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# Pesticide Registration Improvement Renewal Act (PRIA 2)

Primary/secondary is a term used by the Office of Pesticide Programs for a number of situations in which one or more applications or registration actions are dependent upon or related to another action. Becaus e of the relationship, fees are generally reduced for the dependent or secondary action. Some of these situations were ca lled parent/child relationships under PRIA 1. Primary/secondar y relationships are described below for new active ingredients, uses, and products and amendments along with fees associated wi th the secondary acti ons and submission requirements.

Questions on fee reductions or discretionary refunds should be directed to the registration ombudsman for the type of pesticide, i.e. conventional, antimicr obial or biopesticide. The ombudsman should also be consulted when a prod uct is submitted that contains two or more different types of active ingredients such as a biological or a biochemical active ingredient combined with a conventional active ingredie nt. For information on primary/secondary Plant Incorporated Protectant (PIP) applications such as stacked PI Ps, applicants should consult the Biopesticides and Pollution Prevention Web site or the Chief of the Microbial Pesticides Branch

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New Active Ingredients and First Food Use

The fee for an application to register a new ac tive ingredient or first food use covers any applications to register the active ingredient ’s technical (manufacturing use) and end use products and any tolerance petitions submit ted simultaneously. “Simultaneously” means received by the Agency within 14 calendar daysof the date that the initial submission is received by the Agency. Any associated action submitted more than 14 calendar days after that initial submission and while the application for the new active ingred ient or first food use is still pending will be classified as a separa te new active ingredient or first food use application and subject to the corresponding full new active ingredient or first food use PRIA fee and eligible for a FIFRA Section 33(b)(8 )(C) discretionary refund which must be requested.

New Uses
The fee for the application is based on the number of new uses requested and includes (a) all label amendments to add the new uses to regi stered product labels and (b) the tolerance petitions submitted simultaneously. “Simultaneou sly” means received by the Agency within 14 calendar days of the date that the initia l submission is received by the Agency. An additional related label amendment for that ne w use or other related action submitted more than 14 calendar days after the date of the initial submission and while the initial submission Related Information Data Requirements Checklists New Product Applications Submitted with New Use Requests (6 pp, 80K, About PDF ) Primary and Secondary New Product Applications ( 4 pp, 69K

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8/27/2012 http ://www.e p a. g ov/ p esticides/re g ulatin g /fees/relate d -app s.htmlis still pending will be classified as a separate and additional new use application subject to the corresponding full new us e PRIA fee and eligible for a FIFRA Section 33(b)(8)(C) discretionary refund which must be requested by the applicant.

Any other amendment to a registered label besi des adding the new use(s), its use directions and precautionary and advisory statements is a separate registration action, subject to a separate fee for the corresponding PRIA category.

New Product Applications Submitted with New Use

If a new use application only proposes to register the new use for a new product, review of the new product application is covered by the PRIA new-use fee. Any additional new products submitted simultaneously are separate new product applications, each subject to at least an additional new use fee. However, the Agency will automatically apply FIFRA Section 33(b)(8)(C), the discretionary refund provision, to reduce the fee for these additional new product applications.

If a new use application amends at leas t one registered label to add that new use, then any new product application su bmitted simultaneously with a request to add that same new use is considered a separate application, subject to a separate new use fee. Th e Agency will automatically apply FIFRA Section 33(b) (8)(C), the discretionary refund provisio n, to reduce the fee for such a new product application.

To assist applicants in identifying th e appropriate fee for a secondary action submitted with a new use, applicants should consult the table, New Product Applications Submitted with New Use Requests (6 pp, 80K, About PDF ) , which also shows the Agency’s system for tracki ng and linking related new product applications. The timeframe for the secondar y decision is the same as that of the primary decision.

New Products

Each new product application is subject to a PRIA fee. If one set of data or data waivers, excluding product chemistry, pertains to tw o or more applications and the data and applications are submitted simultaneously, th e Agency applies the discretionary refund provision to reduce the fee(s) for the “seconda ry” application(s) in accordance with FIFRA Section 33(b)(8)(C) to take into account the de creased amount of work required to review them. The Agency furthermore will apply the refund at the time the applicant pays the fee to reduce the burden on re gistrants in paying a full fee and on the Agency in issuing refunds.

The application with the data is called the “primary” application or decision and the other applications dependent upon the primary’s data submitted simultaneously with the primary are referred to as the secondar y applications or decision. “Simultaneously” means received by the Agency within 14 calendar days of the da te that the initial primary product submission is received by the Agency. If not submitted “s imultaneously”, the latter submission will not be deemed a secondary application, and a re duction in the fee will not be automatically considered and must be requested with a ju stification by the applicant. The primary application with the data must be submitted be fore or with the seco ndary applications; the secondary applications cannot be submitted pr ior to the primary application containing the data.

If the new product application relies on data wi th another application su ch as an amendment, 

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8/27/2012 http ://www.e p a. g ov/ p esticides/re g ulatin g /fees/relate d -app s.htmland the two applications are no t submitted simultaneously, each of these applications is treated as an individual, separate application with its own fee, start date, and due date. In these cases, the applicant must reference the data in the other application(s) and specifically request the fee reduction or discretionary refund.

To identify the appropriate fee for a secondar y new product, applicants should consult the table, Primary and Secondary New Product Applications (3 pp, 35K, About PDF ) , which also shows the Agency’s system for tracking and linking related new product applications. The timeframe for the secondary decision is th e same as that of the primary decision.

Amendments

When an applicant applies to amend a number of product labels with the same label language and submits a single set of data to support the change in the label language, it is considered one request with a single asso ciated fee. The amendments must be submitted in the same package or envelope, and one set of data must apply to all of the amendments to qualify for a single amendment fe e, otherwise, each amendment is a separate action with a separate fee.

How the Agency keeps track of related applications/actions

Each type of action is tracke d in the Agency’s databases with each action identified by a decision (tracking) number in its database, an d on pay.gov forms, invoices, and notifications of receipt. Each PRIA decision has a PRIA fee category and decision review timeframe associated with it. The Agency uses a decimal system (i.e. A540.X) that follows the number of a PRIA fee category to identify secondar y decisions, which applicants will observe on different forms of correspondence from the Agen cy. The decimal system allows the Agency to link primary and secondary decisions in its tracking system and to identify the fees associated with secondary decisions. The decimal system is also used to identify the number of uses in an application and the numberof active ingredients in a product.

Type of Action Fee PRIA Tracking Code - Decimal Primary Fee of category No decimal

Secondary No Fee $0.00 .0

25% of fee .1
Secondary new product with more than product chemistry – primary is new use amendment Fee in table on new product applications submitted with new use requests New use fee category.1

Secondary new product with more than product chemistry – primary is new product Fee in New Products fee table New Product Fee category.2

Two Active Ingredients in a Product Per active ingredient New ai fee category.2

Four uses requested for a registered active ingredient Per use New use fee category.4 (decimal shows number of uses) 

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8/27/2012 http ://www.e p a. g ov/ p esticides/re g ulatin g /fees/relate d -app s.htmlNew Active Ingredients - The application to register the technical (manufacturing use) product is generally designated as the primary decision and assigned the PRIA fee category and the fee appropriate for the fee category. The other components, i.e. end-use product applications and tolerance petition are considered secondary decisions.

New Uses - One application, generally a register ed technical (manufacturi ng use) product, is designated as the “primary” decision and assigned the PRIA fee category and the fee appropriate for the fee category. The other co mponents, e.g., label amendments proposing the new use directions and tolerance petition associated with the new use are considered secondary decisions. If a technical (manufacturi ng use) label is not submitted, the product with the highest concentration of active in gredient will be designated the “primary” submission.

New Products and Amendments - The application containing the data is designated as the primary decision. Other applications that are dependent on the same data are “secondary” decisions. 

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