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focus on compliance issues related to 

non-RTO/ISO regions in the Eastern 

Interconnection. The second 

informational conference is scheduled 

to end by 12 p.m. (EDT). 

The third informational conference 

will also be held on Tuesday, September 

13, 2011, beginning at 1 p.m. (EDT) and 

will focus on compliance issues related 

to non-RTO/ISO regions in the Western 

Interconnection. The third 

informational conference is scheduled 

to end by 4 p.m. (EDT). 

All of the informational conferences 

will be held in the Commission Meeting 

Room at the Commission’s Washington, 

DC headquarters, 888 First Street, NE. 

Commission staff will lead the 

informational conferences and give 

presentations on various aspects of 

Order No. 1000. All interested parties 

are invited to attend and there will be 

an opportunity to ask questions. 

A free webcast of the informational 

conferences will be available through 

the FERC Web site. Anyone with 

Internet access that is interested in 

viewing the webcast of an informational 

conference can do so by navigating to 

Calendar of Events at http:// 

www.ferc.gov. The events will contain a 

link to the webcast. The Capitol 

Connection provides technical support 

for the webcasts and offers the option of 

listening to the conferences via phonebridge for a fee. If you have any 

questions, visit http:// 

www.CapitolConnection.org or call (703) 

993–3100. The conferences will not be 

transcribed. 

Interested parties may also participate 

at the informational conferences by 

phone. There is no fee to participate by 

phone, but registration is required. To 

participate by phone, please complete 

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https://www.ferc.gov/whats-new/ 

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form.asp. Dial-in information will be emailed to registered teleconference 

participants. No registration is required 

to attend the informational conferences 

in-person or to watch the webcast. 

FERC conferences are accessible 

under section 508 of the Rehabilitation 

Act of 1973. For accessibility 

accommodations please send an e-mail 

to accessibility@ferc.gov or call toll free 

(866) 208–3372 (voice) or (202) 502– 

8659 (TTY), or send a fax to (202) 208– 

2106 with the required 

accommodations. 

For further information about this 

conference, please contact: 

Partha Malvadkar, Office of Energy 

Market Regulation, (202) 502–6332, 

partha.malvadkar@ferc.gov. 

Zeny Magos, Office of Energy Market 

Regulation, (202) 502–8244, 

zeny.magos@ferc.gov. 

Dated: August 18, 2011. 

Kimberly D. Bose, 

Secretary. 

[FR Doc. 2011–21801 Filed 8–25–11; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6717–01–P 

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION 

AGENCY 

[EPA–HQ–OPP–2009–0639; FRL–8883–6] 

2-(Hydroxymethyl)-2-nitro-1,3- 

propanediol (Tris Nitro); Amendments 

To Terminate Uses for Certain 

Pesticide Registrations 

AGENCY: Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA). 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: This notice announces EPA’s 

order for the amendments to terminate 

uses, voluntarily requested by the 

registrant and accepted by the Agency, 

of products containing the pesticide 

listed in Table 1, pursuant to section 

6(f)(1) of the Federal Insecticide, 

Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act 

(FIFRA), as amended. This cancellation 

order follows a June 8, 2011 Federal 

Register Notice of Receipt of Requests 

from the registrant listed in Table 1 to 

voluntarily amend to terminate uses of 

these product registrations. These are 

not the last products containing these 

pesticides registered for use in the 

United States. In the June 8, 2011 

notice, EPA indicated that it would 

issue an order implementing the 

amendments to terminate uses, unless 

the Agency received substantive 

comments within the 30-day comment 

period that would merit its further 

review of these requests, or unless the 

registrant withdrew their requests 

within this period. The Agency did not 

receive any comments on the notice. 

Further, the registrant did not withdraw 

their requests. Accordingly, EPA hereby 

issues in this notice a cancellation order 

granting the requested amendments to 

terminate uses. Any distribution, sale, 

or use of the products subject to this 

cancellation order is permitted only in 

accordance with the terms of this order, 

including any existing stocks 

provisions. 

DATES: The cancellations are effective 

August 26, 2011. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Rebecca von dem Hagen, Antimicrobials 

Division (7510P), Office of Pesticide 

Programs, Environmental Protection 

Agency, 1200 Pennsylvania Ave., NW., 

Washington, DC 20460–0001; telephone 

number: (703) 305–6785; e-mail address: 

vondem-hagen.rebecca@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. 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? 

EPA has established a docket for this 

action under docket identification (ID) 

number EPA–HQ–OPP–2009–0639. 

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 Office of 

Pesticide Programs (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. 

II. What action is the agency taking? 

This notice announces the 

amendments to terminate uses, as 

requested by the registrant, of products 

registered under section 3 of FIFRA. 

These registrations are listed in 

sequence by registration number in 

Table 1 of this unit. 


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TABLE 1—TRIS NITRO PRODUCT REGISTRATION AMENDMENTS TO TERMINATE USES

Registration No. Product name Company Uses to be terminated 

464–657 ............. Tris Nitro TM Solid Industrial 

Bacteriostat.

The Dow Chemical Company Use in metalworking fluids; Latex paints; Resin/latex/polymer emulsions; Specialty industrial products. 

464–658 ............. Tris Nitro TM Brand of 50% 

AqueousTris 

(hydroxymethyl) 

nitromethane.

The Dow Chemical Company Use in metalworking fluids; Latex paints; Resin/latex/polymer emulsions; Specialty industrial products. 

464–663 ............. Tris NitroTM Brand of 50% 

Aqueous Tris 

(hydroxymethyl) 

nitromethane.

The Dow Chemical Company Use in paints, emulsions and thickener solutions; Use in 

metalworking fluids; Use as a preservative for packaged 

emulsions, solutions, or suspensions, such as detergents 

and polishes containing water. 

464–668 ............. Tris NitroTM Brand of 25% 

Aqueous Tris 

(hydroxymethyl) 

nitromethane.

The Dow Chemical Company Use in metalworking fluids; Use as a preservative for packaged emulsions, solutions, or suspensions, such as detergents and polishes containing water. 

464–679 ............. Tris NitroTM Brand ................. The Dow Chemical Company Use in paints, emulsions, and thickener solutions; Use in 

metalworking fluids; Use as a preservative for packaged 

emulsions, solutions, or suspensions, such as detergents 

and polishes containing water; Use in pulp and paper-mill 

process water systems. 

Table 2 of this unit includes the name 

and address of record for the registrant 

of the products in Table 1 of this unit, 

in sequence by EPA company number. 

TABLE 2—REGISTRANT OF AMENDED

PRODUCTS

EPA company 

No. Company name and address 

464 ................. The Dow Chemical Company, 

1803 Building, 

Midland, MI 48674. 

III. Summary of Public Comments 

Received and Agency Response to 

Comments 

During the public comment period 

provided, EPA received no comments in 

response to the June 8, 2011 Federal 

Register notice (76 FR 33281) (FRL– 

8874–5) announcing the Agency’s 

receipt of the requests for voluntary 

amendments to terminate uses of 

products listed in Table 1. 

IV. Cancellation Order 

Pursuant to FIFRA section 6(f), EPA 

hereby approves the requested 

amendments to terminate uses of Tris 

Nitro registrations identified in Table 1 

of Unit II. Accordingly, the Agency 

orders that the product registrations 

identified in Table 1 of Unit II. are 

hereby amended to terminate the 

affected uses. Any distribution, sale, or 

use of existing stocks of the products 

identified in Table 1 of Unit II. in a 

manner inconsistent with any of the 

Provisions for Disposition of Existing 

Stocks set forth in Unit VI. will be 

considered a violation of FIFRA. 

V. What is the agency’s authority for 

taking this action? 

Section 6(f)(1) of FIFRA provides that 

a registrant of a pesticide product may 

at any time request that any of its 

pesticide registrations be canceled or 

amended to terminate one or more uses. 

FIFRA further provides that, before 

acting on the request, EPA must publish 

a notice of receipt of any such request 

in the Federal Register. Thereafter, 

following the public comment period, 

the Administrator may approve such a 

request. 

VI. Provisions for Disposition of 

Existing Stocks 

EPA’s existing stocks policy that 

published in the Federal Register June 

26, 1991 (56 FR 29362) (FRL–3845–4) 

provides that: ‘‘If a registrant requests to 

voluntarily cancel a registration where 

the Agency has identified no particular 

risk concerns, the registrant has 

complied with all applicable conditions 

of reregistration, conditional 

registration, and data call ins, and the 

registration is not subject to a 

Registration Standard, Label 

Improvement Program, or reregistration 

decision, the Agency will generally 

permit a registrant to sell or distribute 

existing stocks for 1 year after the 

cancellation request was received. 

Persons other than registrants will 

generally be allowed to sell, distribute, 

or use existing stocks until such stocks 

are exhausted.’’ 

Existing stocks are those stocks of 

registered pesticide products which are 

currently in the United States and 

which were packaged, labeled, and 

released for shipment prior to the 

effective date of the cancellation action. 

The effective date of this cancellation is 

August 26, 2011. The cancellation order 

that is the subject of this notice includes 

the following existing stock provisions: 

The registrant may sell and distribute 

existing stocks of products listed in 

Table 1 until August 27, 2012. Persons 

other than the registrant may sell and 

distribute existing stocks of products 

listed in Table 1 until exhausted. Use of 

the products listed in Table 1 may 

continue until existing stocks are 

exhausted, provided that such use is 

consistent with the terms of the 

previously approved labeling on, or that 

accompanied, the amended products. 

List of Subjects 

Environmental protection, Pesticides 

and pests, Antimicrobials, 2- 

(hydroxymethyl)-2-nitro-1,3- 

propanediol, Tris Nitro. 

Dated: August 17, 2011. 

Joan Harrigan-Farrelly, 

Director, Antimicrobials Division, Office of 

Pesticide Programs. 

[FR Doc. 2011–21729 Filed 8–25–11; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6560–50–P 

ENVIROMENTAL PROTECTION 

AGENCY 

[FRL–9457–3 ] 

Clean Air Act Operating Permit 

Program; Response to Petition To 

Reopen the 2001 Title V Permit for 

Reliant Portland Generating Station, 

Upper Mount Bethel Township, 

Northampton County, PA 

AGENCY: Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA). 

ACTION: Notice of action denying 

petition to reopen Title V permit. 


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