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on the substance of your comment. Any 

identifying or contact information 

provided in the body of a comment will 

be included as part of the comment that 

is placed in the official public docket, 

and made available in EPA’s electronic 

public docket. 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. 

Use of the www.regulations.gov Web 

site to submit comments to EPA 

electronically is EPA’s preferred method 

for receiving comments. The electronic 

public docket system is an ‘‘anonymous 

access’’ system, which means EPA will 

not know your identity, email address, 

or other contact information unless you 

provide it in the body of your comment. 

In contrast to EPA’s electronic public 

docket, EPA’s electronic mail (email) 

system is not an ‘‘anonymous access’’ 

system. If you send an email comment 

directly to the Docket without going 

through www.regulations.gov, your 

email address is automatically captured 

and included as part of the comment 

that is placed in the official public 

docket, and made available in EPA’s 

electronic public docket. 

Dated: February 4, 2015. 

Brian L. Doster, 

Acting Associate General Counsel. 

[FR Doc. 2015–02858 Filed 2–10–15; 8:45 am] 

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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION 

AGENCY 

[EPA–HQ–OPP–2014–0577; FRL–9922–11] 

Diclofop-methyl; Notice of Receipt of 

Request To Voluntarily Cancel Certain 

Pesticide Registrations 

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 

registrants to voluntarily cancel all 

pesticide product registrations 

containing the pesticide diclofopmethyl. The request would cancel 

diclofop-methyl use in or on wheat, 

barley, and golf course turf and would 

terminate the last diclofop-methyl 

products registered for use in the United 

States. EPA intends to grant this request 

at the close of the comment period for 

this announcement unless the Agency 

receives substantive comments within 

the comment period that would merit its 

further review of the request, or unless 

the registrants withdraw their request. 

The cancellation for diclofop-methyl 

products will be effective on January 1, 

2018 as described in Unit II below. If 

this request is granted, any sale, 

distribution, or use of products listed in 

this notice will be permitted after the 

registrations have been cancelled only if 

such sale, distribution, or use is 

consistent with the terms as described 

in the final order. 

DATES: Comments must be received on 

or before March 13, 2015. 

ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, 

identified by docket identification (ID) 

number EPA–HQ–OPP–2014–0577, 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: Rich 

Dumas, Pesticide Re-Evaluation 

Division (7508P), Office of Pesticide 

Programs, Environmental Protection 

Agency, 1200 Pennsylvania Ave. NW., 

Washington, DC 20460–0001; telephone 

number: (703) 308–8115; email address: 

dumas.richard@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 

Requests To Cancel Registrations 

This notice announces receipt by EPA 

of a request from registrants, Bayer 

CropScience and Bayer Environmental 

Science, to cancel all diclofop-methyl 

product registrations. Diclofop-methyl is 

a restricted use herbicide registered for 

use on wheat, barley, and golf course 

turf to control wild oats and annual 

grassy weeds. In a letter dated October 

23, 2014, Bayer CropScience and Bayer 

Environmental Science requested EPA 

to cancel certain pesticide product 

registrations identified in Table 1 of 

Unit III. Specifically, Bayer requests that 

all diclofop-methyl registrations be 

cancelled effective January 1, 2018. This 

action will terminate the last diclofopmethyl products registered in the 

United States. 

III. What action is the agency taking? 

This notice announces receipt by EPA 

of a request from registrants to cancel all 

diclofop-methyl product registrations. 

The affected products and the 

registrants making the requests are 

identified in Tables 1 and 2 of this unit. 

On September 24, 2014, the public 

phase of registration review for 

diclofop-methyl began with the opening 

of the initial docket (EPA–HQ–OPP– 

2014–0577) and publication of the 

Preliminary Work Plan (PWP) and 

supporting science documents. The 

comment period for the diclofop-methyl 

registration review docket was open for 

60 days, from September 24, 2014 to 

November 24, 2014. The Agency’s 

projected registration review timeline 

described in the PWP established that 

preliminary risk assessments would be 

completed by December 2018, and the 

final registration decision would be 


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completed in 2020. The technical 

registrants subsequently requested 

cancellation of all diclofop-methyl 

products effective January 1, 2018. 

Unless a request is withdrawn by the 

registrant or if the Agency determines 

that there are substantive comments that 

warrant further review of this request, 

EPA intends to issue an order canceling 

the affected registrations. 

TABLE 1—DICLOFOP-METHYL PRODUCT REGISTRATIONS WITH PENDING REQUESTS FOR CANCELLATION

Registration No. Product name Company 

264–641 ...................................................................... Hoelon 3EC Herbicide ................................................ Bayer CropScience. 

264–642 ...................................................................... Hoelon Technical ........................................................ Bayer CropScience. 

432–1231 .................................................................... Illoxan 3EC Herbicide ................................................. Bayer Environmental Science. 

Table 2 of this unit includes the 

names and addresses of record for the 

registrants of the products listed in 

Table 1 of this unit, in sequence by EPA 

company number. This number 

corresponds to the first part of the EPA 

registration numbers of the products 

listed in Table 1 of this unit. 

TABLE 2—REGISTRANTS REQUESTING

VOLUNTARY CANCELLATION AND/OR

AMENDMENTS

EPA company No. Company name 

and address 

264 ........................ Bayer CropScience. 

432 ........................ Bayer Environmental 

Science. 

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 canceled 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)) 

requires that EPA provide a 180-day 

comment period on a request for 

voluntary cancellation or termination of 

any minor agricultural use before 

granting the request, unless: 

1. The registrants request a waiver of 

the comment period, or 

2. The EPA Administrator determines 

that continued use of the pesticide 

would pose an unreasonable adverse 

effect on the environment. 

Because diclofop-methyl is not 

registered for any minor agricultural 

uses, this 180-day comment provision 

does not apply, and EPA is providing a 

30-day comment period on the proposed 

voluntary cancellation of diclofopmethyl registrations. 

V. Procedures for Withdrawal of 

Requests 

Registrants who choose to withdraw a 

request for product cancellation or use 

deletion should submit the withdrawal 

in writing to the person listed under FOR

FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT. If the 

products(s) have been subject to a 

previous cancellation action, the 

effective date of cancellation and all 

other provisions of any earlier 

cancellation action are controlling. 

VI. Provisions for Disposition of 

Existing Stocks 

Existing stocks are those stocks of 

registered pesticide products that are 

currently in the United States and that 

were packaged, labeled, and released for 

shipment prior to the effective date of 

the action. If the request for voluntary 

cancellation is granted, the Agency 

intends to publish the cancellation 

order in the Federal Register. Because 

these diclofop-methyl products are 

reregistered pesticides, there are no 

known risks of concern, and the 

effective cancellation date for the 

products will occur two years prior to 

the time of the planned registration 

review decision for diclofop-methyl, the 

Agency expects to grant this request 

unless the Agency receives substantive 

comments that warrant further review of 

the request or the registrants withdraw 

their request. In 2015, the Agency 

intends to issue an order in the Federal 

Register canceling all registrations 

effective January 1, 2018. On issuance of 

the cancellation order, EPA anticipates 

allowing registrants to sell and 

distribute existing stocks of these 

products until January 1, 2018. 

Thereafter, registrants will be prohibited 

from selling or distributing the 

pesticides identified in Table 1 of Unit 

III., except for export consistent with 

FIFRA section 17 or for proper disposal. 

Persons other than registrants will 

generally be allowed to sell, distribute, 

or use existing stocks until such stocks 

are exhausted, provided that such sale, 

distribution, or use is consistent with 

the terms of the previously approved 

labeling on, or that accompanied, the 

canceled products. 

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

Dated: January 30, 2015. 

Richard P. Keigwin, Jr., 

Director, Pesticide Re-Evaluation Division, 

Office of Pesticide Programs. 

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Information Collection Being 

Submitted for Review and Approval to 

the Office of Management and Budget 

AGENCY: Federal Communications 

Commission. 

ACTION: Notice and request for 

comments. 

SUMMARY: As part of its continuing effort 

to reduce paperwork burdens, and as 

required by the Paperwork Reduction 

Act (PRA) of 1995 (44 U.S.C. 3501– 

3520), the Federal Communications 

Commission (FCC or Commission) 

invites the general public and other 

Federal agencies to take this 

opportunity to comment on the 

following information collections. 

Comments are requested concerning: 

Whether the proposed collection of 

information is necessary for the proper 

performance of the functions of the 

Commission, including whether the 

information shall have practical utility; 

the accuracy of the Commission’s 

burden estimate; ways to enhance the 

quality, utility, and clarity of the 

information collected; ways to minimize 

the burden of the collection of 

information on the respondents, 

including the use of automated 

collection techniques or other forms of 

information technology; and ways to 

further reduce the information 

collection burden on small business 


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