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Dated: April 6, 2010. 

W. Michael McDavit, 

Acting Director, Biopesticides and Pollution 

Prevention Division, Office of Pesticide 

Programs. 

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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION 

AGENCY 

[EPA–HQ–OPP–2008-0842; FRL–8820–6] 

Methamidophos; 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 methamidophos 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 June 14, 2010. 

ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, 

identified by docket identification (ID) 

number EPA–HQ–OPP–2008–0842, 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–2008–0842. 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: For 

pesticide specific information, contact: 

Joy Schnackenbeck, Chemical Review 

Manager, Pesticide Re-evaluation 

Division (7508P), Office of Pesticide 

Programs, Environmental Protection 

Agency, 1200 Pennsylvania Ave., NW., 

Washington, DC 20460–0001; telephone 

number: (703) 308–8072; fax number: 

(703) 308–7070; e-mail address: 

schnackenbeck.joy@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 

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 

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 


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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 

for the pesticide shown in the following 

table, and opens a 60–day public 

comment period on the proposed 

decision. Methamidophos is an 

organophosphate insecticide, which in 

2009 was registered for use on potato, 

cotton, tomato, and alfalfa grown for 

seed. 

TABLE—REGISTRATION REVIEW PROPOSED DECISION

Registration Review Case Name and Number Pesticide Docket ID Number Chemical Review Manager,Telephone Number, E-mail 

Address 

Methamidophos; Case Number 0043 EPA–HQ–OPP–2008–0842 Joy Schnackenbeck, 

(703) 308–8072, 

schnackenbeck.joy@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. 

As stated in the Methamidophos 

Preliminary and Final Work Plan for 

registration review, the Agency had 

intended to revise the existing risk 

assessments for methamidophos. 

However, after the publication of the 

Methamidophos Final Work Plan, 

pursuant to Section 6(f)(1) of the Federal 

Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide 

Act (FIFRA), as amended, the Agency 

announced receipt of requests to 

voluntarily cancel all methamidophos 

product registrations and then granted 

the voluntary cancellation requests, 

establishing December 31, 2009, as the 

effective cancellation date as published 

in the Federal Register on September 

23, 2009 (74 FR 48551; FRL–8437–1) for 

all of the products registered for use in 

the United States containing the active 

ingredient methamidophos. Due to the 

cancellation order issued affecting all 

methamidophos product registrations in 

the United States, the Agency has found 

that it is not necessary to conduct new 

risk assessments for methamidophos 

and is therefore issuing a proposed 

decision pursuant to 40 CFR 

155.53(c)(2) and 40 CFR 155.58. The 

Agency believes that mitigation 

measures put into effect on product 

labeling through the re-registration 

process are adequate to protect human 

health and the environment until 

existing stocks of methamidophos are 

exhausted. This proposed registration 

review decision is described in more 

detail in the Methamidophos Proposed 

Registration Review Decision, available 

in the methamidophos docket. 

Following public comment, the 

Agency will issue a registration review 

decision for products containing 

methamidophos. 

The registration review program is 

being conducted under congressionally 

mandated time frames, and EPA 

recognizes the need both to make timely 

decisions and to involve the public. 

Section 3(g) of 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 methamidophos. 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. A link to earlier 

documents related to the registration 

review of methamidophos is 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, provides authority for 

this action. 

List of Subjects 

Environmental protection, 

Administrative practice and procedure, 

Pesticides and pests, Methamidophos. 

Dated: April 5, 2010. 

Richard P. Keigwin, Jr., 

Director, Pesticide Re-evaluation Division, 

Office of Pesticide Programs. 

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