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Creek, CA 94596. Active ingredient: 

Fluopicolide Technical. Proposed 

Use(s): Brassica leafy greens subgroup 

5B, potatoes, sugar beets, carrots, and 

rotational wheat. Contact: Janet 

Whitehurst, (703) 305–6129, 

whitehurst.janet@epa.gov. 

5. Registration Number: 59639–142. 

Docket Number: EPA–HQ–OPP–2009– 

0481. Company name and address: 

Valent U.S.A. Corporation, 1600 Riviera 

Ave, Suite 200, Walnut Creek, CA 

94596. Active ingredient: Fluopicolide 

and Propamocarb Hydrochloride. 

Proposed Use(s): Potatoes, sugar beets, 

carrots, and rotational wheat. Contact: 

Janet Whitehurst, (703) 305–6129, 

whitehurst.janet@epa.gov. 

List of Subjects 

Environmental protection, Pesticides 

and pest. 

Dated: January 10, 2011. 

Lois Rossi, 

Director, Registration Division, Office of 

Pesticide Programs. 

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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION 

AGENCY 

[EPA–HQ–OPP–2011–0008; FRL–8862–3] 

Menthol and Propetamphos; 

Registration Review Proposed 

Decisions; Notice of Availability 

AGENCY: Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA). 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: This notice announces the 

availability of EPA’s proposed 

registration review decisions for the 

pesticides listed in the table in Unit 

II.A. and opens a public comment 

period on the proposed decisions. 

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 March 28, 2011. 

ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, 

identified by the docket identification 

(ID) number for the specific pesticide of 

interest provided in the table in Unit 

II.A., 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’s telephone number is 

(703) 305–5805. 

Instructions: Direct your comments to 

the docket identification (ID) number for 

the specific pesticide of interest 

provided in the table in Unit II.A. EPA’s 

policy is that all comments received 

will be included in the docket without 

change and may be made available online 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 Web site 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’s 

telephone number is (703) 305–5805. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For 

pesticide specific information, contact: 

The Chemical Review Manager for the 

pesticide of interest identified in the 

table in Unit II.A. 

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 

worker, 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 

chemical review manager 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 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 

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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 decisions 

for the pesticides shown in the table in 

this unit, and opens a 60-day public 

comment period on the proposed 

decisions. Menthol is a biochemical 

pesticide used to control mites in overwintering bee hives. Propetamphos is an 

organophosphate (OP) insecticide used 

for non-residential indoor crack and 

crevice treatment to control crawling 

insects, primarily, ants, cockroaches, 

and fleas. Propetamphos acts as a 

contact and stomach action poison with 

long residual effects. It shares a common 

mechanism of toxicity with other OPs, 

namely, a common biochemical 

interaction with the cholinesterase 

enzyme. 

TABLE—REGISTRATION REVIEW PROPOSED DECISIONS

Registration review case name and No. Pesticide Docket ID No. Chemical review manager, 

telephone number, E-mail address 

Menthol; Case 4063 ................................. EPA–HQ–OPP–2009–0900 .................... Colin G. Walsh; (703) 308–0298; walsh.colin@epa.gov. 

Propetamphos; Case 2550 ....................... EPA–HQ–OPP–2007–1195 .................... Kylie Rothwell; (703) 308–8055; rothwell.kylie@epa.gov. 

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 initial 

dockets described the Agency’s 

rationales for not conducting additional 

risk assessments for the registration 

review of the pesticides included in the 

table in this unit. These proposed 

registration review decisions continue 

to be supported by those rationales 

included in documents in the initial 

dockets. Following public comment, the 

Agency will issue registration review 

decisions for products containing the 

pesticides listed in the table in this unit. 

The registration review program is 

being conducted under Congressionallymandated time frames, and EPA 

recognizes the need both to make timely 

decisions 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 and 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 the pesticides included in the 

table in this unit. 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 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 these pesticides are provided 

at: http://www.epa.gov/oppsrrd1/ 

registration_review/ 

reg_review_status.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, 

Menthol and propetamphos, Pesticides 

and pests. 

Dated: January 20, 2011. 

Richard P. Keigwin, Jr., 

Director, Pesticide Re-evaluation Division, 

Office of Pesticide Programs. 

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