[Federal Register Volume 87, Number 40 (Tuesday, March 1, 2022)]
[Notices]
[Pages 11429-11432]
[FR Doc No: 2022-04232]

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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

[EPA-HQ-OPP-2021-0513; FRL-9573-01-OCSPP]

Cancellation Order for Certain Pesticide Registrations and
Amendments To Terminate Uses

AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: This notice announces EPA's order for the cancellations and
amendments to terminate uses, voluntarily requested by the registrants
and accepted by the Agency, of the products listed in Table 1, Table 1A
and Table 2 of Unit II, pursuant to the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide,
and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA). This cancellation order follows an October
25, 2021, Federal Register Notice of Receipt of Requests from the
registrants listed in Table 3 of Unit II, to voluntarily cancel and
amend to terminate uses of these product registrations. In the October
25, 2021, notice, EPA indicated that it would issue an order
implementing the cancellations and amendments to terminate uses, unless
the Agency received substantive comments within the 30-day comment
period that would merit its further review of these requests, or unless
the registrants withdrew their requests. The Agency received two
comments on the notice; one general comment concerning pesticides in
general that did not directly apply to this notice, so no action or
response was needed and the second merited its further review of the
requests. Further, the registrants did not withdraw their requests.
Accordingly, EPA hereby issues in this notice a cancellation order
granting the requested cancellations and amendments to terminate uses.
Any distribution, sale, or use of the 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 and amendments are effective March 1, 2022.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Christopher Green, Registration
Division (7502P), Office of Pesticide Programs, Environmental
Protection Agency, 1200 Pennsylvania Ave. NW, Washington, DC 20460-
0001; telephone number:<PHONE_NUMBER>; email 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.

B. How can I get copies of this document and other related information?

    The docket for this action, identified by docket identification
(ID) number EPA-HQ-OPP-2021-0513, is available at http://www.regulations.gov or at the Office of Pesticide Programs Regulatory
Public Docket (OPP Docket) in the Environmental Protection Agency
Docket Center (EPA/DC), West William Jefferson Clinton Bldg., Rm. 3334,
1301 Constitution Ave. NW, Washington, DC 20460-0001. The Public
Reading Room is open from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., Monday through
Friday, excluding legal holidays. The telephone number for the Public
Reading Room is<PHONE_NUMBER>, and the telephone number for the OPP
Docket is<PHONE_NUMBER>. Please review the visitor instructions and
additional information about the docket available at http://www.epa.gov/dockets.
    Due to the public health concerns related to COVID-19, the EPA
Docket Center (EPA/DC) and Reading Room is closed to visitors with
limited exceptions. The staff continues to provide remote customer
service via email, phone, and webform. For the latest status
information on EPA/DC services and docket access, visit https://www.epa.gov/dockets.

II. What action is the Agency taking?

    This notice announces the cancellations and amendments to terminate
uses, as requested by registrants, of products registered under FIFRA
section 3 (7 U.S.C. 136a). These registrations are listed in sequence
by registration number in Table 1, Table 1A, and Table 2 of this unit.

                                         Table 1--Product Cancellations
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           Registration No.              Company No.           Product name               Active ingredients
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279-3125.............................             279  Fury 1.5 EC Insecticide.....  Zeta-Cypermethrin.
279-3248.............................             279  Z-Cype 0.8 EW Insecticide...  Zeta-Cypermethrin.
279-3249.............................             279  Z-Cype 0.8 EC Insecticide...  Zeta-Cypermethrin.
279-3297.............................             279  0.344% F0570 OTC Granular     Zeta-Cypermethrin.
                                                        Insecticide.
279-3298.............................             279  0.258% F0570 OTC Granular     Zeta-Cypermethrin.
                                                        Insecticide.
279-3299.............................             279  0.129% F0570 OTC Granular     Zeta-Cypermethrin.
                                                        Insecticide.

279-3327.............................             279  Zeta-Cype 0.8EC Insecticide.  Zeta-Cypermethrin.
279-3328.............................             279  Zeta-Cype 0.8EW Insecticide.  Zeta-Cypermethrin.
279-3381.............................             279  Zeta-Cype 0.8 EC HSL          Zeta-Cypermethrin.
                                                        Insecticide.
2693-190.............................            2693  Micron CSC Super with Bio-    Cuprous oxide & 1,3,5-
                                                        Lux Blue.                     Triazine-2,4-diamine, N-
                                                                                cyclopropyl-N'-(1,1-
                                                                                dimethylethyl)-6-
                                                                                (methylthio)-.
2693-197.............................            2693  VC 17M with Biolux Original.  1,3,5-Triazine-2,4-diamine,
                                                                                N-cyclopropyl-N'-(1,1-
                                                                                dimethylethyl)-6-
                                                                                (methylthio)-.
2693-198.............................            2693  VC 17M with Biolux Red......  1,3,5-Triazine-2,4-diamine,
                                                                                N-cyclopropyl-N'-(1,1-
                                                                                dimethylethyl)-6-
                                                                                (methylthio)-.
9688-295.............................            9688  Chemsico Fire Ant Killer 6B.  Bifenthrin.
33270-12.............................           33270  Tremor......................  Acetochlor.
34704-887............................           34704  Cypermethrin 25.............  Cypermethrin.
34704-897............................           34704  Cypro Termiticide/            Cypermethrin.
                                                        Insecticide.
42750-106............................           42750  Acetochlor 4.3 + ATZ 1.7....  Atrazine & Acetochlor.
42750-108............................           42750  Acetochlor 3.1 + ATZ 2.5....  Atrazine & Acetochlor.
42750-201............................           42750  Fluroxypyr + Clopyralid.....  Fluroxypyr-meptyl &
                                                                                Clopyralid,
                                                                                monoethanolamine salt.
42750-203............................           42750  Fluroxypyr + 2,4-D..........  2,4-D, 2-ethylhexyl ester &
                                                                                Fluroxypyr-meptyl.
42750-204............................           42750  Fluroxypyr 26.2% EC.........  Fluroxypyr-meptyl.
55467-17.............................           55467  Volunteer 2EC Herbicide.....  Clethodim.
62719-536............................           62719  Starane NXTCP...............  Bromoxynil octanoate &
                                                                                Fluroxypyr-meptyl.
71173-1..............................           71173  Acrocide....................  Acrolein.
71173-2..............................           71173  AcroCide H Herbicide........  Acrolein.
ID-080005............................           62719  Starane NXT.................  Bromoxynil octanoate &
                                                                                Fluroxypyr-meptyl.
ID-130010............................           34704  Colt CF Herbicide...........  Clopyralid & Fluroxypyr-
                                                                                meptyl.
FL-090011............................             279  Mustang Insecticide.........  Zeta-Cypermethrin.
FL-100002............................             279  Mustang Insecticide.........  Zeta-Cypermethrin.
KS-120001............................           55467  Tenkoz Atrazine 4L Herbicide  Atrazine.
NE-130001............................             279  F9114 EC Insecticide........  Zeta-Cypermethrin.
TX-100011............................             279  Mustang Insecticide.........  Zeta-Cypermethrin.
TX-100012............................             279  Mustang Insecticide.........  Zeta-Cypermethrin.
WI-180008............................             279  F9114 EC Insecticide........  Zeta-Cypermethrin.
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                                         Table 1A--Product Cancellations
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           Registration No.              Company No.           Product name               Active ingredients
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100-1431.............................             100  Gramoxone SL 2.0............  Paraquat dichloride.
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    The registrant of the registration listed in Table 1A, has
requested the date of March 30, 2022, for the effective date of
cancellation.

                           Table 2--Product Registration Amendments to Terminate Uses
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      Registration No.          Company No.       Product name      Active ingredient     Uses to be terminated
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19713-97....................           19713  Drexel Linuron 4L..  Linuron............  Post-harvest, crop
                                                                                stubble, fallow ground
                                                                                stale seedbed (under
                                                                                soybean use
                                                                                directions).
19713-158...................           19713  Linuron Flake        Linuron............  Terrestrial Non-Cropland
                                               Technical.                                Uses (such as roadsides
                                                                                and fencerows).
19713-251...................           19713  Drexel Linuron DF..  Linuron............  Non-crop weed control
                                                                                (on all non-cropland
                                                                                areas including
                                                                                roadsides and
                                                                                fencerows).
19713-368...................           19713  Drexel Linuron       Linuron............  Terrestrial Non-Cropland
                                               Technical 2.                              Uses (such as roadsides
                                                                                and fencerows).
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    Table 3 of this unit includes the names and addresses of record for
all registrants of the products in Table 1, Table 1A 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 above.

         Table 3--Registrants of Cancelled and Amended Products
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              EPA company No.                 Company name and address
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100.......................................  Syngenta Crop Protection,
                                             LLC, 410 Swing Road, P.O.
                                             Box 18300, Greensboro, NC
                                             27419-8300.
279.......................................  FMC Corporation, 2929 Walnut
                                             Street, Philadelphia, PA
                                             19104.
2693......................................  International Paint, LLC,
                                             6001 Antoine Drive,
                                             Houston, TX 77091.
9688......................................  Chemsico, A Division of
                                             United Industries Corp.,
                                             One Rider Trail Plaza
                                             Drive, Suite 300, Earth
                                             City, MO 63045-1313.
19713.....................................  Drexel Chemical Company,
                                             P.O. Box 13327, Memphis, TN
                                             38113-0327.
33270.....................................  Winfield Solutions, LLC,
                                             P.O. Box 64589, St. Paul,
                                             MN 55164-0589.
34704.....................................  Loveland Products, Inc.,
                                             P.O. Box 1286, Greeley, CO
                                             80632-1286.
42750.....................................  Albaugh, LLC, 1525 NE 36th
                                             Street, Ankeny, IA 50021.
55467.....................................  Tenkoz, Inc., 1725 Windward
                                             Concourse, Suite 410,
                                             Alpharetta, GA 30005.
62719.....................................  Corteva Agriscience, LLC,
                                             9330 Zionsville Road,
                                             Indianapolis, IN 46268.
71173.....................................  Multi-Chem Group, LLC--
                                             Odessa, 6155 W Murphy St.,
                                             Odessa, TX 79763-7511.
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III. Summary of Public Comments Received and Agency Response to
Comments

    The Agency received two comments on the notice, one general comment
concerning pesticides in general that did not directly apply to this
notice, so no action or response was needed, and the Agency does not
believe the comment merits further review and the second comment
merited its further review of the request. The second comment and the
response from the Agency is below.

A. Comment

    The Federal Register notice and docket provide inadequate
information about how voluntary cancellation of Gramoxone SL 2.0 will
conform to EPA's interim registration review decision for paraquat
dichloride. Specifically, it is unclear whether existing stocks of
Gramoxone SL 2.0 sold or distributed between March 30, 2022, and March
30, 2023, will bear a label that includes the additional restrictions
on use set forth in EPA's interim decision. It would be inappropriate
for EPA to approve any existing stocks provision that allows sale or
distribution of product with labels that do not reflect the interim
registration decision for paraquat dichloride. If the labels do not
conform to that decision, the product would be misbranded because it
would not contain directions EPA has deemed necessary to protect public
health and the environment.

B. Response

    The existing stocks provision for the voluntary cancellation of
Gramoxone SL 2.0 is roughly consistent with the phase-out of existing
labeling (and use of new labeling) that will occur in response to the
Agency's interim decision for paraquat. The existing stocks provision
for Gramoxone SL 2.0 permits the registrant to sell and distribute
existing stocks of voluntarily canceled products for one year after the
effective date of the cancellation, which will be March 30, 2023.
Updated paraquat labels containing the additional restrictions from the
interim decision are expected to be approved and stamped by the end of
the 2022 calendar year. After the label approval, the registrants of
the affected products must begin using the new labeling within 12
months of the label stamp date, roughly around the end of the 2023
calendar year.
    Given that the interim decision labeling will not be in full effect
until 2023, the continued sale and use of Gramoxone 2.0 with existing
labels will be consistent with the implementation of the interim
decision label language. Consequently, EPA has determined that the sale
and use of existing stocks of Gramoxone 2.0 will not be inconsistent
with the purposes of FIFRA.

IV. Cancellation Order

    Pursuant to FIFRA section 6(f) (7 U.S.C. 136d(f)(1)), EPA hereby
approves the requested cancellations and amendments to terminate uses
of the registrations identified in Table 1, Table 1A and Table 2 of
Unit II. Accordingly, the Agency hereby orders that the product
registrations identified in Table 1, Table 1A and Table 2 of Unit II,
are canceled and amended to terminate the affected uses. The effective
date of the cancellations that are subject of this notice is March 1,
2022. The effective date of the cancellation in Table 1A will be March
30, 2022. Any distribution, sale, or use of existing stocks of the
products identified in Table 1, Table 1A and Table 2 of Unit II, in a
manner inconsistent with any of the provisions for disposition of
existing stocks set forth in Unit VI, will be a violation of FIFRA.

V. 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. Thereafter, following the public comment period, the EPA
Administrator may approve such a request. The notice of receipt for
this action was published for comment in the Federal Register of
October 25, 2021 (86 FR 58906) (FRL-9119-01-OCSPP). The comment period
closed on November 24, 2021.

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
action. The existing stocks provision for the products subject to this
order is as follows.
    For the voluntary cancellation request in Table 1A, the registrant
requested March 30, 2022, as the effective date of cancellation;
therefore, the registrant may continue to sell and distribute existing
stocks of products listed in Table 1A until March 30, 2023, which is 1
year after the effective date of the cancellation. Thereafter, the
registrant is prohibited from selling or distributing products listed
in Table 1A of Unit II, except for export in accordance with FIFRA
section 17 (7 U.S.C. 136o) or for proper disposal.
    For all other voluntary cancellations listed in Table 1, the
registrants may continue to sell and distribute existing stocks of
products listed in Table 1 until March 1, 2023, which is 1 year after
publication of this cancellation order in the Federal Register.
Thereafter, the registrants are prohibited from selling or distributing
products listed in Table 1 of Unit II, except for export in accordance
with FIFRA section 17 (7 U.S.C. 136o) or for proper disposal.
    Now that EPA has approved product labels reflecting the requested
amendments to terminate uses, registrants are permitted to sell or
distribute products listed in Table 2 of Unit II, under the previously
approved labeling until September 1, 2023, a period of 18 months after
publication of the cancellation order in this Federal Register, 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 II,
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 canceled products and 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 canceled
products and terminated uses.
    Authority: 7 U.S.C. 136 et seq.

    Dated: February 18, 2022.
Marietta Echeverria,
Acting Director, Registration Division, Office of Pesticide Programs.
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