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AGENCY 

[EPA–HQ–OPP–2010–0306; FRL–8825–7] 

Resmethrin; Notice of Receipt of 

Requests to Voluntarily Cancel Certain 

Pesticide Registrations 

AGENCY: Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA). 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: In accordance with section 

6(f)(1) of the Federal Insecticide, 

Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act 

(FIFRA), as amended, EPA is issuing a 

notice of receipt of requests by the 

registrants to voluntarily cancel their 

registrations of certain products 

containing the pesticide resmethrin. The 

requests would terminate resmethrin 

products registered for use as a wide 

area mosquito abatement adulticide in 

the United States. EPA intends to grant 

these requests 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 requests, or unless the registrants 

withdraw their requests. If these 

requests are granted, any sale, 

distribution, or use of products listed in 

this notice will be permitted after the 

registration has been cancelled only if 

such sale, distribution, or use is 

consistent with the terms as described 

in the final order. Resmethrin users or 

anyone else that desires the retention of 

a resmethrin registration should contact 

the applicable registrants during the 

comment period. 

DATES: Comments must be received on 

or before November 15, 2010. 

ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, 

identified by docket identification (ID) 

number EPA–HQ–OPP–2010–0306, 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–2010– 

0306. 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 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 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: Tom 

Myers, Pesticide Re-evaluation Division 

(7508P), Office of Pesticide Programs, 

Environmental Protection Agency, 1200 

Pennsylvania Ave., NW., Washington, 

DC 20460–0001; telephone number: 

(703) 308–8589; fax number: (703) 308– 

7070; e-mail address: 

myers.tom@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. 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 


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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 on the Receipt of 

Requests to Cancel Registrations 

This notice announces receipt by EPA 

of requests from registrants to cancel 

certain resmethrin product registrations. 

Resmethrin is a member of the 

pyrethroid class of pesticides. It is a 

broad spectrum, non-systemic, synthetic 

pyrethroid insecticide. Resmethrin is 

registered for use as a wide area 

mosquito abatement insecticide for use 

in industrial, recreational, and 

residential areas to control flying and 

crawling insects. All remaining 

resmethrin end use products not listed 

in this notice will be proposed for 

cancellation in a subsequent Federal 

Register notice. 

The registrants have requested 

voluntary cancellation of these 

resmethrin containing products based 

on the fact that the costs to fulfill the 

data call-in requirements from the 2006 

Resmethirn Reregistration Eligibility 

Decision (RED), coupled with the costs 

to satisfy the recently issued Endocrine 

Disrupter Screening Program (EDSP) 

testing orders are not justified by the 

market opportunity in the vector control 

business segment. Resmethrin users or 

anyone else that desires the retention of 

a resmethrin registration should contact 

the applicable registrants during the 

comment period. The data required to 

support the resmethrin wide area 

mosquito abatement use are identified 

in Table 1. 

TABLE 1.—DATA REQUIRED TO SUPPORT FOR THE MOSQUITO ABATEMENT USE OF RESMETHRIN

2006 Resmethrin RED Data Call-In 

810.3400 Mosquito, black fly, and 

biting midge (sand fly) 

treatments 

830.7050 UV/Visible absorption 

835.2410 Photodegradation of parent and degradates in 

soil 

850.1300 Daphnid chronic toxicity 

test 

850.1350 Mysid chronic toxicity test 

Non-guideline Chronic freshwater sediment testing - special 

study 

Non-guideline Chronic estuarine/marine 

sediment testing - special study 

870.6200 Neurotoxicity screening 

battery 

870.6300 Developmental 

neurotoxicity study 

TABLE 1.—DATA REQUIRED TO SUPPORT FOR THE MOSQUITO ABATEMENT USE OF RESMETHRIN—Continued 

EDSP testing orders 

2.1.1 Amphibian metamorphosis (frog) 

2.1.2 Androgen receptor binding (rat prostate) 

2.1.3 Aromatase (human recombinant) 

2.1.4 Estrogen receptor binding 

2.1.5 Estrogen receptor 

transcriptional activation 

(human cell line - HeLa9903) 

2.1.6 Fish short-term reproduction 

2.1.7 Hershberger (rat) 

2.1.8 Female Pubertal (rat) 

2.1.9 Male pubertal (rat) 

2.1.10 Steroidogenesis (human 

cell line - H295R) 

2.1.11 Uterotrophic 

In letters received by the Agency, the 

registrants requested EPA to cancel 

certain pesticide product registrations 

identified in this notice in Table 2. This 

action would terminate the use of 

resmethrin products registered in the 

United States as a wide area mosquito 

abatement insecticide. 

III. What Action is the Agency Taking? 

This notice announces receipt by EPA 

of requests from registrants to cancel 

certain resmethrin product registrations. 

The affected products and the 

registrants making the requests are 

identified in Tables 2 and 3 of this unit. 

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 2.—RESMETHRIN PRODUCT REGISTRATIONS WITH PENDING REQUESTS FOR CANCELLATION

Registration 

Number Product Name Chemical 

432-595 SBP-1382 Insecticide Concentrate 40% Formula I Resmethrin 

432-596 SBP-1382 Insecticide 40 MF Solvent Dilutable Concentrate Formula I Resmethrin 

432-667 SCOURGE Insecticide w/ SBP-1382/PBO 18%+54% MF Formula II Resmethrin 

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TABLE 2.—RESMETHRIN PRODUCT REGISTRATIONS WITH PENDING REQUESTS FOR CANCELLATION—Continued 

Registration 

Number Product Name Chemical 

432-716 SCOURGE Insecticide w/ SBP-1382/PBO 4%+12% MF Formula II Resmethrin 

Piperonyl butoxide 

432-1246 Aqua-SCOURGE Resmethrin 

Piperonyl butoxide 

73049-78 SBP-1382 Concentrate 40 Resmethrin 

73049-79 SBP-1382 Insecticide Concentrate 15% Resmethrin 

73049-80 SBP-1382 Pressurized Wasp and Hornet Spray 0.15% Resmethrin 

73049-86 SBP-1382 Technical with Antioxidant Resmethrin 

73049-95 SBP-1382 Bioallethrin/Insecticide Concentrate 10%-6.25% Formula I Resmethrin 

S-Bioallethrin 

73049-101 SBP-1382 T.E.C. 6% Resmethrin 

73049-134 SBP-1382 Insecticide Concentrate 40% Formula II Resmethrin 

73049-372 Synthrin Technical with Antioxidant Insecticide Resmethrin 

Table 3 of this unit includes the 

names and addresses of record for the 

registrants of the products listed in 

Table 2 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 above. 

TABLE 3.—REGISTRANTS REQUESTING

VOLUNTARY CANCELLATION

EPA Company Number 

Company Name and Address 

000432 Bayer Environmental Science 

P.O. Box 12014 

Research Triangle Park, NC 

27709 

073049 Valent BioSciences Corporation 

870 Technology Way 

Libertyville, IL 60048 

IV. 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. 

Section 6(f)(1)(B) of FIFRA 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, section 6(f)(1)(C) of FIFRA 

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 Administrator determines that 

continued use of the pesticide would 

pose an unreasonable adverse effect on 

the environment. 

The resmethrin registrants have not 

requested that EPA waive the 180–day 

comment period. Accordingly, EPA will 

provide a 180–day comment period on 

the proposed requests. 

V. Procedures for Withdrawal of 

Requests 

Registrants who choose to withdraw a 

request for product cancellation 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 requests for voluntary 

cancellation are granted, the Agency 

intends to publish the cancellation 

order in the Federal Register. 

In any order issued in response to 

these requests for cancellation of 

product registrations, EPA proposes to 

include the following provisions for the 

treatment of any existing stocks of the 

products listed in Table 2. 

After December 31, 2012, registrants 

are prohibited from selling or 

distributing existing stocks of products 

containing resmethrin for all uses, 

including the use of resmethrin as a 

wide area mosquito abatement 

insecticide. 

Persons other than the registrant may 

sell, distribute, or use existing stocks of 

canceled products until supplies 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. 

List of Subjects 

Environmental protection, Pesticides 

and pests. 

Dated: May 7, 2010. 

Richard P. Keigwin, Jr., 

Director, Pesticide Re-evaluation Division, 

Office of Pesticide Programs. 

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that the Export-Import Bank of the 

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