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which means the EPA will not know 

your identity or contact information 

unless you provide it in the body of 

your comment. If you send an email 

comment directly to the EPA without 

going through www.regulations.gov, 

your email address will be 

automatically captured and included as 

part of the comment that is placed in the 

public docket and made available on the 

Internet. If you submit an electronic 

comment, the 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 the EPA cannot read your 

comment due to technical difficulties 

and cannot contact you for clarification, 

the 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. For additional 

information about the EPA’s public 

docket visit the EPA Docket Center 

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

dockets/. 

Docket: All documents in the docket 

are listed in the www.regulations.gov 

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, will be publicly 

available only in hard copy. Publicly 

available docket materials are available 

either electronically in 

www.regulations.gov or in hard copy at 

the Board of Scientific Counselors 

(BOSC) Air, Climate, and Energy 

Subcommittee Docket, EPA/DC, William 

Jefferson Clinton West Building, Room 

3334, 1301 Constitution Ave. NW., 

Washington, DC. The 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, and the telephone number for 

the ORD Docket is (202) 566–1752. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: The 

Designated Federal Officer via mail at: 

Tim Benner, Mail Code 8104R, Office of 

Science Policy, Office of Research and 

Development, U.S. Environmental 

Protection Agency, 1200 Pennsylvania 

Ave. NW., Washington, DC 20460; via 

phone/voice mail at: (202) 564–6769; 

via fax at: (202) 565–2911; or via email 

at: benner.tim@epa.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

General Information: The conference 

call is open to the public. Any member 

of the public interested in receiving a 

draft agenda, attending the conference 

call, or making a presentation during the 

conference call may contact Tim 

Benner, the Designated Federal Officer, 

via any of the contact methods listed in 

the FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT

section above. In general, each 

individual making an oral presentation 

will be limited to a total of three 

minutes. Proposed agenda items for the 

meeting include, but are not limited to, 

the following: presentation and 

discussion of the subcommittee’s draft 

responses to the charge questions and 

approval of the final draft letter report 

prior to its submission to the BOSC 

Executive Committee. 

Information on Services for 

Individuals with Disabilities: For 

information on access or services for 

individuals with disabilities, please 

contact Tim Benner at (202) 564–6769 

or benner.tim@epa.gov. To request 

accommodation of a disability, please 

contact Tim Benner, preferably at least 

ten days prior to the conference call, to 

give the EPA as much time as possible 

to process your request. 

Dated: June 24, 2015. 

Fred S. Hauchman, 

Director, Office of Science Policy. 

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BILLING CODE 6560–50–P 

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION 

AGENCY 

[EPA–HQ–OPP–2015–0302; FRL–9929–42] 

Proposed Antimicrobial Pesticide Use 

Site Index; Notice of Availability and 

Request for Comment 

AGENCY: Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA). 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: EPA is announcing the 

availability of and requesting public 

comment on a proposed guidance 

document called the Antimicrobial 

Pesticide Use Site Index (USI). The 

Agency developed this document to 

provide guidance about antimicrobial 

pesticide use sites and general 

antimicrobial pesticide use patterns. 

This guidance document is intended to 

assist antimicrobial pesticide applicants 

and registrants by helping them to 

identify the 40 CFR part 158 subpart W 

data requirements that are necessary to 

register their product(s), and will 

likewise be used by Agency staff 

evaluating pesticide applications. 

DATES: Comments must be received on 

or before July 31, 2015. 

ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, 

identified by docket identification (ID) 

number EPA–HQ–OPP–2015–0302, 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: 

Steven Weiss, Antimicrobials Division 

(7510P), Office of Pesticide Programs, 

Environmental Protection Agency, 1200 

Pennsylvania Ave. NW., Washington, 

DC 20460–0001; main telephone 

number: (703) 308–8293; email address: 

weiss.steven@epa.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

I. General Information 

A. Does this action apply to me? 

You may be affected by this action if 

you are a producer of pesticide products 

(NAICS 32532), antifoulants (NAICS 

32551), antimicrobial pesticides (NAICS 

32561), or wood preservatives (NAICS 

32519), importers of such products, or 

any person or company who seeks to 

register an antimicrobial, antifoulant 

coating, ballast water treatment, or 

wood preservative pesticide or to obtain 

a tolerance for such a pesticide. 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. 

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 could also be affected. 

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 

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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. 

C. How can I get copies of this 

document and other related 

information? 

A copy of the proposed guidance 

document is available in the docket 

under docket ID number EPA–HQ– 

OPP–2015–0302. 

II. What action is the Agency taking? 

The Agency is making available for 

comment a proposed guidance 

document called the ‘‘Antimicrobial 

Pesticide Use Site Index.’’ In the 

Federal Register on May 8, 2013 (78 FR 

26936) (FRL–8886–5), the Agency 

published a final rule amending 40 CFR 

part 158, the section of the regulations 

setting forth the data requirements that 

support an application to register a 

pesticide product. The final rule, which 

is codified as 40 CFR part 158 subpart 

W (158W), contains the data 

requirements specifically applicable to 

antimicrobial pesticides. The rule 

became effective July 8, 2013. 

The proposed guidance document 

serves as a compilation of the specific 

use sites that are commonly listed on 

antimicrobial labels. The specific use 

sites are further organized into 

categories of twelve general use 

patterns. The general use patterns are 

broad designations and are used as 

columns in the antimicrobial data 

requirements tables to identify which 

data requirements might be pertinent to 

the particular pesticide use site. The 

Agency has developed the proposed 

guidance document to provide 

additional information about these use 

patterns. This guidance document is 

intended to assist antimicrobial 

pesticide applicants and registrants by 

helping them to identify the data 

requirements that are necessary to 

register their product(s), and will 

likewise be used by Agency staff 

evaluating antimicrobial pesticide 

applications. 

As a guidance document, the 

association of a particular antimicrobial 

use site with a general antimicrobial use 

pattern should be viewed as a 

recommendation only and is not to be 

construed as binding on either EPA or 

any outside parties. EPA may depart 

from the guidance where circumstances 

warrant and without prior notice. 

The posting of this proposed guidance 

document for public comment satisfies 

a condition of the March 2, 2015, 

settlement agreement between EPA and 

the American Chemistry Council (ACC), 

which followed ACC’s July 2013 

initiation of a legal challenge to the data 

requirements regulation (subpart 158W 

of Title 40 of the Code of Federal 

Regulations) in the U.S. Court of 

Appeals for the District of Columbia 

Circuit. Under that settlement 

agreement, the Agency committed to 

taking comment on this proposed 

guidance document within 4 months of 

the effective date of the settlement 

agreement. 

Authority: 7 U.S.C. 136–136y and 21 

U.S.C. 346a. 

Dated: June 24, 2015. 

Jim Jones, 

Assistant Administrator, Office of Chemical 

Safety and Pollution Prevention. 

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BILLING CODE 6560–50–P 

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION 

AGENCY 

[FRL–9929–86–OAR] 

Protection of Stratospheric Ozone: 

Request for Methyl Bromide Critical 

Use Exemption Applications 

AGENCY: Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA). 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: The Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA) is providing notice of the 

process for submitting applications for 

critical use exemptions for 2018 and 

subsequent years. Critical use 

exemptions are exceptions to the 

phaseout of production and import of 

methyl bromide, a controlled class I 

ozone-depleting substance. Critical use 

exemptions must be permitted by the 

Parties to the Montreal Protocol on 

Substances that Deplete the Ozone 

Layer and must also be in accordance 

with the Clean Air Act and EPA 

regulations. Applications received in 

response to this notice will be 

considered as the basis for submitting 

potential nominations for critical use 

exemptions to future Meetings of the 

Parties to the Montreal Protocol. Critical 

use exemptions allow production, 

import, and use of methyl bromide in 

the specific year for which the Parties to 

the Montreal Protocol permit the use. 

All entities interested in obtaining a 

critical use exemption must provide 

EPA with the technical and economic 

information outlined in this notice to 

support a ‘‘critical use’’ claim by the 

deadline specified in this notice, even if 

they have applied for an exemption in 

previous years. 

DATES: Applications for critical use 

exemptions must be submitted to EPA 

no later than September 15 of the 

calendar year three years prior to the 

calendar year for which the exemption 

is sought. An application for a critical 

use exemption for calendar year 2018, 

for example, must be submitted by 

September 15, 2015. 

ADDRESSES: Application forms are 

available at www.epa.gov/ozone/mbr/

cueinfo.html. EPA encourages users to 

submit applications electronically to 

arling.jeremy@epa.gov. Users can also 

submit applications by U.S. mail to: 

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, 

Office of Air and Radiation, 

Stratospheric Protection Division, 

Attention Methyl Bromide Team, Mail 

Code 6205J, 1200 Pennsylvania Ave. 

NW., Washington, DC 20460. 

Confidentiality: Application materials 

that are confidential should be 

submitted under separate cover and be 

clearly identified as ‘‘confidential 

business information.’’ Information 

covered by a claim of business 

confidentiality will be treated in 

accordance with the procedures for 

handling such information under 40 

CFR part 2, subpart B, and will be 

disclosed only to the extent and by 

means of the procedures set forth in that 

subpart. If no claim of confidentiality 

accompanies the information when it is 

received by EPA, the information may 

be made available to the public by EPA 

without further notice to the submitter 

(40 CFR 2.203). EPA may place a copy 

of Worksheet 6 from the application in 

the public domain. Any information on 

Worksheet 6 shall not be considered 

confidential and will not be treated as 

such by the Agency. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

General Information: U.S. EPA 

Stratospheric Ozone Information inbox, 

spdcomment@epa.gov; also 

www.epa.gov/ozone/mbr. 

Technical Information: Bill Chism, 

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, 

Office of Pesticide Programs (7503P), 

1200 Pennsylvania Ave. NW., 

Washington, DC 20460, 703–308–8136. 

Email: chism.bill@epa.gov. 

Regulatory Information: Jeremy 

Arling, U.S. Environmental Protection 

Agency, Stratospheric Protection 

Division (6205T), 1200 Pennsylvania 


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