Federal Register / Vol. 65, No. 127 / Friday, June 30, 2000 / Notices 40631

Holiday Inn, Emerald Springs; 325 E.

Flamingo Road

June 27: Flagstaff, Arizona ‘‘ 4 p.m.

Northern Arizona University, DuBois

Center, 306 East Pine Knoll Drive.

June 28: Salt Lake City, Utah ‘‘ 7 p.m.

Department of Environmental Quality,

Room 101; 162 N. 1950 W.

June 29: Casper, Wyoming ‘‘ 7 p.m.

Basco Building; 777 W. First Street

TBA: Colorado

Initial Public Comment Period

Initial public comment will be held

from May 15 until July 7, 2000.

Comments may be submitted in writing

to Patrick Cummins, Western

Governors’ Association; 600 17th Street,

Suite 1705 S. Tower; Denver, Colorado

or Bill Grantham, National Tribal

Environmental Council; 2221 Rio

Grande NW; Albuquerque, New Mexico

87104. Comments may also be filed

electronically on the WRAP Web site at

www.wrapair.org or by submitting

comments on floppy disk. In addition,

comments may be presented at any one

of the public workshops. Written

comments should include a typewritten,

or legible hand written summary of key

issues no more than 250 words in

length. The purpose of the initial public

comment period is to provide input to

the WRAP as it narrows its options and

continues development of final

recommendations regarding a regional

backstop market trading program.

Final Public Comment Period and

Public Meetings

Public comment on final

recommendations will be sought August

14 to September 8, 2000. Regional

public meetings will be held in

communities throughout the West.

Currently, meetings are being

considered for Arizona, Colorado,

Idaho, New Mexico, Oregon, Utah,

Washington, and Wyoming. Others may

be added. Details will be made available

shortly on the WRAP Web site. Final

recommendations will be submitted to

EPA by October 2, 2000.

Background

The WRAP was created as the

successor organization to the Grand

Canyon Visibility Transport

Commission (GCVTC), which made over

70 recommendations in June 1996 for

improving visibility in 16 national parks

and wilderness areas on the Colorado

Plateau. The Partnership promotes,

supports and monitors implementation

of those recommendations throughout

the West. Under EPA’s Regional Haze

Rule (64 FR 35713, July 1, 1999), nine

of the Western states have the option to

comply with the GCVTC’s regional

visibility protection program. The

program requires the establishment of a

regional emission milestone for 2018, in

addition to interim milestones. The

recommendations and options regarding

the market trading program were

developed over the last two years by

WRAP committees comprising a diverse

group of stakeholders including

industry, environmental groups and

academia.

Authority: 42 U.S.C. 7401 et seq.

Dated: June 14, 2000.

Laura Yoshii,

Acting Regional Administrator,, Region IX.

[FR Doc. 00–16630 Filed 6–29–00; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 6560–50–P

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION

AGENCY

[OPP–34215A; FRL–6595–6]

Organophosphate Pesticide;

Availability of Revised Risk

Assessments

AGENCY: Environmental Protection

Agency (EPA).

ACTION: Notice.

SUMMARY: This notice announces the

availability of the revised risk

assessments and related documents for

one organophosphate pesticide,

mevinphos. In addition, this notice

starts a 60-day public participation

period during which the public is

encouraged to submit risk management

ideas or proposals. These actions are in

response to a joint initiative between

EPA and the Department of Agriculture

(USDA) to increase transparency in the

tolerance reassessment process for

organophosphate pesticides.

DATES: Comments, identified by docket

control number OPP– 34215A, must be

received by EPA on or before August 29,

2000.

ADDRESSES: Comments may be

submitted by mail, electronically, or in

person. Please follow the detailed

instructions for each method as

provided in Unit III. of the

‘‘SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION.’’

To ensure proper receipt by EPA, it is

imperative that you identify docket

control number OPP–34215A in the

subject line on the first page of your

response.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Karen Angulo, Special Review and

Reregistration Division (7508C), Office

of Pesticide Programs, Environmental

Protection Agency, 1200 Pennsylvania

Ave., NW., Washington, DC 20460;

telephone number: 703-308-8004; e-mail

address: angulo.karen@epa.gov.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

I. Does this Action Apply to Me?

This action is directed to the public

in general, nevertheless, a wide range of

stakeholders will be interested in

obtaining the revised risk assessments

and submitting risk management

comments on mevinphos, including

environmental, human health, and

agricultural advocates; the chemical

industry; pesticide users; and members

of the public interested in the use of

pesticides on food. As such, the Agency

has not attempted to specifically

describe all the entities potentially

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.’’

II. How Can I Get Additional

Information, Including Copies of this

Document or Other Related Documents?

A. Electronically. You may obtain

electronic copies of this document and

other related documents from the EPA

Internet Home Page at http://

www.epa.gov/. To access this

document, on the Home Page select

‘‘Laws and Regulations’’ and then look

up the entry for this document under

the ‘‘Federal Register—Environmental

Documents.’’ You can also go directly to

the Federal Register listings at http://

www.epa.gov/fedrgstr/.

To access information about

organophosphate pesticides and obtain

electronic copies of the revised risk

assessments and related documents

mentioned in this notice, you can also

go directly to the Home Page for the

Office of Pesticide Programs (OPP) at

http://www.epa.gov/pesticides/op/.

B. In person. The Agency has

established an official record for this

action under docket control number

OPP–34215A. The official record

consists of the documents specifically

referenced in this action, any public

comments received during an applicable

comment period, and other information

related to this action, including any

information claimed as CBI. This official

record includes the documents that are

physically located in the docket, as well

as the documents that are referenced in

those documents. The public version of

the official record does not include any

information claimed as CBI. The public

version of the official record, which

includes printed, paper versions of any

electronic comments submitted during

an applicable comment period, is

available for inspection in Rm. 119,

Crystal Mall #2, 1921 Jefferson Davis

40632 Federal Register / Vol. 65, No. 127 / Friday, June 30, 2000 / Notices

Hwy., Arlington, VA, from 8:30 a.m. to

4 p.m., Monday through Friday,

excluding legal holidays. The PIRIB

telephone number is (703) 305–5805.

III. How Can I Respond to this Action?

A. How and to Whom Do I Submit

Comments?

You may submit comments through

the mail, in person, or electronically. To

ensure proper receipt by EPA, it is

imperative that you identify docket

control number OPP–34215A in the

subject line on the first page of your

response.

1. By mail. Submit comments to:

Public Information and Records

Integrity Branch, Information Resources

and Services Division (7502C), Office of

Pesticide Programs, Environmental

Protection Agency, 1200 Pennsylvania

Ave., NW., Washington, DC 20460.

2. In person or by courier. Deliver

comments to: Public Information and

Records Integrity Branch, Information

Resources and Services Division, Office

of Pesticide Programs, Environmental

Protection Agency, Rm. 119, Crystal

Mall #2, 1921 Jefferson Davis Hwy.,

Arlington, VA. The PIRIB is open from

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

Friday, excluding legal holidays. The

PIRIB telephone number is (703) 305–

5805.

3. Electronically. Submit electronic

comments by e-mail to: ‘‘oppdocket@epa.gov,’’ or you can submit a

computer disk as described in this unit.

Do not submit any information

electronically that you consider to be

CBI. Electronic comments must be

submitted as an ASCII file, avoiding the

use of special characters and any form

of encryption. Comments and data will

also be accepted on standard computer

disks in WordPerfect 6.1/8.0 or ASCII

file format. All comments in electronic

form must be identified by the docket

control number OPP–34215A.

Electronic comments may also be filed

online at many Federal Depository

Libraries.

B. How Should I Handle CBI

Information that I Want to Submit to the

Agency?

Do not submit any information

electronically that you consider to be

CBI. You may claim information that

you submit to EPA in response to this

document as CBI by marking any part or

all of that information as CBI.

Information so marked will not be

disclosed except in accordance with

procedures set forth in 40 CFR part 2.

In addition to one complete version of

the comment that includes any

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

version of the official record.

Information not marked confidential

will be included in the public version

of the official record without prior

notice. If you have any questions about

CBI or the procedures for claiming CBI,

please consult the person listed under

‘‘FOR FURTHER INFORMATION

CONTACT.’’

IV. What Action is EPA Taking in this

Notice?

EPA is making available for public

viewing the revised risk assessments

and related documents for one

organophosphate pesticide, mevinphos.

These documents have been developed

as part of the pilot public participation

process that EPA and USDA are now

using for involving the public in the

reassessment of pesticide tolerances

under the Food Quality Protection Act

(FQPA), and the reregistration of

individual organophosphate pesticides

under the Federal Insecticide,

Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act

(FIFRA). The pilot public participation

process was developed as part of the

EPA-USDA Tolerance Reassessment

Advisory Committee (TRAC), which

was established in April 1998, as a

subcommittee under the auspices of

EPA’s National Advisory Council for

Environmental Policy and Technology.

A goal of the pilot public participation

process is to find a more effective way

for the public to participate at critical

junctures in the Agency’s development

of organophosphate risk assessments

and risk management decisions. EPA

and USDA began implementing this

pilot process in August 1998, to increase

transparency and opportunities for

stakeholder consultation. The

documents being released to the public

through this notice provide information

on the revisions that were made to the

mevinphos preliminary risk

assessments, which was released to the

public January 12, 2000 (65 FR 1869)

(FRL–6486–9) through a notice in the

Federal Register.

In addition, this notice starts a 60-day

public participation period during

which the public is encouraged to

submit risk management proposals or

otherwise comment on risk management

for mevinphos. The Agency is providing

an opportunity, through this notice, for

interested parties to provide written risk

management proposals or ideas to the

Agency on the chemical specified in

this notice. Such comments and

proposals could address ideas about

how to manage dietary, occupational, or

ecological risks on specific mevinphos

use sites or crops across the United

States or in a particular geographic

region of the country. To address dietary

risk, for example, commenters may

choose to discuss the feasibility of lower

application rates, increasing the time

interval between application and

harvest (‘‘pre-harvest intervals’’),

modifications in use, or suggest

alternative measures to reduce residues

contributing to dietary exposure. For

occupational risks, commenters may

suggest personal protective equipment

or technologies to reduce exposure to

workers and pesticide handlers. For

ecological risks, commentors may

suggest ways to reduce environmental

exposure, e.g., exposure to birds, fish,

mammals, and other non-target

organisms. EPA will provide other

opportunities for public participation

and comment on issues associated with

the organophosphate tolerance

reassessment program. Failure to

participate or comment as part of this

opportunity will in no way prejudice or

limit a commenter’s opportunity to

participate fully in later notice and

comment processes. All comments and

proposals must be received by EPA on

or before August 29, 2000 at the

addresses given under the

‘‘ADDRESSES’’ section. Comments and

proposals will become part of the

Agency record for the organophosphates

specified in this notice.

List of Subjects

Environmental protection, Chemicals,

Pesticides and pests.

Dated: June 21, 2000.

Lois Rossi,

Director, Special Review and Reregistration

Division, Office of Pesticide Programs.

[FR Doc. 00–16635 Filed 6–29–00; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 6560–50–F

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION

AGENCY

[PF–951; FRL–6592–6]

Notice of Filing Pesticide Petitions to

Establish a Tolerance for Certain

Pesticide Chemicals in or on Food

AGENCY: Environmental Protection

Agency (EPA).

ACTION: Notice.

SUMMARY: This notice announces the

initial filings and amendments of

pesticide petitions proposing the

establishment/amendments of

regulations for residues of certain

pesticide chemicals in or on various

food commodities.