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• The data or information submitted 

must be presented in a legible and 

useable form. For example, an English 

translation must accompany any 

material that is not in English and a 

written transcript must accompany any 

information submitted as an 

audiographic or videographic record. 

Written material may be submitted in 

paper or electronic form. 

• Submitters must clearly identify the 

source of any submitted data or 

information. 

• Submitters may request the Agency 

to reconsider data or information that 

the Agency rejected in a previous 

review. However, submitters must 

explain why they believe the Agency 

should reconsider the data or 

information in the pesticide’s 

registration review. 

As provided in 40 CFR 155.58, the 

registration review docket for each 

pesticide case will remain publicly 

accessible through the duration of the 

registration review process; that is, until 

all actions required in the final decision 

on the registration review case have 

been completed. 

List of Subjects 

Environmental protection, Pesticides 

and pests. 

Dated: March 19, 2013. 

Richard P. Keigwin, Jr., 

Director, Pesticide Re-evaluation Division, 

Office of Pesticide Programs. 

[FR Doc. 2013–07076 Filed 3–26–13; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6560–50–P 

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION 

AGENCY 

[FRL–9794–7] 

EPA Office of External Affairs and 

Environmental Education; Request for 

Nominations of Candidates for the 

National Environmental Education 

Advisory Council 

AGENCY: Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA). 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: The U.S. Environmental 

Protection Agency (EPA or Agency) 

Office of External Affairs and 

Environmental Education (OEAEE) Staff 

Office is soliciting applications for 

environmental education professionals 

for consideration on the National 

Environmental Education Advisory 

Council (NEEAC). There is one vacancy 

on the Advisory Council that must be 

filled. This vacancy is for the State 

Department of Education and Natural 

Resources position. Additional avenues 

and resources may be utilized in the 

solicitation of applications. In an effort 

to obtain nominations of diverse 

candidates, EPA encourages 

nominations of women and men of all 

racial and ethnic groups. 

DATES: Applications should be 

submitted by April 15, 2013 per 

instructions below. 

ADDRESSES: Submit non-electronic 

application materials to Javier Araujo, 

Designated Federal Officer, National 

Environmental Education Advisory 

Council, U.S. Environmental Protection 

Agency, Office of External Affairs and 

Environmental Education (MC:1704A), 

1200 Pennsylvania Ave. NW., Room 

1426(ARN), Washington, DC 20460, Ph: 

202–564–2642, FAX: 202–564–2753, 

email:araujo.javier@epa.gov. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For 

information regarding this Request for 

Nominations, please contact Mr. Javier 

Araujo, Designated Federal Officer 

(DFO), EPA National Environmental 

Education Advisory Council, at the 

contact information provided above. 

General information concerning NEEAC 

can be found on the EPA Web site at: 

http://www.epa.gov/enviroed/. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The 

National Environmental Education Act 

requires that the Council be comprised 

of eleven (11) members appointed by 

the Administrator of EPA. Members 

represent a balance of perspectives, 

professional qualifications, and 

experience. The Act specifies that 

members must represent the following 

sectors: Primary and secondary 

education (one of whom shall be a 

classroom teacher)—two members; 

colleges and universities—two 

members; business and industry—two 

members; non profit organizations 

involved in environmental education— 

two members; state departments of 

education and natural resources—one 

member each; senior Americans—one 

member. Members are chosen to 

represent various geographic regions of 

the country, and the Council strives for 

a diverse representation. The 

professional backgrounds of Council 

members should include education, 

science, policy, or other appropriate 

disciplines. Each member of the Council 

shall hold office for a one (1) to three 

(3) year period. Members are expected 

to participate in up to two (2) meetings 

per year and monthly or more 

conference calls per year. Members of 

the Council shall receive compensation 

and allowances, including travel 

expenses, at a rate fixed by the 

Administrator. 

Expertise Sought: The OEAEE staff 

office seeks candidates with 

demonstrated experience and/or 

knowledge in any of the following 

environmental education issue areas: (a) 

Integrating environmental education 

into state and local education reform 

and improvement; (b) state, local and 

tribal level capacity building; (c) crosssector partnerships; (d) leveraging 

resources for environmental education; 

(e) design and implementation of 

environmental education research; (f) 

evaluation methodology; professional 

development for teachers and other 

education professionals; and targeting 

under-represented audiences, including 

low-income, multi-cultural, senior 

citizens and other adults. 

Candidates should be team players 

who demonstrate strong analytical, 

communication and writing skills. 

How to Submit Applications: Any 

interested and qualified individuals 

may be considered for appointment on 

the National Environmental Education 

Advisory Council. Applications should 

be submitted in electronic format to the 

DFO, Javier Araujo, at: 

araujo.javier@epa.gov and contain the 

following: contact information 

including name, address, phone and fax 

numbers and an email address; a 

curriculum vitae or resume; the specific 

area of expertise in environmental 

education; recent service on other 

national advisory committees or 

national professional organizations and 

a one-page commentary on the 

applicant’s philosophy regarding the 

need for, development, implementation 

and/or management of environmental 

education nationally. 

Persons having questions about the 

application procedure or who are 

unable to submit applications by 

electronic means should contact Javier 

Araujo, DFO, at the contact information 

provided above in this notice. Nonelectronic submissions must contain the 

same information as electronic ones. 

The OEAEE Staff Office will 

acknowledge receipt of the application. 

The OEAEE Staff Office will develop a 

short list of candidates for more detailed 

consideration. The short list candidates 

will be required to fill out the 

Confidential Disclosure Form for 

Special Government Employees Serving 

Federal Advisory Committees at the 

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency 

(EPA Form 3110–48). This confidential 

form allows government officials to 

determine whether there is a statutory 

conflict between that person’s public 

responsibilities (which include 

membership on a Federal advisory 

committee) and private interests and 

activities and the appearance of a lack 

of impartiality as defined by Federal 

regulation. The form may be viewed and 

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address: http://www.epa.gov/oppt/aegl/ 

pubs/ethics_form.pdf. 

Dated: March 14, 2013. 

Javier Araujo, 

Designated Federal Officer. 

[FR Doc. 2013–07089 Filed 3–26–13; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6560–50–P 

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION 

AGENCY 

[EPA–HQ–OPP–2009–0191; FRL–9380–4] 

Organic Arsenicals; Amendments to 

Terminate Uses; Amendment to 

Existing Stocks Provisions 

AGENCY: Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA). 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: EPA issued a document in the 

Federal Register of September 30, 2009 

(74 FR 50187) (FRL–8437–7) concerning 

the cancellations and amendments of 

pesticide products containing organic 

arsenicals. A portion of the voluntary 

cancellation request giving rise to the 

2009 document was conditioned upon 

the convening of a public scientific peer 

review process that would address the 

mode of action for carcinogenic effects 

of inorganic arsenic. Because the peer 

review process has not yet occurred, the 

cancellations of the sod farm, golf 

course, and highway rights-of-way uses 

identified in the 2009 document were 

improperly finalized, and the existing 

stocks provisions for all remaining 

products containing the organic 

arsenical monosodium methanearsonate 

(MSMA) will be corrected as noted in 

Unit II. of this document. In addition, 

this document clarifies that existing 

stocks of products already in the hands 

of users as of December 31, 2010, 

containing MSMA labeled for all uses, 

except cotton, sod farms, golf courses, 

and highway rights-of-way and products 

containing disodium methanearsonate 

(DSMA), calcium acid methanearsonate 

(CAMA), and cacodylic acid and its 

sodium salt, can be used legally until 

they are exhausted, provided that such 

use complies with the EPA-approved 

label and labeling accompanying the 

affected product. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Tom 

Myers, Pesticide Re-evaluation Division 

(7508P), Office of Pesticide Programs, 

Environmental Protection Agency, 1200 

Pennsylvania Ave. NW., Washington, 

DC 20460–0001; telephone number: 

(703) 308–8589; email address: 

myers.tom@epa.gov. 

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–2009–0191, 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), EPA West 

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 (202) 566–1744, and 

the telephone number for the OPP 

Docket is (703) 305–5805. Please review 

the visitor instructions and additional 

information about the docket available 

at http://www.epa.gov/dockets. 

II. Background 

The voluntary cancellation request 

identified in the 2009 document (74 FR 

50187) was based upon a negotiated 

Agreement in Principle to Implement 

the Organic Arsenicals Reregistration 

Eligibility Decision dated January 16, 

2009. Under that Agreement, certain 

uses were to be cancelled 

unconditionally, while others were 

subject to future cancellation 

conditionally. The products that were 

cancelled unconditionally in the 2009 

document were MSMA labeled for 

residential; forestry; non-bearing fruit 

and nuts; citrus, bearing and nonbearing; bluegrass, fescue and ryegrass 

grown for seed; drainage ditch banks; 

railroad, pipeline, and utility rights-ofway; fence rows; storage yards; and 

similar non-crop areas and all products 

containing DSMA, CAMA, cacodylic 

acid and its sodium salt. Regarding the 

golf course, sod farms, and highway 

rights-of-way uses, paragraph 3 of that 

agreement provided that EPA would 

convene a public meeting of either the 

Agency’s Scientific Advisory Board, the 

Scientific Advisory Panel, or both to 

evaluate any new data on the mode of 

action of inorganic arsenicals, and 

paragraph 6 of the agreement provided 

that, before the cancellations of golf 

course, sod farms, and highway rightsof-way uses of MSMA would take effect, 

EPA would make a written 

determination whether EPA believes 

that the science on the mode of action 

has changed sufficiently to warrant the 

continued registration of those uses. 

Thus, a portion of the cancellation 

request and existing stocks provision of 

the 2009 document were conditioned 

upon the timely completion of the peer 

review process and EPA’s written 

determination thereto. 

In light of a Congressional directive to 

have the National Academy of Sciences 

(NAS) look at the mode of action for 

carcinogenic effects by inorganic 

arsenic, EPA and the arsenic registrants 

recently agreed to modify paragraph 3 of 

the agreement to include the NAS as a 

third potential peer review body, one of 

which must hold a public meeting on 

the mode of action before the last use 

cancellations can be finalized. It is 

EPA’s current intention to rely on the 

NAS for the peer review of the mode of 

action issue although EPA retains the 

right to utilize either of the Agency’s 

scientific peer review bodies if it later 

determines that would be more 

appropriate. The NAS final report is 

currently scheduled to be completed in 

late 2015. See the letter from Richard P. 

Keigwin Jr., Director, Pesticide Reevaluation Division, to Lynn Bergeson 

on behalf of the Organic Arsenical 

Products Task Force dated September 

14, 2012 regarding the modification to 

paragraph 3 of Agreement in Principle, 

located in docket number EPA–HQ– 

OPP–2009–0191. 

In the cancellation order of the 2009 

document registrants would have been 

prohibited from selling and distributing 

products containing MSMA for use on 

sod farms, golf courses, and highway 

rights-of-way after December 31, 2012. 

Persons other than registrants would 

have been prohibited from selling and 

distributing products containing MSMA 

for use on sod farms, golf courses, and 

highway rights-of-way after June 30, 

2013, and after December 31, 2013 use 

of products containing MSMA labeled 

for all uses, except cotton would have 

been prohibited. All of those 

prohibitions were predicated, among 

other things, upon the convening of a 

scientific peer review to evaluate the 

mode of action of inorganic arsenicals, 

and the agreement contained a 

provision delaying the effective date of 

cancellation (and the related existing 

stocks provision) until such time as the 

Agency provides a written 

determination regarding the peer review 

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