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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 andtribal 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 informationprovided 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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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 fruitand 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 golfcourse, 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