodology and assumptions used;
    (iii) How to enhance the quality, utility, and clarity of the
information to be collected;
    (iv) How to minimize the burden of the collection of information on
those who are to respond, including the use of appropriate automated,
electronic, mechanical, or other technological collection techniques or
other forms of information technology, e.g. permitting electronic
submission of responses.
    In compliance with these requirements, NHTSA asks for public
comments on the following proposed collections of information:
    Title: Tires and Rims Labeling.
    OMB Control Number: 2127-0503.
    Requested Expiration Date of Approval: Three years from the
approval date.
    Type of Request: Extension of a currently approved collection.
    Affected Public: Tire and rim manufacturers.
    Form Number: This collection of information uses no standard forms.
    Abstract: Each tire manufacturer and rim manufacturer must label
their tire or rim with the applicable safety information. These
labeling requirements ensure that tires are mounted on the appropriate
rims; and that the rims and tires are mounted on the vehicles for which
they are intended.
    Estimated Annual Burden: 265,647 hours.
    Estimated Number of Respondents: 2,274.
    Comments are invited on: whether the proposed collection of
information is necessary for the proper performance of the functions of
the Department, including whether the information will have practical
utility; the accuracy of the Department's estimate of the burden of the
proposed information collection; ways to enhance the quality, utility
and clarity of the information to be collected; and ways to minimize
the burden of the collection of information on respondents, including
the use of automated collection techniques or other forms of
information technology.

    Issued on: October 16, 2008.
Stephen R. Kratzke,
Associate Administrator for Rulemaking.
[FR Doc. E8-25158 Filed 10-21-08; 8:45 am]

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