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concern to non-listed species have been 

identified. No risk mitigation measures 

for human health or ecological effects 

are included in the interim decision. 

Case Closure for Diclofop-methyl (PC 

Code: 110902, Case: 2160). Diclofopmethyl is an herbicide which was 

labeled for use on wheat, barley, and 

golf course turf. On October 23, 2014, 

the Agency received a request for 

voluntary cancellation of diclofopmethyl from the technical and end-use 

registrants; Bayer CropScience and 

Bayer Environmental Science, 

respectively. EPA subsequently issued a 

Federal Register notice announcing 

receipt of the request (FRL–9396–04), 

and allowed a 30-day period for public 

comment on the request. No substantive 

comments were received, and on June 

10, 2015, EPA issued the cancellation 

order for all remaining registrations of 

products containing diclofop-methyl 

(FRL–9968–03), which sets out the 

existing stocks policy for such products. 

With the cancellation of all remaining 

diclofop-methyl products, the Agency is 

announcing the closure of the 

registration review case for the active 

ingredient. 

Pursuant to 40 CFR 155.57, a 

registration review decision is the 

Agency’s determination whether a 

pesticide meets, or does not meet, the 

standard for registration in FIFRA. EPA 

has considered the pesticides listed in 

the table in this unit in light of the 

FIFRA standard for registration. The 

Interim Decision documents for these 

pesticides in the docket describe the 

Agency’s rationale for issuing a 

registration review interim decision for 

this pesticide. 

In addition to an interim registration 

review decision document, the 

registration review docket for each of 

these pesticides may also include other 

relevant documents related to the 

registration review of the case. A 

proposed interim registration review 

decision was previously posted to each 

docket and the public was invited to 

submit any comments or new 

information relevant to the proposal. 

EPA has addressed the substantive 

comments and information received 

during the 60-day comment period in 

the discussion for each pesticide listed 

in this document. During the 60-day 

comment period, no public comments 

were received for any of these cases that 

resulted in changes in the Agency’s 

interim decisions. 

Pursuant to 40 CFR 155.58(c), the 

registration review case docket for each 

pesticide discussed in this notice will 

remain open until all actions required in 

the interim decision have been 

completed. 

Background on the registration review 

program is provided at: http://

www2.epa.gov/pesticide-reevaluation. 

Links to earlier documents related to the 

registration review of the pesticide cases 

identified in this notice are provided in 

the Pesticide Chemical Search data base 

accessible at: http://iaspub.epa.gov/

apex/pesticides/f?p=chemicalsearch. 

Authority: 7 U.S.C. 136 et seq. 

Dated: June 26, 2015. 

Richard P. Keigwin, Jr., 

Director, Pesticide Re-Evaluation Division, 

Office of Pesticide Programs. 

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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION 

AGENCY 

[EPA–HQ–OPP–2015–0386; FRL–9929–23] 

Registration Review; Draft Human 

Health and Ecological Risk 

Assessments; Notice of Availability 

AGENCY: Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA). 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: This notice announces the 

availability of EPA’s draft human health 

and ecological risk assessments for the 

registration reviews of flufenacet, 

flurprimidol, propoxur, and sodium 

acifluorfen, and opens a public 

comment period on these documents. In 

addition, this notice announces both the 

opening of the registration review 

docket for thidiazuron and the 

availability of the registration review 

draft human health and ecological risk 

assessments for thidiazuron. The 

Agency is opening a public comment 

period on both the Preliminary Work 

Plan and the draft risk assessments for 

thidiazuron. 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 September 8, 2015. 

ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, 

identified by docket identification (ID) 

number for the specific pesticide of 

interest provided in Table 1 of Unit III, 

by one of the following methods: 

• Federal eRulemaking Portal: http:// 

www.regulations.gov. Follow the online 

instructions for submitting comments. 

Do not submit electronically any 

information you consider to be 

Confidential Business Information (CBI) 

or other information whose disclosure is 

restricted by statute. 

• Mail: OPP Docket, Environmental 

Protection Agency Docket Center (EPA/ 

DC), (28221T), 1200 Pennsylvania Ave. 

NW., Washington, DC 20460–0001. 

• Hand Delivery: To make special 

arrangements for hand delivery or 

delivery of boxed information, please 

follow the instructions at http://

www.epa.gov/dockets/contacts.html. 

Additional instructions on 

commenting or visiting the docket, 

along with more information about 

dockets generally, is available at http:// 

www.epa.gov/dockets. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For 

pesticide specific information contact 

the Chemical Review Manager listed as 

the contact in Table 1 of Unit III. 

For general questions on the 

registration review program, contact: 

Richard Dumas, Pesticide Re-Evaluation 

Division (7508P), Office of Pesticide 

Programs, Environmental Protection 

Agency, 1200 Pennsylvania Ave. NW., 

Washington, DC 20460–0001; telephone 

number: (703) 308–8015; email address: 

dumas.richard@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 for the case 

in question, listed in Table 1 of Unit III 

of this notice. 

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 email. 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 


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will not be disclosed except in 

accordance with procedures set forth in 

40 CFR part 2. 

2. Tips for preparing your comments. 

When preparing and submitting your 

comments, see the commenting tips at 

http://www.epa.gov/dockets/

comments.html. 

3. Environmental justice. EPA seeks to 

achieve environmental justice, the fair 

treatment and meaningful involvement 

of any group, including minority and/or 

low income populations, in the 

development, implementation, and 

enforcement of environmental laws, 

regulations, and policies. To help 

address potential environmental justice 

issues, the Agency seeks information on 

any groups or segments of the 

population who, as a result of their 

location, cultural practices, or other 

factors, may have atypical or 

disproportionately high and adverse 

human health impacts or environmental 

effects from exposure to the pesticides 

discussed in this document, compared 

to the general population. 

II. Authority 

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, the pesticide can 

perform its intended function without 

unreasonable adverse effects on human 

health or the environment. As part of 

the registration review process, the 

Agency has completed comprehensive 

draft human health and ecological risk 

assessments, including, in some cases, a 

screening level endangered species 

assessment, for all uses of these 

pesticides. After reviewing comments 

received during the public comment 

period, EPA may issue revised risk 

assessments, explain any changes to the 

draft risk assessments, respond to 

comments, and request public input on 

risk mitigation before completing 

proposed registration review decisions 

for flufenacet, flurprimidol, propoxur, 

sodium acifluorfen, and thidiazuron. 

EPA is conducting its registration 

review of the pesticide cases listed in 

Table 1 of Unit III. of this notice 

pursuant to section 3(g) of the Federal 

Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide 

Act (FIFRA) and the Procedural 

Regulations for Registration Review at 

40 CFR part 155, subpart C. Section 3(g) 

of FIFRA provides, among other things, 

that the registrations of pesticides are to 

be reviewed every 15 years. Under 

FIFRA, a pesticide product may be 

registered or remain registered only if it 

meets the statutory standard for 

registration given in FIFRA section 

3(c)(5) (7 U.S.C. 136a(c)(5)). When used 

in accordance with widespread and 

commonly recognized practice, the 

pesticide product must perform its 

intended function without unreasonable 

adverse effects on the environment; that 

is, without any unreasonable risk to 

man or the environment, or human 

dietary risks of concern from residues 

that result from the use of a pesticide in 

or on food. 

III. Registration Reviews 

As directed by FIFRA section 3(g), 

EPA is reviewing the pesticide 

registrations for the pesticides listed in 

Table 1 of this Unit to ensure that each 

pesticide on the list continues to satisfy 

the FIFRA standard for registration— 

that is, that these pesticides can still be 

used without unreasonable adverse 

effects on human health or the 

environment. 

TABLE 1—DRAFT RISK ASSESSMENTS BEING MADE AVAILABLE FOR PUBLIC COMMENT

Registration review case name and No. Docket ID No. Chemical review manager and contact 

information 

Flufenacet, 7245 ................................................ EPA–HQ–OPP–2010–0863 ............................. Margaret Hathaway, hathaway.margaret@

epa.gov, 703–305–5076. 

Flurprimidol, 7000 .............................................. EPA–HQ–OPP–2009–0630 ............................. Kelly Ballard, ballard.kelly@epa.gov, 703– 

305–8126. 

Propoxur, 2555 .................................................. EPA–HQ–OPP–2009–0806 ............................. Brittany Pruitt, pruitt.brittany@epa.gov, 703– 

347–0289. 

Sodium acifluorfen, 2605 ................................... EPA–HQ–OPP–2010–0135 ............................. Christina Scheltema, scheltema.christina@

epa.gov, 703–308–2201. 

Thidiazuron, 4092 .............................................. EPA–HQ–OPP–2015–0381 ............................. Khue Nguyen, nguyen.khue@epa.gov, 703– 

347–0248. 

Flufenacet. Draft Human Health and 

Ecological Risk Assessments (EPA–HQ– 

OPP–2010–0863). Flufenacet is a preemergent, anilide herbicide registered 

for use on wheat, perennial grasses 

grown for seed, corn for silage, field and 

sweet corn, soybeans, and triticale. 

There are no registered residential uses 

of flufenacet. EPA has completed draft 

human health and ecological risk 

assessments, including a screening-level 

listed species assessment, for all 

flufenacet uses. EPA acknowledges that 

further refinements to the listed species 

assessment will be completed in future 

revisions and requests public comment 

on specific areas that will reduce the 

uncertainties associated with the 

characterization of risk to listed species 

identified in the current assessment. 

Flurprimidol. Draft Human Health 

and Ecological Risk Assessments (EPA– 

HQ–OPP–2009–0630). Flurprimidol is a 

plant growth regulator belonging to the 

pyrimidine class. It is registered for use 

on golf courses and ornamental turf; for 

landscape/woody ornamental plants 

and ornamental trees; and for 

ornamental plants grown in containers 

in nurseries, greenhouses, and 

shadehouses. EPA conducted a 

comprehensive human health risk 

assessment and did not identify any 

risks of concern for dietary, residential, 

or occupational exposures. EPA also 

conducted a screening level ecological 

risk assessment that addressed only the 

tree injection use of flurprimidol. 

Potential risks to birds, mammals, and 

plants were identified. All other uses of 

flurprimidol were addressed in a 2010 

ecological risk assessment, which is 

posted to the registration review docket. 

An endangered species assessment has 

not been completed for flurprimidol at 

this time. 

Propoxur. Draft Human Health and 

Ecological Risk Assessments (EPA–HQ– 

OPP–2009–0806). Propoxur is a 

carbamate insecticide registered for use 

by pest control operators to kill a variety 

of insects including crickets, ants, 

cockroaches, and silverfish. It is 

registered for use in and around 

residential, industrial, institutional, and 

commercial facilities (including food 

handling establishments and food 

processing plants). EPA has completed 

draft human health and ecological risk 

assessments, including a screening-level 

listed species assessment for all 

propoxur uses. EPA acknowledges that 


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further refinements to the listed species 

assessment will be completed in future 

revisions and requests public comment 

on specific areas that will reduce the 

uncertainties associated with the 

characterization of risk to listed species 

identified in the current assessment. 

Sodium acifluorfen. Draft Human 

Health and Ecological Risk Assessments 

(EPA–HQ–OPP–2010–0135). Sodium 

acifluorfen is a post-emergent herbicide 

registered for use on peanuts, soybeans, 

strawberries, and rice. EPA has 

completed draft human health and 

ecological risk assessments for all 

sodium acifluorfen uses. There are no 

anticipated human health risks of 

concern. The draft ecological risk 

assessment indicates that there is direct 

risk of adverse effects to non-target 

organisms, including fish, birds, and 

mammals, and species for which these 

taxa serve as surrogates, and non-target 

terrestrial plants. The assessment did 

not find risks of concern for aquatic 

plants. 

Thidiazuron. Combined Docket 

Opening and Release of Draft Human 

Health and Ecological Risk Assessments 

(EPA–HQ–OPP–2015–0381). 

Thidiazuron is a plant growth regulator 

registered for use as a defoliant on 

cotton. There are no non-agricultural 

uses of thidiazuron. EPA has completed 

a combined problem formulation/

preliminary ecological risk assessment 

and combined scoping document/

preliminary human health risk 

assessment for thidiazuron. No human 

health risks of concern were identified. 

The ecological risk assessment indicated 

potential risks of concern to birds, 

terrestrial-phase amphibians, reptiles, 

and terrestrial plants. The Agency did 

not complete an endangered species risk 

assessment. 

Pursuant to 40 CFR 155.53(c), EPA is 

providing an opportunity, through this 

notice of availability, for interested 

parties to provide comments and input 

concerning the Agency’s draft human 

health and ecological risk assessments 

for these pesticides. Such comments 

could address, among other things, the 

Agency’s risk assessment methodologies 

and assumptions, as applied to these 

draft risk assessments. The Agency will 

consider all comments received during 

the public comment period and make 

changes, as appropriate, to the draft 

human health and ecological risk 

assessments. EPA may then issue 

revised risk assessments, explain any 

changes to the draft risk assessments, 

and respond to comments. In the 

Federal Register notice announcing the 

availability of any such revised risk 

assessments for these pesticides, if the 

revised risk assessments indicate risks 

of concern, the Agency may provide a 

comment period for the public to submit 

suggestions for mitigating the risks 

identified in the revised risk 

assessments before developing a 

proposed registration review decision 

on the affected pesticide. 

1. Other related information. 

Additional information on the 

individual pesticides discussed in this 

notice is available through the Pesticide 

Registration Review Status Web page, at 

http://www2.epa.gov/pesticidereevaluation/individual-pesticidesregistration-review. Information on the 

Agency’s registration review program 

and its implementing regulation is 

available at http://www2.epa.gov/

pesticide-reevaluation. 

2. Information submission 

requirements. Anyone may submit data 

or information in response to this 

document. To be considered during a 

pesticide’s registration review, the 

submitted data or information must 

meet the following requirements: 

• To ensure that EPA will consider 

data or information submitted, 

interested persons must submit the data 

or information during the comment 

period. The Agency may, at its 

discretion, consider data or information 

submitted at a later date. 

• The data or information submitted 

must be presented in a legible and 

useable form. For example, an English 

translation must accompany any 

material that is not in English and a 

written transcript must accompany any 

information submitted as an 

audiographic or videographic record. 

Written material may be submitted in 

paper or electronic form. 

• Submitters must clearly identify the 

source of any submitted data or 

information. 

• Submitters may request the Agency 

to reconsider data or information that 

the Agency rejected in a previous 

review. However, submitters must 

explain why they believe the Agency 

should reconsider the data or 

information in the pesticide’s 

registration review. 

As provided in 40 CFR 155.58, the 

registration review docket for each 

pesticide case will remain publicly 

accessible through the duration of the 

registration review process; that is, until 

all actions required in the final decision 

on the registration review case have 

been completed. 

Authority: 7 U.S.C. 136 et seq. 

Dated: June 22, 2015. 

Richard P. Keigwin, Jr., 

Director, Pesticide Re-Evaluation Division, 

Office of Pesticide Programs. 

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FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS 

COMMISSION 

[DA 15–679] 

Media Bureau Announces Incentive 

Auction Eligible Facilities and Deadline 

for Filing Pre-Auction Technical 

Certification Form 

AGENCY: Federal Communications 

Commission. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: This document announces 

each full power and Class A station 

facility eligible for protection in the 

repacking process and for 

relinquishment in the reverse auction 

(i.e., ‘‘eligible facility’’), as well as the 

date by which a licensee with a eligible 

facility must file a Pre-Auction 

Technical Certification Form (FCC Form 

2100, Schedule 381) (approved under 

OMB control under 3060–1206). An 

Appendix is attached to the Public 

Notice listing each eligible facility. The 

Public Notice also establishes a process 

for licensees to file a Petition for Eligible 

Entity Status in order to request that a 

facility not listed in the Appendix 

attached to the Public Notice be treated 

as an eligible facility. 

DATES: The deadline for filing a PreAuction Technical Certification Form 

(FCC Form 2100, Schedule 381) is July 

9, 2015. The deadline for filing a 

Petition for Eligible Entity Status is July 

9, 2015. If granted, the Bureau will 

notify the petitioner of the date by 

which it must file its Pre-Auction 

Technical Certification Form as part of 

its decision. Furthermore, if the 

Commission grants a petition for 

reconsideration of the Incentive Auction 

R&O and in doing so extends 

discretionary protection to a different 

facility, or a facility that is not currently 

listed in the Appendix attached to the 

Public Notice, the licensee must file a 

Pre-Auction Technical Certification 

Form for each eligible facility no later 

than seven (7) days after release of the 

Commission’s decision or by July 9, 

2015, whichever is later. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Kevin Harding, Hossein Hashemzadeh, 

or Evan Morris, Video Division, Media 

Bureau, Federal Communications 

Commission, (202) 418–1600. 


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