Federal Register / Vol. 71, No. 153 / Wednesday, August 9, 2006 / Notices 45559 

List of Subjects 

Environmental protection, Pesticides 

and pest. 

Dated: July 31, 2006. 

Lois Rossi, 

Director, Registration Division, Office of 

Pesticide Programs. 

[FR Doc. E6–12903 Filed 8–8–06; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6560–50–S 

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION 

AGENCY 

[EPA–HQ–OPP–2006–0652; FRL–8082–9] 

Notice of Filing of Pesticide Petitions 

for Establishment or Amendment to 

Regulations for Residues of Pesticide 

Chemicals in or on Various 

Commodities 

AGENCY: Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA). 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: This notice announces the 

initial filing of pesticide petitions 

proposing the establishment or 

amendment of regulations for residues 

of pesticide chemicals in or on various 

commodities. 

DATES: Comments must be received on 

or before September 8, 2006. 

ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, 

identified by docket identification (ID) 

number EPA–HQ–OPP–2006–0652 and 

pesticide petition number (PP), 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 Drive, Arlington, VA. Deliveries 

are only accepted during the Docket’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 telephone number is (703) 305–

5805. 

Instructions: Direct your comments to 

docket ID number EPA–HQ–OPP–2006–

0652. 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 www.regulations.gov 

or e-mail. The Federal http:// 

www.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 

www.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. 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 Drive, 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 telephone number 

is (703) 305–5805. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Bipin Gandhi, Office of Pesticide 

Programs Registration Division (7505P), 

Inert Ingredient Assessment Branch, 

Environmental Protection Agency, 1200 

Pennsylvania Ave., NW.,Washington, 

DC 20460–0001; telephone number 

(703) 308–8380; fax number (703) 305–

0599; e-mail address: 

gandhi.bipin@epa.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

I. General Information 

A. Does this Action Apply to Me? 

You may be potentially affected by 

this action if you are an agricultural 

producer, food manufacturer, or 

pesticide manufacturer. Potentially 

affected entities may include, but are 

not limited to: 

• Crop production (NAICS code 

111). 

• Animal production (NAICS code 

112). 

• Food manufacturing (NAICS code 

311). 

• Pesticide manufacturing (NAICS 

code 32532). 

This listing is not intended to be 

exhaustive, but rather provides a guide 

for readers regarding entities likely to be 

affected by this action. Other types of 

entities not listed in this unit could also 

be affected. The North American 

Industrial Classification System 

(NAICS) codes have been provided to 

assist you and others in determining 

whether this action might apply to 

certain entities. If you have any 

questions regarding the applicability of 

this action to a particular entity, consult 

the person listed at the end of the 

pesticide petition summary of interest. 

B. What Should I Consider as I Prepare 

My Comments for EPA? 

1. Submitting CBI. Do not submit this 

information to EPA through 

www.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 

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. 


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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. What Action is the Agency Taking? 

EPA is printing a summary of each 

pesticide petition received under 

section 408 of the Federal Food, Drug, 

and Cosmetic Act (FFDCA), 21 U.S.C. 

346a, proposing the establishment or 

amendment of regulations in 40 CFR 

part 180 for residues of pesticide 

chemicals in or on various food 

commodities. EPA has determined that 

this pesticide petition contains data or 

information regarding the elements set 

forth in FFDCA section 408(d)(2); 

however, EPA has not fully evaluated 

the sufficiency of the submitted data at 

this time or whether the data support 

granting of the pesticide petition. 

Additional data may be needed before 

EPA rules on this pesticide petition. 

Pursuant to 40 CFR 180.7(f), a 

summary of the petition included in this 

notice, prepared by the petitioner along 

with a description of the analytical 

method available for the detection and 

measurement of the pesticide chemical 

residues is available on EPA’s Electronic 

Docket at http://www.regulations.gov/. 

To locate this information on the home 

page of EPA’s Electronic Docket, select 

‘‘Quick Search’’ and type the OPP 

docket ID number. Once the search has 

located the docket, clicking on the 

‘‘Docket ID’’ will bring up a list of all 

documents in the docket for the 

pesticide including the petition 

summary. 

1. PP 6E7078. Syngenta Crop 

Protection, Inc., P.O. Box 18300, 

Greensboro, NC 27410, proposes to 

establish an exemption from the 

requirement of a tolerance for residues 

of the phosphoric acid tris(2-ethyl 

hexyl) ester, CAS Reg. No. 78–42–2, in 

or on food commodities. Because this 

petition is a request for an exemption 

from the requirement of a tolerance 

without numerical limitations, no 

analytical method is required. 

List of Subjects 

Environmental protection, 

Agricultural commodities, Feed 

additives, Food additives, Pesticides 

and pests, Reporting and recordkeeping 

requirements. 

Dated: July 26, 2006. 

Lois Rossi, 

Director, Registration Division, Office 

Pesticide Programs. 

[FR Doc. 06–6686 Filed 8–8–06; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6560–50–S 

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION 

AGENCY 

[EPA–HQ–OW–2006–0656, FRL–8207–3] 

Notice of Draft Guidance for 

Implementing the January 2001 

Methylmercury Water Quality Criterion 

AGENCY: Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA). 

ACTION: Notice of availability and 

request for comments. 

SUMMARY: EPA announces the 

availability of draft guidance for 

implementing the water quality 

criterion for methylmercury and 

requests comments on the draft 

guidance. The draft document provides 

technical guidance to states, territories, 

and authorized tribes exercising 

responsibility under Clean Water Act 

(CWA) section 303(c) on how to use 

EPA’s fish tissue-based methylmercury 

criterion recommendation in developing 

their own water quality standards for 

methylmercury and in implementing 

these standards in Total Maximum 

Daily Loads (TMDLs) and National 

Pollutant Discharge Elimination System 

(NPDES) permits. The guidance 

document does not impose any legally 

binding requirements on any entity. It 

provides various technical and policy 

approaches to implementing the 

criterion. These approaches are 

recommendations only. States, 

territories and authorized tribes may 

choose to implement other technicallysound approaches that are consistent 

with the CWA and EPA’s implementing 

regulations. 

DATES: Comments must be received on 

or before October 10, 2006. 

ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, 

identified by Docket ID No. EPA–HQ–

OW–2006–0656, by one of the following 

methods: 

• http://www.regulations.gov: Follow 

the on-line instructions for submitting 

comments. 

• E-mail: ow-docket@epa.gov. 

• Mail: Water Docket, Environmental 

Protection Agency, Mailcode: 4101T, 

1200 Pennsylvania Ave., NW, 

Washington, DC 20460. Please include a 

total of four copies. 

• Hand Delivery: EPA Docket Center 

(EPA/DC), EPA West, Room B102, 1301 

Constitution Ave., NW., Washington, 

DC 20460. Please include a total of four 

copies. Such deliveries are only 

accepted during the Docket’s normal 

hours of operation, and special 

arrangements should be made for 

deliveries of boxed information. 

Instructions: Direct your comments to 

Docket ID No. EPA-HQ-OW–2006–0656. 

EPA’s policy is that all comments 

received will be included in the public 

docket without change and may be 

made available online 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 http:// 

www.regulations.gov or owdocket@epa.gov. The http:// 

www.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 http:// 

www.regulations.gov your e-mail 

address will be automatically captured 

and included as part of the comment 

that is placed in the public 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. For additional information 

about EPA’s public docket visit the EPA 

Docket Center homepage at http:// 

www.epa.gov/epahome/dockets.htm. 

Docket: All documents in the docket 

are listed in the http:// 

www.regulations.gov index. 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, 

will be publicly available only in hard 

copy. Publicly available docket 

materials are available either 

electronically in http:// 


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