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specified by Executive Order 13175 (65 

FR 67249, November 9, 2000). 

List of Subjects in 40 CFR Part 52 

Air pollution control, Environmental 

protection, Incorporation by reference, 

Intergovernmental relations, New source 

review, Reporting and recordkeeping 

requirements. 

Authority: 42 U.S.C. 7401 et seq. 

Dated: June 4, 2018. 

Michael Stoker, 

Regional Administrator, Region IX. 

[FR Doc. 2018–12711 Filed 6–13–18; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6560–50–P 

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION 

AGENCY 

40 CFR Part 80 

[EPA–HQ–OAR–2018–0172; FRL–9979–33– 

OAR] 

RIN 2060–AT91 

Relaxation of the Federal Reid Vapor 

Pressure (RVP) Gasoline Volatility 

Standard for Baton Rouge, Louisiana 

AGENCY: Environmental Protection 

Agency. 

ACTION: Proposed rule. 

SUMMARY: The Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA) is proposing to approve a 

request from Louisiana for EPA to relax 

the federal Reid Vapor Pressure (RVP) 

standard applicable to gasoline 

introduced into commerce from June 1 

to September 15 of each year for the 

Louisiana parishes of East Baton Rouge, 

West Baton Rouge, Livingston, 

Ascension, and Iberville (the Baton 

Rouge area). Specifically, EPA is 

proposing to amend the regulations to 

allow the RVP standard for the Baton 

Rouge area to change from 7.8 pounds 

per square inch (psi) to 9.0 psi for 

gasoline. EPA has preliminarily 

determined that this change to the 

federal RVP regulation is consistent 

with the applicable provisions of the 

Clean Air Act (CAA). 

DATES: Written comments must be 

received on or before July 16, 2018 

unless a public hearing is requested by 

June 29, 2018. If EPA receives such a 

request, we will publish information 

related to the timing and location of the 

hearing and a new deadline for public 

comment. 

ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, 

identified by Docket ID No. EPA–HQ– 

OAR–2018–0172, to the Federal 

eRulemaking Portal: https://

www.regulations.gov. Follow the online 

instructions for submitting comments. 

Once submitted, comments cannot be 

edited or withdrawn. EPA may publish 

any comment received to its public 

docket. Do not submit electronically any 

information you consider to be 

Confidential Business Information (CBI) 

or other information disclosure of which 

is restricted by statute. If you need to 

include CBI as part of your comment, 

please visit https://www.epa.gov/ 

dockets/commenting-epa-dockets for 

instructions. Multimedia submissions 

(audio, video, etc.) must be 

accompanied by a written comment. 

The written comment is considered the 

official comment and should include 

discussion of all points you wish to 

make. 

For additional submission methods, 

the full EPA public comment policy, 

and general guidance on making 

effective comments, please visit https:// 

www.epa.gov/dockets/commenting-epadockets. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Dave Sosnowski, Office of 

Transportation and Air Quality, 

Environmental Protection Agency, 2000 

Traverwood Drive, Ann Arbor, 

Michigan, 48105; telephone number: 

(734) 214–4823; fax number: (734) 214– 

4052; email address: sosnowski.dave@

epa.gov. You may also contact Rudolph 

Kapichak at the same address; telephone 

number: (734) 214–4574; fax number: 

(734) 214–4052; email address: 

kapichak.rudolph@epa.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

The contents of this preamble are 

listed in the following outline: 

I. General Information 

II. Public Participation 

III. Background and Proposal 

IV. Statutory and Executive Order Reviews 

V. Legal Authority 

I. General Information 

A. Does this action apply to me? 

Entities potentially affected by this 

proposed rule are fuel producers and 

distributors involved in the supplying of 

gasoline to the Baton Rouge area. 

Examples of potentially 

regulated entities 

NAICS1

codes 

Petroleum Refineries ................ 324110 

Gasoline Marketers and Distributors ................................. 424710 

424720 

Gasoline Retail Stations ........... 447110 

Gasoline Transporters .............. 484220 

484230 

1 North American Industry Classification 

System. 

The above table is not intended to be 

exhaustive, but rather provides a guide 

for readers regarding entities likely to be 

regulated by this action. The table lists 

the types of entities of which EPA is 

aware that potentially could be affected 

by this proposed rule. Other types of 

entities not listed on the table could also 

be affected. To determine whether your 

organization could be affected by this 

proposed rule, you should carefully 

examine the regulations in 40 CFR 

80.27. If you have questions regarding 

the applicability of this action to a 

particular entity, call the person listed 

in the FOR FURTHER INFORMATION

CONTACT section of this preamble. 

B. What is the Agency’s authority for 

taking this action? 

The statutory authority for this action 

is granted to EPA by sections 211(h) and 

301(a) of the CAA, as amended; 42 

U.S.C. 7545(h) and 7601(a). 

II. Public Participation 

EPA will not hold a public hearing on 

this matter unless a request is received 

by the person identified in the FOR

FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT section of 

this preamble by June 29, 2018. If EPA 

receives such a request, we will publish 

information related to the timing and 

location of the hearing and a new 

deadline for public comment. 

III. Background and Proposal 

A. Summary of the Proposal 

EPA is proposing to approve a request 

from Louisiana to change the 

summertime federal RVP standard for 

the parishes of East Baton Rouge, West 

Baton Rouge, Livingston, Ascension, 

and Iberville (henceforth ‘‘the Baton 

Rouge area’’) from 7.8 psi to 9.0 psi by 

amending EPA’s regulations at 40 CFR 

80.27(a)(2). On April 10, 2017, the 

Louisiana Department of Environmental 

Quality (LDEQ or State) requested a 

relaxation of the federal RVP 

requirements. Before EPA could act on 

LDEQ’s request, the State needed to 

revise its approved section 175A 

maintenance plan and demonstrate that 

relaxing the federal RVP requirement 

from 7.8 psi to 9.0 psi for gasoline sold 

from June 1 to September 15 of each 

year in the Baton Rouge area would not 

interfere with maintenance of any 

NAAQS, including the 2008 and 2015 

ozone NAAQS, or any other applicable 

CAA requirement, under CAA section 

110(l). This demonstration was 

performed and a revised maintenance 

plan was submitted to EPA for approval 

on January 31, 2018. On April 13, 2018, 

EPA proposed approval of Louisiana’s 

maintenance revision and noninterference demonstration for the 2008 

ozone NAAQS (83 FR 16017); EPA 


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finalized its approval on May 25, 2018 

(83 FR 24226). 

The preamble for this rulemaking is 

organized as follows: Section III.B. 

provides the history of the federal 

gasoline volatility regulation. Section 

III.C. describes the policy regarding 

relaxation of gasoline volatility 

standards in ozone nonattainment areas 

that are redesignated as attainment 

areas. Section III.D. provides 

information specific to Louisiana’s 

request for the Baton Rouge area. 

B. History of the Gasoline Volatility 

Requirement 

On August 19, 1987 (52 FR 31274), 

EPA determined that gasoline 

nationwide was becoming increasingly 

volatile, causing an increase in 

evaporative emissions from gasolinepowered vehicles and equipment. 

Evaporative emissions from gasoline, 

referred to as volatile organic 

compounds (VOC), are precursors to the 

formation of tropospheric ozone and 

contribute to the nation’s ground-level 

ozone problem. Exposure to groundlevel ozone can reduce lung function, 

thereby aggravating asthma and other 

respiratory conditions, increase 

susceptibility to respiratory infection, 

and may contribute to premature death 

in people with heart and lung disease. 

The most common measure of fuel 

volatility that is useful in evaluating 

gasoline evaporative emissions is RVP. 

Under CAA section 211(c), EPA 

promulgated regulations on March 22, 

1989 (54 FR 11868) that set maximum 

limits for the RVP of gasoline sold 

during the regulatory control periods 

that were established on a state-by-state 

basis in that final rule. The regulatory 

control periods addressed the portion of 

the year when peak ozone 

concentrations were expected. These 

regulations constituted Phase I of a twophase nationwide program, which was 

designed to reduce the volatility of 

gasoline during the high ozone season. 

On June 11, 1990 (55 FR 23658), EPA 

promulgated more stringent volatility 

controls as Phase II of the volatility 

control program. These requirements 

established maximum RVP standards of 

9.0 psi or 7.8 psi (depending on the 

state, the month, and the area’s initial 

ozone attainment designation with 

respect to the 1-hour ozone NAAQS). 

The 1990 CAA Amendments 

established a new CAA section 211(h) to 

address fuel volatility. CAA section 

211(h) requires EPA to promulgate 

regulations making it unlawful to sell, 

offer for sale, dispense, supply, offer for 

supply, transport, or introduce into 

commerce gasoline with an RVP level in 

excess of 9.0 psi during the high ozone 

season. CAA section 211(h) also 

prohibits EPA from establishing a 

volatility standard more stringent than 

9.0 psi in an attainment area, except that 

EPA may impose a lower (more 

stringent) standard in any former ozone 

nonattainment area redesignated to 

attainment. 

On December 12, 1991 (56 FR 64704), 

EPA modified the Phase II volatility 

regulations to be consistent with CAA 

section 211(h). The modified regulations 

prohibited the sale of gasoline with an 

RVP above 9.0 psi in all areas 

designated attainment for ozone, 

effective January 13, 1992. For areas 

designated as nonattainment, the 

regulations retained the original Phase II 

standards published on June 11, 1990 

(55 FR 23658), which included the 7.8 

psi ozone season limitation for certain 

areas. As stated in the preamble to the 

Phase II volatility controls and 

reiterated in the proposed change to the 

volatility standards published in 1991, 

EPA will rely on states to initiate 

changes to their respective volatility 

programs. EPA’s policy for approving 

such changes is described below in 

Section III.C. 

C. Relaxation of Gasoline Volatility 

Standards in Ozone Nonattainment 

Areas That Are Redesignated to 

Attainment 

As stated in the preamble for EPA’s 

amended Phase II volatility standards 

(56 FR 64706), any change in the 

gasoline volatility standard for a 

nonattainment area that was 

subsequently redesignated as an 

attainment area must be accomplished 

through a separate rulemaking that 

revises the applicable standard for that 

area. Thus, for former 1-hour ozone 

nonattainment areas where EPA 

mandated a Phase II volatility standard 

of 7.8 psi RVP in the December 12, 1991 

rulemaking, the federal 7.8 psi gasoline 

RVP requirement remains in effect, even 

after such an area is redesignated to 

attainment, until a separate rulemaking 

is completed that relaxes the federal 

gasoline RVP standard in that area from 

7.8 psi to 9.0 psi. 

As explained in the December 12, 

1991 rulemaking, EPA believes that 

relaxation of an applicable gasoline RVP 

standard is best accomplished in 

conjunction with the redesignation 

process. In order for an ozone 

nonattainment area to be redesignated 

as an attainment area, CAA section 

107(d)(3) requires the state to make a 

showing, pursuant to CAA section 

175A, that the area is capable of 

maintaining attainment for the ozone 

NAAQS for ten years. Depending on the 

area’s circumstances, this maintenance 

plan will either demonstrate that the 

area is capable of maintaining 

attainment for ten years without the 

more stringent volatility standard or that 

the more stringent volatility standard 

may be necessary for the area to 

maintain its attainment with the ozone 

NAAQS. Therefore, in the context of a 

request for redesignation, EPA will not 

relax the gasoline volatility standard 

unless the state requests a relaxation 

and the maintenance plan demonstrates 

that the area will maintain attainment 

for ten years without the need for the 

more stringent volatility standard. 

Similarly, a maintenance plan may be 

revised to relax the gasoline volatility 

standard if the state requests a 

relaxation and the maintenance plan 

demonstrates that the area will maintain 

attainment for the duration of the 

maintenance plan. 

D. Louisiana’s Request To Relax the 

Federal Gasoline RVP Requirement for 

the Baton Rouge Area 

On April 10, 2017, LDEQ submitted a 

request to relax the federal gasoline RVP 

requirement in 16 parishes throughout 

the State, including the 5 parishes 

making up the Baton Rouge area. RVP 

relaxation for 11 of the parishes covered 

by the April 10, 2017 request was 

approved on December 26, 2017 (82 FR 

60886). Louisiana did not request 

relaxation of the federal RVP standard 

from 7.8 psi to 9.0 psi when LDEQ 

originally submitted the CAA section 

175A maintenance plan for the Baton 

Rouge area for the 2008 ozone NAAQS 

that was approved on December 27, 

2016 (81 FR 95051). Therefore, LDEQ 

was required to revise the approved 

maintenance plan and to submit a CAA 

section 110(l) non-interference 

demonstration for the 5-parish Baton 

Rouge area to support the request to 

relax the federal RVP standard. 

Therefore, action on the 5-parish Baton 

Rouge area was deferred until LDEQ 

submitted (and EPA approved) a 

maintenance plan revision and CAA 

section 110(l) non-interference 

demonstration showing that the 

relaxation would not interfere with 

maintenance of the 2008 and 2015 

ozone NAAQS or any other applicable 

CAA requirement. 

On January 30, 2018, Louisiana 

submitted a CAA section 175A 

maintenance plan revision and section 

110(l) non-interference demonstration to 

EPA. EPA finalized its approval of the 

maintenance plan revision and 

demonstration on May 25, 2018 (83 FR 

24226). As part of the rulemaking on 

Louisiana’s submission, EPA included a 

detailed evaluation of the maintenance 


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plan revision and the CAA section 

110(l) demonstration. 

In today’s action, EPA is proposing to 

approve Louisiana’s request to relax the 

summertime ozone season gasoline RVP 

standard for the Baton Rouge area from 

7.8 psi to 9.0 psi. Specifically, EPA is 

proposing to amend the applicable 

gasoline RVP standard to allow the 

gasoline RVP requirements at 40 CFR 

80.27(a)(2) for the Baton Rouge area to 

change from 7.8 psi to 9.0 psi. Today’s 

proposal relies on EPA’s separate 

rulemaking that approved Louisiana’s 

January 30, 2018 request to revise the 

approved maintenance plan for the 

Baton Rouge area for the 2008 ozone 

NAAQS and the submitted CAA section 

110(l) non-interference demonstration 

as described in this document. 

IV. Statutory and Executive Order 

Reviews 

A. Executive Order 12866: Regulatory 

Planning and Review and Executive 

Order 13563: Improving Regulation and 

Regulatory Review 

This action is not a ‘‘significant 

regulatory action’’ under the terms of 

Executive Order 12866 (58 FR 51735, 

October 4, 1993) and therefore was not 

submitted to the Office of Management 

and Budget (OMB) for review. 

B. Executive Order 13771: Reducing 

Regulation and Controlling Regulatory 

Costs 

This action is considered an 

Executive Order 13771 deregulatory 

action. This proposed rule, if finalized, 

would provide meaningful burden 

reduction because it would relax the 

federal RVP standard for gasoline, and 

as a result, fuel suppliers would no 

longer be required to provide the lower, 

7.8 psi RVP gasoline in the 5 parishes 

during the summer months. Relaxing 

the volatility requirements would also 

be beneficial because this action can 

improve the fungibility of gasoline sold 

in Louisiana by allowing the gasoline 

sold in the 5 named parishes to be 

identical to the fuel sold in the 

remainder of the state. 

C. Paperwork Reduction Act 

This action does not impose any new 

information collection burden under the 

provisions of the Paperwork Reduction 

Act, 44 U.S.C. 3501 et seq., and 

therefore is not subject to these 

requirements. 

D. Regulatory Flexibility Act (RFA) 

I certify that this action would not 

have a significant economic impact on 

a substantial number of small entities 

under the RFA. In making this 

determination, the impact of concern is 

any significant adverse economic 

impact on small entities. An agency may 

certify that a rule will not have a 

significant economic impact on a 

substantial number of small entities if 

the rule relieves regulatory burden, has 

no net burden or otherwise has a 

positive economic effect on the small 

entities subject to the rule. The small 

entities subject to the requirements of 

this action are refiners, importers or 

blenders of gasoline that choose to 

produce or import low RVP gasoline for 

sale in Louisiana, and gasoline 

distributers and retail stations in 

Louisiana. This action, if finalized, 

would relax the federal RVP standard 

for gasoline sold in Louisiana’s Baton 

Rouge area during the summertime 

ozone season to allow the RVP for 

gasoline sold in these parishes to rise 

from 7.8 psi to 9.0 psi. This rule does 

not impose any requirements or create 

impacts on small entities beyond those, 

if any, already required by or resulting 

from the CAA section 211(h) RVP 

program. Therefore, this action would 

have no net regulatory burden for all 

directly regulated small entities. 

E. Unfunded Mandates Reform Act 

(UMRA) 

This proposed rule does not contain 

an unfunded mandate of $100 million or 

more as described in UMRA, 2 U.S.C. 

1531–1538, and does not significantly or 

uniquely affect small governments. The 

action would implement mandates that 

are specifically and explicitly set forth 

in CAA section 211(h) without the 

exercise of any policy discretion by 

EPA. 

F. Executive Order 13132: Federalism 

This action does not have federalism 

implications. It would not have 

substantial direct effects on the states, 

on the relationship between the national 

government and the states, or on the 

distribution of power and 

responsibilities among the various 

levels of government. 

G. Executive Order 13175: Consultation 

and Coordination With Indian Tribal 

Governments 

This action does not have tribal 

implications, as specified in Executive 

Order 13175 (65 FR 67249, November 9, 

2000). This proposed rule would affect 

only those refiners, importers or 

blenders of gasoline that choose to 

produce or import low RVP gasoline for 

sale in the Baton Rouge area and 

gasoline distributers and retail stations 

in the area. Thus, Executive Order 

13175 does not apply to this action. 

H. Executive Order 13045: Protection of 

Children From Environmental Health 

Risks and Safety Risks 

EPA interprets Executive Order 13045 

as applying only to those regulatory 

actions that concern environmental 

health or safety risks that EPA has 

reason to believe may 

disproportionately affect children, per 

the definition of ‘‘covered regulatory 

action’’ in section 2–202 of the 

Executive Order. EPA has no reason to 

believe that this action may 

disproportionately affect children since 

Louisiana has provided evidence that a 

relaxation of the gasoline RVP will not 

interfere with its attainment of the 

ozone NAAQS for the Baton Rouge area, 

or any other applicable CAA 

requirement. By separate action, EPA 

has finalized its approval of Louisiana’s 

revised maintenance plan for the 2008 

ozone NAAQS, including the state’s 

non-interference demonstration that 

relaxation of the gasoline RVP standard 

in the Baton Rouge area to 9.0 RVP will 

not interfere with any other NAAQS or 

CAA requirement. 

I. Executive Order 13211: Actions 

Concerning Regulations That 

Significantly Affect Energy Supply, 

Distribution, or Use 

This action is not subject to Executive 

Order 13211 because it is not a 

significant regulatory action under 

Executive Order 12866. 

J. National Technology Transfer 

Advancement Act (NTTAA) 

This rulemaking does not involve 

technical standards. 

K. Executive Order 12898: Federal 

Actions To Address Environmental 

Justice in Minority Populations and 

Low-Income Populations 

EPA believes the human health or 

environmental risk addressed by this 

action would not have potential 

disproportionately high and adverse 

human health or environmental effects 

on minority, low-income or indigenous 

populations because it does not affect 

the applicable ozone NAAQS which 

establish the level of protection 

provided to human health or the 

environment. Louisiana has 

demonstrated in its non-interference 

demonstration that this action will not 

interfere with maintenance of the ozone 

NAAQS in the Baton Rouge area for the 

2008 ozone NAAQS, or with any other 

applicable requirement of the CAA. 

Therefore, disproportionately high and 

adverse human health or environmental 

effects on minority or low-income 

populations are not an anticipated 

result. The results of this evaluation are 


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contained in EPA’s rulemaking for 

Louisiana’s non-interference 

demonstration. A copy of Louisiana’s 

April 10, 2017 letter requesting that EPA 

relax the gasoline RVP standard and the 

State’s January 29, 2018 technical 

analysis demonstrating that the less 

stringent gasoline RVP would not 

interfere with continued maintenance of 

the 2008 ozone NAAQS in the Baton 

Rouge area, or with any other applicable 

CAA requirement, have been placed in 

the public docket for this action. 

V. Legal Authority 

The statutory authority for this action 

is granted to EPA by sections 211(h) and 

301(a) of the Clean Air Act, as amended; 

42 U.S.C. 7545(h) and 7601(a). 

List of Subjects in 40 CFR Part 80 

Environmental protection, 

Administrative practice and procedures, 

Air pollution control, Fuel additives, 

Gasoline, Motor vehicle and motor 

vehicle engines, Motor vehicle 

pollution, Penalties, Reporting and 

recordkeeping requirements. 

Dated: June 6, 2018. 

E. Scott Pruitt, 

Administrator. 

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BILLING CODE 6560–50–P 

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION 

AGENCY 

40 CFR Part 180 

[EPA–HQ–OPP–2017–0006; FRL–9978–41] 

Receipt of Several Pesticide Petitions 

Filed for Residues of Pesticide 

Chemicals in or on Various 

Commodities 

AGENCY: Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA). 

ACTION: Notice of filing of petitions and 

request for comment. 

SUMMARY: This document announces the 

Agency’s receipt of several initial filings 

of pesticide petitions requesting the 

establishment or modification of 

regulations for residues of pesticide 

chemicals in or on various commodities. 

DATES: Comments must be received on 

or before July 16, 2018. 

ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, 

identified by docket identification (ID) 

number and the pesticide petition 

number (PP) of interest as shown in the 

body of this document, 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: 

Michael Goodis, Registration Division 

(RD) (7505P), main telephone number: 

(703) 305–7090, email address: 

RDFRNotices@epa.gov. The mailing 

address for each contact person is: 

Office of Pesticide Programs, 

Environmental Protection Agency, 1200 

Pennsylvania Ave. NW, Washington, DC 

20460–0001. As part of the mailing 

address, include the contact person’s 

name, division, and mail code. The 

division to contact is listed at the end 

of each pesticide petition summary. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

I. General Information 

A. Does this action apply to me? 

You may be potentially affected by 

this action if you are an agricultural 

producer, food manufacturer, or 

pesticide manufacturer. The following 

list of North American Industrial 

Classification System (NAICS) codes is 

not intended to be exhaustive, but rather 

provides a guide to help readers 

determine whether this document 

applies to them. Potentially affected 

entities may include: 

• Crop production (NAICS code 111). 

• Animal production (NAICS code 

112). 

• Food manufacturing (NAICS code 

311). 

• Pesticide manufacturing (NAICS 

code 32532). 

If you have any questions regarding 

the applicability of this action to a 

particular entity, consult the person 

listed under FOR FURTHER INFORMATION

CONTACT for the division listed at the 

end of the pesticide petition summary of 

interest. 

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. 

3. Environmental justice. EPA seeks to 

achieve environmental justice, the fair 

treatment and meaningful involvement 

of any group, including minority and/or 

low-income populations, in the 

development, implementation, and 

enforcement of environmental laws, 

regulations, and policies. To help 

address potential environmental justice 

issues, the Agency seeks information on 

any groups or segments of the 

population who, as a result of their 

location, cultural practices, or other 

factors, may have atypical or 

disproportionately high and adverse 

human health impacts or environmental 

effects from exposure to the pesticides 

discussed in this document, compared 

to the general population. 

II. What action is the Agency taking? 

EPA is announcing its receipt of 

several pesticide petitions filed under 

section 408 of the Federal Food, Drug, 

and Cosmetic Act (FFDCA), 21 U.S.C. 

346a, requesting the establishment or 

modification of regulations in 40 CFR 

part 180 for residues of pesticide 

chemicals in or on various food 

commodities. The Agency is taking 

public comment on the requests before 

responding to the petitioners. EPA is not 

proposing any particular action at this 

time. EPA has determined that the 

pesticide petitions described in this 

document contain the data or 

information prescribed in FFDCA 

section 408(d)(2), 21 U.S.C. 346a(d)(2); 

however, EPA has not fully evaluated 

the sufficiency of the submitted data at 

this time or whether the data support 

granting of the pesticide petitions. After 

considering the public comments, EPA 

intends to evaluate whether and what 

action may be warranted. Additional 

data may be needed before EPA can 


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