Federal Register / Vol. 74, No. 178 / Wednesday, September 16, 2009 / Notices 47581 

Dated: September 10, 2009. 

Steven M. Knott, 

Acting Director, Office of Science 

Coordination and Policy. 

[FR Doc. E9–22296 Filed 9–15–09; 8:45 a.m.] 

BILLING CODE 6560–50–S 

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION 

AGENCY 

[EPA–HQ–OPP–2009–0321; FRL–8432–7] 

Dimethyldithiocarbamate Salts; Notice 

of Receipt of Requests to Voluntarily 

Cancel or to Amend to Terminate Uses 

of Certain Pesticide Registrations 

AGENCY: Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA). 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: In accordance with section 

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

Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act 

(FIFRA), as amended, EPA is issuing a 

notice of receipt of requests by the 

registrants to voluntarily cancel and/or 

amend their registrations to terminate 

uses of certain products containing the 

pesticides sodium 

dimethyldithiocarbamate and potassium 

dimethyldithiocarbamate. The requests 

would terminate 

dimethyldithiocarbamate salts use in or 

on pressure-treated wood preservatives, 

sapstain, paints, coatings, and cutting 

fluids, and prohibit ‘‘open pour’’ 

applications of one product. The 

request(s) would not terminate the last 

dimethyldithiocarbamate salts products 

registered for use in the United States. 

EPA intends to grant these requests at 

the close of the comment period for this 

announcement unless the Agency 

receives substantive comments within 

the comment period that would merit its 

further review of the requests, or unless 

the registrants withdraw their requests 

within this period. Upon acceptance of 

these requests, any sale, distribution, or 

use of products listed in this notice will 

be permitted only if such sale, 

distribution, or use is consistent with 

the terms as described in the final order. 

DATES: Comments must be received on 

or before March 15, 2010. Written 

requests to withdraw the cancellation 

must be received on or before March 15, 

2010. 

ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, 

identified by docket identification (ID) 

number EPA–HQ–OPP–2009–0321, 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 ID number EPA–HQ–OPP–2009– 

0321. 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 email. 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: 

Eliza Blair, Antimicrobials Division 

(7510P), Office of Pesticide Programs, 

Environmental Protection Agency, 1200 

Pennsylvania Ave., NW., Washington, 

DC 20460–0001; telephone number: 

(703) 308–7279; e-mail address: 

blair.eliza@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. 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). 


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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 on the Receipt of 

Requests to Cancel and/or Amend 

Registrations to Delete Uses 

This notice announces receipt by EPA 

of requests from registrants Buckman 

Laboratories, Inc. and Akzo Nobel 

Surface Chemistry LLC to cancel one 

sodium dimethyldithiocarbamate use 

and to amend to terminate uses of four 

sodium dimethyldithiocarbamate and 

potassium dimethyldithiocarbamate 

product registrations. 

Dimethyldithiocarbamate salts are used 

as materials preservatives and water 

antifoulants in a wide range of water 

systems, including industrial cooling/air 

washer water and oil recovery fluids. In 

letters dated June 6, 2009 and June 1, 

2009, respectively, Buckman and Akzo 

Nobel requested that EPA cancel 

affected product registrations and/or to 

amend to terminate uses of pesticide 

product registrations identified in 

Tables 1 and 2. Specifically, a risk 

assessment performed for the 

Dimethyldithiocarbamate Salts RED 

identified human health and 

environmental risks of concern for 

several current uses, and suggested data 

needs that EPA will request in order to 

support the reregistration of 

dimethyldithiocarbamate salts. The 

registrants then identified specific uses 

that they would not support through the 

data-gathering process and submitted 

letters of request to amend/or remove 

the related product labels. The uses to 

be canceled are all wood-preservative 

uses, including pressure-treated wood 

and sapstain, all paints and coatings 

preservatives, and one registrant’s 

metalworking fluids uses. One product 

with only wood-preservative uses will 

be canceled. One product label will be 

amended to prohibit ‘‘open pour’’ 

application of the product, and restrict 

application to ‘‘closed-system’’ methods 

such as water-soluble packets. The 

requests would not terminate the last 

dimethyldithiocarbamate salts products 

registered for use in the United States. 

III. What Action is the Agency Taking? 

This notice announces receipt by EPA 

of requests from registrants to cancel 

and/or amend to terminate uses of 

sodium dimethyldithiocarbamate and 

potassium dimethyldithiocarbamate 

product registrations. The affected 

products and the registrants making the 

requests are identified in Tables 1–3 of 

this unit. 

Under section 6(f)(1)(A) of FIFRA, 

registrants may request, at any time, that 

their pesticide registrations be canceled 

or amended to terminate one or more 

pesticide uses. Section 6(f)(1)(B) of 

FIFRA requires that before acting on a 

request for voluntary cancellation, EPA 

must provide a 30–day public comment 

period on the request for voluntary 

cancellation or use termination. In 

addition, section 6(f)(1)(C) of FIFRA 

requires that EPA provide a 180–day 

comment period on a request for 

voluntary cancellation or termination of 

any minor agricultural use before 

granting the request, unless: 

1. The registrants request a waiver of 

the comment period, or 

2. The Administrator determines that 

continued use of the pesticide would 

pose an unreasonable adverse effect on 

the environment. 

The dimethyldithiocarbamate salts 

registrants have not requested that EPA 

waive the 180–day comment period. 

EPA will provide a 180–day comment 

period on the proposed requests. 

Unless a request is withdrawn by the 

registrant within 180 days of 

publication of this notice, or if the 

Agency determines that there are 

substantive comments that warrant 

further review of this request, an order 

will be issued canceling and/or 

amending the affected registrations in 

the following tables 1 and 2. 

TABLE 1.—SODIUM DIMETHYLDITHIOCARBAMATE PRODUCT REGISTRATION WITH PENDING REQUEST FOR CANCELLATION

Registration Number Product Name Company 

34688–83 Aquatreat DCD Akzo Nobel Surface Chemistry LLC 

TABLE 2.—DIMETHYLDITHIOCARBAMATE SALTS PRODUCT REGISTRATIONS WITH PENDING REQUESTS FOR AMENDMENT

EPA Registration No. Product Name Active Ingredient Delete from Label 

34688–78 Aquatreat SDM Sodium Dimethyldithiocarbamate Sapstain 

34688–82 Aquatreat DNM-80 Sodium Dimethyldithiocarbamate All ‘‘open pour’’ applications in water systems - 

see Sec. II above 

1448–70 Busan 85 Potassium Dimethyldithiocarbamate Paints, coatings and cutting fluids 

1448–381 Dimet Potassium Dimethyldithiocarbamate Paints, coatings and cutting fluids 


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Table 3 of this unit includes the 

names and addresses of record for the 

registrants of the products listed in 

Table 1 and Table 2 of this unit. 

TABLE 3.—REGISTRANTS REQUESTING

VOLUNTARY CANCELLATION AND/OR

AMENDMENTS

EPA Company 

Number 

Company Name and 

Address 

34688 ................. Akzo Nobel Surface 

Chemistry LLC 

7140 Heritage Village 

Plaza 

Gainesville, VA 20136 

1448 ................... Buckman Laboratories 

Inc. 

1256 North McLean 

Blvd 

Memphis, TN 38108 

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 any such request 

in the Federal Register. Thereafter, 

following the public comment period, 

the Administrator may approve such a 

request. 

V. Procedures for Withdrawal of 

Request and Considerations for 

Reregistration of Sodium 

Dimethyldithiocarbamate and 

Potassium Dimethyldithiocarbamate 

Registrants who choose to withdraw a 

request for cancellation must submit 

such withdrawal in writing to the 

person listed under FOR FURTHER

INFORMATION CONTACT, postmarked 

before March 15, 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(s) 

have been subject to a previous 

cancellation action, the effective date of 

cancellation and all other provisions of 

any earlier cancellation action are 

controlling. 

List of Subjects 

Environmental protection, Pesticides 

and pests. 

Dated: August 28, 2009. 

Betty Shackleford, 

Acting Director, Antimicrobials Division, 

Office of Pesticide Programs. 

[FR Doc. E9–22298 Filed 9–15–09; 8:45 a.m.] 

BILLING CODE 6560–50–S 

ENVIROMENTAL PROTECTION 

AGENCY 

[FRL–8957–4] 

Notice of U.S. Environmental 

Protection Agency Region III’s Use of 

Web Site to Provide Notice of Intent To 

Terminate Pesticide Producing 

Establishment Registrations 

AGENCY: Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA). 

ACTION: Information Notice. 

SUMMARY: EPA Region III is announcing 

that it will be using its Web site to 

provide public notice of its intent to 

terminate pesticide producing 

establishment registrations under 

section 7 of the Federal Insecticide, 

Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA) 

in cases where it is unable to provide 

notice of its intent to terminate directly. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Kyla 

Townsend-McIntyre, Pesticides and 

Asbestos Programs Branch (3LC62), EPA 

Region III, 1650 Arch Street, 

Philadelphia, PA 19103–2029; 

telephone (215) 814–2045; fax (215) 

814–3113; e-mail: 

townsend.kyla@epa.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Section 7 

of FIFRA requires that all 

establishments that produce pesticides, 

active ingredients used in producing 

pesticides, or devices subject to FIFRA 

be registered with EPA, and that all 

such establishments submit annual 

pesticide production reports to EPA. 

EPA regulations at 40 CFR part 167 

establish requirements concerning these 

annual pesticide production reports 

including the types of information to be 

included in annual pesticide production 

reports (40 CFR 167.85). The regulations 

require annual pesticide production 

reports to be submitted to the EPA 

Regional Office which serves the area 

where the establishment is located (40 

CFR 167.90). For establishments that are 

not found at the same location as their 

company headquarters, the regulations 

require the annual pesticide production 

reports to be submitted to the EPA 

Regional Office that has jurisdiction 

over the State in which the company 

headquarters is located (40 CFR 167.90). 

EPA’s Region III office serves 

establishments or establishments with 

company headquarters located in 

Delaware, Maryland, Pennsylvania, 

Virginia, West Virginia and the District 

of Columbia (40 CFR 1.7). 

The regulations state that 

establishment registrations are subject to 

termination if annual pesticide 

production reports are not submitted (40 

CFR 167.20(f)). Upon deciding to 

terminate an establishment registration 

based on the failure to submit annual 

pesticide production reports, EPA 

Region III generally sends a notice of 

intent to terminate letter (NOIT) directly 

to the establishment registrant via 

certified mail with return receipt 

requested, or by other reliable delivery 

service that provides written 

verification of delivery. If the 

establishment registrant does not submit 

the missing pesticide production 

report(s) by the deadline set forth in the 

NOIT, EPA Region III will issue it a 

notice of termination letter (NOT). 

NOITs are generally mailed to the 

establishment registrant’s last address of 

record. Occasionally, such notices are 

returned as undeliverable and, despite 

reasonable efforts to locate such 

registrants, EPA Region III is unable to 

directly notify them of its intent to 

terminate their establishment 

registrations. In the past, EPA used the 

Federal Register to provide public 

notice of its intent to terminate such 

registrations. EPA Region III will now be 

using its Web site to provide public 

notice of its intent to terminate such 

establishment registrations. The Web 

site address is: http://www.epa.gov/ 

reg3wcmd/pesticides.htm. 

EPA Region III will continue to first 

attempt to provide NOITs directly to 

establishment registrants at their last 

address of record. In cases where such 

notices are returned as undeliverable, 

and when reasonable subsequent efforts 

to locate such parties are unsuccessful, 

EPA Region III will use its Web site to 

provide public notice of its intent to 

terminate such registrations. This notice 

addresses establishments or 

establishments with company 

headquarters located in Delaware, 

Maryland, Pennsylvania, Virginia, West 

Virginia and the District of Columbia 

only. 

Dated: September 3, 2009. 

Abraham Ferdas, 

Director, Land and Chemicals Division, 

Region III. 

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