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Commission in determining the 

appropriate action to be taken, but will 

not serve to make protestants parties to 

the proceeding. Any person wishing to 

become a party must file a notice of 

intervention or motion to intervene, as 

appropriate. Such notices, motions, or 

protests must be filed on or before the 

comment date. On or before the 

comment date, it is not necessary to 

serve motions to intervene or protests 

on persons other than the Applicant. 

The Commission encourages 

electronic submission of protests and 

interventions in lieu of paper using the 

‘‘eFiling’’ link at http://www.ferc.gov. 

Persons unable to file electronically 

should submit an original and 14 copies 

of the protest or intervention to the 

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, 

888 First Street, NE., Washington, DC 

20426. 

This filing is accessible on-line at 

http://www.ferc.gov, using the 

‘‘eLibrary’’ link and is available for 

review in the Commission’s Public 

Reference Room in Washington, DC. 

There is an ‘‘eSubscription’’ link on the 

Web site that enables subscribers to 

receive e-mail notification when a 

document is added to a subscribed 

docket(s). For assistance with any FERC 

Online service, please e-mail 

FERCOnlineSupport@ferc.gov, or call 

(866) 208–3676 (toll free). For TTY, call 

(202) 502–8659. 

Comment Date: 5 p.m. Eastern Time 

on January 5, 2010. 

Kimberly D. Bose, 

Secretary. 

[FR Doc. E9–31321 Filed 1–5–10; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6717–01–P 

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION 

AGENCY 

[EPA–HQ–OPP–2009–0856; FRL–8802–9] 

Propoxur; Receipt of Application for 

Emergency Exemption; Solicitation of 

Public Comment 

AGENCY: Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA). 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: EPA has received a public 

health exemption request from the Ohio 

Department of Agriculture to use the 

pesticide propoxur (CAS No. 114–26–1) 

to treat indoor residential single or 

multiple unit dwellings, apartments, 

hotels, motels, office buildings, modes 

of transportation, and commercial 

industrial buildings to control bed bugs 

(Cimex lectularius). The applicant 

proposes a use of a pesticide which was 

voluntarily canceled under section 6(f) 

of the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, 

and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA), and 

which poses a risk similar to the risk 

which was voluntarily canceled under 

section 6(f) of FIFRA. EPA is soliciting 

public comment before making the 

decision whether or not to grant the 

exemption. 

DATES: Comments must be received on 

or before January 21, 2010. 

ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, 

identified by docket identification (ID) 

number EPA–HQ–OPP–2009–0856, by 

one of the following methods: 

• Federal eRulemaking Portal: http:// 

www.regulations.gov. Follow the on-line 

instructions for submitting comments. 

• Mail: Office of Pesticide Programs 

(OPP) Regulatory Public Docket (7502P), 

Environmental Protection Agency, 1200 

Pennsylvania Ave., NW., Washington, 

DC 20460–0001. 

• Delivery: OPP Regulatory Public 

Docket (7502P), Environmental 

Protection Agency, Rm. S–4400, One 

Potomac Yard (South Bldg.), 2777 S. 

Crystal Dr., Arlington, VA. Deliveries 

are only accepted during the Docket 

Facility’s normal hours of operation 

(8:30 a.m. to 4 p.m., Monday through 

Friday, excluding legal holidays). 

Special arrangements should be made 

for deliveries of boxed information. The 

Docket Facility telephone number is 

(703) 305–5805. 

Instructions: Direct your comments to 

docket ID number EPA–HQ–OPP–2009– 

0856. EPA’s policy is that all comments 

received will be included in the docket 

without change and may be made 

available on-line at http:// 

www.regulations.gov, including any 

personal information provided, unless 

the comment includes information 

claimed to be Confidential Business 

Information (CBI) or other information 

whose disclosure is restricted by statute. 

Do not submit information that you 

consider to be CBI or otherwise 

protected through regulations.gov or email. The regulations.gov website is an 

‘‘anonymous access’’ system, which 

means EPA will not know your identity 

or contact information unless you 

provide it in the body of your comment. 

If you send an e-mail comment directly 

to EPA without going through 

regulations.gov, your e-mail address 

will be automatically captured and 

included as part of the comment that is 

placed in the docket and made available 

on the Internet. If you submit an 

electronic comment, EPA recommends 

that you include your name and other 

contact information in the body of your 

comment and with any disk or CD-ROM 

you submit. If EPA cannot read your 

comment due to technical difficulties 

and cannot contact you for clarification, 

EPA may not be able to consider your 

comment. Electronic files should avoid 

the use of special characters, any form 

of encryption, and be free of any defects 

or viruses. 

Docket: All documents in the docket 

are listed in the docket index available 

at http://www.regulations.gov. Although 

listed in the index, some information is 

not publicly available, e.g., CBI or other 

information whose disclosure is 

restricted by statute. Certain other 

material, such as copyrighted material, 

is not placed on the Internet and will be 

publicly available only in hard copy 

form. Publicly available docket 

materials are available either in the 

electronic docket at http:// 

www.regulations.gov, or, if only 

available in hard copy, at the OPP 

Regulatory Public Docket in Rm. S– 

4400, One Potomac Yard (South Bldg.), 

2777 S. Crystal Dr., Arlington, VA. The 

hours of operation of this Docket 

Facility are from 8:30 a.m. to 4 p.m., 

Monday through Friday, excluding legal 

holidays. The Docket Facility telephone 

number is (703) 305–5805. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Princess Campbell, Registration 

Division (7505P), Office of Pesticide 

Programs, Environmental Protection 

Agency, 1200 Pennsylvania Ave., NW., 

Washington, DC 20460–0001; telephone 

number: (703) 308–8033; fax number: 

(703) 605–0781; e-mail address: 

Campbell.Princess@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. Potentially 

affected entities may include, but are 

not limited to: 

• Crop production (NAICS code 111). 

• Animal production (NAICS code 

112). 

• Food manufacturing (NAICS code 

311). 

• Pesticide manufacturing (NAICS 

code 32532). 

This listing is not intended to be 

exhaustive, but rather provides a guide 

for readers regarding entities likely to be 

affected by this action. Other types of 

entities not listed in this unit could also 

be affected. The North American 

Industrial Classification System 

(NAICS) codes have been provided to 

assist you and others in determining 

whether this action might apply to 

certain entities. If you have any 

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the person listed under FOR FURTHER

INFORMATION CONTACT. 

B. What Should I Consider as I Prepare 

My Comments for EPA? 

1. Submitting CBI. Do not submit this 

information to EPA through 

www.regulations.gov or e-mail. Clearly 

mark the part or all of the information 

that you claim to be CBI. For CBI 

information in a disk or CD-ROM that 

you mail to EPA, mark the outside of the 

disk or CD-ROM as CBI and then 

identify electronically within the disk or 

CD-ROM the specific information that is 

claimed as CBI. In addition to one 

complete version of the comment that 

includes information claimed as CBI, a 

copy of the comment that does not 

contain the information claimed as CBI 

must be submitted for inclusion in the 

public docket. Information so marked 

will not be disclosed except in 

accordance with procedures set forth in 

40 CFR part 2. 

2. Tips for preparing your comments. 

When submitting comments, remember 

to: 

i. Identify the document by docket ID 

number and other identifying 

information (subject heading, Federal 

Register date and page number). 

ii. Follow directions. The Agency may 

ask you to respond to specific questions 

or organize comments by referencing a 

Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) part 

or section number. 

iii. Explain why you agree or disagree; 

suggest alternatives and substitute 

language for your requested changes. 

iv. Describe any assumptions and 

provide any technical information and/ 

or data that you used. 

v. If you estimate potential costs or 

burdens, explain how you arrived at 

your estimate in sufficient detail to 

allow for it to be reproduced. 

vi. Provide specific examples to 

illustrate your concerns and suggest 

alternatives. 

vii. Explain your views as clearly as 

possible, avoiding the use of profanity 

or personal threats. 

viii. Make sure to submit your 

comments by the comment period 

deadline identified. 

3. Environmental justice. EPA seeks to 

achieve environmental justice, the fair 

treatment and meaningful involvement 

of any group, including minority and/or 

low income populations, in the 

development, implementation, and 

enforcement of environmental laws, 

regulations, and policies. To help 

address potential environmental justice 

issues, the Agency seeks information on 

any groups or segments of the 

population who, as a result of their 

location, cultural practices, or other 

factors, may have atypical or 

disproportionately high and adverse 

human health impacts or environmental 

effects from exposure to the pesticide 

discussed in this document, compared 

to the general population. 

II. What Action is the Agency Taking? 

Under section 18 of the Federal 

Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide 

Act (FIFRA) (7 U.S.C. 136p), at the 

discretion of the Administrator, a 

Federal or State agency may be 

exempted from any provision of FIFRA 

if the Administrator determines that 

emergency conditions exist which 

require the exemption. The Ohio 

Department of Agriculture (DOA) has 

requested the Administrator to issue a 

public health exemption for the use of 

propoxur on indoor residential single or 

multiple unit dwellings, apartments, 

hotels, motels, office buildings, modes 

of transportation, and commercial 

industrial buildings to control bed bugs. 

Information in accordance with 40 CFR 

part 166 was submitted as part of this 

request. 

As part of this request, the applicant 

asserts that an emergency exemption is 

warranted because of the prevalence of 

control failures with other existing 

labeled insecticides, in part due to 

pyrethroid resistance in the bed bug 

population. Bed bugs are parasitic, 

blood-sucking insects that prefer 

humans as a host and tend to inhabit 

human dwellings. For several decades, 

pyrethroids have been used to manage 

the bed bug population in the United 

States. Since the late 1990s, bed bugs 

have begun making a comeback, largely 

due to their development of extremely 

high levels of resistance to pyrethroid 

insecticides. Thus, these parasitic 

insects have been growing rapidly and 

have re-emerged as a major pest in many 

towns and cities in Ohio. The ODA 

states that currently available 

insecticides are inadequate for the 

control of bed bugs and resulted in a 

crisis that poses grave economic 

concerns, quality of life issues, and 

potential health risks to the residents of 

the state. The ODA claims propoxur is 

one of the few insecticidal ingredients 

showing excellent activity against bed 

bugs and would provide an effective 

insecticide in a different chemical class 

for bed bug control. 

The Applicant proposes to make 

applications year-round with a 14–day 

retreatment restriction. Three propoxur 

products will be used (all containing 

1% propoxur): 

• Prenbay 1% Oil Solution (EPA Reg. 

No. 655–546) manufactured by Prentiss 

Inc. 

• Invader HPX (EPA Reg. No. 9444– 

186) manufactured by FMC Corp. 

• Prescription Treatment Brand 250 

Propoxur (EPA Reg. No. 499–501) 

manufactured by Whitmire Micro-gen 

Research Lab. Inc. 

These products would be applied as a 

crack and crevice or spot treatment to 

indoor residential single or multiple 

unit dwellings, apartments, hotels, 

motels, office buildings, modes of 

transportation, and commercial 

industrial buildings. Application of the 

products would be applied in quantities 

sufficient to manage the bed bug 

infestation in Ohio. 

This notice does not constitute a 

decision by EPA on the application 

itself. The regulations governing section 

18 of FIFRA require publication of a 

notice of receipt of an application for a 

public health exemption proposing a 

use of a pesticide which was voluntarily 

canceled under section 6(f) of FIFRA, 

and which poses a risk similar to the 

risk which was voluntarily canceled 

under section 6(f) of FIFRA. 

The notice provides an opportunity 

for public comment on the application. 

The Agency, will review and consider 

all comments received during the 

comment period in determining 

whether to issue the public health 

exemption requested by the ODA. 

List of Subjects 

Environmental protection, Pesticides 

and pests. 

Dated: December 24, 2009. 

Lois Rossi, 

Director, Registration Division, Office of 

Pesticide Programs. 

[FR Doc. E9–31395 Filed 1–5–10; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6560–50–S 

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION 

AGENCY 

[EPA–HQ–OPP–2009–0879; FRL–8806–4] 

Exposure Modeling Public Meeting 

AGENCY: Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA). 

ACTION: Notice of Cancellation and 

Rescheduling of meeting. 

SUMMARY: This notice announces that 

the Exposure Modeling Public Meeting 

(EMPM), scheduled for January 26, 

2010, has been cancelled and that the 

next EMPM will be held in July 2010. 

DATES: The next EMPM meeting will be 

held in July 2010. The specific date of 

the next meeting will be announced in 

a February 2010 issue of the Federal 

Register. 


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