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III. What is the Agency 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 amended to

delete one or more uses. The Act further

provides that, before acting on the

request, EPA must publish a notice of

receipt of any such request in the

Federal Register. Thereafter, the

Administrator may approve such a

request.

IV. How and to Whom Do I Submit

Withdrawal Requests?

1. By mail. Registrants who choose to

withdraw a request for use deletion

must submit such withdrawal in writing

to James A. Hollins, at the address given

above, postmarked November 27, 2000.

2. In Person or by courier. Deliver

your withdrawal request to: Document

Processing Desk (DPD), Information

Services Branch, Office of Pesticide

Programs, Environmental Protection

Agency, Rm. 266A, Crystal Mall #2,

1921 Jefferson Davis Highway,

Arlington, VA. The DPD is open from

8:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., Monday through

Friday, excluding legal holidays. The

DPD telephone number is (703) 305–

5263.

3. Electronically. You may submit

your withdrawal request electronically

by e-mail to: hollins.james@epa.gov. Do

not submit any information

electronically that you consider to be

CBI. Avoid the use of special characters

and any form of encryption. Electronic

submissions will be accepted in

WordPerfect 6.1/8.0 or ASCII file

format.

V. Provisions for Disposition of Existing

Stocks

The Agency has authorized the

registrants to sell or distribute product

under the previously approved labeling

for a period of 18 months after approval

of the revision, unless other restrictions

have been imposed, as in special review

actions.

List of Subjects

Environmental protection, Pesticides

and pests, Product registrations.

Dated: May 16, 2000.

Richard D. Schmitt,

Acting Director, Information Resources

Services Division, Office of Pesticide

Programs.

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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION

AGENCY

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Internet Availability of Evaluation

Report on the Sector Facility Indexing

Project and SFIP’s Future Expansion

AGENCY: Environmental Protection

Agency.

ACTION: Notice of availability of

evaluation report and future expansion

of the SFIP.

SUMMARY: The Environmental Protection

Agency (EPA) is announcing the

Internet availability of an evaluation

report on the Sector Facility Indexing

Project (SFIP). Based upon the

evaluation results, the EPA is also

announcing the future expansion of the

SFIP. The EPA is now working to add

to the project a subset of federal

facilities. The SFIP is a communityright-to-know and data integration

project that currently provides

environmental performance data for

facilities within five industry sectors.

The industry sectors currently profiled

within the SFIP are automobile

assembly; petroleum refining; pulp

manufacturing; iron and steel; and

primary smelting and refining of

aluminum, copper, lead, and zinc

(nonferrous metals). On May 1, 1998,

the EPA released the Internet website

containing the SFIP data. (See 63 FR

27281, May 18, 1998). The SFIP website

is designed as an interactive tool that

allows users to customize the

information and delve into greater detail

to look at information that is too

voluminous to include in a hard copy

report.

DATES: The SFIP evaluation report is

currently available to the public on the

Internet. A limited number of hard

copies of the report are also now

available. EPA’s goal is to have the

expansion to federal facilities completed

and available on the website later this

year.

ADDRESSES: The SFIP’s data and the

evaluation report on the project may be

accessed electronically via the Internet

at the following address: http://

www.epa.gov/oeca/sfi. Requests for a

hard copy of the evaluation report may

be sent to: SFIP, 55 Wheeler Street,

Cambridge, MA 02138. Requests may

also be made to the SFIP telephone

hotline at: (617) 520–3015.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Robert Lischinsky, U.S. Environmental

Protection Agency, Office of

Compliance (2223–A), 1200

Pennsylvania Avenue, NW, Washington,

DC 20460; telephone: (202) 564–2628,

fax: (202)564–0050; e-mail:

lischinsky.robert@epa.gov

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: When

EPA launched the SFIP website

(www.epa.gov/oeca/sfi) in May 1998,

the Agency was committed to

monitoring and evaluating the progress

of this project. Specifically, we wanted

to look at SFIP’s success in meeting the

two goals of providing greater public

access to accurate compliance and

facility-level information, as well as

improving multimedia facility profiling

and sector-based analysis.

For the evaluation, EPA obtained

input from user groups both inside and

outside the Agency, including the EPA

Regions, States, industry, environmental

groups, and trade associations. The

results have been positive. Extensively

used, SFIP has enhanced public access

to and knowledge of the environmental

performance of individual, regulated

facilities. The project has improved

multimedia facility profiling; provided

useful data in a ‘‘user-friendly’’ website;

improved data quality in underlying

databases; and served as an incentive to

achieve and maintain compliance.

The evaluation also identified

widespread interest for an expansion of

SFIP that would build upon its success

and make the project an even more

valuable analytical tool. Thus, EPA is

announcing that the SFIP will be

expanding to include a subset of federal

facilities. This expansion will encourage

greater accountability on the part of

federal facilities, and will allow the

public to obtain important

environmental information about these

facilities located in their communities.

EPA is working to arrive at a subset of

the federal facility universe that is both

manageable and provides useful

information. Our goal is to have the

expansion to federal facilities completed

later this year.

As SFIP expands, we will ensure that

we maintain the public’s confidence in

the integrity of the data. Once again

Regions, States and the affected

facilities will be given the opportunity

to review the data and resolve any data

quality issues through a coordinated

EPA/State effort prior to release.

Dated: May 17, 2000.

Mamie R. Miller,

Chief, Manufacturing Branch, Manufacturing,

Energy & Transportation Division, Office of

Compliance.

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