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TABLE 2.—REGISTRANT REQUESTING

VOLUNTARY CANCELLATION

EPA Company Number Company Name and 

Address 

019713-00377 Drexel Chemical 

Company 

1700 Channel Avenue 

P.O. Box 13327 

Memphis, TN 38113 

IV. 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 the request in the 

Federal Register. Thereafter, following 

the public comment period, the 

Administrator may approve the request. 

V. Procedures for Withdrawal of 

Voluntary Cancellation 

Registrants who choose to withdraw a 

request for cancellation must submit the 

withdrawal, in writing, to the person 

listed under FOR FURTHER INFORMATION

CONTACT, postmarked before February 5, 

2010. This written withdrawal of the 

request for cancellation will apply only 

to the applicable FIFRA section 6(f)(1) 

request listed in this notice. If the 

products have been subject to a previous 

cancellation action, the effective date of 

cancellation and all other provisions of 

any earlier cancellation action are 

controlling. 

VI. Provisions for Disposition of 

Existing Stocks 

Existing stocks are those stocks of 

registered pesticide products that are 

currently in the United States and were 

packaged, labeled, and released for 

shipment prior to the effective date of 

the cancellation action. EPA anticipates 

allowing sale, distribution, and use in 

the cancellation order as described in 

Unit III.: 

1. The registrant will be allowed to 

sell or distribute existing stocks of the 

maneb technical product identified in 

Table 1 of Unit III., until February 10, 

2010. 

2. The registrant will be allowed to 

use existing stocks to formulate end-use 

products from the maneb technical 

product identified in Table 1 of Unit III., 

until March 10, 2010. 

3. Persons other than the registrant 

may use the maneb end use products 

until exhausted. Any use of existing 

stocks must be in a manner consistent 

with the previously approved labeling 

for that product. 

List of Subjects 

Environmental protection, Pesticides 

and pests. 

Dated: December 23, 2009 

Richard P. Keigwin, Jr., 

Director, Pesticide Re-evaluation Division, 

Office of Pesticide Programs. 

[FR Doc. E9–31282 Filed 1–5–10; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6560–50–S 

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION 

AGENCY 

[EPA–HQ–OPP–2007-1026; FRL–8804–5] 

Bacillus subtilis; Registration Review 

Proposed Decision; Notice of 

Availability 

AGENCY: Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA). 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: This notice announces the 

availability of EPA’s proposed 

registration review decision for the 

pesticide Bacillus subtilis (case 6012) 

and opens a public comment period on 

the proposed decision. Registration 

review is EPA’s periodic review of 

pesticide registrations to ensure that 

each pesticide continues to satisfy the 

statutory standard for registration, that 

is, that the pesticide can perform its 

intended function without unreasonable 

adverse effects on human health or the 

environment. Through this program, 

EPA is ensuring that each pesticide’s 

registration is based on current 

scientific and other knowledge, 

including its effects on human health 

and the environment. 

DATES: Comments must be received on 

or before February 28, 2010. 

ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, 

identified by docket identification (ID) 

number EPA–HQ–OPP–2007–1026 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 identification (ID) number EPA– 

HQ–OPP–2007–1026. 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 e-mail. 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 for 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. 


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FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For 

pesticide specific information, contact: 

The Regulatory Action Leader (RAL) 

Susanne Cerrelli, Biopesticides and 

Pollution Prevention Division (7511P), 

Office of Pesticide Programs, 

Environmental Protection Agency, 1200 

Pennsylvania Ave., NW., Washington, 

DC 20460–0001; telephone number: 

(703) 308–8077; fax number: (703) 308– 

7026; e-mail address: 

cerrelli.susanne@epa.gov. 

For general information on the 

registration review program, contact: 

Kevin Costello, Pesticide Re-evaluation 

Division (7508P), Office of Pesticide 

Programs, Environmental Protection 

Agency, 1200 Pennsylvania Ave., NW., 

Washington, DC 20460–0001; telephone 

number: (703) 305–5026; fax number: 

(703) 308–8090; e-mail address: 

costello.kevin@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, farm 

workers; 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 

regulatory action leader 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 

regulations.gov or e-mail. Clearly mark 

the part or all of the information that 

you claim to be CBI. For CBI 

information on 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. 

II. Background 

A. What Action is the Agency Taking? 

Pursuant to 40 CFR 155.58, this notice 

announces the availability of EPA’s 

proposed registration review decision 

Bacillus subtilis (case 6012). The 

Bacillus subtilis case consists of four 

strains: Strain GB03; Strain MBI 600; 

Strain QST 713; and var. 

amyloliquefaciens Strain FZB24. All 

four strains occur ubiquitously in the 

environment: 

Bacillus subtilis strain GB03 is used to 

prevent, control and suppress plant 

disease on barley, berries, bulb 

vegetables, cole crops, cotton, cucurbits, 

fruiting vegetables, herbs, leafy crops, 

legumes, ornamental plants and 

cuttings, peanuts, root/tuber and corm 

vegetables, soybeans, tomatoes, trees, 

tropical plants, turf, and wheat. Bacillus 

subtilis strain GB03 is applied as a 

irrigation application, pre-plant soak, 

overhead spray, soil drench, seed 

dressing, tank mix, or hydroponic 

system treatment; 

Bacillus subtilis strain MBI 600 is 

used to suppress disease organisms such 

as Botrytis, Alternaria, Rhizoctonia, and 

Fusarium and is also used to promote 

more effective nodulation by nitrogenfixing bacteria to improve yields. It is 

used as a seed and in-furrow treatment 

on cotton, seed and pod vegetables, 

peanuts, soybeans, alfalfa, forage and 

turf grasses, wheat, barley, corn, and 

canola. It is also used in greenhouses to 

treat peat moss and soil intended for 

seeding, potting, or transplanting nonbearing fruit and vegetable seedlings 

and as a foliar spray on asparagus, cole 

crops, bulb vegetables, berry crops, 

cucurbits, flowers, bedding plants, 

ornamentals, tropical plants, fruiting 

vegetables, grape, leafy vegetables, pome 

fruit, stone fruit, strawberry, tuber/root 

and corm vegetables, turf, sod, lawns, 

trees, and shrubs; 

Bacillus subtilis strain QST 713 is 

used to prevent or reduce several types 

of fungal and bacterial pests on 

artichoke, asparagus, avocado, beans, 

beets, berries, brassica crops, bulb 

vegetables, celery, cereal grains, citrus, 

coffee, corn, cucurbits, beans, eggplant, 

grapes, herbs/spices, hops, kiwi, 

kohlrabi, leafy vegetables, legumes, 

melons, oil seed crops, oil palm, okra, 

peanuts, peppers, pome fruit, rice, root/ 

tuber crops, silage crops, stone fruits, 

tomatoes, tree nuts, tropical fruits, field 

roses, forestry seedlings, lawns, 

ornamental flowering plants, 

ornamental foliage plants, ornamental 

trees and shrubs, seed production crops, 

sod, tobacco, and turf; 

Bacillus subtilis var. 

amyloliquefaciens strain FZB24 is used 

for plant strengthening, enhancing 

growth, increasing yields and 

suppressing soil-borne fungal diseases 

such as Rhizoctonia and Fusarium as a 

dip for seedlings, transplants, plugs, 

tubers, bulbs, corms, cuttings and roots 

of ornamentals, shrubs and trees, and as 

a spray over furrows for ornamentals, 

shrubs, trees, turf, vegetables, herbs and 

spices, and other crops. It is also 

incorporated into soils, soil-less growing 

media and mushroom spawn media and 

as a drench for interiorscapes and 

potted orchids and ferns. 

The registration review docket for a 

pesticide includes earlier documents 

related to the registration review of the 

case. For example, the review opened 

with the posting of a Summary 

Document, containing a Preliminary 

Work Plan for public comment. A Final 

Work Plan was posted to the docket 

following public comment on the initial 

docket. 

The documents in the docket describe 

EPA’s rationales for conducting 

additional risk assessments for the 

registration review of Bacillus subtilis, 

as well as the Agency’s subsequent risk 

findings. This proposed registration 

review decision is supported by the 

rationales included in those documents. 

Following public comment, the 

Agency will issue a final registration 

review decision for products containing 

Bacillus subtilis. 

The registration review program is 

being conducted under congressionally 

mandated time frames. EPA recognizes 

the need both to make timely decisions 


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and to involve the public. Section 3(g) 

of the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, 

and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA), as 

amended, required EPA to establish, by 

regulation, procedures for reviewing 

pesticide registrations, originally with a 

goal of reviewing each pesticide’s 

registration every 15 years to ensure that 

a pesticide continues to meet the FIFRA 

standard for registration. The Agency’s 

final rule to implement this program 

was issued in August 2006, became 

effective in October 2006, and appears 

at 40 CFR part 155, subpart C. The 

Pesticide Registration Improvement Act 

of 2003 (PRIA) was amended and 

extended in September 2007. FIFRA, as 

amended by PRIA in 2007, requires EPA 

to complete registration review 

decisions by October 1, 2022, for all 

pesticides registered as of October 1, 

2007. 

The registration review final rule at 40 

CFR 155.58(a) provides for a minimum 

60–day public comment period on all 

proposed registration review decisions. 

This comment period is intended to 

provide an opportunity for public input 

and a mechanism for initiating any 

necessary amendments to the proposed 

decision. All comments should be 

submitted using the methods in 

ADDRESSES, and must be received by 

EPA on or before the closing date. These 

comments will become part of the 

docket for Bacillus subtilis. Comments 

received after the close of the comment 

period will be marked ‘‘late.’’ EPA is not 

required to consider these late 

comments. 

The Agency will carefully consider all 

comments received by the closing date 

and will provide a ‘‘Response to 

Comments Memorandum’’ in the 

docket. The final registration review 

decision will explain the effect that any 

comments had on the decision and 

provide the Agency’s response to 

significant comments. 

Background on the registration review 

program is provided at: http:// 

www.epa.gov/oppsrrd1/ 

registration_review. Links to earlier 

documents related to the registration 

review of this pesticide are provided at: 

http:/www.epa.gov/oppsrrd1/ 

registration_review/bacillus_subtilis/ 

index.htm. 

B. What is the Agency’s Authority for 

Taking this Action? 

Section 3(g) of FIFRA and 40 CFR part 

155, subpart C, provide authority for 

this action. 

List of Subjects 

Environmental protection, 

Administrative practice and procedure, 

Pesticides and pests, Bacillus subtilis. 

Dated: December 23, 2009. 

Keith D. Matthews, 

Acting Director, Biopesticides and Pollution 

Prevention Division, Office of Pesticide 

Programs. 

[FR Doc. E9–31283 Filed 1–5–10; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6560–50–S 

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION 

AGENCY 

[EPA–HQ–OPP–2009–0045; FRL–8801–5] 

Notice of Receipt of Several Pesticide 

Petitions Filed for Residues of 

Pesticide Chemicals in or on Various 

Commodities 

AGENCY: Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA). 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: This notice announces the 

Agency’s receipt of several initial filings 

of pesticide petitions proposing the 

establishment or modification of 

regulations for residues of pesticide 

chemicals in or on various commodities. 

DATES: Comments must be received on 

or before February 5, 2010. 

ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, 

identified by the docket identification 

(ID) number and the pesticide petition 

number (PP) for the petition of interest 

as shown in the body of this document, 

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 

the docket ID number and the pesticide 

petition number of interest as shown in 

the body of this document. 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 e-mail. 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: A 

contact person, with telephone number 

and e-mail address, is listed at the end 

of each pesticide petition summary. You 

may also reach each contact person by 

mail at Registration Division (7505P), 

Office of Pesticide Programs, 

Environmental Protection Agency, 1200 

Pennsylvania Ave., NW., Washington, 

DC 20460–0001. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 


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