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registration review docket (EPA–HQ– 

OPP–2008–0351) at http://

www.regulations.gov. 

Malathion is a non-systemic, wide 

spectrum OP. It is used in the 

agricultural production of a wide variety 

of food/feed crops to control insects 

such as aphids, leafhoppers, and 

Japanese beetles. Malathion is also used 

in USDA’s Cotton Boll Weevil 

Eradication Program, Fruit Fly (Medfly) 

Control Program, and for mosquitoborne disease control. It is also 

registered for outdoor residential uses 

which include vegetable gardens, home 

orchards, and ornamentals. EPA has 

completed a draft biological evaluation 

to assess whether all registered uses of 

malathion may affect listed species and 

designated critical habitat. The draft 

malathion biological evaluation is 

viewable at: https://www.epa.gov/

endangered-species/biologicalevaluation-chapters-malathion. 

Comments on the draft biological 

evaluation for malathion should be 

submitted to the malathion registration 

review docket (EPA–HQ–OPP–2009– 

0317) at http://www.regulations.gov. 

IV. Public Review and Comment 

Opportunity 

Pursuant to 40 CFR 155.53(c), EPA is 

providing an opportunity, through this 

notice of availability, for interested 

parties to provide comments and input 

concerning the Agency’s draft biological 

evaluations for chlorpyrifos, diazinon, 

and malathion. Such comments and 

input could address, among other 

things, the Agency’s risk assessment 

methodologies and assumptions, as 

applied to these draft biological 

evaluations. The Agency will consider 

all comments received during the public 

comment period and make changes, as 

appropriate, to the draft biological 

evaluations. EPA will then issue final 

biological evaluations, explain any 

changes to the draft biological 

evaluations, and respond to comments. 

For those species and designated critical 

habitats where registered uses of the 

pesticides are ‘‘likely to adversely 

affect’’ species and/or habitat, USFWS 

and NMFS will utilize the analyses and 

data from the biological evaluations in 

their final Biological Opinions for each 

of the three chemicals. The final 

Biological Opinions for the three 

chemicals are currently scheduled for 

December 2017. In the Federal Register 

notice announcing the availability of the 

final biological evaluations, if the final 

biological evaluations indicate risks of 

concern, the Agency may provide a 

comment period for the public to submit 

suggestions for mitigating the risk 

identified in the final biological 

evaluations before developing proposed 

registration review decisions for 

chlorpyrifos, diazinon, and malathion. 

1. Other related information. 

Additional information on endangered 

species risk assessment and the NAS 

report recommendations are available at 

https://www.epa.gov/endangeredspecies/implementing-nas-reportrecommendations-ecological-riskassessment-endangered-and. 

Information on the Agency’s registration 

review program and its implementing 

regulation is available at https://

www.epa.gov/pesticide-reevaluation. 

2. Information submission 

requirements. Anyone may submit data 

or information in response to this 

document. To be considered during a 

pesticide’s registration review, the 

submitted data or information must 

meet the following requirements: 

• To ensure that EPA will consider 

data or information submitted, 

interested persons must submit the data 

or information during the comment 

period. The Agency may, at its 

discretion, consider data or information 

submitted at a later date. 

• The data or information submitted 

must be presented in a legible and 

useable form. For example, an English 

translation must accompany any 

material that is not in English, and a 

written transcript must accompany any 

information submitted as an 

audiographic or videographic record. 

Written material may be submitted in 

paper or electronic form. 

• Submitters must clearly identify the 

source of any submitted data or 

information. 

• Submitters may request the Agency 

to reconsider data or information that 

the Agency rejected in a previous 

review. However, submitters must 

explain why they believe the Agency 

should reconsider the data or 

information in the pesticide’s 

registration review. 

As provided in 40 CFR 155.58, the 

registration review docket for each 

pesticide case will remain publicly 

accessible through the duration of the 

registration review process; that is, until 

all actions required in the final decision 

on the registration review case have 

been completed. 

Authority: 7 U.S.C. 136 et seq. 

Dated: March 28, 2016. 

Michael Goodis, 

Acting Director, Pesticide Re-Evaluation 

Division, Office of Pesticide Programs. 

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BILLING CODE 6560–50–P 

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION 

AGENCY 

[FRL–9944–85–Region 1] 

2016 Spring Joint Meeting of the 

Ozone Transport Commission and the 

Mid-Atlantic Northeast Visibility Union 

AGENCY: Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA). 

ACTION: Notice of meeting. 

SUMMARY: The United States 

Environmental Protection Agency is 

announcing the joint 2016 Spring 

Meeting of the Ozone Transport 

Commission (OTC) and the MidAtlantic Northeast Visibility Union 

(MANE–VU). The meeting agenda will 

include topics regarding reducing 

ground-level ozone precursors and 

matters relative to Regional Haze and 

visibility improvement in Federal Class 

I areas in a multi-pollutant context. 

DATES: The meeting will be held on June 

3, 2016 starting at 9:15 a.m. and ending 

at 4:00 p.m. 

ADDRESSES: Palomar Philadelphia, 117 

South 17th Street, Philadelphia, PA 

19103, 215–563–5006. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

For documents and press inquiries 

contact: Ozone Transport Commission, 

444 North Capitol Street NW., Suite 322, 

Washington, DC 20001; (202) 508–3840; 

email: ozone@otcair.org; Web site: 

http://www.otcair.org. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The Clean 

Air Act Amendments of 1990 contain at 

section 184 provisions for the Control of 

Interstate Ozone Air Pollution. Section 

184(a) establishes an Ozone Transport 

Region (OTR) comprised of the States of 

Connecticut, Delaware, Maine, 

Maryland, Massachusetts, New 

Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, 

Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Vermont, 

parts of Virginia and the District of 

Columbia. The purpose of the OTC is to 

deal with ground-level ozone formation, 

transport, and control within the OTR. 

The Mid-Atlantic/Northeast Visibility 

Union (MANE–VU) was formed in 2001, 

in response to EPA’s issuance of the 

Regional Haze rule. MANE–VU’s 

members include: Connecticut, 

Delaware, the District of Columbia, 

Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, New 

Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, 

Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Vermont, 

the Penobscot Indian Nation, the St. 

Regis Mohawk Tribe along with EPA 

and Federal Land Managers. 

Type of Meeting: Open. 

Agenda: Copies of the final agenda 

will be available from the OTC office 

(202) 508–3840; by email: ozone@

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otcair.org or via the OTC Web site at 

http://www.otcair.org. 

Dated: March 28, 2016. 

H. Curtis Spalding, 

Regional Administrator, Region I. 

[FR Doc. 2016–08277 Filed 4–8–16; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6560–50–P 

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION 

AGENCY 

[EPA–HQ–OPP–2007–0099; FRL–9944–33] 

Flubendiamide; Notice of Receipt of 

Request To Voluntarily Cancel a 

Pesticide Product Registration 

AGENCY: Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA). 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: In accordance with the 

Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and 

Rodenticide Act (FIFRA), EPA is issuing 

a notice of receipt of a request by the 

registrant to voluntarily cancel two 

flubendiamide end-use products. The 

request would delete the registrations of 

the flubendiamide products SYNAPSE 

WG Insecticide (EPA Reg. No. 264– 

1026) and SYNAPSE 480 Insecticide 

(EPA Reg. No. 264–1107). EPA intends 

to grant this request, unless the 

registrant withdraws its request. If this 

request is granted, any sale or 

distribution of the products listed in 

this notice will not be permitted after 

the registration has been cancelled as 

described in the final order. 

DATES: Comments must be received on 

or before May 11, 2016. 

ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, 

identified by docket identification (ID) 

number EPA–HQ–OPP–2007–0099, by 

one of the following methods: 

• Federal eRulemaking Portal: http:// 

www.regulations.gov. Follow the online 

instructions for submitting comments. 

Do not submit electronically any 

information you consider to be 

Confidential Business Information (CBI) 

or other information whose disclosure is 

restricted by statute. 

• Mail: OPP Docket, Environmental 

Protection Agency Docket Center (EPA/ 

DC), (28221T), 1200 Pennsylvania Ave. 

NW., Washington, DC 20460–0001. 

• Hand Delivery: To make special 

arrangements for hand delivery or 

delivery of boxed information, please 

follow the instructions at http://

www.epa.gov/dockets/contacts.html. 

Additional instructions on commenting 

or visiting the docket, along with more 

information about dockets generally, is 

available at http://www.epa.gov/

dockets. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Susan Lewis, Registration Division 

(7505P), Office of Pesticide Programs, 

Environmental Protection Agency, 1200 

Pennsylvania Ave. NW., Washington, 

DC 20460–0001; main telephone 

number: (703) 305–7090; email address: 

RDFRNotices@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 

others also may be interested, the 

Agency has not attempted to describe all 

the specific entities that may be affected 

by this action. 

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 email. 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 preparing and submitting your 

comments, see the commenting tips at 

http://www.epa.gov/dockets/

comments.html. 

II. Background on the Receipt of 

Request To Cancel Registration 

This notice announces receipt by EPA 

of a request from Bayer CropScience LP, 

P.O. Box 12014, 2 T.W. Alexander 

Drive, Research Triangle Park, NC 

27709–2014 to cancel two specific 

flubendiamide end-use product 

registrations as identified in Tables 1 

and 2 of Unit III. Specifically, Bayer 

CropScience LP submitted written 

requests to voluntarily cancel SYNAPSE 

WG Insecticide (EPA Reg. No. 264– 

1026) on December 12, 2014, and 

SYNAPSE 480 Insecticide (EPA Reg. No. 

264–1107) on March 21, 2016. Bayer 

confirmed that neither formulation is 

commercially active. 

III. What action is the agency taking? 

This notice announces receipt by EPA 

of a request from Bayer CropScience LP 

to cancel their registrations for two 

specific flubendiamide product 

registrations. The affected products and 

the registrant making the request are 

identified in Tables 1 and 2 of this unit. 

Unless the request is withdrawn by the 

registrant, EPA intends to issue an order 

cancelling the affected registration. 

TABLE 1—FLUBENDIAMIDE PRODUCT

REGISTRATION WITH PENDING REQUEST FOR CANCELLATION

Registration No. Product name Company 

264–1026 SYNAPSE WG 

Insecticide.

Bayer 

CropScience 

LP. 

264–1107 SYNAPSE 480 

Insecticide.

Bayer 

CropScience 

LP. 

Table 2 of this unit includes the name 

and address of record for the registrant 

of the products listed in Table 1 of this 

unit. This number corresponds to the 

first part of the EPA registration 

numbers of the products listed in Table 

1 of this unit. 

TABLE 2—REGISTRANT REQUESTING

VOLUNTARY CANCELLATION

EPA 

company 

No. 

Company name and address 

264 ....... Bayer CropScience LP, P.O. Box 

12014, 2 T.W. Alexander Drive, 

Research Triangle Park, NC 

27709–2014. 

IV. What is the agency’s authority for 

taking this action? 

Section 6(f)(1) of FIFRA (7 U.S.C. 

136d(f)(1)) provides that a registrant of 

a pesticide product may, at any time, 

request that any of its pesticide 

registrations be cancelled 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. 

Section 6(f)(1)(B) of FIFRA (7 U.S.C. 

136d(f)(1)(B)) 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, FIFRA section 

6(f)(1)(C) (7 U.S.C. 136d(f)(1)(C)) 

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