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notice of receipt of an application for a 

specific exemption proposing use of a 

new chemical (i.e., an active ingredient) 

which has not been registered by EPA. 

This notice provides an opportunity for 

public comment on the application. 

The Agency will review and consider 

all comments received during the 

comment period in determining 

whether to issue the specific exemption 

requested by the Michigan Department 

of Agriculture. 

List of Subjects 

Environmental protection, Pesticides 

and pests. 

Dated: February 16, 2011. 

Lois Rossi, 

Director, Registration Division, Office of 

Pesticide Programs. 

[FR Doc. 2011–4369 Filed 3–1–11; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6560–50–P 

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION 

AGENCY 

[FRL–9274–7] 

Science Advisory Board Staff Office; 

Notification of a Public Meeting of the 

Chartered Science Advisory Board 

AGENCY: Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA). 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: The Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA) Science Advisory Board 

(SAB) Staff Office announces a public 

meeting of the Chartered SAB to 

consider a draft report commenting on 

the President’s requested FY 2012 

budget for EPA research and to discuss 

SAB plans to provide advice on Office 

of Research and Development (ORD) 

strategic research directions. 

DATES: The public meeting will be held 

on Tuesday, March 22, 2011 from 1 p.m. 

to 5:30 p.m. and Wednesday, March 23, 

2011 from 8:30 a.m. to 12 p.m. (Eastern 

Daylight Time). 

ADDRESSES: The meeting will be held at 

the Umstead Hotel, Cary, North 

Carolina. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Any 

member of the public who wants further 

information concerning the meeting 

may contact Dr. Angela Nugent, 

Designated Federal Officer (DFO), EPA 

Science Advisory Board (1400R), U.S. 

Environmental Protection Agency, 1200 

Pennsylvania Avenue, NW., 

Washington, DC 20460; via telephone/ 

voice mail (202) 564–2218, fax (202) 

565–2098; or e-mail at 

nugent.angela@epa.gov. General 

information concerning the SAB can be 

found on the EPA Web site at http:// 

www.epa.gov/sab. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Background: The SAB was 

established pursuant to the 

Environmental Research, Development, 

and Demonstration Authorization Act 

(ERDAA), codified at 42 U.S.C. 4365, to 

provide independent scientific and 

technical advice to the Administrator on 

the technical basis for Agency positions 

and regulations. The SAB is a Federal 

Advisory Committee chartered under 

the Federal Advisory Committee Act 

(FACA), 5 U.S.C., App. 2. Pursuant to 

FACA and EPA policy, notice is hereby 

given that the SAB will hold a public 

meeting to consider a draft report on the 

President’s requested FY 2012 budget 

for research and to discuss SAB plans to 

provide advice on ORD strategic 

research directions. The SAB will 

comply with the provisions of FACA 

and all appropriate SAB Staff Office 

procedural policies. 

As announced in the Federal Register 

(76 FR 7198–7199), an SAB Research 

Budget Work Group met on March 3–4, 

2011 to review the President’s requested 

Fiscal Year 2012 research budget for 

EPA. The chartered SAB will discuss 

the work group’s draft report and reach 

agreement on comments to provide the 

EPA Administrator and the Congress on 

the adequacy of the President’s 

requested research budget for the next 

fiscal year in light of EPA’s research 

needs. 

Since the last meeting of the chartered 

SAB on September 22–22, 2010 (75 FR 

52940–52941), ORD has restructured its 

research program into six major program 

areas: Air, Climate, and Energy; Safe 

and Sustainable Water Resources; 

Sustainable and Healthy Communities; 

Chemical Safety and Sustainability; 

Human Health Risk Assessment; and 

Homeland Security. The chartered SAB 

will receive an update on 

implementation of these new program 

areas and initiate discussions with ORD 

and representatives of ORD’s Board of 

Scientific Councilors about plans to 

review ORD’s new strategic research 

directions. 

Availability of Meeting Materials: A 

meeting agenda and other materials for 

the meeting will be placed on the SAB 

Web site at http://epa.gov/sab. 

Procedures for Providing Public Input: 

Interested members of the public may 

submit relevant written or oral 

information for consideration on the 

topics included in this advisory activity. 

Oral Statements: To be placed on the 

public speaker list for the March 22–23, 

2011 meeting, interested parties should 

notify Dr. Angela Nugent, DFO, by email no later than March 15, 2011. 

Individuals making oral statements will 

be limited to five minutes per speaker. 

Written Statements: Written statements 

for the March 22–23, 2011 meeting 

should be received in the SAB Staff 

Office by March 15, 2011, so that the 

information may be made available to 

the SAB for its consideration prior to 

this meeting. Written statements should 

be supplied to the DFO in the following 

formats: one hard copy with original 

signature and one electronic copy via email (acceptable file format: Adobe 

Acrobat PDF, MS Word, WordPerfect, 

MS PowerPoint, or Rich Text files in 

IBM–PC/Windows 98/2000/XP format). 

Submitters are asked to provide 

electronic versions of each document 

submitted with and without signatures, 

because the SAB Staff Office does not 

publish documents with signatures on 

its Web sites. 

Accessibility: For information on 

access or services for individuals with 

disabilities, please contact Dr. Nugent at 

the phone number or e-mail address 

noted above, preferably at least ten days 

prior to the meeting, to give EPA as 

much time as possible to process your 

request. 

Dated: February 23, 2011. 

Anthony F. Maciorowski, 

Deputy Director, EPA Science Advisory Board 

Staff Office. 

[FR Doc. 2011–4639 Filed 3–1–11; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6560–50–P 

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION 

AGENCY 

[EPA–HQ–OPP–2009–0909; FRL–8859–4] 

Pesticide Reregistration Performance 

Measures and Goals 

AGENCY: Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA). 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: This notice announces EPA’s 

progress in meeting its performance 

measures and goals for pesticide 

reregistration during fiscal years 2009 

and 2010. The Federal Insecticide, 

Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA) 

requires EPA to publish information 

about EPA’s annual achievements in 

this area. This notice discusses the 

integration of tolerance reassessment 

with the reregistration process, and 

describes the status of various 

regulatory activities associated with 

reregistration and tolerance 

reassessment. The notice gives the total 

numbers of products reregistered and 

products registered under the ‘‘fasttrack’’ provisions of FIFRA. 


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DATES: This notice is not subject to a 

formal comment period. Nevertheless, 

EPA welcomes input from stakeholders 

and the general public. Written 

comments, identified by the docket 

identification (ID) number EPA–HQ– 

OPP–2009–0909, should be received on 

or before May 2, 2011. 

ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, 

identified by docket identification (ID) 

number EPA–HQ–OPP–2009–0909, 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–2009– 

0909. 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 Web site 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: 

Carol P. Stangel, Pesticide Re-evaluation 

Division (7509P), Office of Pesticide 

Programs, Environmental Protection 

Agency, 1200 Pennsylvania Ave., NW., 

Washington, DC 20460–0001; telephone 

number: (703) 308–8007; e-mail: 

stangel.carol@epa.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

I. General Information 

A. Does this action apply to me? 

This action is directed to the public 

in general. Although this action may be 

of particular interest to persons who are 

interested in the progress and status of 

EPA’s pesticide reregistration and 

tolerance reassessment programs, 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 information in this notice, 

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 

EPA must establish and publish in the 

Federal Register its annual performance 

measures and goals for pesticide 

reregistration, tolerance reassessment, 

and expedited registration, under 

section 4(l) of FIFRA, 7 U.S.C. 136a– 

1(1). Specifically, such measures and 

goals are to include: 

• The status of reregistration. 

• The number of products 

reregistered, canceled, or amended. 

• The number and type of data 

requests of Data Call-In (DCI) notices 

under FIFRA section 3(c)(2)(B) issued to 

support product reregistration by active 

ingredient. 

• Progress in reducing the number of 

unreviewed, required reregistration 

studies. 

• The aggregate status of tolerances 

reassessed. 

• The number of applications for 

registration submitted under section 

4(k)(3) (which provides for expedited 

processing and review of certain 

applications) that were approved or 

disapproved. 

• The future schedule for 

reregistrations in the current and 

succeeding fiscal year. 


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• The projected year of completion of 

the reregistrations under section 4. 

FIFRA authorized EPA to conduct a 

comprehensive pesticide reregistration 

program—a complete review of the 

human health and environmental effects 

of older pesticides originally registered 

before November 1, 1984. Pesticides 

meeting today’s scientific and regulatory 

standards could be declared ‘‘eligible’’ 

for reregistration. To be eligible, an 

older pesticide must have a 

substantially complete data base, and 

must not cause unreasonable adverse 

effects to human health or the 

environment when used according to 

Agency approved label directions and 

precautions. 

In addition, all pesticides with food 

uses must meet the safety standard of 

section 408 or the Federal Food, Drug, 

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

346a. Under FFDCA, EPA must make a 

determination that pesticide residues 

remaining in or on food are ‘‘safe’’; that 

is, ‘‘that there is reasonable certainty 

that no harm will result from aggregate 

exposure to the pesticide chemical 

residue’’ from dietary and other sources. 

In determining allowable levels of 

pesticide residues in food, EPA must, 

among other requirements, perform a 

comprehensive assessment of each 

pesticide’s risks, considering: 

• Aggregate exposure (from food, 

drinking water, and residential uses). 

• Cumulative effects from all 

pesticides sharing a common 

mechanism of toxicity. 

• Possible increased susceptibility of 

infants and children. 

• Possible endocrine or estrogenic 

effects. 

The 1996 FFDCA amendments also 

required the reassessment of all existing 

tolerances (pesticide residue limits in 

food) and tolerance exemptions within 

10 years, to ensure that they met the 

safety standard of the law. EPA was 

directed to give priority to the review of 

those pesticides that appeared to pose 

the greatest risk to public health. The 

Agency completed the last of 9,721 

required tolerance reassessment 

decisions in September 2007, ensuring 

that all pesticides used on food in the 

United States meet the law’s safety 

standard. EPA’s approach to tolerance 

reassessment under FFDCA was 

described fully in the Agency’s 

document, ‘‘Raw and Processed Food 

Schedule for Pesticide Tolerance 

Reassessment’’ (62 FR 42020, August 4, 

1997) (FRL–5734–6). 

The Pesticide Registration 

Improvement Act (PRIA) of 2003 

became effective on March 23, 2004 

(Pub. L. 108–199, Div. G, Title V, Sec. 

501, 118 Stat. 419). Among other things, 

PRIA amended FIFRA section 4(g)(2) to 

require EPA to complete Reregistration 

Eligibility Decisions (REDs) for 

pesticides with food uses/tolerances by 

August 3, 2006, and to complete all nonfood use REDs by October 3, 2008. The 

Agency completed decisions for the last 

of 613 reregistration pesticide cases in 

September 2008, meeting the PRIA 

deadline. REDs are available on the 

Agency’s Pesticide Reregistration Status 

web page, http://www.epa.gov/ 

pesticides/reregistration/status.htm. 

III. Program Accountability 

Through this summary of 

performance measures and goals for 

pesticide reregistration, tolerance 

reassessment, and expedited 

registration, EPA describes progress 

made during each of the past 2 years in 

each of the program areas included in 

FIFRA section 4(l). 

A. Status of Reregistration 

EPA had no remaining reregistration 

eligibility decisions to complete in FY 

2009 or FY 2010; the last decisions for 

613 reregistration cases were completed 

in FY 2008. 

During FY 2009 and FY 2010, the 

Agency focused on completing product 

reregistration decisions. 

B. Product Reregistration; Numbers of 

Products Reregistered, Canceled, and 

Amended 

At the end of the reregistration 

process, after EPA has issued a RED and 

declared a pesticide reregistration case 

eligible for reregistration, individual 

end-use products that contain pesticide 

active ingredients included in the case 

still must be reregistered. This 

concluding part of the reregistration 

process is called ‘‘product 

reregistration.’’ 

In issuing a completed RED 

document, EPA sends registrants a Data 

Call-In (DCI) notice requesting any 

product-specific data and specific 

revised labeling needed to complete 

reregistration for each of the individual 

pesticide products covered by the RED. 

Based on the results of EPA’s review of 

these data and labeling, products found 

to meet FIFRA and FFDCA standards 

may be reregistered. 

A variety of outcomes are possible for 

pesticide products completing this final 

phase of the reregistration process. 

Ideally, in response to the DCI, the 

pesticide producer, or registrant, will 

submit the required product-specific 

data and revised labeling, which EPA 

will review and find acceptable. At that 

point, the Agency may reregister the 

pesticide product. If, however, the 

product contains multiple active 

ingredients, the Agency instead would 

first require the registrant to amend the 

product’s registration, incorporating the 

labeling changes specified in the RED as 

interim measures. A product with 

multiple active ingredients could not be 

fully reregistered until the last active 

ingredient in its formulation was 

eligible for reregistration. In other 

situations, the Agency may temporarily 

suspend a product’s registration if the 

registrant has not submitted required 

product-specific studies within the time 

frame specified. The Agency may cancel 

a product’s registration because the 

registrant did not pay the required 

registration maintenance fee. 

Alternatively, the registrant may request 

a voluntary cancellation of their end-use 

product registration. 

1. Product reregistration actions in FY 

2008, FY 2009, and FY 2010. EPA 

counts each of the post-RED product 

outcomes described above as a product 

reregistration action. A single pesticide 

product may be the subject of several 

product reregistration actions within the 

same year. For example, a product’s 

registration initially may be amended, 

then the product may be reregistered, or 

the product may first be suspended and 

later it may be voluntarily canceled. As 

a result of 2009 findings by EPA’s Office 

of the Inspector General from the annual 

FIFRA Financial Statements Audit, 

EPA’s Office of Pesticide Programs has 

reviewed product reregistration actions 

completed in FY 2008. Final numbers of 

FY 2008 product reregistration actions 

as well as FY 2009 and FY 2010 actions 

are presented in Table 1. 

TABLE 1—PRODUCT REREGISTRATION ACTIONS COMPLETED IN FY 2008, FY 2009, AND FY 2010 

[As of September 30, 2010] 

Actions FY 2008 FY 2009 FY 2010 

Product reregistration actions ...................................................................................................... 697 603 484 

Product amendment actions ........................................................................................................ 205 292 40 

Product cancellation actions ........................................................................................................ 309 869 1,188 


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TABLE 1—PRODUCT REREGISTRATION ACTIONS COMPLETED IN FY 2008, FY 2009, AND FY 2010—Continued 

[As of September 30, 2010] 

Actions FY 2008 FY 2009 FY 2010 

Product suspension actions ......................................................................................................... 3 5 6 

Total actions ......................................................................................................................... 1,214 1,769 1,718 

2. Status of the product reregistration 

universe for FY 2008, FY 2009, and FY 

2010. EPA also keeps track of the status 

of the universe of products subject to 

reregistration, that is, the overall 

number of products reregistered, 

amended, canceled, and sent for 

suspension, as well as the number of 

products with actions pending, as of the 

end of the fiscal year. This overall status 

information is not ‘‘cumulative’’—it is 

not derived from summing up a series 

of annual actions. Adding annual 

actions would result in a larger overall 

number since each individual product is 

subject to multiple actions—it can be 

amended, reregistered, and/or canceled, 

over time. Instead, the ‘‘big picture’’ 

status information in Table 2 should be 

considered a snapshot in time. As 

registrants and EPA make marketing and 

regulatory decisions in the future, the 

status of individual products may 

change, and numbers in this table are 

expected to fluctuate. 

TABLE 2—STATUS OF THE UNIVERSE OF PRODUCTS SUBJECT TO PRODUCT REREGISTRATION, FOR FY 2008, FY 2009, 

AND FY 2010 

[As of September 30, 2010] 

Status FY 2008 FY 2009 FY 2010 

Products reregistered .................................................................................................................. 3,282 3,885 4,369 

Products amended ....................................................................................................................... 847 1,139 1,179 

Products canceled ....................................................................................................................... 5,355 6,224 7,412 

Products sent for suspension ...................................................................................................... 9 14 20 

Total products with actions completed ........................................................................................ 9,493 11,262 12,980 

Products with actions pending ..................................................................................................... 12,746 10,860 9,059 

Total products in product reregistration universe ................................................................. 22,239 22,122 22,039 

At the end of FY 2010, 9,059 products 

had product reregistration decisions 

pending. Some pending products 

awaited science reviews, label reviews, 

or reregistration decisions by EPA. 

Others were not yet ready for product 

reregistration actions, but were 

associated with more recently 

completed REDs. Their product-specific 

data were not yet due to be submitted 

to or reviewed by the Agency. 

The universe of products in product 

reregistration has increased in some 

years and decreased in other years. 

Generally, an increase resulted from 

products associated with the most 

recently completed REDs, while a 

decrease was due to fluctuations in 

numbers of products associated with 

product-specific DCIs (PDCIs). 

During FY 2010, EPA refined the 

number and status of products in the 

product reregistration universe, and the 

Agency will use the revised numbers in 

reporting on the status of the universe 

starting in FY 2011. By identifying and 

including products that were canceled 

between the time when REDs were 

signed and product-specific DCIs were 

issued, the Agency has been able to 

more precisely define the universe of 

products that are subject to product 

reregistration. This will enable the 

Agency to more accurately track the 

status of products undergoing product 

reregistration, describe progress in 

meeting program goals, and carry out 

plans to complete remaining product 

reregistration decisions during the next 

few years. 

3. Product reregistration goal in FY 

2011. EPA’s goal is to complete 1,500 

product reregistration actions during FY 

2011. Additional information is 

available on EPA’s Product 

Reregistration web page, http:// 

www.epa.gov/pesticides/reregistration/ 

product-reregistration.htm. 

C. Progress in Reducing the Number of 

Unreviewed, Required Reregistration 

Studies 

EPA completed the last REDs in 2008, 

so all necessary studies to make 

reregistration eligibility decisions for all 

active ingredients subject to 

reregistration have been reviewed. Some 

of the Agency’s records, however, still 

incorrectly depicted a number of 

reregistration studies as ‘‘in review.’’ 

From August 2008 to August 2010, the 

Agency conducted an internal 

examination and clean-up of these 

records in order to more precisely 

categorize reregistration studies still 

depicted as ‘‘in review.’’ As shown in 

Table 3, as a result of this clean-up 

effort, the Agency succeeded in 

determining that most reregistration 

studies (26,019 or more than 94% of the 

27,645 studies received) have been 

reviewed or found to be extraneous. 

Only 5.9% (1,626) of these studies are 

still depicted in our data base as ‘‘in 

review.’’ EPA believes the remaining 

studies to be duplicative, unnecessary, 

or already reviewed, because the 

Agency has completed REDs for all 

pesticides subject to reregistration and 

no registrant has objected that the 

Agency failed to consider a submitted 

study. At this time, the Agency does not 

plan to spend further resources 

examining these records. 


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TABLE 3—REVIEW STATUS OF STUDIES SUBMITTED FOR PESTICIDE REREGISTRATION

[As of July 2010] 

Pesticide reregistration list, per FIFRA section 4(c)(2) 

Studies reviewed 

(including cited or 

extraneous) 

Studies still ‘‘in 

review’’ 

Total studies 

received 

List A .................................................................................................................... 12,960 (95%) 714 (5%) 13,674 

List B .................................................................................................................... 8,789 (93%) 650 (7%) 9,439 

List C .................................................................................................................... 2,800 (97%) 95 (3%) 2,895 

List D .................................................................................................................... 1,470 (90%) 167 (10%) 1,637 

Total Lists A—D ........................................................................................... 26,019 (94.1%) 1,626 (5.9%) 27,645 (100%) 

D. Applications for Registration 

Requiring Expedited Processing; 

Numbers Approved and Disapproved 

By law, EPA must expedite its 

processing of certain types of 

applications for pesticide product 

registration, i.e., applications for enduse products that would be identical or 

substantially similar to a currently 

registered product (me too products); 

amendments to current product 

registrations that do not require review 

of scientific data; and products for 

public health pesticide uses. During FY 

2009 and FY 2010, EPA considered and 

approved the numbers of applications 

for registration requiring expedited 

processing (also known as ‘‘fast track’’ 

applications) shown in Table 4. 

TABLE 4—FAST TRACK APPLICATIONS APPROVED IN FY 2009 AND 2010 

FY 2009 FY 2010 

Me-too product registrations/Fast track ................................................................................................... 372 260 

Amendments/Fast track ........................................................................................................................... 2,653 3,391 

Total applications processed by fast track means ........................................................................... 3,025 3,651 

For those applications not approved, 

the Agency generally notifies the 

registrant of any deficiencies in the 

application that need to be corrected or 

addressed before the application can be 

approved. Applications may have been 

withdrawn after discussions with the 

Agency, but none were formally 

‘‘denied’’ during FY 2009 or FY 2010. 

On a financial accounting basis, EPA 

devoted 17.8 full-time equivalents 

(FTEs) in FY 2009 and 16.6 FTEs in FY 

2010 to reviewing and processing 

applications for fast track me-too 

product registrations and label 

amendments. The Agency spent 

approximately $2.4 million in FY 2009 

and $2.35 million in FY 2010 in direct 

costs (i.e., time on task, not including 

administrative expenses, computer 

systems, management overhead, and 

other indirect costs) on expedited 

processing and reviews. 

F. Projected Year of Completion of 

Reregistrations 

EPA completed the last reregistration 

eligibility decisions in FY 2008. Product 

reregistration will not likely be 

completed before 2014. 

List of Subjects 

Environmental protection, Pesticides 

and pests. 

Dated: February 24, 2011. 

Stephen A. Owens, 

Assistant Administrator, Office of Chemical 

Safety and Pollution Prevention. 

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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION 

AGENCY 

[EPA–HQ–OPP–2010–0014; FRL–8864–6] 

Product Cancellation Order for Certain 

Pesticide Registrations 

AGENCY: Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA). 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: This notice announces EPA’s 

order for the cancellations, voluntarily 

requested by the registrants and 

accepted by the Agency, of the products 

listed in Table 1 of Unit II., pursuant to 

section 6(f)(1) of the Federal Insecticide, 

Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act 

(FIFRA), as amended. This cancellation 

order follows an August 4, 2010 Federal 

Register Notice of Receipt of Requests 

from the registrants listed in Table 2 of 

Unit II. to voluntarily cancel these 

product registrations. In the August 4, 

2010 notice, EPA indicated that it 

would issue an order implementing the 

cancellations, unless the Agency 

received substantive comments within 

the 180-day comment period that would 

merit its further review of these 

requests, or unless the registrants 

withdrew their requests. The Agency 

did not receive any comments on the 

notice. Further, the registrants did not 

withdraw their requests. Accordingly, 

EPA hereby issues in this notice a 

cancellation order granting the 

requested cancellations. Any 

distribution, sale, or use of the products 

subject to this cancellation order is 

permitted only in accordance with the 

terms of this order, including any 

existing stocks provisions. 

DATES: The cancellations are effective 

March 2, 2011. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Maia Tatinclaux, Pesticide Reevaluation Division (7508P), Office of 

Pesticide Programs, Environmental 

Protection Agency, 1200 Pennsylvania 

Ave., NW., Washington, DC 20460– 

0001; telephone number: (703) 347– 

0123; fax number: (703) 308–8090; 

e-mail address: 

tatinclaux.maia@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 


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