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persons who are or may be required to 

conduct testing of chemical substances 

under the Federal Food, Drug and 

Cosmetics Act (FFDCA), or the Federal 

Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide 

Act (FIFRA) and those who sell, 

distribute or use pesticides, as well as 

any Non-Government Organization. 

If you have any questions regarding 

the applicability of this action to a 

particular entity, consult the person 

listed under FOR FURTHER INFORMATION

CONTACT. 

B. How can I get copies of this document 

and other related information? 

The docket for this action, Identified 

by docket ID number EPA–HQ–OPP– 

2014–0002 is available at http://

www.regulations.gov, or at the Office of 

Pesticide Programs Regulatory Public 

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. Tentative Agenda Topics 

1. Issue Papers Status. 

2. Pesticide Registration Review Update. 

3. Endangered Species Act (ESA) 

Lawsuits Status. 

4. ESA Consultation Process. 

5. National Academy of Science 

Implementation Stakeholder 

Webinar. 

6. Soil Fumigation Re-Registration, 

Other Re-Registration Issues. 

7. Status of Pollinator Protection Issues 

Policy Development. 

8. Pollinator Protection Label Language 

Issue Paper. 

9. Environmental Hazards Statements 

Conflicts With Directions for Use 

Statements. 

10. National Pesticide Information 

Center/State Lead Agency 

Information Exchange. 

11. Project Officer Training Workgroup 

Report. 

12. Results from Pre-State FIFRA Issues 

Research and Evaluation Group 

(SFIREG) Meetings. 

13. SFIREG/EPA Discussion—Role and 

Responsibilities of Working 

Committees. 

14. OECA Update. 

15. Program Performance Measures 

Development and Implementation 

Pilot Project. 

16. Tribal Pesticide Program Council 

(TPPC) Report. 

17. Tribal Pesticide Policy Council/SLA 

Project Initiative. 

III. How can I request to participate in 

this meeting? 

This meeting is open for the public to 

attend. You may attend the meeting 

without further notification. 

List of Subjects 

Environmental protection. 

Dated: May 1, 2014. 

Brian Frazer, 

Acting Director, Field and External Affairs 

Division, Office of Pesticide Programs. 

[FR Doc. 2014–11378 Filed 5–15–14; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6560–50–P 

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION 

AGENCY 

[FRL–9910–98–Region–1] 

Notice of Availability of Draft Npdes 

General Permits Mag250000 and 

Nhg250000 for Discharges of NonContact Cooling Water in 

Massachusetts and New Hampshire: 

the Non-Contact Cooling Water 

General Permit (NCCW GP) 

AGENCY: Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA). 

ACTION: Notice of Availability of Draft 

Npdes General Permits MAG250000 and 

NHG250000. 

SUMMARY: The Director of the Office of 

Ecosystem Protection, EPA—Region 1, 

is providing a notice of availability of 

draft National Pollutant Discharge 

Elimination System (NPDES) general 

permits for non-contact cooling water 

discharges to certain waters of the 

Commonwealth of Massachusetts and 

the State of New Hampshire. These 

General Permits replace the Non-contact 

Cooling Water General Permit (NCCW 

GP) that expired on July 31, 2013. 

DATES: Comment on the draft general 

permits must be received on or before 

June 16, 2014. 

Public Hearing Information: EPA will 

hold a public hearing, if necessary, in 

accordance with 40 CFR 124.12 and will 

provide interested parties with the 

opportunity to provide written and/or 

oral comments for the official 

administrative record. 

ADDRESSES: Comments on the draft 

NCCW GP shall be submitted by one of 

the following methods: 

(1) Email: warner.suzanne@epa.gov or 

(2) Mail: Suzanne Warner, US EPA— 

Region 1, 5 Post Office Square—Suite 

100, Mail Code OEP06–4, Boston, MA 

02109–3912. 

No facsimiles (faxes) will be accepted. 

The draft permit is based on an 

administrative record available for 

public review at EPA–Region 1, Office 

of Ecosystem Protection, 5 Post Office 

Square-Suite 100, Boston, 

Massachusetts 02109–3912. A 

reasonable fee may be charged for 

copying requests. The fact sheet for the 

draft general permit sets forth principal 

facts and the significant factual, legal, 

methodological and policy questions 

considered in the development of the 

draft permit and is available upon 

request. A brief summary is provided as 

supplementary information below. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Additional information concerning the 

draft NCCW GP may be obtained 

between the hours of 9 a.m. and 5 p.m. 

Monday through Friday, excluding 

holidays, from Suzanne Warner, Office 

of Ecosystem Protection, 5 Post Office 

Square—Suite 100, Boston, MA 02109– 

3912; telephone: 617–918–1383; email: 

warner.suzanne@epa.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

EPA is proposing to reissue two draft 

general permits for non-contact cooling 

water discharges from facilities located 

in Massachusetts and New Hampshire. 

While the draft general permits are two 

distinct permits, for convenience, EPA 

has grouped them together in a single 

document and has provided a single fact 

sheet for the two draft general permits. 

This document refers to the draft 

general ‘‘permit’’ in the singular. The 

draft general permit, appendices and 

fact sheet are available at: http://

www.epa.gov/region1/npdes/

nccwgp.html. 

The draft general permit establishes 

Notice of Intent (NOI) requirements, 

effluent limitations, standards, 

prohibitions, and in some cases best 

technology available (BTA) 

requirements for facilities that discharge 

small amounts of non-contact cooling 

water in Massachusetts and New 

Hampshire. 

The draft permit includes effluent 

limitations based on best professional 

judgment (BPJ) and water quality 

considerations. The effluent limits 

established in the draft permit assure 

that the surface water quality standards 

of the receiving water are maintained 

and/or attained. 

Non-contact cooling water is water 

used for cooling that does not come into 

contact with any raw material, 

intermediate product, waste product, or 

finished product; the only anticipated 

pollutant is heat. Discharges composed 

of anything other than non-contact 

cooling water will not be granted 

coverage under this general permit. 

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under an individual permit or an 

appropriate general permit. 

The permit also contains BTA 

requirements for cooling water intake 

structures for facilities that withdraw 

less than 1 MGD of surface water for 

non-contact cooling in order to ensure 

source water protection. For facilities 

that use groundwater or municipal 

drinking water for non-contact cooling, 

the permit establishes effluent 

limitations and/or additional 

monitoring for expected constituents 

(metals and residual chlorine, 

respectively). 

Other Legal Requirements 

Endangered Species Act (ESA) 

EPA has updated the provisions and 

necessary actions and documentation 

related to potential impacts to 

endangered species from facilities 

seeking coverage under the NCCW GP. 

EPA has requested concurrence from the 

appropriate federal services (U.S. Fish 

and Wildlife Service and National 

Marine Fisheries Service) in connection 

with this draft permit. 

National Historic Preservation Act 

(NHPA) 

In accordance with NHPA, EPA has 

established provisions and 

documentation requirements for 

facilities seeking coverage under the 

NCCW GP to ensure that discharges or 

actions taken under this permit will not 

adversely affect historic properties and 

places. EPA has requested concurrence 

from the appropriate state historic 

preservation officers (SHPOs) with the 

draft permit. 

Authority: This action is being taken 

under the Clean Water Act, 33 U.S.C. 1251 

et seq. 

Dated: May 8, 2014. 

Deborah Szaro, 

Deputy Regional Administrator. 

[FR Doc. 2014–11427 Filed 5–15–14; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6560–50–P 

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION 

AGENCY 

[EPA–HQ–OPP–2014–0335; FRL–9910–28] 

Pesticide Emergency Exemptions; 

Agency Decisions and State and 

Federal Agency Crisis Declarations 

AGENCY: Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA). 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: EPA has granted emergency 

exemptions under the Federal 

Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide 

Act (FIFRA) for use of pesticides as 

listed in this notice. The exemptions 

were granted during the period October 

1, 2013 to March 31, 2014 to control 

unforeseen pest outbreaks. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Lois 

Rossi, Registration Division (7505P), 

Office of Pesticide Programs, 

Environmental Protection Agency, 1200 

Pennsylvania Ave. NW., Washington, 

DC 20460–0001; telephone number: 

(703) 305–7090; email address: 

RDFRNotices@epa.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

I. General Information 

A. Does this action apply to me? 

You may be potentially affected by 

this action if you are an agricultural 

producer, food manufacturer, or 

pesticide manufacturer. The following 

list of North American Industrial 

Classification System (NAICS) codes is 

not intended to be exhaustive, but rather 

provides a guide to help readers 

determine whether this document 

applies to them. Potentially affected 

entities may include: 

• Crop production (NAICS code 111). 

• Animal production (NAICS code 112). 

• Food manufacturing (NAICS code 

311). 

• Pesticide manufacturing (NAICS code 

32532). 

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–2014–0335, 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 

EPA has granted emergency 

exemptions to the following State and 

Federal agencies. The emergency 

exemptions may take the following 

form: Crisis, public health, quarantine, 

or specific. 

Under FIFRA section 18, EPA can 

authorize the use of a pesticide when 

emergency conditions exist. 

Authorizations (commonly called 

emergency exemptions) are granted to 

State and Federal agencies and are of 

four types: 

1. A ‘‘specific exemption’’ authorizes 

use of a pesticide against specific pests 

on a limited acreage in a particular 

State. Most emergency exemptions are 

specific exemptions. 

2. ‘‘Quarantine’’ and ‘‘public health’’ 

exemptions are emergency exemptions 

issued for quarantine or public health 

purposes. These are rarely requested. 

3. A ‘‘crisis exemption’’ is initiated by 

a State or Federal agency (and is 

confirmed by EPA) when there is 

insufficient time to request and obtain 

EPA permission for use of a pesticide in 

an emergency. 

EPA may deny an emergency 

exemption: If the State or Federal 

agency cannot demonstrate that an 

emergency exists, if the use poses 

unacceptable risks to the environment, 

or if EPA cannot reach a conclusion that 

the proposed pesticide use is likely to 

result in ‘‘a reasonable certainty of no 

harm’’ to human health, including 

exposure of residues of the pesticide to 

infants and children. 

If the emergency use of the pesticide 

on a food or feed commodity would 

result in pesticide chemical residues, 

EPA establishes a time-limited tolerance 

meeting the ‘‘reasonable certainty of no 

harm standard’’ of the Federal Food, 

Drug, and Cosmetic Act (FFDCA). 

In this document: EPA identifies the 

State or Federal agency granted the 

exemption, the type of exemption, the 

pesticide authorized and the pests, the 

crop or use for which authorized, and 

the duration of the exemption. 

III. Emergency Exemptions 

A. U.S. States and Territories 

Alabama 

Department of Agriculture 

Specific exemption: EPA authorized 

the use of potassium salt of hop beta 

acids in beehives to control varroa mite; 

February 27, 2014 to December 31, 

2014. 

Arkansas 

State Plant Board 

Specific exemption: EPA authorized 

the use of anthraquinone on rice seed to 

repel blackbirds; February 28, 2014 to 

June 1, 2014. 

California 

Department of Environmental Protection 

Specific exemption: EPA authorized 

the use of etofenprox in mushroom 

houses to control phorid and sciarid 

flies; February 7, 2014 to February 7, 

2015. 


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