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III. Summary of Public Comments 

Received and Agency Response to 

Comments 

During the public comment period 

provided, EPA received no comments in 

response to the February 20, 2013 

Federal Register notice announcing the 

Agency’s receipt of the requests for 

voluntary cancellations of products 

listed in Table 1 and Table 2 of Unit II. 

IV. Cancellation Order 

Pursuant to FIFRA section 6(f), EPA 

hereby approves the requested 

cancellations of the registrations 

identified in Table 1 and Table 2 of Unit 

II. Accordingly, the Agency hereby 

orders that the product registrations 

identified in Table 1 and Table 2 of Unit 

II. are canceled. The effective date of the 

cancellation of the products listed in 

Table 1 of this notice is May 1, 2013. 

The effective date of cancellation of the 

products listed in Table 2 is December 

31, 2014. Any distribution, sale, or use 

of existing stocks of the products 

identified in Table 1 and Table 2 of Unit 

II. in a manner inconsistent with any of 

the provisions for disposition of existing 

stocks set forth in Unit VI. will be a 

violation of FIFRA. 

V. What is the Agency’s authority for 

taking this action? 

Section 6(f)(1) of FIFRA 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. Thereafter, 

following the public comment period, 

the EPA Administrator may approve 

such a request. The notice of receipt for 

this action was published for comment 

in the Federal Register issue of 

February 20, 2013 (78 FR 11881) (FRL– 

9378–9). The comment period closed on 

March 22, 2013. 

VI. Provisions for Disposition of 

Existing Stocks 

Existing stocks are those stocks of 

registered pesticide products which are 

currently in the United States and 

which were packaged, labeled, and 

released for shipment prior to the 

effective date of the cancellation action. 

The existing stocks provisions for the 

products subject to this order are as 

follows. 

1. For Products 007173–00283 and 

007173–00285 identified in Table 1: 

Because the Agency has identified 

significant potential risk concerns 

associated with these pesticide 

products, EPA prohibits the sale or 

distribution of existing stocks by the 

registrant, except for export consistent 

with FIFRA section 17 or for proper 

disposal. Persons other than the 

registrant will be allowed to sell or 

distribute existing stocks of products, 

until such stocks are exhausted. Users 

will be allowed to use existing stocks 

regardless of the date of purchase until 

such stocks are exhausted, provided that 

such use is consistent with the terms of 

the previously approved labeling on, or 

that accompanied, the canceled product. 

2. For all other products identified in 

Table 1: The registrants may continue to 

sell and distribute existing stocks of 

products listed in Table 1 of Unit II. 

until May 1, 2014, which is 1 year after 

the publication of the Cancellation 

Order in the Federal Register. 

Thereafter, the registrants are prohibited 

from selling or distributing products 

listed in Table 1, except for export in 

accordance with FIFRA section 17, or 

proper disposal. Persons other than the 

registrants may sell, distribute, or use 

existing stocks of products listed in 

Table 1 of Unit II. until existing 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. 

3. For all products listed in Table 2: 

After December 31, 2014, registrants are 

prohibited from selling or distributing 

existing stocks of products containing 

ODM. After December 31, 2016, persons 

other than registrants are prohibited 

from selling or distributing existing 

stocks of products containing ODM. 

After December 31, 2016, existing stocks 

of products containing ODM already in 

the possession of end users can be used 

legally until they are exhausted, 

provided that such use complies with 

the EPA-approved label and labeling of 

the affected product. 

List of Subjects 

Environmental protection, Pesticides 

and pests. 

Dated: April 23, 2013. 

Richard P. Keigwin, Jr., 

Director, Pesticide Re-Evaluation Division, 

Office of Pesticide Programs. 

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BILLING CODE 6560–50–P 

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION 

AGENCY 

[EPA–HQ–ORD–2013–0292; FRL–9807–5] 

Request for Information and Citations 

on Methods for Cumulative Risk 

Assessment 

AGENCY: Office of the Science Advisor, 

Environmental Protection Agency 

(EPA). 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: The United States 

Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) 

is requesting information and citations 

on approaches and methods for the 

planning, analysis, assessment, and 

characterization of cumulative risks to 

human populations and the 

environment. The EPA is developing 

guidelines for the assessment of 

cumulative risk as defined and 

characterized in the EPA 2003 

publication Framework for Cumulative 

Risk Assessment, ‘‘An analysis, 

characterization, and possible 

quantification of the combined risks to 

health or the environment from multiple 

agents or stressors’’ using scientifically 

defensible approaches and methods. 

The Guidelines will assist agency 

programs and regions in the assessment 

of risk and in decision making, 

including the planning and 

development of regulations and permits. 

This notice solicits information and 

citations pertaining to approaches and 

methods that can be used to plan and 

conduct cumulative risk assessments 

(CRA). Published background 

information regarding cumulative risk 

can be found at http://www.epa.gov/raf/ 

publications/pdfs/ 

frmwrk_cum_risk_assmnt.pdf or from 

the person listed under FOR FURTHER

INFORMATION CONTACT. 

DATES: Information and citations may be 

submitted on or before Friday, June 28, 

2013. 

ADDRESSES: Submit your information, 

identified by Docket ID No. EPA–HQ– 

ORD–2013–0292, by one of the 

following methods: 

Internet: http://www.regulations.gov: 

Follow the Web site instructions for 

submitting information. 

Email: ORD.Docket@epa.gov. 

Mail: Environmental Protection 

Agency, EPA Docket Center EPA/DC, 

ORD Docket, Mail Code 28221T, 1200 

Pennsylvania Avenue NW., Washington, 

DC 20460. 

Hand Delivery: The EPA/DC Public 

Reading Room is located in the EPA 

Headquarters Library, Room Number 

3334 in the EPA West Building, located 

at 1301 Constitution Avenue NW., 


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Washington, DC 20460. The Public 

Reading Room hours of operation are 

8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Eastern Time, 

Monday through Friday, excluding 

Federal holidays. Please call (202) 566– 

1744 or email the ORD Docket at 

ord.docket@epa.gov for instructions. 

Updates to Public Reading Room access 

are available online at http:// 

www.epa.gov/epahome/dockets.htm. 

Instructions: Direct your information 

and citations to Docket ID No. EPA–HQ– 

ORD–2013–0292. The Agency’s policy is 

that all submissions received will be 

included in the public docket without 

change and will be made available 

online at http://www.regulations.gov, 

including any personal information 

provided, unless the information 

includes data claimed to be Confidential 

Business Information (CBI) or other 

information the disclosure of which is 

restricted by statute. Do not submit 

information that you consider to be CBI 

or otherwise protected through http:// 

www.regulations.gov or email. The 

http://www.regulations.gov Web site is 

an ‘‘anonymous access’’ system, which 

means the EPA will not know your 

identity or contact information unless 

you provide it in the body of your 

submission to the docket. If you send an 

email with information directly to the 

EPA without going through http:// 

www.regulations.gov, your email 

address will be automatically captured 

and included as part of the information 

that is placed in the public docket and 

made available on the Internet. If you 

submit information electronically, the 

EPA recommends that you include your 

name and other contact information in 

the body of your submission and with 

any disk or CD–ROM you submit. If the 

EPA cannot read your information due 

to technical difficulties and cannot 

contact you for clarification, the EPA 

may not be able to consider your 

information. Electronic files should 

avoid the use of special characters, any 

form of encryption, and be free of any 

defects or viruses. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Any 

members of the public who wish to 

receive further information about 

submitting information on methods for 

cumulative risk assessment should 

contact Lawrence Martin at telephone 

number (202) 564–6497 or email 

address martin.lawrence@epa.gov, 

mailing address Environmental 

Protection Agency, Office of the Science 

Advisor, Mail Code 8105R, 1200 

Pennsylvania Avenue NW., Washington, 

DC 20460. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

A. Does this information request apply 

to me? 

The purpose of the CRA Guidelines is 

to delineate CRA methods that will 

support informed decision-making at 

EPA. This request also may be of 

interest to persons involved with the 

design, formulation, and conduct of risk 

assessments more generally. Since many 

and various entities may also be 

interested, the EPA has not attempted to 

describe all the specific entities that 

may be interested in this request. If you 

have any questions regarding the 

applicability of this request, please 

consult Lawrence Martin listed under 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT. 

B. How can I access electronic copies of 

this document and other related 

information? 

You may use http:// 

www.regulations.gov, or you may access 

this Federal Register document via the 

EPA’s internet site under the ‘‘Federal 

Register’’ listings at http:// 

www.epa.gov/fedrgstr. 

Docket: All documents in the docket 

are listed in the http:// 

www.regulations.gov index. Although 

listed in the index, some information 

may not be publicly available, e.g., CBI 

or other information whose disclosure is 

restricted by statute. Certain other 

material, such as copyrighted material, 

will be publicly available only in hard 

copy. Publicly available docket 

materials are available either 

electronically at http:// 

www.regulations.gov or in hard copy at 

the ORD Docket, EPA/DC Public 

Reading Room. The EPA/DC Public 

Reading Room is located in the EPA 

Headquarters Library, Room Number 

3334 in the EPA West Building, located 

at 1301 Constitution Avenue NW., 

Washington, DC 20460; its hours of 

operation are 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. 

Eastern Time, Monday through Friday, 

excluding federal holidays. Please call 

(202) 566–1744, or email the ORD 

Docket at ord.docket@epa.gov for 

instructions. Updates regarding the 

Public Reading Room access are 

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

epahome/dockets.htm. 

C. What should I consider as I prepare 

my information for the EPA? 

You may find the following 

suggestions helpful for preparing your 

information: 

1. Explain the information you are 

providing as clearly as possible. 

2. Describe any assumptions that you 

used. 

3. Provide copies or citations for any 

technical information and/or data used 

that support the information you 

provide. Methods published in the peerreviewed literature are preferred and are 

more readily useful. 

4. Provide specific examples. 

5. To ensure proper receipt by the 

EPA, be sure to identify the docket ID 

number assigned to this action in the 

subject line on the first page of your 

response. You may also provide the 

name, date and Federal Register 

citation. 

Responses to this request are 

voluntary. This notice does not obligate 

the U.S. Government to award a contract 

or otherwise pay for the information 

provided in response to this request. 

The U.S. Government reserves the right 

to use information provided by 

respondents for any purpose deemed 

necessary and legally appropriate. 

Respondents are advised that the U.S. 

Government is under no obligation to 

acknowledge receipt of the information 

received or provide feedback to 

respondents with respect to any 

information submitted. 

D. Background 

Former EPA Administrator Carol 

Browner transmitted the EPA Science 

Policy Council’s Guidance on 

Cumulative Risk Assessment, Part 1, 

Planning and Scoping in a memo dated 

July 3, 1997. Administrator Browner 

wrote: ‘‘Today, we are providing 

guidance for all EPA offices on 

cumulative risk assessment. This 

guidance directs each office to take into 

account cumulative risk issues in 

scoping and planning major risk 

assessments and to consider a broader 

scope that integrates multiple sources, 

effects, pathways, stressors and 

populations for cumulative risk analyses 

in all cases for which relevant data are 

available. This assures a more consistent 

and scientifically complete Agencywide approach to cumulative risk 

assessments in order to better protect 

public health and the environment.’’ 

Subsequently, the EPA Risk Assessment 

Forum was charged to complete 

comprehensive guidelines for the 

assessment of cumulative risks. In May 

2003, the RAF released the Framework 

for Cumulative Risk Assessment (EPA/ 

630/P–02/001F), available to download 

from the internet at http://www.epa.gov/ 

raf/publications/pdfs/ 

frmwrk_cum_risk_assmnt.pdf. The 2003 

CRA Framework was the EPA’s first step 

toward development of the CRA 

Guidelines. The foreword to the 

Framework notes that the National 

Research Council (NRC) (http:// 

www.nap.edu/ 

catalog.php?record_id=2125#toc) and 

the Presidential-Congressional 


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Commission on Risk Assessment 

(http://www.riskworld.com/Nreports/ 

1996/risk_rpt/Rr6me001.htm) assign 

importance to understanding risk from 

multiple stressors, and that EPA had 

begun to address approaches to CRA. 

The NRC and EPA’s Science Advisory 

Board have provided consistent 

recommendations that encourage better 

integrated, multi-stressor approaches to 

understanding risks to human health 

and the environment. For example, in 

Science & Decisions 2009, the NRC 

recommends that EPA develop CRA 

tools (see pg. 236). ‘‘EPA is increasingly 

asked to address broader public-health 

and environmental-health questions 

involving multiple exposures, complex 

mixtures, and vulnerability of exposed 

populations—issues that stakeholder 

groups . . . often consider to be 

inadequately captured by current risk 

assessments. There is a need for 

cumulative risk assessments . . .’’ 

(Science and Decisions; available to 

download from the internet at http:// 

www.nap.edu/ 

catalog.php?record_id=12209. 

E. Request for Information and 

Citations on Cumulative Risk 

Assessment Methods 

To date, CRA experience at EPA has 

been principally in the application of 

CRA screening and chemical additivity 

methods for aggregating risk from 

multiple exposures and/or toxicity 

pathways. These have been conducted 

by EPA programs and regions. This 

limited application of CRA has 

substantiated the value of multichemical/stressor assessments in an 

environmental risk assessment context, 

but illustrates a more limited 

application than that recommended by 

the NRC, or discussed in the 2003 CRA 

Framework. EPA requests information 

on and citations for CRA methods that 

have been employed to date and 

approaches that could assist EPA in the 

development of improved CRA 

methods. Methods and information 

published in the peer-reviewed 

literature are preferred and would be 

more readily useful. Information and 

citations are also being requested for 

existing, on-going cumulative risk 

assessments that incorporate the 

assessment of multiple chemical or nonchemical stressors, and that address any 

of the following characteristics: multistressor, multi-media, multi-receptor, 

including assessment of a vulnerable 

population, both human and 

environmental health considerations, or 

socio-economic stressors. EPA also 

requests information on examples where 

CRA has been successfully used for 

decision making at the local, state, 

national, or international levels, 

including a description of the 

circumstances leading to the use of CRA 

methods in those examples. 

More specifically, information and 

citations are sought for the following 

purposes: 

1. Methods for CRA planning, scoping 

and problem formulation to ensure that 

the scope of a CRA is tractable and also 

adequately addresses the key concerns 

of a specified environmental problem. 

This includes methods that could be 

used for the following: evaluating 

population vulnerabilities that are either 

perceived or empirically demonstrated 

as important elements of a CRA; 

involving the spectrum of interested/ 

affected parties in formulating the 

problem for assessment or decision; 

considering stakeholder objectives and 

integrating them into an analysis; 

identifying the most influential stressors 

that need to be considered in a CRA; 

and developing conceptual models that 

link stressors and health outcomes. 

2. Methods to identify and quantify 

population vulnerabilities (risk factors) 

and buffers (protective factors) that may 

influence exposures, dose-response or 

risk/hazard posed by environmental 

contaminant exposures, and methods to 

integrate population vulnerabilities and 

buffers into a CRA. Vulnerabilities 

could include factors leading to 

differential exposures, differential 

responses, preparedness and resiliency 

within a population. 

3. Methods for integrating chemical, 

physical, biological and socio-economic 

stressors within a CRA, including 

quantifying and integrating ‘‘exposure’’ 

and ‘‘dose-response’’ for disparate 

stressors, and grouping of chemical and 

nonchemical stressors for combined (or 

integrated) risk analysis. 

4. Methods for characterizing 

integrated risks posed by disparate 

stressors in a CRA context. These could 

include methods and/or study data from 

epidemiology, toxicology, ecology, 

health economics, chemical mixtures 

risk assessment, social sciences, dose 

response modeling and statistics (among 

others); and may also include 

addressing spatial and temporal scales. 

5. Methods to integrate ecological and 

human health exposures and health 

effects in a CRA. 

6. Approaches for addressing 

stakeholder participation, engagement 

and risk communication when 

conducting a CRA. 

Date: April 22, 2013. 

Glenn Paulson, 

Science Advisor. 

[FR Doc. 2013–10296 Filed 4–30–13; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6560–50–P 

FEDERAL DEPOSIT INSURANCE 

CORPORATION 

FDIC Advisory Committee on 

Economic Inclusion (ComE–IN); Notice 

of Meeting 

AGENCY: Federal Deposit Insurance 

Corporation (FDIC). 

ACTION: Notice of Open Meeting. 

SUMMARY: In accordance with the 

Federal Advisory Committee Act, notice 

is hereby given of a meeting of the FDIC 

Advisory Committee on Economic 

Inclusion, which will be held in 

Washington, DC. The Advisory 

Committee will provide advice and 

recommendations on initiatives to 

expand access to banking services by 

underserved populations. 

DATES: Thursday, May 16, 2013, from 

9:00 a.m. to 3:15 p.m. 

ADDRESSES: The meeting will be held in 

the FDIC Board Room on the sixth floor 

of the FDIC Building located at 550 17th 

Street NW., Washington, DC. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Requests for further information 

concerning the meeting may be directed 

to Mr. Robert E. Feldman, Committee 

Management Officer of the FDIC, at 

(202) 898–7043. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Agenda: The agenda will be focused 

on savings initiatives, safe accounts and 

bank prepaid cards, and an update on 

mobile financial services and economic 

inclusion. The agenda may be subject to 

change. Any changes to the agenda will 

be announced at the beginning of the 

meeting. 

Type of Meeting: The meeting will be 

open to the public, limited only by the 

space available on a first-come, firstserved basis. For security reasons, 

members of the public will be subject to 

security screening procedures and must 

present a valid photo identification to 

enter the building. The FDIC will 

provide attendees with auxiliary aids 

(e.g., sign language interpretation) 

required for this meeting. Those 

attendees needing such assistance 

should call (703) 562–6067 (Voice or 

TTY) at least two days before the 

meeting to make necessary 

arrangements. Written statements may 

be filed with the committee before or 

after the meeting. This ComE–IN 

meeting will be Webcast live via the 

Internet at: http://www.vodium.com/

goto/fdic/advisorycommittee.asp. This 

service is free and available to anyone 

with the following systems 

requirements: http://www.vodium.com/

home/sysreq.html. Adobe Flash Player 

is required to view these presentations. 


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