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g. To ensure fair and open 

competition, EPA will respond to 

questions submitted by e-mail up to 

January 20, 2005. 

(12) Page 57703 Part II Section VIII. 7. 

Attachment should now read: All state, 

tribal, territorial agencies/departments 

and state/territorial/tribal or regional 

(e.g. the asthma coalition of the greater 

metropolitan area of Smallville) asthma 

coalitions who intend to apply should 

complete this Letter of Intent 

information and return it to EPA via email to fletcher.bettina@epa.gov by 

November 15, 2004. 

(13) Page 57703 Part II Section VIII. 7. 

Section 4 should now read: Indicate 

below whether your organization would 

like to participate in the November 30, 

2004 optional Pre-proposal Assistance 

Call IF YOUR LETTER OF INTENT IS 

FOUND TO BE ELIGIBLE. Questions 

and answers from the November 30, 

2004 Pre-proposal Assistance Call will 

be posted by December 7, 2004 at: http:

//yosemite.epa.gov/ochp/ochpweb.nsf/

content/grants.htm.

b Yes, I would like to participate in 

the November 30, 2004 Pre-proposal 

Assistance Call IF my Letter of Intent is 

found by EPA to be eligible. 

b No, I decline to participate in the 

November 30, 2004 Pre-proposal 

Assistance Call if my Letter of Intent is 

found by EPA to be acceptable.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Bettina B. Fletcher; Office of Children’s 

Health Protection; 1200 Pennsylvania 

Ave, NW.; Mail Code 1107A; Room 

2512 Ariel Rios North; Washington, DC 

20004–2403; fletcher.bettina@epa.gov;

Phone: (202) 564–2646; FAX (202) 564–

2733; Web site: http://yosemite.epa.gov/

ochp/ochpweb.nsf/content/grants.htm.

Dated: October 12, 2004. 

William H. Sanders III, 

Acting Director, Office of Children’s Health 

Protection.

[FR Doc. 04–23452 Filed 10–19–04; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6560–50–P

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION 

AGENCY

[OPP–2004–0307; FRL–7680–6]

Chlorimuron ethyl; Tolerance 

Reassessment Decision for Low Risk 

Pesticide; Notice of Availability

AGENCY: Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA).

ACTION: Notice.

SUMMARY: This notice announces the 

availability of EPA’s Tolerance 

Reassessment Decision (TRED) for the 

pesticide chlorimuron ethyl, and opens 

a public comment period on this 

document, related risk assessments, and 

other support documents. EPA has 

reviewed the low risk pesticide 

chlorimuron ethyl through a modified, 

streamlined version of the public 

participation process that the Agency 

uses to involve the public in developing 

pesticide tolerance reassessment and 

reregistration decisions. Through the 

tolerance reassessment program, EPA is 

ensuring that all pesticides meet current 

health and food safety standards.

DATES: Comments, identified by docket 

Identificationnumber OPP–2004–0307, 

must be received on or before November 

19, 2004.

ADDRESSES: Comments may be 

submitted electronically, by mail, or 

through hand delivery/courier. Follow 

the detailed instructions as provided in 

Unit I. of the SUPPLEMENTARY

INFORMATION.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Diane Sherman, Special Review and 

Reregistration Division (7508C), Office 

of Pesticide Programs, Environmental 

Protection Agency, 1200 Pennsylvania 

Ave., NW., Washington, DC 20460–

0001; telephone number: (703) 308–

0128; fax number: (703) 308–8041; email address: sherman.diane@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?

1. Docket. EPA has established an 

official public docket for this action 

under docket ID number OPP–2004–

0307. The official public docket consists 

of the documents specifically referenced 

in this action, any public comments 

received, and other information related 

to this action. Although a part of the 

official docket, the public docket does 

not include Confidential Business 

Information (CBI) or other information 

whose disclosure is restricted by statute. 

The official public docket is the 

collection of materials that is available 

for public viewing at the Public 

Information and Records Integrity 

Branch (PIRIB), Rm. 119, Crystal Mall 

#2, 1801 S. Bell St., Arlington, VA. This 

docket facility is open from 8:30 a.m. to 

4 p.m., Monday through Friday, 

excluding legal holidays. The docket 

telephone number is (703) 305–5805.

2. Electronic access. You may access 

this Federal Register document 

electronically through the EPA Internet 

under the ‘‘Federal Register’’ listings at 

http://www.epa.gov/fedrgstr/.

An electronic version of the public 

docket is available through EPA’s 

electronic public docket and comment 

system, EPA Dockets. You may use EPA 

Dockets at http://www.epa.gov/edocket/

to submit or view public comments, 

access the index listing of the contents 

of the official public docket, and to 

access those documents in the public 

docket that are available electronically. 

Once in the system, select ‘‘search,’’

then key in the appropriate docket ID 

number.

Certain types of information will not 

be placed in the EPA Dockets. 

Information claimed as CBI and other 

information whose disclosure is 

restricted by statute, which is not 

included in the official public docket, 

will not be available for public viewing 

in EPA’s electronic public docket. EPA’s 

policy is that copyrighted material will 

not be placed in EPA’s electronic public 

docket but will be available only in 

printed, paper form in the official public 

docket. To the extent feasible, publicly 

available docket materials will be made 

available in EPA’s electronic public 

docket. When a document is selected 

from the index list in EPA Dockets, the 

system will identify whether the 

document is available for viewing in 

EPA’s electronic public docket. 

Although not all docket materials may 

be available electronically, you may still 

access any of the publicly available 

docket materials through the docket 

facility identified in Unit I.B.1. EPA 

intends to work towards providing 

electronic access to all of the publicly 

available docket materials through 

EPA’s electronic public docket.

For public commenters, it is 

important to note that EPA’s policy is 

that public comments, whether 

submitted electronically or in paper, 

will be made available for public 

viewing in EPA’s electronic public 

docket as EPA receives them and 

without change, unless the comment 

contains copyrighted material, CBI, or 

other information whose disclosure is 

restricted by statute. When EPA 

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identifies a comment containing 

copyrighted material, EPA will provide 

a reference to that material in the 

version of the comment that is placed in 

EPA’s electronic public docket. The 

entire printed comment, including the 

copyrighted material, will be available 

in the public docket.

Public comments submitted on 

computer disks that are mailed or 

delivered to the docket will be 

transferred to EPA’s electronic public 

docket. Public comments that are 

mailed or delivered to the docket will be 

scanned and placed in EPA’s electronic 

public docket. Where practical, physical 

objects will be photographed, and the 

photograph will be placed in EPA’s 

electronic public docket along with a 

brief description written by the docket 

staff.

C. How and to Whom Do I Submit 

Comments?

You may submit comments 

electronically, by mail, or through hand 

delivery/courier. To ensure proper 

receipt by EPA, identify the appropriate 

docket ID number in the subject line on 

the first page of your comment. Please 

ensure that your comments are 

submitted within the specified comment 

period. Comments received after the 

close of the comment period will be 

marked ‘‘late.’’ EPA is not required to 

consider these late comments. If you 

wish to submit CBI or information that 

is otherwise protected by statute, please 

follow the instructions in Unit I.D. Do 

not use EPA Dockets or e-mail to submit 

CBI or information protected by statute.

1. Electronically. If you submit an 

electronic comment as prescribed in this 

unit, EPA recommends that you include 

your name, mailing address, and an email address or other contact 

information in the body of your 

comment. Also include this contact 

information on the outside of any disk 

or CD ROM you submit, and in any 

cover letter accompanying the disk or 

CD ROM. This ensures that you can be 

identified as the submitter of the 

comment and allows EPA to contact you 

in case EPA cannot read your comment 

due to technical difficulties or needs 

further information on the substance of 

your comment. EPA’s policy is that EPA 

will not edit your comment, and any 

identifying or contact information 

provided in the body of a comment will 

be included as part of the comment that 

is placed in the official public docket, 

and made available in EPA’s electronic 

public docket. 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.

i. EPA Dockets. Your use of EPA’s 

electronic public docket to submit 

comments to EPA electronically is 

EPA’s preferred method for receiving 

comments. Go directly to EPA Dockets 

at http://www.epa.gov/edocket/, and 

follow the online instructions for 

submitting comments. Once in the 

system, select ‘‘search,’’ and then key in 

docket ID number OPP–2004–0307. The 

system is an ‘‘anonymous access’’

system, which means EPA will not 

know your identity, e-mail address, or 

other contact information unless you 

provide it in the body of your comment.

ii. E-mail. Comments may be sent by 

e-mail to opp-docket@epa.gov, 

Attention: Docket ID number OPP–

2004–0307. In contrast to EPA’s 

electronic public docket, EPA’s e-mail 

system is not an ‘‘anonymous access’’

system. If you send an e-mail comment 

directly to the docket without going 

through EPA’s electronic public docket, 

EPA’s e-mail system automatically 

captures your e-mail address. E-mail 

addresses that are automatically 

captured by EPA’s e-mail system are 

included as part of the comment that is 

placed in the official public docket, and 

made available in EPA’s electronic 

public docket.

iii. Disk or CD ROM. You may submit 

comments on a disk or CD ROM that 

you mail to the mailing address 

identified in Unit I.C.2. These electronic 

submissions will be accepted in 

WordPerfect or ASCII file format. Avoid 

the use of special characters and any 

form of encryption.

2. By mail. Send your comments to: 

Public Information and Records 

Integrity Branch (PIRIB) (7502C), Office 

of Pesticide Programs (OPP), 

Environmental Protection Agency, 1200 

Pennsylvania Ave., NW., Washington, 

DC 20460–0001, Attention: Docket ID 

number OPP–2004–0307.

3. By hand delivery or courier. Deliver 

your comments to: Public Information 

and Records Integrity Branch (PIRIB), 

Office of Pesticide Programs (OPP), 

Environmental Protection Agency, Rm. 

119, Crystal Mall #2, 1801 S. Bell St., 

Arlington, VA, Attention: Docket ID 

number OPP–2004–0307. Such 

deliveries are only accepted during the 

docket’s normal hours of operation as 

identified in Unit I.B.1.

D. How Should I Submit CBI to the 

Agency?

Do not submit information that you 

consider to be CBI electronically 

through EPA’s electronic public docket 

or by e-mail. You may claim 

information that you submit to EPA as 

CBI by marking any part or all of that 

information as CBI (if you submit CBI 

on disk or CD ROM, 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 

CBI). Information so marked will not be 

disclosed except in accordance with 

procedures set forth in 40 CFR part 2.

In addition to one complete version of 

the comment that includes any 

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 and EPA’s electronic public 

docket. If you submit the copy that does 

not contain CBI on disk or CD ROM, 

mark the outside of the disk or CD ROM 

clearly that it does not contain CBI. 

Information not marked as CBI will be 

included in the public docket and EPA’s 

electronic public docket without prior 

notice. If you have any questions about 

CBI or the procedures for claiming CBI, 

please consult the person listed under 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT.

E. What Should I Consider as I Prepare 

My Comments for EPA?

You may find the following 

suggestions helpful for preparing your 

comments:

1. Explain your views as clearly as 

possible.

2. Describe any assumptions that you 

used.

3. Provide any technical information 

and/or data you used that support your 

views.

4. If you estimate potential burden or 

costs, explain how you arrived at your 

estimate.

5. Provide specific examples to 

illustrate your concerns.

6. Offer alternatives.

7. Make sure to submit your 

comments by the comment period 

deadline identified.

8. To ensure proper receipt by EPA, 

identify the appropriate docket ID 

number in the subject line on the first 

page of your response. It would also be 

helpful if you provided the name, date, 

and Federal Register citation related to 

your comments.

II. Background

A. What Action is the Agency Taking?

EPA has reassessed the uses of 

chlorimuron ethyl, reassessed two 

existing tolerances or legal residue 

limits, and reached a tolerance 

reassessment decision for this low risk 

pesticide. The Agency is issuing for 

comment the resulting Report on Food 

Quality Protection Act (FQPA) 

Tolerance Reassessment Progress and 

Risk Management Decision for 

Chlorimuron Ethyl, known as a TRED, 

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as well as the related risk assessment 

and technical support documents.

Chlorimuron ethyl is a sulfonylurea 

class herbicide that inhibits acetolactate 

synthase, which regulates plant growth. 

It is registered for use on soybeans and 

peanuts. Chlorimuron ethyl may be 

applied to soybean crops at the 

preplant, preemergence, postemergence, 

or postharvest stages and may be 

applied to peanut crops at the foliar 

stage. It may also be applied to non-crop 

land at the foliar stage. There are no 

residential uses for chlorimuron ethyl. 

Fifteen end-use products in water 

dispersible granular formulations have 

been identified, and one pending 

registration exists for a granular 

formulation. Based on the hazard profile 

and exposure assessment for 

chlorimuron ethyl, the Agency has 

determined that neither acute nor 

chronic aggregate dietary (including 

both food and drinking water) exposure 

is a concern. No acute dietary endpoint 

was identified for chlorimuron ethyl, 

and the chronic dietary risk estimates 

for the general U.S. and all population 

subgroups are less than 1% of the cPAD.

EPA developed the chlorimuron ethyl 

TRED through a modified, streamlined 

version of its public process for making 

tolerance reassessment and 

reregistration eligibility decisions. 

Through these programs, the Agency is 

ensuring that pesticides meet current 

standards under the Federal Food, Drug, 

and Cosmetic Act (FFDCA) and the 

Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and 

Rodenticide Act (FIFRA), as amended 

by FQPA. EPA must review tolerances 

and tolerance exemptions that were in 

effect when the FQPA was enacted, to 

ensure that these existing pesticide 

residue limits for food and feed 

commodities meet the safety standard 

established by the new law. Tolerances 

are considered reassessed once the 

safety finding has been made or a 

revocation occurs. EPA has reviewed 

and made the requisite safety finding for 

the chlorimuron ethyl tolerances 

included in this notice.

EPA is applying the principles of 

public participation to all pesticides 

undergoing reregistration and tolerance 

reassessment. The Agency’s Pesticide 

Tolerance Reassessment and 

Reregistration; Public Participation 

Process, published in the Federal 

Register on May 14, 2004, explains that 

in conducting these programs, the 

Agency is tailoring its public 

participation process to be 

commensurate with the level of risk, 

extent of use, complexity of issues, and 

degree of public concern associated 

with each pesticide. EPA can 

expeditiously reach decisions for 

pesticides like chlorimuron ethyl, 

which pose no risk concerns, have low 

use, affect few stakeholders, and require 

no risk mitigation. Once EPA assesses 

uses and risks for such pesticides, the 

Agency may go directly to a decision 

and prepare a document summarizing 

its findings. The Agency therefore, is 

issuing the low-risk Chlorimuron Ethyl 

TRED, risk assessments, and related 

documents simultaneously for public 

comment.

The tolerance reassessment program 

is being conducted under 

Congressionally mandated time frames, 

and EPA recognizes the need both to 

make timely decisions and to involve 

the public in finding ways to effectively 

mitigate pesticide risks. Chlorimuron 

ethyl, however, poses no risks that 

require mitigation. The Agency 

therefore, is issuing the Chlorimuron 

Ethyl TRED, its risk assessments, and 

related support documents 

simultaneously for public comment. 

The comment period is intended to 

provide an opportunity for public input 

and a mechanism for initiating any 

necessary amendments to the TRED. All 

comments should be submitted using 

the methods in Unit I. of the 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION, and must 

be received by EPA on or before the 

closing date. These comments will 

become part of the Agency Docket for 

chlorimuron ethyl. Comments received 

after the close of the comment period 

will be marked ‘‘late.’’ EPA is not 

required to consider these late 

comments.

EPA will carefully consider all 

comments received by the closing date 

and will provide a Response to 

Comments Memorandum in the Docket 

and electronic EDOCKET. If any 

comment significantly affects the 

document, EPA also will publish an 

amendment to the TRED in the Federal 

Register. In the absence of substantive 

comments requiring changes, the 

decisions reflected in the TRED will be 

implemented as presented. These 

decisions may be supplemented by 

further risk mitigation measures when 

EPA concludes its cumulative 

assessment of the pesticides.

B. What is the Agency’s Authority for 

Taking this Action?

Section 408(q) of the FFDCA, 21 

U.S.C. 346a(q), requires EPA to review 

tolerances and exemptions for pesticide 

residues in effect as of August 2, 1996, 

to determine whether the tolerance or 

exemption meets the requirements of 

section 408(b)(2) or (c)(2) of FFDCA. 

This review is to be completed by 

August 3, 2006.

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List of Subjects

Environmental protection, Pesticides 

and pests.

Dated: September 23, 2004.

Debra Edwards,

Director, Special Review and Reregistration 

Division, Office of Pesticide Programs.

[FR Doc. 04–23395 Filed 10–19–04; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6560–50–S

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION 

AGENCY

[OPP–2003–0291; FRL–7681–7]

Tributyltin Methacrylate and 

Bis(tributyltin) Oxide; Product 

Cancellation Order; Correction

AGENCY: Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA).

ACTION: Notice; correction.

SUMMARY: EPA issued a notice in the 

Federal Register of March 17, 2004 

(OPP–2004–0012; FRL–7346–8), 

announcing the cancellation of 

registrations for all manufacturing-use 

tributyltin methacrylate products used 

to formulate antifouling paints and one 

end-use tributyltin methacrylate 

antifouling paint registration. The notice 

also announced EPA’s approval of 

amendments to terminate the use of 

manufacturing-use product registrations 

containing bis(tributyltin) oxide for 

formulating antifouling paints. These 

actions comprise the cancellation or 

termination of all uses of tributyltin 

manufacturing-use products for the 

formulation of antifouling paints. This 

notice announces amendments to the 

March 17, 2004 cancellation order to 

correct the effective date of the 

amendments to registrations announced 

in that notice.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Jill 

Bloom, Special Review and 

Reregistration Division (7508C), Office 

of Pesticide Programs, Environmental 

Protection Agency, 1200 Pennsylvania 

Ave., NW., Washington, DC 20460; 

telephone number: (703) 308–8019; email address: bloom.jill@epa.gov.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

I. General Information

A. Does this Action Apply to Me?

This action is directed to the public 

in general. Although this action may be 

of particular interest to persons who 

produce or use pesticides, 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 information in this notice, 

consult the person listed under FOR

FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT.

B. How Can I Get Copies of this 

Document and Other Related 

Information?

1. Docket. EPA has established an 

official public docket for this action 

under docket identification (ID) number 

OPP–2003–0291. The official public 

docket consists of the documents 

specifically referenced in this action, 

any public comments received, and 

other information related to this action. 

Although a part of the official docket, 

the public docket does not include 

Confidential Business Information (CBI) 

or other information whose disclosure is 

restricted by statute. The official public 

docket is the collection of materials that 

is available for public viewing at the 

Public Information and Records 

Integrity Branch (PIRIB), Rm. 119, 

Crystal Mall #2, 1801 S. Bell St., 

Arlington, VA. This docket facility is 

open from 8:30 a.m. to 4 p.m., Monday 

through Friday, excluding legal 

holidays. The docket telephone number 

is (703) 305–5805.

2. Electronic access. You may access 

this Federal Register document 

electronically through the EPA Internet 

under the ‘‘Federal Register’’ listings at 

http://www.epa.gov/fedrgstr/.

An electronic version of the public 

docket is available through EPA’s 

electronic public docket and comment 

system, EPA Dockets. You may use EPA 

Dockets at http://www.epa.gov/edocket/

to submit or view public comments, 

access the index listing of the contents 

of the official public docket, and to 

access those documents in the public 

docket that are available electronically. 

Once in the system, select ‘‘search,’’

then key in the appropriate docket ID 

number.

II. What Does this Correction Do?

The original cancellation orders for 

manufacturing-use products containing 

tributyltin methacrylate and labeled for 

use in formulating antifouling paints, 

and for the one end-use antifouling 

paint product containing tributyltin 

methacrylate, and for approval of the 

amendments to terminate the use of 

certain manufacturing-use products 

containing bis(tributyltin) oxide for 

formulating antifouling paints were 

published in the Federal Register on 

March 17, 2004; OPP–2004–0012; (FRL–

7346–8). Today’s notice corrects 

statements in Units II. and IV. of that 

cancellation order (on pages 12657 and 

12658) to amend the effective date of 

cancellation consistent with the 

registrants’ requests for use termination. 

The effective date of the use 

terminations cited in the March 17, 

2004 notice was the date of publication 

of that notice (or March 17, 2004); the 

corrected effective date is April 15, 

2004. The effective date of the 

registration cancellations where no use 

termination was requested remains as 

stated in the previous notice. The 

registrations affected by this correction 

and the effective date of the use 

terminations are listed in the table 

below.

Registrations subject to amendments 

to terminate the use of manufacturinguse products containing bis(tributyltin) 

oxide for formulating antifouling paints.

EPA Registration 

No. 

Product 

Name 

Effective 

Date of 

Use Terminations 

5204–1 Biomet 

TBTO

April 15, 

2004

8898–17 Eurotin 

TBTO

April 15, 

2004

FR Doc. E4–557 published in the 

Federal Register of March 17, 2004, (69 

FR 12655) (FRL–7346–8) is corrected as 

follows:

1. On page 12657, in the first column, 

the second sentence immediately 

following Table 2, which now reads: 

‘‘The cancellations and amendments to 

terminate a use are effective upon the 

date of publication of this document.,’’

is corrected to read, ‘‘The cancellations 

are effective upon the date of 

publication of this document, and 

amendments to terminate a use are 

effective April 15, 2004.’’

2. On page 12658, in Unit IV.2. 

Registrations amended to delete 

terminated uses (Table 2 in Unit II.), the 

first two sentences following the 

paragraph heading which now read: 

‘‘The effective date of the cancellation 

effectuating the use terminations is the 

date of publication of this document. As 

of the date of publication of this 

document, Atofina and Crompton may 

not sell, distribute, or use the products 

listed in Table 2 bearing labels allowing 

the use which is the subject of the use 

termination request.,’’ are corrected to 

read: ‘‘The effective date of the use 

terminations is April 15, 2004. As of 

April 15, 2004, Atofina and Crompton 

may not sell, distribute, or use any 

product listed in Table 2 which bears a 

label allowing the use of the product for 

formulating antifouling paints.’’

List of Subjects

Environmental protection, Pesticides 

and pests.