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original signature and one electronic 

copy via e-mail (acceptable file format: 

Adobe Acrobat PDF, WordPerfect, MS 

Word, MS PowerPoint, or Rich Text 

files in IBM–PC/Windows 98/2000/XP 

format). Submitters are requested to 

provide two versions of each document 

submitted: One each with and without 

signatures, because the SAB Staff Office 

does not publish documents with 

signatures on its Web sites. It is the SAB 

Staff Office general policy to post 

written comments on the Web page for 

the advisory meeting or teleconference. 

Members of the public should be aware 

that their contact information, if 

included in any written comments, will 

appear on the SAB Web page. 

Furthermore, special care should be 

taken not to include copyrighted 

material. 

Accessibility: For information on 

access or services for individuals with 

disabilities, please contact Mr. Thomas 

Carpenter at the phone number or email 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: June 9, 2011. 

Vanessa T. Vu, 

Director, EPA Science Advisory Board Staff 

Office. 

[FR Doc. 2011–14810 Filed 6–14–11; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6560–50–P 

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION 

AGENCY 

[EPA–HQ–OPP–2009–0207; FRL–8875–1] 

Petition Supplement Requesting 

Cancellation of Propoxur Pet Collar 

Uses; Notice of Availability 

AGENCY: Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA). 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: This notice makes available 

for review and public comment a 

second petition supplement submitted 

by the Natural Resources Defense 

Council (NRDC) to the Environmental 

Protection Agency (EPA or the Agency) 

on January 18, 2011. This second 

supplement supports NRDC’s original 

petition, dated November 26, 2007, 

requesting that the Agency cancel all pet 

collar uses for the pesticide propoxur. 

The petitioner, NRDC, initially 

requested these cancellations based on 

their belief that EPA failed to adequately 

assess residential exposures to pet 

collars. NRDC believes that 

modifications to the non-dietary oral 

exposure pathway presented in the 

Revised N-methyl Carbamate (NMC) 

Cumulative Risk Assessment (CRA) 

underestimate exposure to propoxur 

from pet collar uses. On April 23, 2009, 

NRDC supplemented their original 

petition with additional information on 

the pesticide. In its most recent 

supplement, dated January 18, 2011, 

NRDC states that the EPA’s occupational 

and residential exposure (ORE) risk 

assessment for propoxur pet collars 

uses, dated April 7, 2010, as well as the 

follow-up memorandum refining the 

ORE risk assessment, dated July 12, 

2010, present health risks above EPA’s 

level of concern. NRDC believes that the 

Agency used incorrect exposure 

assumptions and failed to adequately 

assess all routes of exposure, leading to 

an underestimation of residential risk to 

children from propoxur pet collars. 

Finally, under cover letter dated 

February 4, 2011, NRDC also submitted 

to EPA 7,577 letters supporting its 

petition supplement. 

DATES: Comments must be received on 

or before July 15, 2011. 

ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, 

identified by docket identification (ID) 

number EPA–HQ–OPP–2009–0207, 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– 

0207. 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: 

Kaitlin Keller, Chemical Review 

Manager, Pesticide Re-Evaluation 

Division (7508P), Office of Pesticide 

Programs, Environmental Protection 

Agency, 1200 Pennsylvania Ave., NW., 

Washington, DC 20460–0001; telephone 

number: (703) 308–8172; e-mail address: 

keller.kaitlin@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 and human health 

advocates; the chemical industry; pet 

owners; 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 


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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 

What action is the agency taking? 

EPA requests public comment during 

the next 30 days on a second petition 

supplement received from NRDC, dated 

January 18, 2011, requesting that the 

Agency cancel all pet collar uses for the 

pesticide propoxur. To date, NRDC has 

submitted: 

1. A petition dated November 26, 

2007 as a public comment to the 

Revised N-methyl Carbamate 

Cumulative Risk Assessment docket 

EPA–HQ–OPP–2007–0935; 

2. A petition supplement, dated April 

23, 2009, which included an NRDC 

study report; 

3. A mass comment campaign from 

April 8, 2009 to June 8, 2009 which 

includes approximately 8,600 letters to 

EPA requesting the cancellation of 

tetrachlorvinphos and propoxur in pet 

products; 

4. Comments on the Propoxur 

Preliminary Work Plan for registration 

review, dated February 16, 2010; 

5. A second petition supplement 

dated January 18, 2011; and, 

6. A mass comment campaign, which 

includes approximately 7,577 letters 

supporting its January 18, 2011 petition 

supplement, submitted under cover 

letter dated February 2, 2011. 

7. All documents are available under 

EPA docket ID number EPA–HQ–OPP– 

2009–0207. Again, however, by today’s 

notice, EPA seeks comment only on 

NRDC’s second petition supplement 

dated January 18, 2011. 

In its second petition supplement 

dated January 18, 2011, on which EPA 

now seeks comment, NRDC states that 

the April 7, 2010 ORE assessment 

indicates risks above EPA’s level of 

concern for children’s incidental oral 

exposure, and that EPA should, 

therefore, take action to cancel propoxur 

pet collar uses. NRDC claims that 

exposure levels from pet collars for 

household children may be significantly 

higher than EPA estimates based on 

common daily activities and contact 

between children and pets. 

Furthermore, NRDC claims that the 

April 7, 2010 ORE risk assessment 

includes inadequate assumptions in 

exposure scenarios for children and 

lacks adequate consideration for dermal 

exposure and cancer risks. 

In 2009, EPA initiated the registration 

review process of propoxur. The final 

work plan and related documents are 

available on the electronic docket at: 

EPA–HQ–OPP–2009–0806. The 2007 

Revised N-methyl Carbamate 

Cumulative Risk Assessment 

(NMCCRA), related documents, and 

comments are available in the electronic 

docket at: EPA–HQ–OPP–2007–0935. 

EPA’s 1997 Reregistration Eligibility 

Decision (RED) for Propoxur is available 

on EPA’s pesticide Web page at: 

http://www.epa.gov/pesticides/ 

reregistration/status.htm. 

List of Subjects 

Environmental protection, Natural 

Resources Defense Council, Pesticides 

and pests, Propoxur. 

Dated: June 7, 2011. 

Richard P. Keigwin, Jr., 

Director, Pesticide Re-evaluation Division, 

Office of Pesticide Programs. 

[FR Doc. 2011–14763 Filed 6–14–11; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6560–50–P 

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION 

AGENCY 

[EPA–HQ–OPP–2010–0014; FRL–8876–1] 

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 a November 10, 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 

November 10, 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 

June 15, 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; email address: tatinclaux.maia@epa.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 


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