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the data supports granting of the 

petition. Additional data may be needed 

before EPA rules on the petition. 

Because this petition is a request for an 

exemption from the requirement of a 

tolerance without numerical limitations, 

no analytical method is required. 

Contact: Kathleen Martin, telephone 

number: (703) 308–2857; e-mail address: 

martin.kathleen@epa.gov. 

List of Subjects 

Environmental protection, 

Agricultural commodities, Feed 

additives, Food additives, Pesticides 

and pests, Reporting and recordkeeping 

requirements. 

Dated: March 22, 2007. 

Donald R. Stubbs, 

Acting Director, Registration Division, Office 

of Pesticide Programs. 

[FR Doc. E7–6047 Filed 4–3–07; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6560–50–S 

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION 

AGENCY 

[EPA–HQ–OPP–2007–0018; FRL–8114–3] 

Ethylene Oxide; Receipt of Application 

for Emergency Exemption, Solicitation 

of Public Comment 

AGENCY: Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA). 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: EPA has received a 

quarantine exemption request from the 

United States Department of Agriculture 

(USDA) to use the pesticide ethylene 

oxide (EtO); Receipt (CAS No. 75–21–8) 

to sterilize the interior surfaces of 

enclosed animal isolator units to control 

microorganisms to create a germ free 

environment for research at USDA 

National Veterinary Services 

laboratories (NVSL) and at the National 

Animal Disease Center (NADC) in 

Ames, IA. The application proposes the 

use of a pesticide containing an active 

ingredient which is the subject of a 

Special Review. Due to the urgent 

nature of the emergency and the very 

narrow and extremely limited use being 

requested, EPA has eliminated the 

public comment period. Nonetheless, 

interested parties may still contact the 

Agency with comments about this 

notice and treatment program. 

DATES: Comments must be received on 

or before May 4, 2007. 

ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, 

identified by docket identification (ID) 

number EPA–HQ–OPP–2007–0018 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’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–2007–

0018. 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 available 

in regulations.gov. To access the 

electronic docket, go to http:// 

www.regulations.gov, select ‘‘Advanced 

Search,’’ then ‘‘Docket Search.’’ Insert 

the docket ID number where indicated 

and select the ‘‘Submit’’ button. Follow 

the instructions on the regulations.gov 

web site to view the docket index or 

access available documents. 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 telephone number 

is (703) 305–5805. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Princess Campbell, Registration 

Division (7505P), Office of Pesticide 

Programs, Environmental Protection 

Agency, 1200 Pennsylvania Ave., NW., 

Washington, DC 20460–0001; telephone 

number: (703) 308–8033; fax number: 

(703) 308–5433; e-mail address: 

campbell.princess@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 under FOR FURTHER

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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 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 

What Action is the Agency Taking? 

Under section 18 of the Federal 

Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide 

Act (FIFRA) (7 U.S.C. 136p), at the 

discretion of the Administrator, a 

Federal or State agency may be 

exempted from any provision of FIFRA 

if the Administrator determines that 

emergency conditions exist which 

require the exemption. USDA has 

requested the Administrator to issue a 

quarantine exemption for the use of EtO 

on the interior surfaces of enclosed 

animal isolator units to inactivate forms 

of microbial life in an inanimate 

environment, including all forms of 

vegetative bacteria, bacterial spores, 

fungi, fungal spores, and viruses to 

create a germ free environment for 

animal research. Information in 

accordance with 40 CFR part 166 was 

submitted as part of this request. 

As part of this request, the Applicant 

asserts that there are no control 

products labeled for this use on animal 

isolator units which could provide the 

degree of sterilization required for the 

conduct of this research. Without the 

ability to sterilize the animal isolator 

units, NVSL and NADC would not be 

able to conduct studies of national 

importance. 

The Applicant proposes to make no 

more than 20 applications of the 

chemical per year, using the EPA 

registered product Oxyfume 2002 

ethylene oxide sterilant (a blend of 10% 

ethylene oxide; 90% refrigerant gas), to 

sterilize a maximum of nine tub 

isolators for pigs, nine auxiliary 

isolators that attach to the tub isolators 

for pigs, two tub isolators for calves and 

two auxiliary isolators that attach to the 

tub isolators for calves. A total of five 

pounds of the chemical mixture will be 

used to sterilize each animal isolator 

unit for a maximum of 1,000 lbs of 

Oxyfume 2002 per year. A maximum 

of 100 lbs a.i. will be applied per year. 

The chemical will be used to sterilize 

the animal isolator units on an as 

needed basis to conduct research at 

NVSL and NADC over the period for 

which the quarantine exemption will be 

granted (3 years). 

The regulations governing section 18 

of FIFRA require publication of a Notice 

of Receipt of an application for a 

quarantine exemption under certain 

circumstances. The applicant proposes 

the use of a pesticide containing an 

active ingredient which is the subject of 

a Special Review and that is one of the 

criteria for preparing a Notice of Receipt 

for certain emergency exemption 

requests (40 CFR 166.24). As noted 

above, the Agency has eliminated the 

comment period due to the urgent 

nature of the emergency situation and 

the very narrow and extremely limited 

use being requested. Nonetheless, 

interested parties may still contact the 

Agency with comments about this 

notice and treatment program. 

List of Subjects 

Environmental protection, Pesticides 

and pests. 

Dated: March 27, 2007. 

Daniel J. Rosenblatt, 

Acting Director, Registration Division, Office 

of Pesticide Programs. 

[FR Doc. E7–6249 Filed 4–3–07; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6560–50–S 

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION 

AGENCY 

[EPA–HQ–OPP–2007–0204; FRL–8120–9] 

Potential Effects of Atrazine on 

Amphibian Gonadal Development 

AGENCY: Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA). 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: In October 2007, EPA will 

make a presentation to the Federal 

Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide 

Act (FIFRA) Scientific Advisory Panel 

(SAP) concerning EPA’s evaluation of 

the scientific research investigating 

whether exposure to the herbicide 

atrazine potentially affects amphibian 

gonadal development. The scientific 

research will include studies that were 

conducted by Syngenta Crop Protection, 

Inc. in 2005 and 2006 as well as 

published open literature studies. The 

notice identifies the open literature 

studies that EPA has reviewed and 

requests public comment to ensure that 

the list of publications is complete. The 

studies that have been reviewed focus 

on testing atrazine alone and only on 

atrazine’s potential effects on amphibian 

gonadal development. 

DATES: Comments must be received on 

or before May 4, 2007. 

ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, 

identified by docket identification (ID) 

number EPA–HQ–OPP–2007–0204, 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’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–2007–


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