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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 pesticide(s) 

discussed in this document, compared 

to the general population. 

II. What Action is the Agency Taking? 

EPA is making available for comment 

an amended registration application 

requesting the addition of multiple 

commodities onto the clothianidin 

technical (EPA Registration Number 

10308-32) and three end-use (59639- 

150, 59639-151 and 59639-152) labels. 

The Agency will evaluate all comments 

received during the comment period. 

The application would, if accepted, 

allow the use of clothianidin on the 

following commodities: Cotton; 

soybean; leafy vegetables, crop group 4; 

Brassica (Cole) vegetables, crop group 5; 

fruiting vegetables, crop group 8; 

cucurbits, crop group 9 and tree nuts, 

crop group 14. 

Following the review of the 

application, and any comments and data 

received in response to this solicitation, 

EPA will decide whether to issue or 

deny the amended registration 

application, and if issued, the 

conditions under which it is to be 

granted. 

List of Subjects 

Environmental protection, Receipt of 

Application. 

Dated: September 18, 2009. 

Lois Rossi, 

Director, Registration Division, Office of 

Pesticide Programs. 

[FR Doc. E9–23450 Filed 9–29–09; 8:45 a.m.] 

BILLING CODE 6560–50–S 

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION 

AGENCY 

[EPA–HQ–OPP–2005–0123; FRL–8792–8] 

Methyl Bromide; Notice of Receipt of 

Requests to Amend Pesticide 

Registrations to Terminate Uses of 

Certain Products 

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 amend their registrations 

to terminate uses of certain products 

containing the pesticide methyl 

bromide. The requests would terminate 

post harvest methyl bromide use in or 

on alfalfa hay and cottonseed. The 

requests would terminate alfalfa hay 

and cottonseed uses from all methyl 

bromide 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 October 30, 2009. 

ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, 

identified by docket identification (ID) 

number EPA–HQ–OPP–2005–0123, 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–2005– 

0123. 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: 

Susan Bartow, Pesticide Re-evaluation 

Division (7508P), Office of Pesticide 

Programs, Environmental Protection 

Agency, 1200 Pennsylvania Ave., NW., 

Washington, DC 20460–0001; telephone 

number: (703) 603–0065; fax number: 

(703) 308–8090; e-mail address: 

bartow.susan@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 


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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. 

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 Great Lakes 

Chemical a Chemtura Company, Soil 

Chemicals Corporation doing business 

as Cardinal Professional Products, and 

ICL-IP America, Inc. to amend to 

terminate uses of 5785–11, Meth-O-Gas 

100, 5785–41, Meth-O-Gas Q; 8536–15, 

Methyl Bromide 100, 8536–29, Methyl 

Bromide Quarantine Fumigant; 8622– 

16, Metabrom 100, and 8622–55, 

Metabrom Q product registrations. In 

letters dated June 29, 2009, June 30, 

2009, and July 21, 2009, Great Lakes 

Chemical, a Chemtura Company, Soil 

Chemicals Corporation doing business 

as Cardinal Professional Products, and 

ICL-IP America, Inc. requested EPA to 

amend to terminate uses of pesticide 

product registrations identified in Table 

1 of this notice. Specifically, the 

registrants request voluntary 

termination of post-harvest alfalfa hay 

and post-harvest cottonseed uses of 

methyl bromide. The registrants also 

request the following provisions for 

sale, distribution, and use of existing 

stocks: All sale or distribution by the 

registrant of existing stocks labeled for 

post-harvest alfalfa hay and post-harvest 

cottonseed uses is prohibited after 

October 31, 2009, unless that sale or 

distribution is solely for the purpose of 

facilitating disposal or export of the 

product. 

Existing stocks labeled for postharvest alfalfa hay and post-harvest 

cottonseed uses may be sold and 

distributed by persons other than the 

registrant until October 31, 2010. 

Existing stocks labeled for postharvest alfalfa hay and post harvest 

cottonseed uses may be used until all 

such stocks are exhausted, provided that 

such use complies with the EPAapproved label of the product. 

Action on the registrants’ requests 

would terminate alfalfa hay and 

cottonseed uses from all methyl 

bromide 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 amend to 

terminate uses of methyl bromide 

product registrations. The affected 

products and the registrants making the 

requests are identified in Tables 1 and 

2 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 methyl bromide registrants have 

requested that EPA waive the 180–day 

comment period. EPA will provide a 

30–day comment period on the 

proposed requests. 

Unless a request is withdrawn by the 

registrant within 30 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 

amending the affected registrations. 

TABLE 1.—METHYL BROMIDE PRODUCT REGISTRATIONS WITH PENDING

REQUESTS FOR AMENDMENT

Registration 

Number 

Product 

Name Company 

5785-11 Meth-OGas 

100 

Great Lakes 

Chemical a 

Chemtura 

Company 

5785–41 Meth-OGas Q Great Lakes 

Chemical a 

Chemtura 

Company 

8536–15 Methyl 

Bromide 

100 

Soil Chemicals Corporation 

doing business as 

Cardinal 

Professional 

Products 

8536–29 Methyl 

Bromide 

Quarantine 

Fumigant 

Soil Chemicals Corporation 

doing business as 

Cardinal 

Professional 

Products 


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TABLE 1.—METHYL BROMIDE PRODUCT REGISTRATIONS WITH PENDING

REQUESTS FOR AMENDMENT—Continued 

Registration 

Number 

Product 

Name Company 

8622–16 Metabrom 

100 

ICL-IP America, Inc. 

8622–55 Metabrom 

Q 

ICL-IP America, Inc. 

Table 2 of this unit includes the 

names and addresses of record for the 

registrants of the products listed in 

Table 1 of this unit. 

TABLE 2.—REGISTRANTS REQUESTING

AMENDMENTS

EPA Company 

Number 

Company Name and 

Address 

5785 Great Lakes Chemical 

Corporation 

P.O. Box 2200 

West Lafayette, IN 

47996–2200 

8536 Soil Chemicals Corporation (doing business as Cardinal Professional Products) 

P.O. Box 782 

Hollister, CA 95024– 

9487 

8622 ICL-IP America, Inc. 

95 MacCorkle Avenue, 

S.W. 

South Charleston, WV 

25303–1411 

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 Methyl Bromide 

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 October 30, 2009. 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. 

VI. Provisions for Disposition of 

Existing Stocks 

Existing stocks are those stocks of 

registered pesticide products which are 

currently in the United States and 

which were packaged, labeled, and 

released for shipment prior to the 

effective date of the cancellation order. 

In any order issued in response to 

these requests for amendments to 

terminate uses, the Agency proposes to 

include the following provisions for the 

treatment of any existing stocks of the 

products identified or referenced in 

Table 1 in Unit III: 

All sale or distribution by the 

registrant of existing stocks labeled for 

post-harvest alfalfa hay and post-harvest 

cottonseed uses is prohibited after 

October 31, 2009, unless that sale or 

distribution is solely for the purpose of 

facilitating disposal or export of the 

product. Existing stocks labeled for 

post-harvest alfalfa hay and post-harvest 

cottonseed uses may be sold and 

distributed by persons other than the 

registrant until October 31, 2010. 

Existing stocks labeled for post-harvest 

alfalfa hay and post-harvest cottonseed 

uses may be used until all such stocks 

are exhausted, provided that such use 

complies with the EPA-approved label 

of the product. 

If the request for use termination is 

granted, the Agency intends to publish 

the cancellation order in the Federal 

Register. 

List of Subjects 

Environmental protection, Pesticides 

and pests. 

Dated: September 22, 2009. 

Richard P. Keigwin, Jr. 

Director, Pesticide Re-evaluation Division, 

Office of Pesticide Programs. 

[FR Doc. E9–23458 Filed 9–29–09; 8:45 a.m.] 

BILLING CODE 6560–50–S 

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION 

AGENCY 

[EPA–HQ–OPP–2007–0509; FRL–8435–1] 

Pseudomonas syringae; Registration 

Review Final Decision; Notice of 

Availability 

AGENCY: Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA). 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: This notice announces the 

availability of EPA’s final registration 

review decision for the pesticide 

Pseudomonas syringae, case 6007. 

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 causing 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. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For 

pesticide specific information, contact: 

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, Special Review and 

Reregistration 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; email 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 

pesticide specific contact person listed 

under FOR FURTHER INFORMATION

CONTACT. 

B. How Can I Get Copies of this 

Document and Other Related 

Information? 

1. Docket. EPA has established a 

docket for this action under docket 

identification (ID) number EPA–HQ– 

OPP–2007–0509. Publicly available 


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