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Supply Disruption Scenario 1: 

Introduction and Breakout Session 

Supply Disruption Scenario 1: 

Discussion of Group Responses 

Recap of Day 1 

Day 2: 29 June 

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Introduction and Breakout Session 

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Discussion of Group Responses 

Supply Disruption Scenario 3: 

Introduction and Plenary 

Discussion 

ERE9 Round-Up: Key Takeaways 

Concluding Remarks 

As provided in section 252(c)(1)(A)(ii) 

of the Energy Policy and Conservation 

Act (42 U.S.C. 6272(c)(1)(A)(ii)), the 

meetings of the IAB are open to 

representatives of members of the IAB 

and their counsel; representatives of 

members of the IEA’s Standing Group 

on Emergency Questions and the IEA’s 

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representatives of the Departments of 

Energy, Justice, and State, the Federal 

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Accounting Office, Committees of 

Congress, the IEA, and the European 

Commission; and invitees of the IAB, 

the SEQ, the SOM, or the IEA. 

Issued in Washington, DC, June 11, 2018. 

Thomas Reilly, 

Assistant General Counsel for International 

and National Security Programs. 

[FR Doc. 2018–12781 Filed 6–13–18; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6450–01–P 

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION 

AGENCY 

[EPA–HQ–OPP–2015–0769; FRL–9978–37] 

Difenacoum; Notice of Receipt of 

Requests 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 requests by the 

registrant to voluntarily cancel its 

registrations of products containing the 

pesticide difenacoum. The requests 

would terminate the last difenacoum 

products registered for use 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 registrant withdraws its 

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. 

DATES: Comments must be received on 

or before July 16, 2018. 

ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, 

identified by docket identification (ID) 

number EPA–HQ–OPP–2015–0769, 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: Julie 

Javier, Pesticide Re-Evaluation Division 

(7508P), Office of Pesticide Programs, 

Environmental Protection Agency, 1200 

Pennsylvania Ave. NW, Washington, DC 

20460–0001; telephone number: (703) 

347–0790; email address: javier.julie@

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 requests from registrant Woodstream 

Corporation to cancel all their 

difenacoum product registrations. 

Difenacoum is a second generation 

anticoagulant rodenticide used in and 

around homes, buildings, and in 

commercial transportation vehicles. It is 

formulated as ready-to-use pelleted bait 

to control rats and mice. In letters dated 

October 19, 2017 and April 4, 2018, 

Woodstream Corporation requested EPA 

to cancel the pesticide product 

registrations identified in Table 1 of 

Unit III. They also requested that the 

timeframe for the existing stocks 

provisions be two years from the date of 

the 90-day response to the GDCI, i.e., to 

October 18, 2019. (The 90-day response 

to the DCI is dated October 19, 2017, 

where the registrant requested to cancel 

EPA Registration Nos. 36488–66 and 

47629–12. They followed this up with a 

request dated April 4, 2018, to cancel 

the rest of the registrations identified in 

Table 1 of Unit III.) The registrant does 

not expect any significant adverse 

effects to public health or the 

environment as a result. The registrant’s 

request will terminate the last 

difenacoum products registered in the 

United States. 

III. What action is the Agency taking? 

This notice announces receipt by EPA 

of requests from a registrant to cancel all 

difenacoum product registrations. The 

affected products and the registrant 

making the requests are identified in 

Tables 1 and 2 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. 


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TABLE 1—DIFENACOUM PRODUCT REGISTRATIONS WITH PENDING REQUESTS FOR CANCELLATION

Registration No. Product name Company 

36488–63 ................ Difenacoum Rat and Mouse Block IV ....................................................................................... Woodstream Corporation. 

36488–64 ................ Difenacoum Rat and Mouse Place Packs IV ............................................................................ Woodstream Corporation. 

36488–65 ................ Difenacoum Rat and Mouse Pellets IV ..................................................................................... Woodstream Corporation. 

36488–66 ................ Technical Difenacoum ............................................................................................................... Woodstream Corporation. 

47629–12 ................ Difenacoum Technical ............................................................................................................... Woodstream Corporation. 

47629–14 ................ Difenacoum Rat and Mouse Pellets .......................................................................................... Woodstream Corporation. 

47629–16 ................ Difenacoum Rat and Mouse Block ............................................................................................ Woodstream Corporation. 

47629–17 ................ Difenacoum Rat and Mouse Place Packs ................................................................................. Woodstream Corporation. 

Table 2 of this unit includes the 

names and addresses of record for the 

registrant 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 

36488 .............................................. Woodstream Corporation, 69 N Locust St., P.O. Box 327, Lititz, PA 17543. 

47629 .............................................. Woodstream Corporation, 69 N Locust St., P.O. Box 327, Lititz, PA 17543. 

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. 

Since difenacoum is not registered for 

minor agricultural use, the provision for 

a 180-day comment period does not 

apply. Accordingly, EPA will provide a 

30-day comment period on the proposed 

requests. 

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 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 1 of Unit III. 

For these voluntary product 

cancellations, the registrant will be 

permitted to sell and distribute existing 

stocks of voluntarily canceled products 

until October 18, 2019, which is two 

years from the date of the 90-day 

response to the GDCI, as requested by 

the registrant. Thereafter, the registrant 

will be prohibited from selling or 

distributing the products identified in 

Table 1 of Unit III., except for export 

consistent with FIFRA section 17 

(7 U.S.C. 136o) or for proper disposal. 

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. 

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

Dated: June 4, 2018. 

Yu-Ting Guilaran, 

Director, Pesticide Re-Evaluation Division, 

Office of Pesticide Programs. 

[FR Doc. 2018–12815 Filed 6–13–18; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6560–50–P 

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION 

AGENCY 

[EPA–HQ–OPP–2018–0278; FRL–9978–55] 

Ortho-Phthalaldehyde; Receipt of 

Application for Emergency Exemption, 

Solicitation of Public Comment 

AGENCY: Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA). 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: EPA has received a specific 

exemption request from the National 

Aeronautics and Space Administration 

(NASA) to use the pesticide orthophthalaldehyde (OPA) (CAS No. 643– 

79–8) to treat the coolant fluid of the 

internal active thermal control system of 

the International Space Station to 

control aerobic/microaerophilic bacteria 

in the aqueous coolant. The applicant 

proposes the use of a chemical which is 

not registered by EPA. Accordingly, as 

required by the Code of Federal 

Regulations, EPA is publishing this 

notice of receipt to allow public 

comment. 

DATES: Because of the long lead time 

required for acquiring and sending 

products to the International Space 

Station (ISS), and because this is a 


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