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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. If you have any questions 

regarding the applicability of this action 

to a particular entity, 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 

A. What Action is the Agency Taking? 

EPA is making available the proposed 

risk mitigation decision document and 

related supporting documents for the 

following nine rodenticides: 

brodifacoum, bromadiolone, 

difethialone, chlorophacinone, 

diphacinone, warfarin, zinc phosphide, 

bromethalin, and cholecalciferol. 

Based on an evaluation of the 

ecological risks associated with the use 

of these nine rodenticides, and 

consideration of the public health and 

other important benefits of the use of 

rodenticides, EPA anticipates 

classifying all products containing the 

active ingredients brodifacoum, 

bromadiolone, and difethialone as 

restricted use products. To decrease the 

incidence of childrens’ exposure to 

rodenticide products used in homes, 

EPA also anticipates requiring that all 

products available for sale to consumers 

and labeled for indoor residential use be 

sold only in refillable tamper-resistant 

bait stations. Furthermore, EPA is 

proposing certain additional restrictions 

and labeling improvements to mitigate 

the risks associated with these nine 

rodenticides. 

The proposed decision document, 

including the Agency’s supporting 

rationale for the proposed decision, can 

be found in docket identification 

number EPA–HQ–OPP–2006–0955 at 

http://www.regulations.gov. Older 

documents and previous public 

comments can be found in docket ID 

number EPA–HQ–OPP–2004–0033 or 

docket EPA–HQ–OPP–2002–0049 at 

http://www.regulations.gov. 

EPA is providing an opportunity, 

through this notice, for interested 

parties to provide comments and input 

on the Agency’s proposed decision for 

rodenticides. Comments should be 

limited to issues raised by the proposed 

decision and associated documents. 

All comments should be submitted 

using the methods in ADDRESSES, and 

must be received by EPA on or before 

the closing date. These comments will 

become part of the Agency Docket for 

rodenticides. Comments received after 

the close of the comment period will be 

marked ‘‘late.’’ EPA is not required to 

consider these late comments. 

The Agency will carefully consider all 

comments received by the closing date 

and will provide a Response to 

Comments Memorandum in the Docket 

and regulations.gov. After consideration 

of the comments, the Agency will 

publish its final mitigation decision for 

these nine rodenticides. 

B. What is the Agency’s Authority for 

Taking this Action? 

EPA is reevaluating the use of these 

nine rodenticides pursuant to section 4 

of FIFRA. The Agency’s authority for 

implementing the risk mitigation 

measures identified in the proposed risk 

management decision would derive 

from various sections of FIFRA, 

including, but not limited to, sections 3, 

4 and 6. 

List of Subjects 

Environmental protection, Pesticides 

and pests. 

Dated: January 8, 2007. 

Debra Edwards, 

Director, Special Review and Reregistration 

Division, Office of Pesticide Programs. 

[FR Doc. E7–351 Filed 1–16–07; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6560–50–S 

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AGENCY 

[EPA–HQ–OPP–2006–0349; FRL–8105–7] 

Experimental Use Permit; Receipt of 

Application 

AGENCY: Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA). 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: This notice announces receipt 

of an application 264–EUP–140 from 

Bayer CropScience LP (BCS) requesting 

an experimental use permit (EUP) for 

the Bacillus thuringiensis Cry1Ab 

protein and the genetic material 

necessary for its production in Events 

T303–3 and T304–40 cotton plants. The 

Agency has determined that the 

application may be of regional and 

national significance. Therefore, in 

accordance with 40 CFR 172.11(a), the 

Agency is soliciting comments on this 

application. 

DATES: Comments must be received on 

or before February 16, 2007. 

ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, 

identified by docket identification (ID) 

number EPA–HQ–OPP–2006–0349, 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 Building), 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 

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Docket telephone number is (703) 305–

5805. 

Instructions: Direct your comments to 

docket ID number EPA–HQ–OPP–2006–

0349. 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 Federal 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 regulations.gov, your email 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 

Building), 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: 

Sharlene R. Matten, Biopesticides and 

Pollution Prevention Division (7511P), 

Office of Pesticide Programs, 

Environmental Protection Agency, 1200 

Pennsylvania Ave., NW., Washington, 

DC 20460–0001; telephone number: 

(703) 605–0514; e-mail address: 

matten.sharlene@epa.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

I. General Information 

A. Does this Action Apply to Me? 

This action is directed to the public 

in general. This action may, however, be 

of interest to those persons who are 

interested in agricultural biotechnology 

or may be required to conduct testing of 

pesticidal substances under the Federal 

Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (FFDCA) 

or the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, 

and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA). Since 

other entities may also be interested, 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 applicability of this action 

to a particular entity, 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 

BCS has requested an extension of 

EUP 264–EUP–140 granted by EPA on 

February 7, 2006 (71 FR 41020, July 19, 

2006) (FRL–8060–6). This EUP will 

expire January 31, 2007. BCS is 

proposing to test 84 acres of the plantincorporated protectant Bacillus 

thuringiensis Cry1Ab protein (a total of 

0.91g to 7.31g or 0.002 to 0.016 pounds 

of Cry1Ab protein) and the genetic 

material necessary for its production in 

Events T303–3 and T304–40 cotton 

plants in an experimental program of 

285 total acres from February 1, 2007 to 

January 31, 2008. The Cry1Ab protein is 

effective in controlling lepidopteran 

larvae such as bollworm (Helicoverpa 

zea) and tobacco budworm (Heliothis 

virescens) larvae, which are common 

pests of cotton. In total, the proposed 

program will be carried out in Arizona, 

California, Georgia, Louisiana, 

Mississippi, North Carolina, South 

Carolina, and Texas. The planned 

experimental program includes the 

following: Insect efficacy trials, 

agronomic performance evaluation, 

breeding, herbicide efficacy evaluations, 

and dissemination studies, as well as 

the production of sample material for 

regulatory feeding and analytical 

studies. In addition to these 

experimental plans, seed may be 

produced for future plantings of 

experimental field trials. 

III. What Action is the Agency Taking? 

Following the review of the BCS 

application and any comments and data 

received in response to this notice, EPA 

will decide whether to issue or deny the 

EUP request for this EUP program, and 

if issued, the conditions under which it 

is to be conducted. Any issuance of an 

EUP will be announced in the Federal 

Register. 

IV. What is the Agency’s Authority for 

Taking this Action? 

The specific legal authority for EPA to 

take this action is under FIFRA section 

5. 

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List of Subjects 

Environmental protection, 

Experimental use permits. 

Dated: January 4, 2007. 

Janet L. Andersen, 

Director, Biopesticides and Pollution 

Prevention Division, Office of Pesticide 

Programs. 

[FR Doc. E7–550 Filed 1–16–07; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6560–50–S 

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION 

AGENCY 

[FRL–8270–1;Docket ID No. ORD–2005–

0001] 

Draft of Part 1 of the 2007 Release of 

the Causal Analysis/Diagnosis 

Decision Information System (CADDIS) 

AGENCY: Environmental Protection 

Agency. 

ACTION: Notice of External Review Draft 

for Public Review and Comment. 

SUMMARY: The U.S. Environmental 

Protection Agency (EPA) is announcing 

a 30-day public review and comment 

period for the external review draft of 

Part 1 of the 2007 release of the EPA 

Web site titled, ‘‘Causal Analysis/ 

Diagnosis Decision Information System 

(CADDIS).’’ The CADDIS Web site was 

developed and prepared by EPA’s 

National Center for Environmental 

Assessment (NCEA) in the Office of 

Research and Development (ORD). 

NCEA will consider public comments 

received in accordance with this notice 

when revising the CADDIS Web site. 

Review of Part 2 of CADDIS 2007 will 

be announced in the Spring of 2007. 

EPA is releasing the draft CADDIS 

2007 Web site solely for the purpose of 

pre-dissemination peer review under 

applicable information quality 

guidelines. The draft CADDIS 2007 Web 

site has not been formally disseminated 

by EPA. It does not represent and 

should not be construed to represent 

any Agency policy or determination. 

EPA will consider any public comments 

submitted in accordance with this 

notice when revising the document. 

DATES: The 30-day public comment 

period begins January 17, 2007, and 

ends February 16, 2007. Technical 

comments should be in writing and 

must be submitted electronically or 

postmarked by February 16, 2007. 

ADDRESSES: The draft CADDIS 2007 

Web site can be accessed via the 

Internet at http://caddis.tetratechffx.com. Enter the username ‘‘public’’

and the password ‘‘public.’’ Additional 

instructions for submitting comments 

are provided at the top of the home page 

of the CADDIS Web site. Comments may 

be submitted electronically to the EPA’s 

e-docket, by mail, by facsimile, or by 

hand delivery/courier. Please follow the 

detailed instructions as provided in the 

section of this notice entitled 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For 

information on the public comment 

period, contact the Office of 

Environmental Information Docket; 

telephone: 202–566–1752; facsimile: 

202–566–1753; or e-mail: 

ORD.Docket@epa.gov. For technical 

information, contact Vic Serveiss, 

NCEA, via phone 202–564–3251, 

facsimile: 202–564–2018, or e-mail: 

serveiss.victor@epa.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

I. Information About the Project/ 

Document 

Over a thousand water bodies in the 

United States are listed by states as 

biologically impaired. For many of these 

sites, the cause of impairment is 

reported as ‘‘unknown.’’ To formulate 

appropriate management actions for 

impaired water bodies, it is important to 

identify the causes of biological 

impairment (e.g., excess fine sediments, 

nutrients, or toxic substances). Effective 

causal analyses call for knowledge of 

the mechanisms, symptoms, and 

stressor-response relationships for 

various stressors, as well as the ability 

to use that knowledge to draw 

appropriate, defensible conclusions. To 

aid in these causal analyses, NCEA 

developed CADDIS. CADDIS is a Webbased decision support system that will 

help regional, state, and tribal scientists 

find, access, organize, and share 

information useful for causal 

evaluations of impairment in aquatic 

systems. It is based on EPA’s Stressor 

Identification process, which is an EPArecommended method for identifying 

causes of impairments in aquatic 

environments. EPA released the first 

version of CADDIS earlier in 2006, after 

addressing comments from the public 

and independently selected peer 

reviewers. Current features of CADDIS 

include a step-by-step guide to 

conducting causal analysis, 

downloadable worksheets and 

examples, a library of conceptual 

models, and links to useful information 

sources. Additional information is being 

added to the CADDIS Web site in 

preparation for release of a major 

revision in September 2007. The review 

announced here is the first of two sets 

of modules added to the CADDIS Web 

site. Specifically, comment is invited on 

information on six candidate causes: 

metals, sediments, nutrients, dissolved 

oxygen, thermal alteration, and ionic 

strength. Since its release, CADDIS has 

become a valuable resource for EPA, 

state, tribal, and local risk assessors. 

CADDIS 2007 will add more capabilities 

to this already important diagnostic 

tool. 

II. How To Submit Technical Comments 

to the Docket at www.regulations.gov 

Submit your comments, identified by 

Docket ID No. EPA–HQ–ORD–2005–

0001 by one of the following methods: 

• www.regulations.gov: Follow the 

on-line instructions for submitting 

comments. 

• E-mail: ORD.Docket@epa.gov 

• Fax: 202–566–1753 

• Mail: Office of Environmental 

Information (OEI) Docket (Mail Code: 

2822T), U.S. Environmental Protection 

Agency, 1200 Pennsylvania Ave., NW., 

Washington, DC 20460. The phone 

number is 202–566–1752. 

• Hand Delivery: The OEI Docket is 

located in the EPA Headquarters Docket 

Center, EPA West Building, Room 3334, 

1301 Constitution Ave., NW., 

Washington, DC. The EPA Docket 

Center Public Reading Room is open 

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

through Friday, excluding legal 

holidays. The telephone number for the 

Public Reading Room is 202–566–1744. 

Such deliveries are only accepted 

during the docket’s normal hours of 

operation, and special arrangements 

should be made for deliveries of boxed 

information. 

If you provide comments by mail or 

hand delivery, please submit three 

copies of the comments. For 

attachments, provide an index, number 

pages consecutively with the comments, 

and submit an unbound original and 

three copies. 

Instructions: Direct your comments to 

Docket ID No. EPA–HQ–ORD–2005–

0001. Please ensure that your comments 

are submitted within the specified 

comment period. Comments received 

after the closing date will be marked 

‘‘late,’’ and may only be considered if 

time permits. It is EPA’s policy to 

include all comments it receives in the 

public docket without change and to 

make the comments available online at 

www.regulations.gov, including any 

personal information provided, unless a 

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 www.regulations.gov Web 

site is an ‘‘anonymous access’’ system, 

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